On Monday 25th of June is the opening night for a new series of concerts, performances and events curated by ‘Kukuruku recordings’ hosted at the Mother Live 333. Featured event is the collective project ‘Six duos and a Quartet’, a musical game between four performers of exploratory music, Adam Bohman, Tasos Stamou, Adrian Northover (also members of the London Improvisers Orchestra) and the Japanese sound artist Adachi Tomomi. The soloists shall share the stage while changing partners with each other into six separate combinations of free improvised duos, each one with a unique sound and attitude. This improvised roundabout will be an exploration of the performers’ diversities and interaction, and will conclude in a final collaborative improvised piece performed by the musicians in a quartet formation.
THE IMPROVISERS
Adachi Tomomi is a Tokyo-based electroacoustic composer and performer of handmade electronic instruments and sound poetry. He has composed works for his group "Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus" and performed contemporary music with vocals & live-electronics in works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Dieter Schnebel, Takahashi Yuji, Yuasa Joji and Fluxus (including world premier and Japan premier of Cage’s “Variations VII,” “Europera 5,” and “Waterwalk”). A specialized sound poetry performer (mostly in the unknown great Japanese sound poetry tradition) his current focus is in solo performance with sensors, computer, self-made instruments, sound poetry, video installation and workshop style big ensemble with non-professional voices and instruments.
Adam Bohman is an exceptional figure among London’s experimental and avant-garde music scene. As a member of the groups Morphogenesis, the Bohman Brothers, London Improvisers Orchestra and other projects, also as a talented soloist, he is mostly well known for performing with his carefully prepared amplified table into various gigs and recordings. His musical table, filled with complex arrangements of found material, broken violin parts, metal springs and other dispatched objects forms a unique self-made concrete electroacoustic instrument with an art brutt essence. Bohman is by himself a one-man-orchestra capable of producing a variety of sounds ranging between distorted lo-fi noises to orchestral-quality strings and percussion as well as peculiar microsounds.
Tasos Stamou is a Greek electroacoustic composer and performer of improvised music. During the past few years he has explored and utilized several different mediums of original sonic creation, including experimentations with self-modified sound toys and found objects, electroacoustic composition (analogue synthesizers, DIY electronics, laptop music), vivid sonic performances and sound installations. As a multi-instrumentalist performer of free-improvised music he has presented live sets internationally in solo projects and in collaboration with other experimentalists and improvisers ( improvised ensemble conducted by Evan Parker, duos with Ignaz Schick, Valerio Tricoli, Kuupuu, Nikos Veliotis) in exceptional venues and festivals for innovative music.
Adrian Northover is a London-based saxophonist. A long term member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, he can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of local and visiting musicians, as well as performing solo. Current projects include The Remote Viewers, Triptik (with Adam Bohman and Catherine Pluygers), Winkhaus (with Dave Tucker and Anna Homler) a duo with Adam Bohman, and various projects with Vladimir Miller. Adrian also works with film sound tracks, and recently completed the soundtrack for a series of short animation films for the human rights organization ‘Technical Tech’, as well as performing many live improvisations to experimental films.
