KUKURUKU SHOWCASE #2 AT CAFE OTO, LONDON 22/10/2012
Kukuruku Recordings curate their second event at Cafe Oto and present an intriguing combination of three extraordinary solo sound artists, all dealing with issues of in situ performances and space resonance.
Saxophone virtuoso John Butcher, Greek reductionist cellist Nikos Veliotis and Swiss Kiko C.Esseiva (portable musique concrete lab) shall contribute to an evening of extended -echniques instrumentalism ans essential soundscaping. The event will also introduce Butcher's and Esseiva's very recent solo LP releases from Kukuruku Recording.
More details about the releases
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NIKOS VELIOTIS
Since the late '90s Veliotis has pushed the boundaries of sound using unorthodox cello techniques, floating long sustained sounds or silences and multirateral abstract visuals, overlays of digital trash and other digital found material. He has performed in international festivals in Asia, Europe and North America, also a member of CRANC (with Angharad & Rhodri Davies), LOOPER (with Ingar Zach & Martin Kuecher) and MOHAMMAD (with ILIOS & Coti K).
"Veliotis is the Greek emperor of the restrained cello" [Sound Projector]
"...a cross-pollination of Phill Niblock, Glenn Branca and Iannis Xenakis occuring during the Chernobyl disaster." [Touching Extremes]
www.nikosveliotis.com
JOHN BUTCHER
Jihns Butcher's work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and explorations with feedbacks and extreme acoustics. He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with a sense of space. In 2011 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. Recent collaborative projects include the quintet Anemone with trumpeter Peter Evans, the wind trio The Contest of Pleasures with Axel Dorner and Xavier Charles, Way out of Northwest with Tosten Muller and Dylan van der Schyff, and a very new trio with Gino Robair and John Edwards.
KIKO C. ESSEIVA
Lausannebased Kiko C. Esseiva is a Swiss underground sound experimentalist and outsider music composer. His music is a combination of several "traditional" electroacoustic techniques with a touch of art brut practices and use of recycled material. He often live-performs with a multitrack reel to reel deck creating diffused and expending sonic layers and noisy atmospheres. His solo works have previously been released by Hintel Zimmer, Tilt Recordings and Echomusic. He is also the first half of "VAGUE", a duo with his partner Scillia Lorage.
KUKURUKU AT MOTHER LIVE 333, LONDON 25/06/2012
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.
KUKURUKU RELEASES AVAILABLE AT THE SOUND//SPACE PROJECT, MAY-JULY 2012
A few selected editions of Kukuruku Recordings will be available for purchase at the Sound//Space record shop held at 'V22' venue in London between May to July.
Many thanks to 'Soundfjord' for their enthusiasm and their interest.
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