EVENTLESS PLOT+ΣΥΡΤΙΣ LIVE @ LES YPER YPER
March 30 at 9:30pm
Les yper yper
Category: Events EVENTLESS PLOT+ΣΥΡΤΙΣ LIVE @ LES YPER YPER
Οι EVENTLESS PLOT είναι ένα τριμελές σχήμα με έδρα τη Θεσσαλονίκη. Δανειζόμενοι στοιχεία από διάφορα μουσικά είδη και αισθητικές αναφορές προσπαθούν να χτίσουν το δικό τους υβριδικό ήχο. Από τον ελεύθερο αυτοσχεδιασμό και το θόρυβο μέχρι την ηλεκτροακουστική σύνθεση ,την jazz και διάφορους μετα – ηλεκτρονικούς πειραματισμούς, η μουσική των e.p παραμένει πάντα αντισυμβατική και σύγχρονη.
Διάφορες αναλογικές πηγές, synthesizers, παράξενα η όχι φυσικά όργανα και ηχογραφήσεις πεδίου μεταλλάσσονται ψηφιακά με τη βοήθεια προγραμμάτων Μax/Μsp.
Οι Eventless Plot έχουν κυκλοφορήσει συνθέσεις σε διάφορες εταιρίες και συλλογές με πιo σημαντικές έως τώρα τις ολοκληρωμένες δουλειές τους ikon (2009) στην granny records και Recon (2012) στην Aural Terrains, έχουν σχεδιάσει τον ήχο σε εγκαταστάσεις τέχνης και φιλμ και έχουν μοιραστεί τη σκηνή με καλλιτέχνες όπως ο Giuseppe Ielasi , Vladislav Delay ,Good luck mr. Gorsky σε σημαντικούς χώρους και διοργανώσεις (facta non verba, Synch Festival, Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογραφου Θεσσαλονίκης και άλλα).
Κάπου μεταξύ Θεσσαλονίκης και Χάγης, τα μέλη των Eventless Plot κάνουν έρευνα πάνω στην ηλεκτρονική μουσική και την ηλεκτροακουστική σύνθεση, σεμινάρια αυτοσχεδιασμού με καλλιτέχνες οπως Richard Barrett, Peter Evans, Evan Parker και επεκτείνουν τις αναφορές τους ψάχνοντας διαρκώς νέες ηχητικές φόρμες και πηγές.
Σύρτις
electro-instrumental improvisation trio
Syrtis : (sandbank): a raised area of sand below the surface of the sea or a river, which you can only see when the water level is low.
Thanos Chrysakis (laptop)
Chris Cundy (bass clarinet)
James O’Sullivan (guitar)
have worked together and in different formations in a number of collaborative projects, recordings and performances in UK and abroad.
Their improvisations are based on spectral confluences and collisions disclosing the intimate and transfigural forces of sonic matter.
Thanos Chrysakis’ output consists of composition, performance, and installation.
He was born in Athens in 1971, residing in the UK since 1998. With several albums to his name his work has appeared in festivals and events in several countries; to name but a few : CYNETart Festival, Festspielhaus Hellerau – Dresden, Academy of Arts / M:AI (Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst NRW)– Berlin, Diapason Gallery – New York, Ohrenhoch Gallery – Berlin Neukölln, XXII “Sound Ways” International New Music Festival – St Petersburg, Artus Contemporary Arts Studio – Budapest, CRUCE Gallery – Madrid, Fylkingen – Stockholm, Relative (Cross) Hearings festival – Budapest, ZEPPELIN festival – Barcelona, Festival de Música Contemporanea “Ramiro Guerra” – Monterrey, Störung festival – Barcelona, BMIC Cutting Edge concert series – The Warehouse – London .
He has also received airplay -among others- by RAI radio 3, BBC radio 3, Radio Portugal Antenna 2, Radio Nacional de España, FM Brussel, Polskie Radio (Warsaw), Elektramusic (Strasbourg), Undae! Radio (Madrid) and Onda Sonora – Radio Circulo de Bellas Artes (CBA) (Madrid).
His work was amongst the selected works at the International Competition de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2005, in the category œuvre d’art sonore électroacoustique, while received an honorary mention in 2006 at the 7th International Electroacoustic Competition Musica Viva in Lisbon.
He has recorded/performed with a number of improvisers including among others Wade Matthews, Dario Bernal-Villegas, Jerry Wigens, James O’Sullivan, Philip Somervell, Jamie Coleman, Chris Cundy, Zsolt Sőrés, Sebastian Lexer, Artur Vidal. Furthermore, he has also closely collaborated with the visual artists Pascal Dombis and Villő Turcsány.
Since 2007 he operates the record-label Aural Terrains focusing in electroacoustics, composed and improvised music.
Chris Cundy is an English musician and arranger specialising in bass clarinet, saxophones and other woodwinds.
He has worked with such artists as Cold Specks, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Fyfe Dangerfield, Guillemots, Little Annie and Baby Dee.
His work ranges from improvisation and experimental music through to modern composition and pop music. He has also recorded under his own name and has released records with his band Gannets.
Chris grew up in close proximity to the river Medway in Kent and was drawn into the local garage rock scene at a very young age, becoming acquainted with many characters there including Billy Childish – musician, painter, poet and founder of independent record label Hangman Records with whom he briefly shared a house as a child.
It was from these early DIY beginnings that Chris first took to improvising, starting out as a street busker at 15 and playing alto saxophone. This is an occupation he still occasionally pursues. After hearing the Eric Dolphy Memorial Album Chris soon decided to take up the bass clarinet and he has gone on to study contrabass clarinet, as well as soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones. He is self-taught.
Between 1996 and 1999 Chris studied painting at Cheltenham art college and during this time he more fully expanded his practice of improvised music, sometimes referred to as ‘free music’ out of which various projects have emerged such as his trio Weavels which features bassoonist Mick Beck and guitarist, clarinettist Alex Ward. He has also established several collaborations into experimental composition developing the use of ‘extended techniques’ such as multi-phonics, circular breathing, micro harmonics and generally speaking a more tactile approach to instrumentation. He has worked with a number of composers and educators in this field including John Tilbury and Thanos Chrysakis. During his time at Cheltenham he also met songwriter and orchestrator Fyfe Dangerfield with whom he has worked on many different occasions including as a touring and recording artist in his band Guillemots.
More recently Chris has been working with doom-soul band Cold Specks, appearing at Canada’s Polaris Music Prize ceremony in 2012, for which their debut album ‘I Predict A Graceful Expulsion’ was short-listed.
James O‘Sullivan is a London–based electric guitar player.
He has performed in numerous groupings of musicians, many of whom he met through Eddie Prevost‘s weekly improvisational workshop. In addition, he is the founder, alongside longtime friend and collaborator David Hurn, of Four Seasons Television, which explores the relationship between improvisation, composition, recording and performance.
His activities span the two poles from free improvisation to more ‘composed‘ song forms, and he has collaborated with songwriters, improvisers, improvising songwriters and other permutations of these elements in an attempt to unpack ideas of terms such as ‘free‘, ‘composed‘, ‘technique‘, ‘melody‘, ‘noise‘, ‘rhythm‘ and ‘improvise‘.
He performs also with the groups Found Drowned and Syneuma.