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Sonore
Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustaffson
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Slought Foundation
Free Exchange Series
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Please join us on Thursday, September 9, 2004 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for a live concert by Sonore
with Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustaffson.
Peter Brötzmann (tenor saxophone, tarogato, a-clarinet) studied at the Art Academy of Wuppertal before beginning his music career in German swing and be-bop bands. Subsequent pivatol associations in the early 1960s with the Fluxus movement (including Nam June Paik), bassist Peter Kowald, and Americans-in-Paris Don Cherry and Steve Lacy encouraged Brötzmann's (b.1941) unorthodox approach, often described as "sonic terror." A founder of European Free Jazz movement, his work includes collaborations and recordings with Last Exit (with Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson), Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, and Borah Bergman. Recent projects include Die Like a Dog (with William Parker, Hamid Drake and Toshinori Kondo), his homage to Albert Ayler, and a Chicago-based Octet/Tentet featuring Ken Vandermark.
Since relocating to Chigaco in the 90s, Ken Vandermark (saxophones, clarinets) has charged straight to the front of free music in America. A Macarthur recipient, he is best know for his ensembles Vandermark 5, DKV Trio (with Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake), Spaceways Incorporated, FME and the Brötzmann Chicago Tentet.
With the exception of Sven-Åke Johansson, the free improvised music scene in Sweden was not thought to exist until the appearance of Mats Gustaffson (baritone, tenor, soprano, sopranino) and the double LP, Sounds: Contemporary Swedish improvised music. Mats Gustafsson performed extensively with Paul Lytton, in Günter Christmann's ensembles and festivals, in Georg Gräwe's Quintet, in duo with Barry Guy, and in Derek Bailey's Company in 1990 in London. From the early 1990s, Mats Gustafsson was a regular visitor to the US, forming a particular affinity with Chicago musicians such as Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang and Ken Vandermark and recording for Okka Disk records. In addition to projects with musicians, Mats Gustafsson has worked extensively with artists from the worlds of dance (Lotta Melin; Helena Franzen; Claire Parsons), theatre (Saara Salminen-Wallin; Lars Rudolfson; Sven-Åke Johansson), poetry (Stig Larsson, Maria Gummesson; Jenny Morelli) and painting (Edward Jarvis; Karin Almlöf; Ann Blom). He currently manages his own recording label, Crazy Wisdom, and continues to self-release collaborations with, among others, Paal Nilssen-Love, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, and Jim O’Rourke.
Organized by
Mark Christman
Co-presented with ars nova workshop
MLA Style:
Peter Brötzmann, et al. "Sonore." Slought Foundation Online Content. [09 September 2004;
Accessed 13 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11210/>.
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