NOW now series #2

Monday, 26 April, 2010
7:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

The 2nd NOW now improvised music series gig of 2010!
Monday the 26th of April
Anzac Day Holiday!!

3 sets featuring:

Cor Fuhler (Holland)/Kim Myhr (Norway)/ Dale Gorfinkel (Melb)
- Piano/ Guitar/ Vibraphone + Objects.

Lars Graugaard (Denmark) - Electronics

Monika Brooks/ Laura Altman - Piano/ Clarinet

$8/$10
BYO

7pm @ Serial Space - 33 Wellington St Chippendale.
starts at 7pm .

Dale Gorfinkel - musician, instrument builder and installation artist from Sydney, currently living in Melbourne. His work involves building automated mechanical sculptures based on his unique approach to the vibraphone. He creates wondrous sonorities using continuous bowed inventions on aluminum bars, swinging tin resonators and ping pong balls that create random rhythms. He has also developed a quirky approach to the trumpet, using additional plastic tubing, shower roses, balloons, and various mouthpieces which invoke an ‘electronic’ sound world.

Cor Fuhler - from Amsterdam, now based in Melbourne, Cor Fuhler works in the field of electronic and improvised music. Piano is his main acoustic instrument, and he seeks to take it musically beyond usual perceptions, specializing in sustained sounds with use of various string stimulators: 12 ebows, rotating threads, spinning disks. Fuhler also manipulates sounds from turntables, linguaphones, springs etc and filters them through an analogue synth: the EMS Synthi AKS, his main electronic instrument. He often builds his own instruments/ instalations/ modifications such as the Keyolin: a violin with keys.

Kim Myhr - musician and composer in the field of improvised and contemporary music. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 2003 to 2005 and has since then worked in many different settings with performances throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and North-America.
The consideration of nothing is important in his music: to take no existing element for granted and to build music from nothing and with simple building blocks, questioning the very foundation of his thinking about music. Deconstructing it, then constructing. Why is there music, and not nothing?

Lars Graugaard - Composer, flautist and PhD with more than 40 CDs released for dacapo/Marco Polo, Tutl, Classico, Centaur, EMI, SONY Classical, CBS, and others. He works in sophisticated surroundings and popular culture, with digital experiments into the latest trends of interactive music and cross-modal forms, popular projects, and compositions in the modernistic European tradition from large-scale orchestral pieces to chamber music.

Monika Brooks/Laura Altman - this improvising duo have been been performing since 2008. Their non referential, delicate and subtle sound, suggests a new way of thinking about the keyboard/reed duo format. Listening to their music, one doesn’t have the impression of the instruments they play, more a set of frequencies and ambiguities from their direction.