ABOUT MUSICIANS FEATURING AT FILL 2011
GUESTS 2011:
Hans Koch (bass clarinet – Switzerland)
Javier Carmona (drums - Spain)
John Russell (guitar – England)
Marcio Mattos (cello and electronics – England/Brazil)
Panda Gianfratti (percussion – Brazil)
Rodrigo Montoya (shamisen and guitar – Brazil)
Thomas Rohrer (sax and brazilian fiddle – Brazil/Switzerland)
Execution: Centro Cultural São Paulo, Prefeitura de São Paulo
Produção: Raquel Dammous (Arte Rumo Produções Artísticas)
MUSICIANS RESUMÉS
>> HANS KOCH
Hans Koch has quit his career as a recognized classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe.
He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film.
Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling /sequencing/ Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene.
>>JAVIER CARMONA
Javier Carmona is a well renowned drummer/percussionist in Europe and England in the Free Improvisation scene. Along his career he has performed with musicians such as John Tchicai, Evan Parker, Carlos Zingaro and John Russell, among others. He is a member of various formations, including the London Improvisers Orchestra, FOCUS Orchestra, BIB Orchestra, Catatumbo (with Ingrid Laubrock and Olie Brice), a duo with Mark Hanslip, Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Roland Ramanan Tentet, Perro-Chimp (a duo with Federico Reuben), Rachel Musson's Skein and Vole (with Roland Ramanan and Roberto Sassi).
Javier organizes the annual International Free Improvisation Workshop/Festival of Malaga and has also led free improvisation workshops for students in Newport University (with Kamil Korolczuk), University of Westminster (with Sakoto Fukuda) and the University of Huddersfield (with Ingrid Laubrock and Olie Brice). Along with the graphic designer and electronic player Kamil Korolczuk of Oso Records, Javier is a co-founder of a digital label for free download of most types of experimental music. Javier also collaborates with dancers Rosa Aledo and Lehtola Saija of Kicking Louise & Co., a dance company that already performed in France, Cyprus, Spain and England.>>JOHN RUSSELL
John Russell was born in 1954 in London. He got hold of his first guitar in 1965 and began playing in and around London from 1971. His involvement with the Free Music scene came early, from 1972 onwards, and in such places as The Little Theatre Club, Ronnie Scott's, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Musicians' Co-Op and the London Musicians' Collective. From 1974 his work extended into teaching, broadcasts (radio and television) and touring (continuing) in the United Kingdom and abroad, including Austria, Belgium, Canada; Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden and Switzerland.
In 1981, he founded Quaqua, a large bank of improvisers put together in different combinations for specific projects and in 1987 helped to set-up Acta Records with John Butcher and Phil Durrant. In 1988 he was the co-founder of MOPOMOSO, London's longest running concert series featuring mainly improvised music.
He has said that, 'Since my early involvement with free improvisation as a way of making music, I have moved closer to the realization that this is the best way for me to work as a musician, bringing together the intellectual and the intuitive with the practical in the creation of a music that is unique to a specific time and place. I also believe that playing solo, in long term and less permanent groups, all have particular things to offer the improviser and I have tried to exploit all three areas whilst developing existing traditions and juxtaposing previously unrelated areas in an attempt to provide a fertile ground for improvising.'
As opportunities permit, he has extended this approach to collaborate with creative practitioners from other disciplines, i.e. poetry, composition, theatre and performance art.>>MARCIO MATTOS
Marcio Mattos was born in Rio de Janeiro in March 20, 1946. He studied guitar in his youth, but soon began studying double-bass and cello. He was self-taught, after becoming interested in Jazz. Later he joined the Villa-Lobos Institute, where he approached closely to electronic music and improvisation. Since when Marcio came to Europe in 1970 he has performed and recorded in both, Britain and abroad along with groups, including John Surman, Evan Parker, John Stevens, Keith Tippett, Derek Bailey's company, Dewey Redman and Marylin Crispell, among others. He also worked with dance companies as Ballet Rambert and Extemporaneous Dance Theatre Company and electro-acoustic music groups, such as the Ensemble of Electronic Music Square West.
He is an old member of Eddie Prevost Quartet and Elton Dean several groups. Other ongoing British projects include "Bardo Estado Orchestra", “Ensemble Chris Queimadura”, "Taps de Madeira" with Maggie Nicols, "Embers" with John Butcher and others, "Linhas" with Phil Wachsmann / Denley Jim and others, and "Monte Full" with Chris Biscoe, Godding Brian and Tony Marsh. Some international projects in Europe included Grubenklang Georg Graewe Orchestra, Stefano Maltês "Ensemble de Música Open", “Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra", AXON" - trio with Phil Minton and Blume Martin, bass / cello and duo shakuhachi com Shiku Yano and in Japan various ensembles with Sabu Toyozumi and Keiko Midorikawa.
Marcio was also trained as a ceramic artist at Goldsmiths College and continues to produce and expose works in clay>>PANDA GIANFRATTI
Panda was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a drummer, percussionist, builder of percussion parts and free improviser. For many years, he has been dedicated to improvised music, promoting this strand through performances and workshops in cultural venues, theatres, museums, art galleries and festivals.
Panda is the founder of Abaetetuba Free Improvisation Group along with his partner Yedo Gibson, with whom he produced 4 cd´s, and with the musicians Rodrigo Montoya and Renato Ferreira, which partnership rendered the production of 4 cd´s.
He is a member of the Duo TOPA along with Thomas Rohrer, having produced 2 cd´s. Antonio has specialized in timber transitions using arc in dishes over drums, constructed vibraphone, trumpet, small flutes and handmade or transformed parts such as BERIMBAPHONE, BAMBUPHONE, CABACELLO, CYMBALOPHONE, RECOTRONIC, PANATRONIC and ZINCOTRONIC, which can be seen in the video INVENTIONS.
Panda´s artistic vein moves him constantly towards the interaction with other segments of arts as Live Cinema, Poetry, Theatre, Dance and Plastic Arts.
Some musicians and artists performing with Panda: Thomas Rohrer, Yedo Gibson, Rodrigo Montoya, Renato Ferreira, Phill Minton, Marcio Mattos,Hans Koch , Veryan Weston, Han Bennink, John Edwards, Michael Moore, Wilbert de Jood, Ab Baars, Rachel Rosalen (Live Cinema ), Paulo Nenflidio (Plastic Arts), Anette Naiman (Theatre), Donny Correa (Poetry).
Venues: in Brazil: MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Funarte, Sesc Paulista, Casa das Rosas, Conservatório Juscelino Kubstcheck Pouso Alegre, Biblioteca Alceu Amoroso Lima, Centro Cultural de São Paulo, FIT Festival Internacional de Teatro São José do Rio Preto, among others. Abroad: London: Laban Centre, Vortex, Café Oto, Kings Cross; Amsterdan: Bimhuis, Zaal 100, Amethiste; Madrid: XIII Festival Hurta Cordel de Improvisação Livre 2009.
>>RODRIGO MONTOYA
Rodrigo Montoya was born in Sao Paulo and participates in Abaetetuba Free Improvisation Group as a guitar player from its beginning in 2004. Since 2006 he devotes himself to the study of Tsugaru-Shamisen. Rodrigo develops a parallel work between Japanese traditional music and free improvisation. He lived in London from 2008 to 2011 experiencing creative music, free improvisation and contemporary art. In varying scenes Rodrigo joined several European musicians and artists such as Marcio Mattos, Steve Beresford, John Edwards, Moshi Honen, Lê Quan Ninh, Javier Carmona, Ricardo Tejero, Paloma Carrasco, Guillaume Viltard, Raymond Macdonald, Max Reed (dancer), Sabu Toyozumi, Caroline Kraabel, Jeff Cloke, Foco – Improvisation Orchestra of Madrid, Luo Chao-Yun, Terry Day, Damo Suzuki, Eddie Prévost weekly workshops, among others. He is also a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra.>>THOMAS ROHRER
Thomas is Swiss rooted in Brazil since 1995. He began his musical studies as a violinist and studied saxophone in the Jazz School of Lucerne. His work with rabeca and saxophone moves between the free improvisation and the Brazilian regional music.
Thomas performs with Abaetetuba Free Improvisation and participates in the group "Barca". He also integrates a duo with the singer Saadet Türköz of Kazakhstan, a trio with Swiss clarinetist Hans Koch and Panda Gianfratti, besides a Quartet with Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara and Miguel Barella. He made several tours across Brazil, United States and Europe. His participation in the program Artist Links (British Council) as resident in London propitiated him to join the London Improvisers Orchestra to perform with various local improvisers. Additionally, Thomas promotes musical interaction execution with cinema, theatre, dance, performance and installation.
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'ABAETETUBA'
“A gathering of good people”, a sensation of a timeless gateway with affinities in common, it was the initial point that motivated several gatherings for listening sessions, starting from the year 2004 by musicians from different trajectories interested in finding different ways for their music. During their research they found the Free Improvised Music, which was already solidified mainly in Europe and that still resonated in low frequency in our side, was the determining factor in a first step. The process of making unknown music without the intention of being "new" or "anti" or "definite" and especially the form in how each one can feel the music, unleashed in a fascinating way to be followed. Then it arises a name coming from the indigenous Tupi-Guarani culture that gave the necessary meaning: ABAETETUBA "A gathering of good people."
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ABOUT THE SERIES – FREE IMPROVISATION IN CCSP
The Improvisation Festival project gathers musicians from Brazil and abroad. The type of music expected to be promoted through this event is called free improvisation, widespread mainly in Europe and which is characterized by radicalizing experience of improvisation by unlinking it from previously defined structures, whether they are rhythmic or harmonic, unlike, for example, than usually does in jazz, where improvisation respects certain standards and, therefore, is restricted to the melodic framework.
Free Improvisation is not treated as a specific genre, but a collective creation that incorporates elements of contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz strands, folk music, among others, taking into account parameters that usually stay in the background, as the search of timbres, through a dialogue established at the time of performance.
The project arose as a result of the Experimental Music Festival, held in partnership with the Youth Cultural Center in 2009, as part of another project (Independent October), and attended by figures such as the English singer Phil Minton and the Brazilian bassist and cellist resident in London Marcio Mattos, among others.
The public response has shown that there is a diverse and growing interest in this type of music. Anyway, the festival aims to match this demand, gathering in CCSP improvisers and interested people in general, through performances with musicians who have broad experience in international festivals.
Part of the spectacles of this project are inserted into the regular schedule of music by CCSP; another part of them happens in days, rooms and alternative schedules, taking advantage of the multiple possibilities of this space.
To know the annual programming of Improvisation Festival click here
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FREE IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP WITH JOHN RUSSEL (SÃO PAULO)
Free Improvisation Workshop with John Russell (guitar)
The goal of this workshop is to show the participants the rupture of some musical elements involved in improvised music, including dynamics and texture, in addition to providing a general explanation of strategies on domain of the instrument. These elements are tailored to the specific requirements of a group and can be worked on any instrument. John Russell has taught workshops on free improvisation in many countries and for diverse audience in places such as Bedfordshire Education and Cheltenham Jazz Festival, among others.
Public: Musicians and music students (15 vacancies)
Registration: From 27-Sep to 6-Oct – registration form to be fulfilled and sent to e-mail
oficinamusica.ccsp@gmail.com
Note: Registration form will be available on this link from 27-Sep
Selection: Criteria will be based on the appraisal of information supplied in the
registration form.
The selected list will be published on this link from 11-October
Workshop
Schedule: 19 and 20-Oct, Wednesday and Thursday, from 4.00 to 6.00 PM
Venue: Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Register Form: Only available on page “Oficinas e Cursos do CCSP”. Click here to access the
page
ATTENTION
1. It is necessary to bring your own instrument (which should be specified in the registration form). In the case of electric instruments, you also need to bring the amplifier;
2. There will be a tolerance of 30-minute delay for the participants. After 7:30 PM, no entry will be allowed in the room;
3. On 21-Oct, Friday, at 9.00 PM there will be a student presentation concert;
4. Only the students present during the 3-day workshops will participate in the public presentation;
5. Those who need to assemble sets of percussion or other instrument that requires a longer time to assemble should arrive half an hour before.
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ITINERANT
For the second consecutive year, Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP invites the “paulista collective Abaetetuba”, hosting four exponents of worldwide free improvisation for musical workshops and performances on instrumental formations.
This year the FIIL 2011 happens in São Paulo, Recife (Pernambuco) and João Pessoa (Paraíba).
GUESTS 2011:
Hans Koch(bass clarinet – Switzerland)
Javier Carmona(drums - Spain)
John Russell(guitar – England)
Marcio Mattos(cello and electronics – England/Brazil)
Panda Gianfratti (percussion – Brazil)
Rodrigo Montoya (shamisen and guitar – Brazil)
Thomas Rohrer (sax and brazilian fiddle – Brazil/Switzerland)
Execution: Realização: Centro Cultural São Paulo, Prefeitura de São Paulo
Produção: Raquel Dammous (Arte Rumo Produções Artísticas)
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FIIL 2011 CONCERTS (SÃO PAULO)
FIIL has grown up in 2011 and will be held over 10 days in the Northeast and São Paulo.
CHECK OUT THE DATES OF CONCERTS IN SÃO PAULO:
Dates: 22 and 23-October-2011
Time: Saturday at 8.00 PM and Sunday at 7.00 PM
Venue: Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
FREE ADMISSION
Address and access:
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Rua Vergueiro, 1000 – Paraíso São Paulo SP 01504-000 – Metrô Vergueiro
http://www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br/ccsp_comochegar.asp
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FREE MUSIC IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP (SÃO PAULO)
Coordination: Thomas Rohrer and Panda Gianfratti
Lectors: Hans Koch (clarone), Javier Carmona (drums), Marcio Mattos (violoncello), Panda Gianfratti (percussion), Rodrigo Montoya (shamisen and guitar) e Thomas Rohrer (sax and fiddle (violin)
The goal of this workshop is to develop along with the students essential activities to the free improvisation practice, such as: technical exploration and extension of instruments, dynamics techniques, learning the signs and codes of regency of the free improvisation in group, as well as the development of techniques that encourage participants to listen to each other and are able to react to musical stimulation within certain contexts. The workshop foresees a presentation of the students at the end of activities.
Public: Musicians and music students (30 vacancies)
Registration: From 27-Sep to 6-Oct – registration form to be fulfilled and sent to e-mail
oficinamusica.ccsp@gmail.com
Note: Registration form will be available on this link from 27-Sep
Selection: Criteria will be based on the appraisal of information supplied in the
registration form.
The selected list will be published on this link from 11-October
Workshop
Schedule: From 19 to 21-Oct, Wednesday to Friday
Time: On 19 and 20-Oct, Wednesday and Thursday, from 7.00 to 10.00 PM
On 21-Oct, Friday, from 7.00 to 8.00 PM
Student Presentation Concert: On 21-Oct, Friday, at 9.00 PM
Venue (workshops and concerts): Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Rua Vergueiro, 1000 - Paraíso, Metro Vergueiro.
FREE ADMISSION
ATTENTION
1. It is necessary to bring your own instrument (which should be specified in the registration form). In the case of electric instruments, you also need to bring the amplifier;
2. There will be a tolerance of 30-minute delay for the participants. After 7:30 PM, no entry will be allowed in the room;
3. On 21-Oct, Friday, at 9.00 PM there will be a student presentation concert;
4. Only the students present during the 3-day workshops will participate in the public presentation;
5. Those who need to assemble sets of percussion or other instrument that requires a longer me to assemble should arrive half an hour before.
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FIIL 2011 CONCERTS (NORTHEAST)
FIIL 2011 has grown up and will be held over 10 days in the Northeast and São Paulo
CHECK OUT THE DATES OF THE FESTIVAL IN THE NORTHEAST:
CASA DE SEU JORGE
CONCERT: 14– Oct- 2011 (Ticket Price R$ 15,00)
TIME: 8.00 PM
LOCAL: Av. Santos Dumont, 1066 - Rosarinho - Recife/PE
Reservation: +00 55 81 30341066
Ticket price R$ 15,00
Cultural Sponsor in Pernambuco:
PROHELVETIA - FUNDACION SUIZA PARA LA CULTURA e AVINA STIFTUNG
MUSEU MURILLO LAGRECA
WORKSHOP: 15-Oct-2011 from 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM
CONCERT: 15-Oct-2011 at 5.00 PM
LOCAL: Rua Leonardo Bezerra Cavalcanti, 366 - Parnamirim - Recife/PE
FREE ADMISSION
CENTRO DE VIVÊNCIA DA UFPB
WORKSHOP: 17- Oct- 2011 from 10.00 AM to 12.00 PM
CONCERT: 17- Oct- 2011 at 7.00 PM
LOCAL: Universidade Federal da Paraíba - Cidade Universitária - João Pessoa – PB
FREE ADMISSION
Cultural Sponsor in Paraíba:
FUNJOPE, UFPB, PROHELVETIA - FUNDACION SUIZA PARA LA CULTURA e AVINA STIFTUNG
