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Preses Nams

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Preses Nams, 3 Balasta Dambis

The duo Brondum/Fawcus (also known as Spiral Cycle) has been performing the last two years in Sweden and England. The duo explores a mix of analog and digital textures in live performance. Brondum/Fawcus compose within the realm of graphic notated scores and free improvisation and often collaborate with other musicians. Lars Bröndum is a composer, performer of live-electronics, theorist and guitarist. He has a Ph.D. in Composition & Theory from the University of Pittsburgh (1992), a Masters in Music in Composition and Music Theory (1989) and a Bachelors of Music degree in Guitar Performance (1987) from Youngstown State University. He is the founder of the independent record label MuArk, currently teaches music theory, composition/arranging and electronic music at Rytmus in Stockholm, Sweden. He composes for, and plays, in the ensembles ReSurge, ExSurge and the Bröndum/Fawcus duo (Spiral Cycle). Jamie Fawcus is a composer, performer and sound designer resident in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied philosophy and political theory in England, electroacoustic composition at the electronic music studios in Stockholm (EMS) and film music + musicology at Stockholm University and is currently conducting Doctoral research at Huddersfield University. His interests centre on the language of physical space in acousmatic art, archaeoacoustics and links between writing/narrative and EAM. Jamie is an active member of the intermedia arts organisation Fylkingen, the Swedish composers organisation FST, and the Society for electroacoustic music in Sweden (SEAMS). He has received scholarships from the Swedish national performing rights society (STIM) 2004 and 2006, Stiftelsen Alvar Kraft 2009 and the Helge Ax:sson Johnson Foundation 2007 and 2009. Jamie currently sits on the board of SEAMS and is a founding member of the ensemble Spiral Cycle.

Jonatan Liljedahl is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, with influences from noise, minimal, drone and stochastic music. He is interested in music and sound as a way of transcendence and revelation of the essence of reality through perception. “The process of synthesis is my main passion, exploring the aural results of algorithmic symmetry and chaos, in many ways connecting to the inner structures of nature,” Liljedahl tells.

Bergmark & Tippi. Johannes Bergmark plays improvised music on amplified objects. He has made many instruments of his own design and construction (as well as some traditional ones) and he also makes his own contact microphones. He is also a piano technician. Bergmark is otherwise engaged in activities like writing, composing electro-acoustic music - and text-sound compositions, sound poetry, making sound sculptures, interactive sound installations, performance art, teaching and lecturing. In his attitude, however a skeptic and surrealist, not an artist. Residing in Stockholm, active mostly in Fylkingen (chairman 2002-2004 and 2009-2010), at the electronic music studio EMS and in the Surrealist Group in Stockholm. Tippi Tillvind tells about herself that an "art adventurer is the most lifelike description of what i do. I have no ambition of becoming musician or professional artist of any kind. I don't want my creativeness to be neither a profession nor a hobby. I wish it to be all my life and the methods I'm using for my "art exploration" to be methods of leading my existence. Collage is my biggest interest and the major way of working. My idea for Riga is to work with improvised text-sound collage - a form I started developing to avoid limitations I experience in already existing forms of playing experimental music or working with words. it will be an instant sound collage of sounds created as well as gathered by unlimited means, in varying qualities and with various characters. I always hope to be surprised and confused by the dream-like sound stories I improvise. By working with JB i feel as the curious voice of my instant tales finds a great gang of sound objects to lively converse with, with no limitations in form or content."

Antoine Chessex is a composer and experimental musician born in 1980 in Vevey, Switzerland with a background as a saxophone player and performer. His sonic researches include compositions for ensembles, solo works and collaborations with other artists. Chessex´s works are based on the exploration of the physicality of sounds and spaces and deal with acoustic as much as with electronic and electro-acoustic music. Nowadays, allthough mostly focusing on composition, Chessex still uses the horn. His solo performances feature dense layers of sustained pitches reacting with the architecture of the space or massive clouds of amplified sax resulting in intense live actions in total immersion in the sound. He presents his works worldwide and appeared in numerous international festivals around the world. Collaborations with musicians like Lasse Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, Chris Corsano, Ilios, Didi Bruckmayr, Thomas Ankersmit, Valerio Tricoli, C. Spencer Yeh, Axel Dörner, Hans Koch, Robin Hayward, Lucio Capece, Dave Phillips, Kasper Toeplitz, Monno, architect Christian Waldvogel and media artist Ulrike Gabriel.

The swiss born drummer, percussionist and composer Alexandre Babel works on sound-based compositions, using the acoustic drumkit as a starting point. The use of all kinds of sound materials and performing techniques enables to create a vast range of textures, which are structured into pieces of different lenght and intensity, depending on the environnement in which they’re performed. The solo work presented here, All Over 3/ Cabinet du ministre, builts up a dialog between extremes, throughout an almost ununterrupted sound-continuum. Fragile breath-like sonorities juxtapose monolithic beating actions; the extreme control of well-structured passages meet the high density of almost-indeterminated fast/loud drumming.

Born in Switzerland, but now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes, etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrčte that juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery of disorienting electronics. (The Wire)

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