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Jack and Pascal have had an impassioned and fresh experience playing together as a duo and in collaboration with their mutual partner and friend, electronicist Michael Johnsen of Pittsburgh (US). The duo will be touring in April 2010 in North America, from Montreal to Washington DC and from NY to Toronto. .A short mp3 of the duo is available here. "Beginning in the
1960's Jack Wright taught at various universites,
then left academia in the early 1970's to engage in radical politics.
By the end of the decade he was re-directing his energies into the
saxophone. He is today one of a small group of musicians in North
America that has played improvised music exclusively since that time.
Through years of near constant touring, often performing for audiences
in cities and towns where improvised music had never been heard before,
he came to be regarded as an underground legend, the "Johnny
Appleseed of Improvised Music". He has deliberately avoided the
conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to
pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets
him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment, his
art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He
is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master
improviser who is deeply lyrical, with humor never far away. ---text by Andrew Drury. .For more bio etc. info and discography go to www.springgardenmusic.com Pascal Battus
started out in music as a teenage rock guitarist, then studied percussion
(ENM Le Mans et Noisiel) and finally focused on experimental music and
improvisation, shaping his instruments to match his own gestures. He
now presents a wide range of sound possibilities and experiences, including
the surrounded guitar, He is developing what he calls Graphones, in which he produces sound and drawing on paper with the same gesture and the Sound Massages : low acoustic sounds sourced in everyday objects and tools are produced close to or directly into the listener’s ears. With Thomas Lehn and Michael Johnsen Battus performed at Music Action in Nancy in 2008. Pascal can be seen and heard playing with Bertrand Gauget on You-Tube here more information: http://pbattus.free.fr Reviews of the Battus' solo CD "Pickup": ''Pascal Battus plays table guitar. The instrument is laid flat and Battus works directly near or on its pick-ups with a whole range of objects, both electronic (e-bows, Walkmen, hand-held fans and various food mixers) and acoustic (springs, rulers, tubes and straws). Playing for him is a process of exploration, sonic research – and so, for us, is listening. The sounds Battus makes are at times quite extraordinary, and I'm often left scratching my head as to how they're produced...fine, representative example of everything I find positive and exciting in today's improvised music."-- Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic and in Revue & Corrigée
: Solo pick-up ou le microphone de la guitare enfin débarrassé
d'elle
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