Wednesday December 20, 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill
Jacques Demierre: piano
Axel Dörner: trumpet
Jonas Kocher: accordion
A new ensemble consisting of three leading figures of the improvising scene in Europe. The trio plays an improvised music totally focused on the here and now.
The music of these three very strong players covers a wide musical range going from silence and tiny sound lines to eruptive and sharp sonic attacks, sound and listening forming the core of the music, rather than any stylistic idiom.
Jacques Demierre
Jacques Demierre is pianist, performer and composer, his musical and sound work develops itself in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.
Axel Dörner
German trumpeter Axel Dörner has a unique style of playing based on unusual, often self-invented techniques that make use of breath and microscopic sounds as much as conventional note-playing.
Jonas Kocher
Jonas Kocher is a sound artist and accordionist with a strong interest in process oriented works and improvisation. He currently works with Joke Lanz, Axel Dörner, Jacques Demierre, Gaudenz Badrutt, Hans Koch, with the Šalter Ensemble, Ilia Belorukov, Eiko Yamada, Frantz Loriot, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinsky, Klaus Filip and many others. As sound artist Jonas Kocher has realised works that are situated between composed theatre, installation and concert pieces.
The tour is supported by Pro Helvetia, the City of Biel/Bienne, the Canton of Berne and the Canton and Republic of Geneva.
Ron Caines, I’m Dr Bouyant and Andrew Greaves
Saxophonist Ron Caines was a key player with the UK prog outfit East of Eden in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and then shifted focus to playing improvised music in Bristol. He has had a number of albums released by Martin Archer’s Discus label in recent years, to great critical acclaim. In this trio he joins two musicians that can be regularly found playing at Brighton’s long standing electronica night Spirit of Gravity.
Wildcard Quartet
With Monty Oxymoron, Adrian Southby, Dave Allen and Andrius Radavicius.