EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE
BREAK UPS
1 Walter Prati electronics/computer processing, Paul Lytton percussion/electronics, Marco Vecchi sound processing/sound projection
2 FURT: Richard Barrett, Paul Obermayer sampling keyboard/electronics
3 Joel Ryan sample & signal processing, Ichikawa Ko sho
4 Barry Guy bass, Lawrence Casserley signal processing
5 Evan Parker soprano sax/voice, Peter Evans (piccolo)trumpet, Richard Barrett, Paul –
Obermayer sampling keyboard/electronics
6 Agusti Fernandez (prepared) piano, Ned Rothenberg (bass)clarinet, Phil Wachsmann violin/electronics
Evan Parker (1944) is a key figure in European improvised music and one of the most important and ground-breaking saxophonists since John Coltrane. With tenor sax, soprano sax and electronics, he has developed his own individual vocabulary, a central feature of which is inventing new playing techniques. Since the sixties, he has worked with countless musicians; from like-minded avant-garde performers such as Derek Bailey and Cecil Taylor to rock adventurers like Robert Wyatt and contemporary electronics pioneers such as Squarepusher.
Parker’s fascination with the electronic distortion of sound is shown in his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. The members of this ensemble have each made their own name in the international avant-garde music scene. Half of the impressive group comprises musicians who improvise on acoustic instruments, and the other half are sound artists, who use electronics to directly process the passages improvised on stage. The result is a new sort of orchestral music with a panoramic scope; layered and with infinite mutations.
On Monday May 17 the musicians of the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble will play in several compact line-ups together at the Bimhuis. The concert This Moment’s Energy of the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble will take place on Tuesday May 18 in the large hall of Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.
Listen to the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on the Dutch radio station Concertzender