Sunday 26 November 2006
St. Giles Cripplegate

OREN AMBARCHI (AUS) / MARGARIDA GARCIA (PT)
STEPHAN MATHIEU (DE) / PAULO RAPOSO (PT)
JOHN DUNCAN (US) / ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO (PT)

St. Giles Cripplegate church
Fore Street
London EC2 - Barbican
Tube: Barbican/Moorgate

Doors: 7.00pm
Program starts: 7.30 (sharp)
Program ends: 10.30 pm (Church closes: 11pm)

Entry: £12 / £10 (in adv)

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This performance is made in collaboration with Atlantic Waves Festival on the special Experimental week-end. Please refer to the AW festival for the other 2 nights.

[overview]

We are delighted to have been asked by Atlantic Waves to be part of this year's edition of the Experimental Week-end - taking place at St Giles Cripplegate and Purcell Room - by organising the closing event on Sunday 26 November . There is little doubt that this week-end is going to be one of the best musical events London has seen recently. We sincerely hope you will be attending all 3 events which include a majority of world premiere acts and first time performances in the UK.

[Event Description]

A groundbreaking international triple bill combining Australian rule- breaker electronic guitarist Oren Ambarchi with New York-based Portuguese double bassist Margarida Garcia, German digital arts specialist Stephan Mathieu with Portuguese live electronics and computer sound explorer Paulo Raposo, and, last but not least, Italy- based American artist/agent provocateur John Duncan with Barcelona resident Portuguese improviser and multimedia man Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

[artists]

JOHN DUNCAN

John Duncan was born in the United States, currently lives and works in Italy. His events and installations have recently been held at Eco e Narciso in Turin, MUTEK in Montreal, The Compound in San Francisco, Teatro Fondamenta Nuova in Venice, Teatro Piccolo Jovinelli in Rome, the NoorlandsOperan in Umeå, Fylkingen in Stockholm, the Watari Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Gothenburg Biennial, Quarter in Florence and Galleria Enrico Fornello in Prato. His audio releases THE CRACKLING (1996 with Max Springer), TAP INTERNAL (2000), PALACE of MIND (2001 with Giuliana Stefani), FRESH (2002 with Zeitkratzer), PHANTOM BROADCAST (2002), INFRASOUND-TIDAL (2003), THE KEENING TOWERS (2003) and NINE SUGGESTIONS (2005 with Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen, a.k.a. Pan Sonic) are all considered by critics and composers alike to be benchmarks in the field of experimental music. His work in performance has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Osterreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); and Museum of Tokyo (MOT).

ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO

Porto (Portugal), 1964

Barcelona-based Portuguese Arist Alfredo Costa Monteiro, with a background in sculpture and multimedia and member of 22a, an independent collective for contemporary art, plays accordion, electric guitar and turntable. Further to his work as a visual artist, he became involved in improvised music in 1995 and his work now stands between visual arts, visual-sound poetry and sound.

STEPHAN MATHIEU (i: www.bitsteam.de)

Stephan Mathieu is an electronic musician from Saarbruecken, Germany. Starting out as a drummer in various improvised contexts he made the switch to working mainly with computers in the late 90´s. Since then he has released a string of highly acclaimed recordings on labels like Ritornell, Fällt and Orthlorng Musork. His music is mostly based on acoustic instruments but so far it has always been more or less heavily computer processed.
Stephan has released numerous albums on a wide range of diverse labels and has performed in the most significant experimental music festivals in Europe. He has also made various installations and exhibitions, made works for dance and theatre and collaborated with artists such as Liam Gillick, Darren Almond, Cedrick Eymenier and Tobias Rehberger.

PAOLO RAPOSO (i: http://www.sirr-ecords.com/pauloraposo/)

Paulo Raposo is a sound and media artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Born in 1967, after studies of philosophy and cinema in Lisbon, he has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound, performing, recording and exhibiting works in France, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Baltic States and United States. His work explores the inter-relationships and displacements between digital process and architectural spaces, using computer and custom-built software to create abstract and delicate soundscapes. Since the late nineties, he started also exploring intersections between sound and image taking advantage of the digital medium real-time possibilities, both in solo performances and collaborative work.

Raposo performed and colaborated with numerous artists, including Janek Schaefer, Jason Kahn, Kaffe Mathews, Marc Behrens, Jgrzinich, Zbigniew Karkowski, Matt Rogalski, Carlos Santos, Carlos Zíngaro, Christopher Murphy, Koji Asano, Sara Kolster, among others.

He founded Sirr in 2001, a label dedicated to promote challenging sound art from an array of international artists and 26 cds were released so far.

And was co-founder of 2 portuguese organizations: Granular and Binaural.

OREN AMBARCHI (i: http://www.orenambarchi.com/)

Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. Born in Sydney in 1969, he has been performing live since 1986. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK).

Ambarchi's work on harmonics and resonance has led him to define serene spaces of fluid, shifting sound.

His solo releases Suspension and Insulation (Touch, UK), have transcended the guitar into a zone of alien beauty and sonic impossibilities to critical acclaim. He has released his most recent album on Southern Lord, label run by Stephen O'Malley from Sunn0))) with whom he has also appeared during live performances of the post-drone metal duo.

He has performed and recorded with Martin Ng (Australia), Christian Fennesz (Austria), Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Pimmon (Australia), John Zorn (USA), Voice Crack (Switzerland), Sachiko M (Japan), Keith Rowe (UK), Phill Niblock (USA), Gunter Muller (Switzerland), Evan Parker (UK), Toshimaru Nakamura (Japan) and many more.

MARGARIDA GARCIA (i: http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/artists/m_garcia.html


(born 1977, Lisbon/Portugal)

Improviser | double bass. Public activity since 1998; since then collaborates regularly with Manuel Mota and Sei Miguel. Funds the record label Thin Ice. Selection of some other collaborations: Barry Weisblat, Toshio Kajiwara, Phill Niblock, Fred Lomberg-Holm, Ferran Fages, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Ruth Barberán, Mattin, Anthony Guerra, Michael Rodgers, Takehiro Nishide, Mark Wastell, Rohdri Davies e Eddie Prevost, and with artists from other fields like video, installation and dance.

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