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ECHO CHAMBER on Mixcloud – Episode #1 with Sam Mackay
The first episode of Echo Chamber and the first to go on to Mixcloud! Back in 2017, I talked with Sam Mackay, researcher and co-founder of the London Contemporary Music Festival. We chat about improvised and experimental music practices, being uni grads from Edinburgh, and noise in a post-colonial setting. https://lcmf.co.uk/
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ECHO CHAMBER #24 – An Aleatoric Solo Duet with Ben Grossman
At the end of September 2019, the Hurdy Gurdy player from Guelph, Canada, named Ben Grossman came to Marseille to play in the premier of Guillaume Orti’s “… ence” at the Festival Les Emouvantes. He stayed the weekend and we organized a concert in a beautiful cave in the stunning Calanques National Park just…
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ECHO CHAMBER #23 – Art in life? with Justin Evans, part 2
A little over a year ago I visited Justin Evans in Charlotte, North Carolina, for his residency showcase at Goodyear Arts. I originally got in touch with Justin after coming across his indescribable experimental podcast project Mystery Meat. We met at the Goodyear Arts building and recorded a little echo chamber. I’m overjoyed listening…
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ECHO CHAMBER #22 – Art in life? with Justin Evans, part 1
A little over a year ago I visited Justin Evans in Charlotte, North Carolina, for his residency showcase at Goodyear Arts. I originally got in touch with Justin after coming across his indescribable experimental podcast project Mystery Meat, and was blown away by the group performance he gave of shouted texts he’d worked on…
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ECHO CHAMBER #21 – Contemporary Canadian music with John Beckwith
I had the honour to be invited to the home of Canadian composer John Beckwith in autumn last year. He came to see Tandem in concert at Toronto and I took the opportunity to sit down with him later on and have his thoughts on the art of musical composition. Topics varied from writing…
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Three new EPs from AND
AND (Anouck Genthon, violin, Ed Williams, guitar) is pleased to announce the release of three new EPs taken from various performances. The first we’re releasing, AND in Leipzig & Kopenhagen, features recordings of our 2016 tour and also has Ed playing harpsichord. A note from Ed: These tracks are taken from two performances back in 2016.…
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SOLOS photos
Some nice shots of the CD freshly out of the box. Thanks for the new images Chloé Saffores! To be released on Monday 21st October. You can pre-order here…
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more news 2019
An update on some of the exciting things happening soon or that have just happened: Super nice concert with Ben Grossman and Vincent Roussel at the Grotte de l’Hermite in the nature outside Marseilles (see photos below). I also took Ben aside to dig into his musical background and talk about Stravinsky, a discussion which…
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ECHO CHAMBER #20 – Freedom & Composition with Christoph Schiller, part 3
I spent several days last summer with composer, improviser and spinet-player Christoph Schiller at his somewhat legendary studio in Basel. Given the concentrated subject matter, and the sheer length, of the discussions, I decided to make a three-part Echo Chamber special that deals overall with the question of freedom in musical composition:- composition as…
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