TRANCE MAP
- When?
- Friday 21 October 2011, 19.30
- Where?
- PATS Studio One
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- Free
Playing a combination of soprano saxophone, turntable, laptop and surround sound electronics, the world-class saxophonist Evan Parker in partnership with Matt Wright present ‘Trance Map’, a realtime reworking of their recently released psi CD, which totally blurs the distinction between playing, mixing and editing.
Filtered through the silicon of the hard drive, samples of saxophone, lithophone and insects often sound electronically generated, whilst some of the synthesised sounds, designed in software, sound like birds with wings of their own.
Matt Wright works as a composer, improviser and sound artist at the edges of concert and club culture, his output stretching from scores for early music ensembles and contemporary chamber groups to digital improvisation, turntablism, website installations and large events combining DJs, new music performers and digital media.
He studied with Richard Steinitz and Chris Fox at The University of Huddersfield, with Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding and Richard Ayres at The Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands and with Roger Redgate at Goldsmiths College, where he received a doctorate in 2009.
Matt is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, where he leads the BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology degree and runs the urban music ensemble CONTACT. In 2007-8 he held the post of musician-in-residence at Goldsmiths College, London and since that year he has also been a frequent lecturer at The Royal College of Music.
Evan Parker (born in Bristol, 1944) took up the saxophone at the age of 14. Early influences included Paul Desmond, Eric Dolphy, and above all John Coltrane. After witnessing the Cecil Taylor Trio with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray in full flood in New York in 1962 he was, as he says, "marked for life", converted to the intensities of free jazz. Back in England, he gradually found players to share his fervour, including John Stevens and the members of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey and others - and, importantly, Peter Kowald, who made the introductions to the German scene. Parker played on Peter Brötzmann's still dangerous 'Machine Gun' in '68 and, before the 60s had run their course, had also recorded with Manfred Schoof and Pierre Favre. In 1970 he joined the Alex von Schlippenbach Trio, of which he is still a member, and subsequently the Globe Unity Orchestra. By this point the hallmarks of his unique style were established, his combinations of circular breathing, tonguing, rhythm patterns, overtones and polytones making his sound instantly recognisable.
Evan Parker appears on more than 200 recordings on labels including ECM, FMP, Emanem, Incus, Ogun, Po Torch, Okka, Island, CBS, RCA etc. In 2001, he founded his own label, Psi.