playing from Philadelphia (Us)

Tough Day Tubing

Al Margolis, electronics, viola, clarinet, alto clarinet; Walter Wright, electronics; Steve Norton,electronics, alto clarinet, soprano sax, tenor sax.

If, Bwana (aka Al Margolis) was born on New Year's Eve 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique Buzzarté, Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, among others.

Boston-based saxophonist Steve Norton has been performing and recording for over 30 years, with a bunch of folks to whom he is deeply and forever in debt. His recent work has taken a turn toward more sound-based concerns and investigations into performance gestalt. His focus is on improvisation, which is filtered through a strongly compositional sensibility. Current projects include Duck That, Grizzler, Symptomatic, Kilter, Metal & Glass Ensemble, Spam, solo performance and duos with Vic Rawlings, Curt Newton, Matt Samolis, Noell Dorsey, Marc Bisson and Katt Hernandez.

Walter Wright is an improviser on electronics of his fabrication. He is also a interdisciplinary artist, and community arts advocate. Educated as an architect, he has graduate degrees in engineering and interdisciplinary art. He is a co-founder of 119 Gallery in Lowell MA where he produces new music and performance events. One of these is XFest, an annual festival for improvised sound, video and movement. He teaches new media at UMass Lowell. He is a member of Apocalypso, bodydrama, Los Condenados, Loup-Garou, and One-Armed Mist.


Tough Day Tubing

Trio of electronic research was born in 2013 formed by Mauro Bon (el. bass , live electronics) , Sandro Carta (trumpet , sound processors) , and Massimo Croce (samplers) . Improvisation, used as an exercise of mutual listening , is the basis for each composition with the creation of a continuous flow of surreal atmospheres. The experimental timbres , repetitive rhythmic and microtonal variations refer to American minimalism but are the ambient sounds that characterize the band's sound .
In 2013 TriON3 played live at Station Topolò / Postaja Topolove (UD) . 

www.trion3.altervista.org

TRIon3 TBC

playing from Beijin (China)

Yan Yulong - Liu Xinyu

Yan Yulong - Forced by his family to study violin and piano since a child, as a grown up came slowly in contact with the music of avant-garde masters such Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Cale and has been deeply influenced by their tunes and ideas. In the 2009 he founded a little avant-garde-classic ensemble, Sister Oriented "1", and started his own creative project. Now he perform mainly as a one man band using an electric violin, a guitar and different effects. Minimalism, Psychedelia and Drones are the key concept of his work. 
http://site.douban.com/xiaolong/ 

Liu Xinyu - In the 2009 he began working with the guitar for the first time and started his own solo project, centered on free improvisation. In 2010 the creative process changed, he began to use a mixer board, feedback, laptop and everyday's life little objects as instrument of choice. His style varies from minimal to rich and complex, he has now abandoned completely any concept of melody, to produce absolutely nonsensical sounds,exploring little difference and constants between sound and sound.  http://site.douban.com/liuxinyu/ 

thanks to Yan Yun

TBC2014-06

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