Tilman Lewis & Nick Storring - prepared amplified cellos.

Thanks to Peter Lebel for hosting at his festival in Downtown London!

Live At Sweet Magic London (September 21st, 2013), Part One

Live at ArraySpace in Toronto, 2013

Nick Storring & Tilman Lewis — acoustic cellos

From forthcoming album "Tidewrack"

Underbrush

Two acoustic cello duo improvisations by Nick Storring and Tilman Lewis.  

Recorded live at the Gone Fishing Series, Somewhere There, May 14th, 2012

Special thanks to Michael Keith and David Sait

We've recently recorded some short pieces for a split release with Aaron Lumley on Jakob Rehlinger's Arachnidiscs label.  These two tracks didn't fit... 

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Walk-Through ; Haunt

Another False Echo

Tilman Lewis & Nick Storring - acoustic cellos, preparations.

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Basalt

From our split cassette with Aaron Lumley on Arachnidiscs Recordings.

Nick Storring & Tilman Lewis - Acoustic Cellos.  
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nick Storring.

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Penumbra I

Nick Storring & Tilman Lewis - amplified cellos

Live at Holy Oak Café 
September 26th, 2012 - Arachnidiscs Tape release show w/ Nate Young, Drainolith and Babel.

A composite recording by Mechanical Forest Sound and Nick Storring.
Nick Storring - restoration/ mastering.


Abraded

Tilman Lewis / Nick Storring - amplified cellos.

Live at Holy Oak Café Toronto February 10th, 2013

Live at Holy Oak - February 10th 2013 (Part 2)

Nick Storring & Tilman Lewis - Cellos.

Recording/ mix - Nick Storring

Recorded at Tilman's House April 16th, 2013

In Secret

The Knot is the duo of cellists Tilman Lewis and Nick Storring.  Emerging in summer 2006, with allegiance to both form and freedom, they have since embarked on sonic explorations that draw on various folk traditions and experimental musics. The pair love to bend the instrument’s lyricism, drawing not so much on extended techniques as on an array of audacious contra-techniques: preparations/ apparati (practice mutes, hair-clips, clamps, wine corks, mallets, egg beaters, plectrums etc.). They still, however, permit the instrument’s natural beauty to have its place. These sonorities are channeled and combined into single unified textures, and everything from improvised heterophony, to stark contrast.

Both Lewis and Storring have been active in various Toronto projects. Storring regularly plays solo under his own name and as member of Picastro, Loom, son jarocho collective Café Con Pan, and of I Have Eaten The City. He is also a composer of chamber and electronic music, and winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award. Lewis has recorded with the AIMToronto Orchestra, the Kyle Brenders ensemble, and experimental songsmiths Slim Twig and Clara Engel, and performed with the improvising superband that hosts the Music Gallery’s Compose Yourself events.

The pair have appeared together backing Sandro Perri, in a band playing with Doug Paisley, and as part of Aidan Baker’s large ensemble project Liminoid.

The Knot

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