COPPICE (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer ) 
present two composed works: 

So Lobes Drape as Such Gills Over a Hanger's Pit (7:16) 
Prepared pump organ (kinder) and tape


Soft Crown (24:54)  
Prepared pump organ (Estey), Multi-Material Filter, 
Vinculum PC-1 04.01.003.57, tape processes, and 
Estey Epander Module v.1

Artwork by COPPICE

Coppice - Vantage/Cordoned (Excerpt) CA03 2014

Continuous Events (Clapping Optional)
Musica Reflecta chamber collective with Love Nation records
March 22, 2014: The Tranzac, Toronto, Canada
Free sax improv: Colin Fisher

Colin Fisher sax improv (Continuous Events Clapping Optional)

Musica Reflecta chamber collective with Love Nation records present: 
Continuous Events Clapping Optional (CECO)
March 22, 2014: The Tranzac, Toronto, Canada
Trumpet: Nicole Rampersaud

Nicole Rampersaud noise trumpet improv (Continuous Events Clapping Optional)

Musica Reflecta chamber collective with Love Nation records present: 
Continuous Events Clapping Optional (CECO)
March 22, 2014: The Tranzac, Toronto, Canada
Composer: Nick Storring
Ensemble: Musica Reflecta (string quartet, woodwind quintet, melodica)

"Ruins" by Nick Storring (Continuous Events Clapping Optional)

Live set performed at Roulette's Mixology Festival Feb, 2014.
All sounds analog and digital synthesis.
http://vimeo.com/89453774

Ben Vida Live At Roulette 2014 - 02 - 07

The Infinite Mirror

Tashi Dorji - Improvisation I

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

Since late 2009 we have developed compositions using a modified boombox – a tape loop machine that records and plays back simultaneously. Sounds that enter it are released within seconds, sounding gentle feedback. Our first compositions using this boombox and a shruti box marked the beginnings of our collaboration as Coppice, and a phase of up-close entwinement of both instruments in decidedly quiet gestures. Since then, we have expanded our dynamic palette and range of instrumentation to include more bellowed instruments, custom instruments and other electronic processes.

Last Fall, we began imagining what has become Pied, a composition for tape, pump organ and the boombox. Its form contrasts the tapes’ fibrous processing with the more tabular appearances of microtonal pump organ transpositions – performed quietly but loudly amplified to bring out interferences and resonances by means of the original microphone techniques.

On one hand, Pied is a stark display of our sounds as solo artists, but in a borderline duet: five pump organ sections (recorded in Summer 2011 at Fljótstunga, Iceland) alternating with their boombox mediation and trails.

On the other hand, developing this piece at High Concept Laboratories has been a careful and entangled collaborative process, working directly with tape, scoring multiple generations of processing, and using a variety of acoustic resonators for coloration.

Although our compositional ideas may be fixed, the boombox’s response to these ideas is inherently oracular. Sections of Pied switch between several takes of the same content on tape, each sounding completely different from the other. We decided to keep many sonic incidentals and utterances across the many coats of the boombox’s reflections, also as a way to reveal the audible transparencies in the tape that didn’t erase. Towards the end of the piece, a snippet of our piece Seam seeps through the layers—which may be a recording from a performance in November of last year.

It is in this dendritic way that our work continues to develop, with fractions of past works refracted, and with certain sonic aspects highlighted at the expense of others.

Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer)
February 2012

Excerpt from "Pied" [2013] by Coppice

TRB.038 "Compound Form" by Coppice, the duet of Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer

Coppice - Compound Form (excerpt)

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.

II

The Knot

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