‘Anaximenes Awakening’ – Teresa Hackel album launch concert.
Live improvisations:
Teresa Hackel – recorders
Tony Hardie-Bick – digital modelled synthesis
Jonny K Martin – trumpet / treatments
Douglas Benford – tenor recorder / objects
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10/£8 cash on the door
About the album ‘Anaximenes – Recorder of Air’
Featuring Teresa Hackel on recorders, the music on Teresa’s album was recorded during her stay in London in 2024; the album is named after the Greek philosopher Anaximenes who regarded air as the primal substance of all life. Teresa Hackel plays the square paetzold great bass recorder and a special type of tenor recorder and uses her voice as well.
This event will consist of 3 sets:
Trio: Douglas Benford, Tony Hardie-Bick, Jonny K Martin
Solo: Teresa Hackel
Quartet: Douglas Benford, Tony Hardie-Bick, Jonny K Martin, Teresa Hackel
Teresa Hackel: The recorder player Teresa Hackel, born in Berlin, is based in Switzerland since 2005. Her focus is free improvisation and she is keen to search for strange and unconventional sounds on the different types of the recorder. In her playing she values listening – there is no unnecessary sound, just the music that comes by itself. The Aargauer Kuratorium has awarded Teresa Hackel with a scholarship and a stay in London from July to December 2024. She has worked collaboratively with Caroline Kraabel, Sue Lynch, Eiko Yamada, Tony Hardie-Bick, Tansy Spinks, Adrian Northover, Ivor Kallin, Pascal Marzan, Douglas Benford, Dominic Lash and many others.
https://www.teresa-hackel.com
https://teresahackel.bandcamp.
Jonny Martin: ‘Sonic mangler, often wrestling with trumpet, flugelhorn, bass guitar & EBow, filtered through electronic brouhaha. Photographer. Maverick, apparently.
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Tony Hardie-Bick: Tony Hardie-Bick is a musician and entrepreneur whose interests in electronics and music overlap significantly. An early musical epiphany while touring with legendary punk band Sham 69 inspired him to design and build a series of digital musical instruments Commercial success followed with his design for the world’s first touch screen that responds to the sound of fingertip impacts. Tony’s recent return to musical instrument design has seen his distorting filter algorithms licensed to Ableton in 2022, followed by the construction of apparatus for listening to the sound of cities, live, in real time, anywhere in the world. The city sounds are filtered and distorted using a radical new instrument, as yet unnamed, in dialogue with other musicians.
https://edpettersen.bandcamp.
Douglas Benford: composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres and monikers since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). His pieces and performances have been aired on the radio internationally, BBC Radio 3 and the Ambrosia Rasputin show on Resonance FM. After numerous electronica releases and activity in the 90s and 2000s, he now plays using acoustic sources (eg harmonium, tenor recorder, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective and regularly attends Eddie Prevost London improvisers workshop. His collaborators include Phil Durrant, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poets Tamar Yoseloff and Iris Colomb, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Dominic Lash, Rachel Musson, Keisuke Matsui, Tom Ward, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum and Sue Lynch.
http://dbenford.bandcamp.com/music
