CAMUSI – Free Improvisation Concert

Wed 11 Dec 2013, 8 pm
ATK

From the organizer:

The Onion Cellar & DomDom are super excited to present:

A solo concert from the Italian duo CAMUSI – who totally burnt the house down and melt the faces and minds of all present at their concert on Monday as part of the Hanoi New Music Festival 2013.

Think Liz Fraser fronting a free-improvisation unit, backed by sonic experimentalists of the 21st century.

A Hanoi New Music Festival ’13 side-event.

CAMUSI (ITALY)

Stefano Giust: Drums, cymbals, objects
Patrizia Oliva: Vocal, electronics, contact microphone

“The live show is brilliant: the fragmented rhythms of Giust, change with the naturalness of a beating wings, it’s free jazz, it’s radical improv, it’s even trip-hop, each piece bears his indelible imprint. No less important is the Madame par excellence, her voice exudes passion and vehemence at every step, it’s a scratch, a caress, a slap and a scream at the same time. All these drag the sound of Camusi into the abyss of the soul, and then up to the sky.” Succo Acido

Camusi plays free improvisation: the aesthetic approaches of the two musicians interact with each other touching different areas: contemporary music, avant-garde jazz, electroacoustic, trip-hop, noise, psychedelia, ethnic, no wave, etc. Voice, electronics and drums have the same importance, following a sort of instrumental democracy.

Patrizia Oliva’s research is aimed on a redefinition of contemporary singer that often includes gesture. Her exploration on electronics includes noise, field recordings and voice loops. Stefano Giust’s drumming focuses on rhythmic pulse and its destruction, along with embracing powerful rough angularity, asymmetrical rhythms, noise, silence, timbric intensity and extended techniques. He avoids most clichés, nevertheless manages to transmit a pulsation that doesn’t derive from a single beat, but by assembling several rhythmic such as “micro events”.

Camusi is a project totally identified with the performative act of the concert and not with recording stuff. The radical decision to not publish new albums is also a protest of silence against the music market, an invitation to go to concerts.

GENTLE OHM (UK)

https://soundcloud.com/gentle-ohm
http://t.co/b6fIUkffYy
https://soundcloud.com/gentle-ohm/long-circuit-excerpt

Taking its name after a unit of electrical resistance which took its name after the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm, GENTLE OHM is and is not quite what it says on the tin. A new project from Hanoi-based noise enthusiast Josh Kopecek, GENTLE OHM could easily be amongst the British composer’s (who, in the past, has been writing contemporary classical suites, playing Brazilian music with his band Xeomistas, or bending the sh*t out of homemade circuit boards) most electronic, adventurous and elaborate offerings to date.

But are they ‘gentle’? Of course not. What we encounter is an ominously cavernous blanket of noise, interwoven with hauntological samples from bygone eras of traditional Vietnamese music, dipped in modern industrial colors, then manically live-processed in between dub-like beats into elaborate streams of consciousness. The resulting maelstrom is a canopy of dappled light over and through the sound with which he works.

Entry by donation.