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you are only allowed to walk on the side walk segments. Whoever steps on the cracks loses and is eaten up by the crocodile. if the segments or stones are too small or the path is paved you must walk on the edge stone of the side walk. if this is also not possible, the game is interrupted and everybody may walk as they like until the necessary terrain resumes. –
Children Games like this could have been the starting point for Playing By Numbers –the new album by Kapital Band 1. Now electronics have been pushed a bit to the side, in the foreground are acoustic instruments – cello, guitar, vibraphone and marimba, voice, flute and of course drums. The three parts of the composition play around playing by numbers. The CD is going to be released in November this year on Mosz/Vienna.
For our release tour in spring 2008 we plan to play this composition aswell as one dedicated composition which will be only performed live. We are going to play in an extended formation: Clare Cooper – harp, Werner Dafeldecker – double bass, Andrea Neumann – inside piano and Tony Buck on drums will join us
We are going to start the tour with a concert in Berlin at Maerzmusik in mid March’08. We are open for concerts in March, April and May and maybe June as Kapital Band 1 featuring a number of guests. After that we are going to shrink to our normal size.
.the guests:
Andrea Neumann
studied piano at "Hochschule der Kunste" in Berlin. Since 1996 primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music.
In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds (sometimes to make parts of the sound audible which are inaudible without amplification), she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument. Because the original inside piano is very heavy, a piano builder (Bernd Bittmann, Berlin) constructed a new and lighter one for her.
She has worked intensively in the crossover area between composition and improvisation, and in the field between electronic and handmade sounds, with Berlin musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner, Robin Hayward and Burkhard Beins. She has composed for inside piano for interdisciplinary projects including film, dance, performance, etc.
Clare Cooper
Harpist and Digital Media Artist Clare Cooper (b. Sydney 1981) is interested in unlikely pairings, and what they reveal of machines and music. Her sound work focuses primarily on player-powered mechanical percussion on her two chosen string instruments: the Concert Harp and the Chinese Guzheng.
Over the past 7 years she has toured Europe, USA, UK, Australia, NZ and Japan presenting solo work and collaborating with new sound makers from many disciplines. For the past 6 years Clare has been Co-Director of the NOW now festival of spontaneous music with partner Clayton Thomas, now Australia’s key experimental sound and film festival. Her current projects include “Germ”, an electro-acoustic study of the Guzheng and DX7 synthesiser with Chris Abrahams, renowned pianist from ‘the Necks’, and “Hammeriver” a fluid 5-14 piece group reinterpreting the music of the late Alice Coltrane.
Tony Buck
Born in Sydney in 1962, Tony is regarded as one of Australia's most creative and adventurous exports, with vast experience across the globe. He has been involved in a highly diverse array of projects. Apart from The Necks, he is probably best known as leader of hardcore/impro band PERIL.
Early in his musical life, after having graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, he became very involved in the jazz scene in Australia, often touring with visiting international artists such as Vincent Herring, Clifford Jordan, Mickey Tucker, Branford Marsalis and Ernie Watts, as well as Australians Mark Simmonds, Paul Grabowsky, The catholics, Sandy Evans and Dale Barlow. Following time spent in Japan, where he formed PERIL with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki, Tony moved to Europe, and has involved himself in many projects there, including the development of new "virtual" MIDI controllers at STEIM in Amsterdam.
Tony has played, toured or recorded with, among others, Jon Rose, Nicolas Collins, Tenko, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Phil Minton, Haino, Switchbox, The Machine for Making Sense, Ne Zhdall, The EX, Peter Brotzmann, Hans Reichel, The Little Red Spiders, Subrito Roy Chowdury, Clifford Jordan, Kletka Red, Han Bennink, Shelley Hirsch, Wayne Horvitz, Palinckx, and Ground Zero.
Werner Dafeldecker
freelance musician, composer and producer. concentrating on improvisation, eletronic music and cross-over projects. a longtime sound research, pure acoustic research, and the creation of a personal sound archive are the basis for his work.
co founder of polwechsel and durian records.
performances, and comissions: kammermusiktage witten; berliner festspiele märz musik; sound field festival chicago; wien modern; festival hörgänge; musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst; what is music festival australia; international music festival vancouver; international festival victoriaville/canada; ultraschall festival berlin; salzburger festspiele;
worked with: luc ferrari, john tilbury, otomo yoshihide, sachiko m, john butcher, franz hautzinger, david sylvian, christian fennesz, gene coleman, jim o rourke, tony buck,
klangform wien, patrick pulsinger, burkhard stangl, eugene chadbourne, dean roberts, rad
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