The brilliant sextet Evolve was recorded during the SoundOut festival 2018, The sextet had never before played together as a group except in discreet groupings such as duos, however what came out of this meeting is a set of free improvisation that indeed evolves, morphs and grows into intersubjective beauty.
Adam Pultz Melbye: double bass
Franz Hautizinger: trumpet
Isabelle Duthoit: vocals, clarinet
Judith Hamann: cello
Ren Walters: elc guitar
Richard Johnson: soprano & baritone saxophone
Adam Pultz Melbye:
Living in Berlin since 2013, Danish born double bassist Adam Pultz Melbye works in a number of projects centrered around exploring the basic constituents of sound. Using his instrument as a resonator rather than as a carrier of melody or harmony, Melbye’s solo playing draws on acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena to create detailed and oscillating sonic fields where sudden and dramatic changes can be caused by minute variations in finger placement or bow pressure. With bands such as Tennis of All Kinds, SAP and Flamingo, group texture becomes a dominant theme, resulting in densely layered resonant zones. Adam has toured large parts of the world, was instrumental in the rise of the Scandinavian record label and musicians collective Barefoot Records and now operates his own imprint Noema. Adam frequently performs with dance, has composed, performed and recorded music for film, theatre and visual arts and has recently explored generative sculpture design with the multidisciplinary project Every Vessel. Current projects include a duo with dancer Akemi Nagao, Gullet (acoustic and electroacoustic works for solo double bass), Tennis of all Kinds (with Julia Reidy), LUBB (with Pat Thomas and Peter Ole Jørgensen), SAP (with Paul Stapleton), Flamingo (with Chris Heenan and Christian Windfeld), Water speaks of Water (with dancer Jenny Haack and percussionist Michael Vorfeld). Additional notable collaborations: Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Rudi Mahall, Sofia Jernberg, Frank Gratkowski, Magda Mayas, Jack Wright, Johannes Bauer, Tony Buck, Axel Dörner, Gerald Cleaver, Tobias Delius, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paul Lovens, Mikolaj Trzaska.
www.adampultz.com
Franz Hautzinger:
Detours often lead to more thrilling. Franz Hautzinger has taken long and bendy detours and turned to many dead ends. All this, these victories and defeats, this "History from the Total Crash to 'Emergency Individualism'", as he himself. Born in Seewinkel, Burgenland, a Hannibal Marvin Peterson concert at jazz gallery Nickelsdorf was the young trumpeter's "awakening experience". He studied at the University of Graz, Austria, from 1981 to 1983. After moving to Vienna in 1986 he started in 1989 to explore the trumpet in his very own and un-academic way. He became attached to the circles around Christoph Cech and Christian Mühlbacher, played in the big band "Nouvelle Cuisine" and the octet "Striped Roses"; The CD "Zong of the Boboolink", which he recorded with the saxophonist Helge Hinteregger and what was influenced by sampler collages. His Kenny Wheeler, Henry Lowther, John Russell, and Steve Noble. Hautzinger assimilated the stimuli in very different ways: in "Rainorchester" with his changing instrumentation, in the quartet with Helge Hinteregger, Oren Marshall and Steve Noble as well as in the trio "Speakers' Corner" with guitarist Martin Siewert and drummer Wolfgang Reisinger. The critical decision to avoid electronic sound sources is not a computational approach to the development of digital music on the trumpet - the quarter tone trumpet purchased in 1997 - the decisive stages for the creation of Franz Hautzinger's sensational solo trumpet CD "Gomberg" (2000) on which He presented this on his instrument. Hautzinger translation by "Gomberg" at the front line of the international improvisation avant-garde; Collaborations and CD records with Derek Bailey, the "AMM" veterans Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, as well as Axel Dörner, Christian Fennesz and Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M followed. ("Regenorchester XI" and XII) can be considered as important in his development. Franz Hautzinger teaches at the Vienna Music University since 1989, is a member of the Berliner Ensemble "Zeitkratzer" since 1999 and received from Klangforum Vienna amongst others. He is a globetrotter whose unmistakable musical signature is known from Vienna to Berlin, London to Beirut, or in Tokyo, New York, and Chicago. Franz Hautzinger has shown that even in times where postmodernism is history.
Isabelle Duthoit:
Isabelle is a French jazz and improvisational musician (clarinet, vocals) and composer in the area of creative jazz, free improvisational music and contemporary composition music. Duthoit began her classical music studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon with Jacques Di Donato in 1991, which she graduated in 1995. With Donato, she founded the Fruits de Mhère festival for improvisational music in 1994 and composed the theatermusik le temps du souffle . In the second half of the decade she went on a tour with Donato to the United States; She also worked with chamber music performers such as Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Raphaël Oleg. She has performed several times at the Musique Action festivals in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, Musique en Scène in Lyon as well as in Romania and the Ukraine. She also worked in the Ensemble Triolid (album Ur Lamento 2002 with Laurent Dailleau (Theremin) and David Chiesa (bass, percussion)) with Taavi Kerikmäe and with Tim Hodgkinson ( Sketch of Now , 2006). In the duo with the pianist Jacques Demierre, she recorded the album Avenues (Unit) in 2004. She is a clarinetist in the trio Krizda with Christine Wodrascka (piano) and Gunda Gottschalk (viola), plays in the formation archipelago of Emmanuel Petit and is the founder of the trio Bords de Mhère (with Kristof Guez and Marc Pichelin). She also worked in the course of her career with Johannes Bauer, Camel Zekri , Michel Doneda , Franz Hautzinger and Géraldine Keller . In 2001 she appeared with Joëlle Léandre and Marilyn Crispell at the Festival Confrontations in Nickelsdorf. In Japan, she studied the Nō rituals during a stay at the Villa Kujoyama in 2008 and in 2011 she participated in the Villa Medici of Rome together with Ryōko Aoki. In 2012, she was a member of Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Ensemble, as part of the SWR New Jazz Meeting; She also belongs to his quartet drift. The new magazine for music characterized Duthoit as part of "a musical movement in France, which wants to break the boundaries between new composer and improvised music”.
Judith Hamann:
Judith’s performance practice stretches across various genres encompassing elements of improvised, art, experimental, and popular music. Judith has studied contemporary repertoire with cellists including Charles Curtis and Séverine Ballon, as well as developing a strong practice in improvisation and sound practices through collaborative projects both in Australia and internationally. She has worked with artists and ensembles including Oren Ambarchi, ELISION ensemble, Dennis Cooper, Maya Dunietz, Graham Lambkin, Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith, Ilan Volkov, Tashi Wada, Manfred Werder, La Monte Young, and John Zorn. Judith is a founding member of Golden Fur (with James Rushford and Samuel Dunscombe) and Hammers Lake (AUS) with Carolyn Connors. She also performs in unique duo projects with Anthea Caddy, Bonnie Lander, and Rosalind Hall. She has performed widely with festivals including Tectonics (Glasgow, Adelaide, Tel Aviv), UnSound (NYC), Adelaide Arts Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, The Now Now (Sydney), Dark Mona (Hobart), Extremities Japanese Australian Festival (Tokyo), Tokyo Experimental Festival, SiDance Festival (Seoul), Ausland Summer Festival (Berlin), and Liquid Architecture (AU). Other performance highlights include improvised or repertoire presentations at Cafe Oto (London), Issue Project Room (NYC), Dia Art Foundation (NYC), Steim Institute (Amsterdam), Logos Foundation (Ghent), LaSalle University (Singapore), SuperDeluxe (Tokyo), and Tempo Reale (Florence). She is a champion of new and rarely performed music, immersive approaches to sound, and engages with a range of interdisciplinary and experimental projects including the Amper&nd project (South Korea/Australia), and collaborative work with visual artists Keith Deverell and Sabina Marselli. She has been an artist in residence at Tokyo Wondersite Aoyama, and Q-02 (Brussels).
Ren Walters:
Since 1971 he has been active as band leader, composer and performer in rock, jazz, improvised and free music, from Yellow Yachts (improvised), Millionaires (rock) and WildLife (jazz rock) in the 1970s, to Pyramid (fusion) in the 80s and TIP (contemporary jazz) and THAT (realtime composition). Walters studied guitar in New York with Mike Stern, 1983. He also has a diploma of fine art from Phillip Institute, Melbourne (1975). He has composed for and performed music for contemporary dance, film, video and multimedia. He also taught improvisation and performance materials, large and small ensembles and guitar at the VCA from 1995 to 1999. Walters was a member of the Australian Art Orchestra and its artistic committee in 1995. Ren has travelled extensively (USA, Europe, South Africa) with own bands, solo and music theatre, notably with Indonesian/Australian collaboration 'The Theft Of Sita', performance highlights including EXPO 2000, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, London International Festival of Theatre and the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin. Walters co-founded music performance venue The Make It Up Club (improvised music venue in Melbourne, running for 13 years) contributed to Make It Now (Australia Council's Playing Ad Lib Initiative 2003); co-conceived and curated the Melbourne International Festival of Improvised Music (2004); and presented monthly music performances at LaMama in 2003 and Brightspace Gallery in 2005. Commercial CD releases include Start (1993), DeFlection (2006) and What's Left (2008). Walters has appeared on film, TV and CD recordings with Paul Grabowsky and Niko Schauble. He has performed, recorded and produced a catalogue of over 100 CDR titles with various artists, made promotional videos for Lyndon Terracini, and 'The Mizler Society' for the Australian Art Orchestra. He is currently in a duo called Prime with Scott McConnachie. Currently teaches improvisation materials at VCA and gives intermittent performances with friends.
Richard Johnson:
Richard performs with the texture of sound on soprano/baritone saxophone and bass clarinet and is experimenting with use of a bass drum with soprano saxophone to create a language of microtonal textural resonance. Also he has been making instruments from conical gourds from PNG, which allow the stripping back of the wind instruments to their most visceral and most sensuous form and allow for the exploration of extended techniques. He has performed at the SoundOut 2010 – 2016 festivals; What is Music Festival, Nownow Festival; the Make it Now performances; also performances with the Brice Glace Ensemble and the 102 Club Orkestra in Grenoble France; “Whip it“ series in Sydney; various Precipice annual Improv workshops hosted by Tony Osbourne as well as hosting local/interstate/international improvisation nights in Canberra. He is the Director/Curator/Producer/Administrator at SoundOut festivals. As a sound artist he worked with renowned visual Artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn for the Australia Exhibition at The Casula Power House as well collaborated with conceptual-visual artist Denise Higgins on soundscapes. He has performed with the likes of Jaap Blonk, Jon Rose, Hans Koch, Guylaine Cosseron, Jim Denley, Kim Myhr, Annette Giesreigl, Rodrigo Motoya, Antonio Panda Gianfratti, Thomas Rohrer, Luc Houtkamp, Clayton Thomas, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Yan Jun, Laura Altman, Michael Norris, Evan Dorian, etc. Currently performs in a wind trio with John Porter and Rhys Butler called Psithurism, which has a digital release with the renowned Canadian clarinetist Francois Houle and a new Cd release called Lure on the SoundOut label with Xavier Charles in 2017 SO-003. Also in June 2016 released Cd with Rhys Butler; Guylaine Cosseron and Stephen Roach called Swarm on SoundOut Cd’s SO-001.
