David Toop (Sound Making Objects, Flutes, Strings)
Tania Chen (Piano, Keyboards, Electronics)
Jon Leidecker (Electronics, Super Booper)
Immersive intentional and unintentional sound frequencies will be investigated through solos, duos & trios on electronics, resonating objects, strings, flutes, piano and keyboards by Tania Chen, David Toop & Jon Leidecker
“Moments of crystalline beauty and austerity” – The Guardian
TANIA CHEN
Tania Chen is a leading interpreter of John Cage, Cornelius Cardew and Morton Feldman, and a performance and video artist, experimental musician and free improviser. She performs, composes and improvises on piano, keyboards, digital, vintage electronics and found objects.
Her music has taken her across the globe from Berlin, London and Tokyo, to San Francisco, LA, New York and beyond.
Tania’s live and recording collaborations include John Cage’s “Music of Changes” for solo piano, John Cage’s “Indeterminacy” with Stewart Lee & Steve Beresford; Cornelius Cardew & Michael Parsons’ Piano Music, the group Bad Jazz “Bad Dreams in the Night” & cassette “Tincture”; “Ointment” with Steve Beresford; and two forthcoming recordings with Gino Robair and Tom Djll in the group Tender Buttons and “Ocean of Storms” with Henry Kaiser, William Winant and Wadada Leo Smith.
www.taniachen.com
JON LEIDECKER
Jon Leidecker performs electronic music under the involuntary pseudonym Wobbly, exploring the various ways in which the relationships facilitated by performance changed once we gained the ability to record it. Recent live and studio collaborations include albums and concerts with Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, Fred Frith, Matmos, Zeena Parkins, Tim Perkis & Xopher Davidson, Anne McGuire, John Oswald, Huun-Huur-Tu and Negativland.
DAVID TOOP
David Toop is a composer/musician, author and curator based in London who has worked in many fields of music, writing, arts and theory. He has recorded Yanomami shamanism in Amazonas, appeared on Top of the Pops with the Flying Lizards, exhibited sound installations internationally, and worked with artists including John Zorn, Evan Parker, Bob Cobbing, Ivor Cutler, Akio Suzuki and Rie Nakajima. His published books includeOcean of Sound, Rap Attack, Haunted Weather, and Sinister Resonance. Since 1975 he has released nine solo albums, including Screen Ceremonies, Black Chamber and Sound Body, and as a theorist and critic has written for many publications. Exhibitions he has curated include Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London and Playing John Cage at Arnolfini, Bristol. His opera – Star-shaped Biscuit – was performed in Aldeburgh in 2012. His next book – volume 1 of Into the Maelstrom: Improvisation, Music and the Dream of Freedom. – will be published in May 2016. He is Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at University of the Arts London.
