The house band: The trio
NICK BRANTON, reeds
MARTIN HACKETT, korg ms
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments (biography-cv)
The trio have meet on a weekly schedule via the web application zoom during the COVID-19 lockdown.
On this occasion the meeting is to be shared with public via YouTube Live and presented as a concert.
The trio often apply fixed time constraints or duration to what is called free improvised music that normally has no fixed length. So it is with this concert presentation.
The trio set will last 15 minutes.
The Mirror Unit
"Tim O'Dwyer and Georg Wissel create a singular work, a demanding music, voluptuous, radical, inspired."
- Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg
GEORG WISSELl (Alto Saxophone & Preparations) - web
TIM O'DWYER (Alto Saxophone & Preparations) - web
The Mirror Unit represent the synergy and intricate level of communication that can only happen when two improvisers at the top of their game meet in concert. Technically the two alto saxophone players cover the whole gamut of conventional and extended sounds to be created on the instruments and cover a wide spectrum of approaches and styles in addition to a rich and subtle pallet of textures derived from their use of preparations– this is especially so in the case of Georg Wissel’s (Germ) armory of objects that have been meticulously researched over time to extend the sonic capacity of the alto saxophone. In turn, Wissel’s subtle coloring is met head on by Tim O’Dwyer’s (Aus) punchy articulated phrasing."
"The Mirror Unit, which brings face to face two of the best saxophonists of the improvised stage, is the most beautiful extension of this innovative spirit that I have ever heard in this process: two noses, two reeds two columns of air, keys, two breaths, all led by a total collusion with the help of preparations of the instrument, the alto sax. Tim O'Dwyer and Georg Wissel here create a singular work, a demanding music, voluptuous, radical, inspired.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/georg-wissel/sets/the-mirrorunit
The Quintet
NICK BRANTON reeds
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments (biography-cv)
GEORG WISSELl (Alto Saxophone & Preparations)
TIM O'DWYER (Alto Saxophone & Preparations)
MARTIN HACKETT, korg ms
Set duration: 10 minutes
The promoter: The Listening Room
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