Basshaters
tony dryer: double bass, electronics
jacob felix heule: drum set, electronics
Basshaters is a duo using double bass, drum set, and electronics to integrate acoustic free improv and electronic noise. Striving to match the fluidity of their textural acoustic music, electronics expand the timbral and dynamic options to new extremes. The duo seeks directness and intensity in execution; subtleties emerge from the bold statement of simple ideas.
In addition to Basshaters, Dryer & Heule have released an album on Creative Sources with clarinetist Jacob Lindsay. They have a trio CD with saxophonist Jack Wright, and have performed live with diverse musicians such as Michel Doneda, C Spencer Yeh, Gino Robair, and Damon Smith. Dryer has toured with the Flying Luttenbachers and Usurp Synapse; Heule remains active with his brutal improv duo Ettrick.
http://www.myspace.com/tonydryerbass
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Blues skies and biscuits
John Dikeman, saxes
Raoul van der Weide, contrabass, crackle box, sound objects
Klaus Kugel, drums, precusion
Shades of A Ayler fragmented and fremented in a universe converging in refractory impro areas, temperaments and sounds.
Amsterdam based American baritone- and tenor-man John Dikeman's playing runs the gamut of improvised music and technique, ranging from reductionist extended technique based improvisation to full throttle free jazz. Raoul van der Weide's approach towards contrabass playing since 1978 may be best described as being open, informal, structured and experimental - continuously developping a whole scala of personal and orthodox improvising techniques in order to achieve an ideosyncratic form of expression that urges for creative communication.
German drummer and percussionist Klaus Kugel's improvising style is highly intuitive, inventive and adventurous. Klaus worded together with a variety of outstanding musicians like Charles Gayle, Matthew Shipp, John Lindberg, Bruce Eisenbeil, Perry Robinson, Bobby Few, Arkady Schilkloper, Petras Visniauskas, Kent Carter, Roy Campbell, Peter Evans...
www.johndikeman.com
www.raoulvanderweide.nl
www.klauskugel.com
döbereiner & morimoto are developing compositionally motivated experimental sound synthesis methods, whose structural and sonic possibilities are explored in an audio-visual improvisational live setting. The resulting sonorities can be described as roughtextured microstructures molded into shapes using software developed by the composers. Besides the sound reproduction, the generated digital signals are also visualized using self-developed 2-D waveform plotting software.