amplified gesture

A trailer for Amplified Gesture, an introduction to free improvisation: practitioners and their philosophy.

Directed and edited by: Phil Hopkins.

With: Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura, Christian Fennesz, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prévost, Sachiko M., Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Werner Dafeldecker, Michael Moser and John Butcher.

Produced by: Adrian Molloy for Opium (Arts) Ltd. Executive Producer: David Sylvian. Music: Excerpts from Manafon by David Sylvian, © 2009 Samadhisound llc. All rights reserved.

ice drums

great idea!! but an awful performance... :(

for the performance click here

trio vd

myspace.com/triovd
Sounds Like: "TIM BERNE MEETS QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE AT A PARTY THROWN BY DEREK BAILEY" LEEDS GUIDE

Chris Bussey (drummer) www.chrisbussey.com

miranda july

nice work!

mirandajuly.com

otomo yoshihide once more!

automakina

I don't know how it sounds or what the show is like... but it sounds interesting!

ok go

the image is deliiicious!! \o/

OK Go - WTF? from OK Go on Vimeo.

tim burton

famous famous, everyone saw it already, but pay attention at the details... wonderful..





his website!







at the wired blog

Han Bennink

Cheese Kit Diptych part 1


part 2
part 3

Cheese Kit Diptych is an installation by artist Walter Willems consisting of two drum kits. In one, full rounds of real (mainly Dutch) cheese sit atop drum stands; in the other, plastic cheese replicas usually found in store display windows are employed. In this absurd setting Willems reinforces the international stereotype of the Dutch by using a classic Dutch export product as its main ingredient.

Cheese Kit Diptych was created specifically to be played by world-renowned Dutch improvisational jazz drummer Han Bennink. Bennink, ambassador of the Dutch free jazz scene, is known for his ability to drum on any surface, teeming with humor, virtuosity, and creativity through his animated style. Willems considered his installation incomplete until Bennink played both of the drum kits.

(...) "sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realise that what interests me is something else entirely or, rather, not anything precise but everything that goes not fit in with what I ought to write - the relationship between a given argument and all its possible variants and alternatives, everything that can happen in time and space. This is a devoting and destructive obsession, which is enough to render writing impossible. In order to combat it, I try to limit the field of what I have to say, divide it into still more limited fields, then subdivide these again and so on and on. then another kind of vertigo seizes me, that of the detail of the detail of the detail, and I am drawn into the infinitesimal, the infinitely small, just as I was previously lost in the infinitely vast."

Italo Calvino - Exactitude on the book Six Memos for the Next Millenium