“Points in a Circle: Site-Specific Works for the Hemispheres at Issue project Room”
A month-long program that features new, site-specific work presented on IPR’s 16-Channel Hemispherical Speaker System
Ikue Mori has forged her own highly sensitive signature style as an improvising musician, using drum machines in the 80s and the laptop computer since 2000. Current working groups include “Mephista” with Sylvia Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O’Rourke, duo project with Zeena Parkins, Trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton. She has worked with Dave Douglas’ “Witness Freakin” ensemble and John Zorn’s electric Masada.
Hans Tammen works with a wide collection of mechanical devices on his “endangered” guitars, and uses an interactive software of his own design to rework his sounds in realtime. In a mix of formal awareness and improvisation he produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions and quiet atmospheres.