Lumendog
Geoff Gersh - guitar and electronics
Adam Kendall - keyboard, electronics and video
Christof Knoche - bass clarinet, harmonica and electronics
Bradford Reed - pencilina (a homemade instrument), drums and electronics
with special guest Chris Jordan on Video
Lumendog is an electro-acoustic group working with improvisational and rules-based pieces. Their music ranges from ambient and textural to fierce and rhythmic, exploring the sounds of acoustic instruments and electronics, and often incorporating live visuals as another “instrument”. The core members bring bass clarinet, harmonica, synthesizer, guitar, drums, the unique Pencilina, and live performative video to the group, and guests range from additional visualists to all types of musicians.
Formed in 2008 and based in Brooklyn, NY, Lumendog meets and records weekly, using any impetus — a word, a note, an idea — to push themselves outside the comfort zones of their instruments and into challenging the sonic boundaries between their instruments.
HKM+
Ludger Hennig - microphone devices, live electronics
Christof Knoche - bass clarinet, harmonica, electronic devices
Markus Markowski - prepared guitar, live electronics
“…the “present” constitutes the distributed musical material, in which the “new” implies the “past”, with which the “yet to come” has to have a mutual background with …”
The ensemble HKM+ (Germany/New York) extends musical improvisation with electro-acoustic instruments that are connected to a network based on audio signals and network-communication. The aim of this project is to create transient and spatial situations in this musical network through improvised musical articulation.
Originally from Northern Germany, the members of HKM+ have been creating music together since the late 80s, concentrating on electro-acoustic improvisations since Knoche moved to New York in 1997.