Damian and N.I.P 2007

Where I come from

music
electroacoustic music
- music with tapes, synthesizers, computers, laptops, ...
- composed in studios
free jazz
- music with saxophones, guitars, percussion, ...
- immediate, improvised

New Zealand: free jazz, electroacoustic studies
Birmingham: sonic arts residency, arts on this side of the world
Portugal:
- Sonic Scope
- with Variable Geometry Orchestra
- as part of Creative Sources Recordings' Creative Fest 01
ongoing collaboration with Chris Sugrue - 'A Cable Plays'

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"A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved ... for the revealing of his humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener ... Those who maintain that all of this can be accomplished without gesture will retract their words when, owing to their own insensibility, they find themselves obliged to sit like a statue before their instrument. Ugly grimaces are, of course, inappropriate and harmful; but fitting expressions help the listener to understand our meaning."
C.P.E. Bach, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753)

Robert Henke: "We could come to the conclusion that only simple, rough and direct performances are real performances, forget about complexity and detail and next time we are invited to perfom we grab a drum computer, a cheap keyboard, a microphone, and make sure we are really drunk. It might actually work very well. But what to do, if this it is not what we want musically?" - Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputing - link

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