Tuesday 1 March 2022, 8pm
Excellent double-bill featuring Oslo-based free-improvising trio consisting, KGB - aka Karl Hjalmar Nyberg (saxophone), Gregor Riddell (cello) and Bernt Isak Wærstad (guitar and electronics) - and Langham Research Centre, who make experimental music using resources and ideas that, until recently, were considered obsolete.
KGB is an Oslo-based free-improvising trio consisting of Karl Hjalmar Nyberg (saxophone), Gregor Riddell (cello) and Bernt Isak Wærstad (guitar and electronics). Their music evokes electroacoustic soundscapes that span soaring textures and compact, energetic rhythm.
Langham Research Centre came together in 2003 with the purpose of using a studio as their instrument: a studio with microphones and also, crucially, several ¼” tape machines. From the start they were interested in manipulating sound on tape and on focusing on one sound source, or a small number of sounds.
Their inspiration and enthusiasm are driven by the soundworlds produced by maverick composers working in the middle of the 20th century. Like an early music group’s use of historic instruments, LRC continue to work with obsolete equipment including tape recorders, gramophone cartridges and sine wave oscillators, to perform authentic versions of 20th century classic electronic repertoire by John Cage, Alvin Lucier and others.
https://langhamresearchcentre.bandcamp.com/
