Solo improvised performance on the Instant Music Day organized by Nicolas Chientaroli at Zaal100, Amsterdam.
You can watch some small excerpts (sorry for the bad quality of the images), or listen to the whole set.
Category: Improvisation
Lop-Sided 4tet feat. Brian Riordan STEIM
On the 5th of October 2017, the string Lop-Sided 4tet (Sarah Claman, Maya Felixbrodt, and Laura Nygren) performed together with the composer Brian Riordan, for what it was the presentation of his residency in STEIM.
Ada Rave on the Saxophone and Albert H C Manders on flute also participated in the performance.
Fishy Business in Groningen (2)
Another video from our concert in Groningen on 21/01/2017.
After the Overture, you will hear a little tune between free improvisations. This particular excerpt was inspired by good old Prokofiev.
Jonathan Nagel – Double bass
Sarah Claman – Violin
Pau Sola – Cello
Duet Claudàtor + Henk Zwerver
6/12/16 Amsterdam
Acoustic session with the guitarist Henk Zwerver exploring small and quiet sounds, while maintaining big energy.
Sarah Claman – Violin
Henk Zwerver – Acoustic guitar
Pau Sola – Cello
Fishy Business in Groningen
Fishy Business playing free in Atelier “Il Sole la Cantina”, Groningen (NL).
As the leader of the band, Jonathan Nagel, says: “a night of old favorites, new favorites, non-favorites and free improvisation. We do what string players do, the cheesy stuff, the squeaky stuff, plucking, stroking, you know…fishy business.”
Listen to the overture of the concert. 21/01/2017
Jonathan Nagel – Double bass
Sarah Claman – Violin
Pau Sola – Cello
Oorsprong Curators Series
‘Promoting, feeding, challenging and questioning Improvisation Tradition by presenting monthly 3 different blind date+instant composing lineups curated by 3 different curators from movement, electronics and acoustic improvisation background. These lineups represent by definition uncompromising and ongoing social and artistic experiments’.
Organized by Raoul van der Weide, George Hadow and Lali. In Dokzaal, Amsterdam.
This was a really nice night improvising with all of the great musicians that I met there for the first time.
Mary Oliver – viola
Il Hoon Son – piano
Wilfrido Terrazas – flute
Nicolas Caiola – doublebass
Pau Sola – Cello
Instant Music Day – Duet Claudàtor
Instant Music Day is an improvised concert in three sets organized by Nicolas Chientarolli in Zaal100, Amsterdam.
We played with Duet Claudàtor in the first set. You can listen to all of it in this soundcloud playlist.
Sarah Claman – Violin
Pau Sola – Cello
Discordian Community Ensemble – New Release
Listen and buy the album here!
This is the fifth album of Discordian Community Ensemble, and also one of its most ambitious productions, involving 5 different compositions that intertwine free improvisation with composition (as usual with this ensemble). Each composition has been designed and conducted by a different composer, some are multimovement works, and all of them make use of different writing techniques in an attempt to arrive at a convincing mix of the undertermined with the determined.
The performers on this recording are also notable for their experience and versatility in the field of free improvisation, some coming from contemporary music, others from free jazz and avant rock.
Mixing different generations of the most active avantgarde musicians from Barcelona, this recording is an interesting view of some of the directions local underground new music is taking at this moment.
Personnel:
Almudena Vega: flute
Agustí Martínez: alto saxophone and clarinet
El Pricto: alto saxophone, clarinet and melodica
Luiz Rocha: bass clarinet
Iván González: trumpet
Ilona Schneider: soprano
Owen Kilfeather: tenor
Paula Pinero: percussion
Jordina Millá: piano
Diego Caicedo: electric guitar
Sarah Claman: violin
Francesc Llompart: violin
Pau Sola: cello
Àlex Reviriego: doublebass
Eduard Altaba: doublebass
All pictures by Luiz Rocha.
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