Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

SoundOut Improvisation Workshops, 2nd February

1. 10am - 12:30 with Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and Swedish Pianist Sten Sandell

2. 2pm - 4:30 with French vocalist/clarinetist Isabelle Duthiot (this will be a vocal workshop)

3. 2pm - 4:30 with Austrian trumpter Franz Hautzinger

NOTE: Participants will have the opportunity to perform in the Workshop Set at the SoundOut Festival the next day in the Afternoon session in the Set between 4:20pm - 5pm @the Drill Hall Gallery. See the festival page: http://soundout2018.blogspot.com.au/

SoundOut wishes to thank the ACT Government for their generous support with these Workshops.

Please see bios below

Paal Nielsen-Love: drums, Norway:

Is a seminal musician in the new wave of artists that play in many contexts. All bands, although various styles and musical versatility in general, represent important pieces that make up a total, and all bands are formed or joined with a clear vision. Today Paal’s portfolio includes Atomic, School Days, The Thing, Frode Gjerstad Trio, Sten Sandell Trio, Scorch Trio, Territory Band, FME, and various duo projects such as with reedmen Ken Vandermark, John Butcher, Mats Gustafsson, organist Nils Henrik Asheim, noise wizard Lasse Marhaug, and not to forget the recently now defunct but nevertheless brilliant Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet. Before turning 30 Paal has stated his position as one of the most profiled drummers in Europe today, he has made numberless performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and USA and participated on more than 50 recordings. He runs his own annual festival – All Ears - for improvised music in Oslo, which is an important part of his musical life, and he plans to start his own recording label for vinyl productions. Like Pat Metheny put it in 2002, after having played with Paal at Molde International Jazz festival: “He is simply one of the best new musicians I’ve heard during the latest years!” And after having heard Paal in 9 different settings at the same festival, Down Beat reporter Dan Quelette stated: “His week at Molde proved a revelation: Nilssen-Love is one of the most innovative, dynamic and versatile drummers in jazz!” http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/

Sten Sandell: piano, Sweden:

Sten is in a greater context a Composer / musician / producer - piano, organ, voice, electronics Artist. Sound/Text/Image Real-Time Composer, Doctor of Philosophy In Fine Arts in Musical Performance and Interpretation, University of Gothenburg, 2013. He has cooperated with musicians/composers including Emil Strandberg, Paal Nilssen-Love, Sverrir Gudjonsson, Johan Berthling, Evan Parker, Sven-Åke Johansson, Chris Cutler, Mats Persson, Sofia Jernberg, Carl-Axel Dominique, Mats Gustafsson, Nina de Heney and Raymond Strid. Music Inside the Language was winner of Contemporary Sound in 2011 of the Journal Contemporary Music. Music and visual arts, including Bo Samuelsson, Katarina Eismann, Inger Arvidsson. Music and dance, including Jukka Korpi, Ingrid Olterman, Bo Arenander, Anne Külper. Music and Drama including Fredrik Nyberg, Magnus Florin, Magnus Jacobsson, Willy Kyrklund, Karl Dunér, Rolf Skoglund, Peter Oskarson, Stina Ekblad and Jörgen Gassilewski. Sten Sandell was awarded the Royal Academy of Music’s Jazz Award in 2012 with the motivation: "The pianist Sten Sandell is one of Swedish improvised music’s most brilliant, captivating and independent voices. His musical activities are characterized by a strong artistic integrity, and he has with great consistency developed a characteristic aesthetic attitude that inspires countless musicians. http://www.stensandell.com/

Franz Hautzinger: trumpet, Austria:

Detours often lead to more thrilling things. Franz Hautzinger has taken long and bendy detours and turned to many dead ends. All this, these victories and defeats, this "History from the Total Crash to 'Emergency Individualism'", as he himself. Born in Seewinkel, Burgenland, a Hannibal Marvin Peterson concert at jazz gallery Nickelsdorf was the young trumpeter's "awakening experience". He studied at the University of Graz, Austria, from 1981 to 1983. After moving to Vienna in 1986 he started in 1989 to explore the trumpet in his very own and un-academic way. He became attached to the circles around Christoph Cech and Christian Mühlbacher, played in the big band "Nouvelle Cuisine" and the octet "Striped Roses"; The CD "Zong of the Boboolink", which he recorded with the saxophonist Helge Hinteregger and what was influenced by sampler collages. His Kenny Wheeler, Henry Lowther, John Russell, and Steve Noble. Hautzinger assimilated the stimuli in very different ways: in "Rainorchester" with his changing instrumentation, in the quartet with Helge Hinteregger, Oren Marshall and Steve Noble as well as in the trio "Speakers' Corner" with guitarist Martin Siewert and drummer Wolfgang Reisinger. The critical decision to avoid electronic sound sources is not a computational approach to the development of digital music on the trumpet - the quarter tone trumpet purchased in 1997 - the decisive stages for the creation of Franz Hautzinger's sensational solo trumpet CD "Gomberg" (2000) on which He presented this on his instrument. Hautzinger translation by "Gomberg" at the front line of the international improvisation avant-garde; Collaborations and CD records with Derek Bailey, the "AMM" veterans Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, as well as Axel Dörner, Christian Fennesz and Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M followed. ("Regenorchester XI" and XII) can be considered as important in his development. Franz Hautzinger teaches at the Vienna Music University since 1989, is a member of the Berliner Ensemble "Zeitkratzer" since 1999 and received from Klangforum Vienna amongst others. He is a globetrotter whose unmistakable musical signature is known from Vienna to Berlin, London to Beirut, or in Tokyo, New York, and Chicago. Franz Hautzinger has shown that even in times where postmodernism is history. http://www.franzhautzinger.com/

Isabelle Duthiot: vocals/clarinet, France:

Born in 1970 in Montages. Duthoit began her classical music studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon with Jacques Di Donato in 1991, which she graduated in 1995. With Donato, she founded the Fruits de Mhère festival for improvisational music in 1994 and composed the theatermusik le temps du souffle . In the second half of the decade she went on a tour with Donato to the United States; She also worked with chamber music performers such as Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Raphaël Oleg . She has performed several times at the Musique Action Festival in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy , Musique en Scène in Lyon as well as in Romania and the Ukraine. She also worked in the Ensemble Triolid (album Ur Lamento 2002 with LaurentDailleau ( Theremin )and David Chiesa (bass, percussion)) with Taavi Kerikmäe and with Tim Hodgkinson ( Sketch of Now , 2006). In the duo with the pianist Jacques Demierre , she recorded the album Avenues (Unit) in 2004. She is a clarinetist in the trio Krizda with Christine Wodrascka (piano) and Gunda Gottschalk (viola), plays in the formation archipelago of Emmanuel Petit and is the founder of the trio Bords de Mhère (with Kristof Guez and Marc Pichelin). She also worked in the course of her career with Johannes Bauer , Camel Zekri , Michel Doneda , Franz Hautzinger and Géraldine Keller.

In 2001 she appeared with Joëlle Léandre and Marilyn Crispell at the Festival Confrontations in Nickelsdorf . In Japan, she studied the Nō rituals during a stay at the Villa Kujoyama in 2008 and in 2011 she participated in the Villa Medici of Rome together with Ryōko Aoki . In 2012, she was a member of Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Ensemble, as part of the SWR New Jazz Meeting ; She also belongs to his quartet drift .

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0411 117 462 or by email to vortexrec@gmail.com