Short version:
Founded in Berlin in 2014. It’s a non-conventional experimental music project formed by Ute Wassermann, Richard Scott and Emilio Gordoa. The combination of the analogue modular synthesizers, prepared vibraphone, and extended techniques of the voice, makes this trio very unique. Parak(.)eets -sound of birds- have the quality of electro-acoustic chamber music. It’s new, fresh, and abstract. They improvise all the music (real time composition), which often results in hybrid compositions created by colorful noises.
Founded in Berlin in 2014. It’s a non-conventional experimental music project formed by Ute Wassermann, Richard Scott and Emilio Gordoa. The combination of the analogue modular synthesizers, prepared vibraphone, and extended techniques of the voice, makes this trio very unique. Parak(.)eets -sound of birds- have the quality of electro-acoustic chamber music. It’s new, fresh, and abstract. They improvise all the music (real time composition), which often results in hybrid compositions created by colorful noises.
Long version:
Formed in Berlin in 2014 Parak.eets is an unconventional experimental music ensemble comprising Ute Wassermann, Richard Scott and Emilio Gordoa - three very singular voices from the thriving Berlin improvised music scene. The combination of analogue modular synthesizer, prepared vibraphone, and extended voice techniques makes the trio’s sound unique.
Like many birds these three musicians are all natural mimics: Scott's analogue synthesizer often sounds like voice and percussion, Gordoa’s vibraphone treatments and other percussion call to mind both voices and electronics and Wassermann often blends so exactly with this sound world that it is almost a shock to remember what we are hearing is human voice. All three go beyond the superficialities of how their instruments normally sound into other worlds, populated by the multifarious sounds of many other instruments, and of birds, mammals, insects and other organisms that are harder to identify. One pleasure is that they often come together to form something like a composite sound environment, parallels with forest and jungles and other natural habitats seem inevitable comparisons and it is sometime almost surprising when out of this highly virtuosic bursts of highly contemporary music announce themselves. There is a generosity to this music; an openness of all the musicians not only to each other but to the potential of sound in general. The trio is able to negotiate the many twists and turns of free improvisation, continually opening to new possibilities and combinations. The music morphs, forever changing its shapes and surfaces - it delights in the surprise of letting go of one moment in order to embrace the next. If the overall sense is one of playful and joyful exploration, the listener is left in no doubt of the seriousness and musicality exerted at every twist and turn.
Formed in Berlin in 2014 Parak.eets is an unconventional experimental music ensemble comprising Ute Wassermann, Richard Scott and Emilio Gordoa - three very singular voices from the thriving Berlin improvised music scene. The combination of analogue modular synthesizer, prepared vibraphone, and extended voice techniques makes the trio’s sound unique.
Like many birds these three musicians are all natural mimics: Scott's analogue synthesizer often sounds like voice and percussion, Gordoa’s vibraphone treatments and other percussion call to mind both voices and electronics and Wassermann often blends so exactly with this sound world that it is almost a shock to remember what we are hearing is human voice. All three go beyond the superficialities of how their instruments normally sound into other worlds, populated by the multifarious sounds of many other instruments, and of birds, mammals, insects and other organisms that are harder to identify. One pleasure is that they often come together to form something like a composite sound environment, parallels with forest and jungles and other natural habitats seem inevitable comparisons and it is sometime almost surprising when out of this highly virtuosic bursts of highly contemporary music announce themselves. There is a generosity to this music; an openness of all the musicians not only to each other but to the potential of sound in general. The trio is able to negotiate the many twists and turns of free improvisation, continually opening to new possibilities and combinations. The music morphs, forever changing its shapes and surfaces - it delights in the surprise of letting go of one moment in order to embrace the next. If the overall sense is one of playful and joyful exploration, the listener is left in no doubt of the seriousness and musicality exerted at every twist and turn.
About the musicians:
LINKS
video: https://vimeo.com/73094870 more about: http://femmes-savantes.net/en/les-femmes-savantes/ute-wassermann |
Ute Wassermann is known as a vocal soloist and composer/performer for her extraordinary, many-voiced and extreme vocal sound-language, which she has brought into contemporary music in diverse ways. She defamiliarizes the sound of her voice using birdcall-whistles, palate whistles, speaker objects or field recordings. A particular interest is the development of compositions for spaces with unusual acoustic qualities.
She has performed as a vocal soloist in the area of contemporary and experimental music in festivals in Europe, Australia and Asia. She is an integral part of the Berlin and London experimental music scenes. Regular performances with ongoing groups like speak easy (Phil Minton, Martin Blume, Thomas Lehn, Ute Wassermann), John Russel, Aleksander Kolkowski, Els Vandeweyer, Michael Vorfeld (percussion & lights), Birgit Ulher and others and is a member of the Berlin-based composer/performer ensemble Les Femmes Savantes. She has given premieres of works composed for her voice, for example by Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin, Henning Christiansen, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Matthias Kaul, Michael Maierhof, Michael Finnissy, Cathy van Eck, Simon Steen-Andersen, Andrew Noble and works by Salvatore Sciarrino, John Cage and others. |
LINKS
video: http://vimeo.com/richardscot/videos more music: http://richardscott.bandcamp.com/ clubnights: http://flavors.me/basicelectricity#1f4/blogger http://auxxx.blogspot.de/ website: http://richard-scott.net/ |
Richard Scott is a composer and free improvising musician working with analogue modular synthesizers and alternative controllers such as his own self-designed WiGi infra red controller developed at STEIM, the Buchla Thunder and Buchla Lightning. He has been composing and performing improvised music for over 25 years, producing, performing and recording with artists such as Evan Parker, Twinkle³, Edward Barton, Clive Bell, Olaf Rupp, Robin Hayward, Richard Barrett, Gustavo Aguilar, David Ross, Bark! and Grutronic. He studied improvisation with John Stevens, saxophone with Elton Dean and Steve Lacy, Action Theater improvisation with Sten Rudstrom and electroacoustic composition with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent.
His work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4, International Computer Music Conference, London Jazz Festival, BEAM, Bratislava NEXT Festival of Advanced Music, SARC Sonorities Belfast, Berlin Interaktion Improvised Music Festival and MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival, Manchester. He is a long term artistic resident at STEIM in Amsterdam, sometimes a Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University and co-curator of two underground experimental, improvised and electronic concert series in Berlin: AUXXX Berlin and Basic Electricity. In 1993 he was awarded a PhD from London University for his thesis on free improvisation. In 2010 he completed a MusM (distinction) in Electroacoustic Music Composition at NOVARS, Manchester University. He wrote extensively for Wire magazine, was administrator at the LMC (London Musician’s Collective) and has been an active member of the improvising and electroacoustic communities in London, Manchester and Berlin. |
LINKS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuZ_MBBxf0 more music: https://soundcloud.com/emilio-gordoa-rodriguez website: www.emiliogordoa.com |
Emilio Gordoa Mexican composer and vibraphonist based in Berlin since 2012. He’s involved in numerous projects including his work as a soloist and in collaboration with theater and dance.
Emilio is specially focus in sound art, experimental music, noise, free jazz, improvisation and contemporary music. He is redefining the vibraphone as a source, treating it with preparations and extended techniques, and is a busy composer as well, writing graphic scores for a variety of ensembles, large and small, for theater, documentary films and audiovisual. Studied music composition with Vincent Carver and Mario Lavista, and percussion with Raul Tudon. He has collaborated with several artist around the world such as John Russell, Tristan Honsinger, John Butcher, John Edwards, German Bringas, Misha Marks, Axel Dörner, Tony Buck, Tobias Delius, Kazuhisa Uchihasi, Ignaz Schick, Klaus Kürvers, Harri Sjöströjm, Frank Gratkowski, Jaap Blonk, and Ute Wassermann. [ click here to see more collaborations ] Current member of the BerIO (Berliner Improviser Orchestra), and otherer ensembles like the Circuit Traning (electro-acousting ensemble with Ignaz Schick, Achim Kauffmann, Alexandre Babel, Marta Zapparoli, Eliad Wagner, Klaus Kürvers, Tom Arthur, Benjamin Weidekamp). He often performs around countires in a wide kind of scenarios. Some of his active groups are Para.keets, Corso, Dörner-Gordoa-Thieke-Vorfeld Quertet and MOvE quintet. |
