Boards
jazz/drone/noise/weirdness - 13th note, glasgow, 25/4
MARTIN ARCHER
GUANOMAN
D.ABRAHAM TURNER
WEDNESDAY 25TH APRIL
13TH NOTE
KING STREET
GLASGOW
£4
DOORS 8:30
MARTIN ARCHER...
Since his move in the early 1990s from free jazz saxophonist to studio based electronics composer, Archer has produced a series of highly acclaimed CDs which combine electronics-based
structures with written and improvised parts for brass, woodwind, strings and voices. Elements from jazz, free
improvisation, contemporary classical music, electronica, and rock music are all present within his work.
Archer's concerts, in which he plays woodwind plus electronics,
feature a mix of improvised and composed elements, and will typically use raw material from various studio recordings recombined and reprocessed in real time using laptop technology.
Much of his current live set is based on the CD Heritage & Ringtones.
As a performer, Archer seeks to avoid the inert and inexpressive performance style inherent in much live electronic music. Archer acknowledges groups such as Faust, Henry Cow, Soft Machine and Magma as being highly influential
in his work alongside Cage, Stockhausen, Feldman, and of course the school of European free improvisation. This combination of sources makes him a unique inhabitant of the school of English maverick composers.
GUANOMAN...
a one-man collision of chaos and order.
ectopian pop for hairy children.
avantelectrodeathspazzmathcore.
dada and durrrrr.
the culmination of a thousand years' worth of unlearning, disobedience and corrupted nervous systems.
ear damage for fun, the minimising of coherence and the irradiation of innocence.
or something.
D.ABRAHAM TURNER...
Oddly-shaped fx-laden textural hypno-drone.