DUO DONEDA / KOCHER – Improvised Music
swiss-balkan creative music #5
Michel Doneda, soprano saxophone (F)
Jonas Kocher, accordion (CH)
This concert is part of a tour consisting of ten concerts, which leads to South East Europe. Michel Doneda (F), outstanding musician in the improvisation scene, and Jonas Kocher (CH) are setting out for cities like Zurich, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Sofia, Skopje, Prishtina and Istanbul, where they will encounter musicians of the respective cities. This evening is marked by the playful use of sound, noise and energy, creating an abstract as well as intense music. The concert invites you on an auspicious and profound aural journey into a dense and enigmatic universe of sound.
Michel Doneda, sopran saxophone
Over the years, Michel Doneda (b. 1954) has developed one of the most extensive musical vocabularies in free improvisation. A specialist of the soprano saxophone, he has gradually moved from left-field jazz to the fringes of free improv ever since he began to lead his own sessions in the early ‘80s. His playing can be at turns lyrical, playful or raucous, and switch from the liveliness of street melodies to circular breathing, microscopic sounds or shrieking outbursts. His most frequent recording and performing partners over the years have included singer Beñat Achiary, percussionist Lê Quan Ninh, hurdy-gurdy player Dominique Regef and bassist Barre Philipps. Doneda made his first musical steps at age 15 in his hometown's wind band. He spent the next decade playing in dance and jazz bands, all the while keeping an eye on the French avant-garde, especially the activities of American expatriates like Steve Lacy and Alan Silva. The last years he has also performed with Keith Rowe, Bhob Rainey, Giuseppe Ielasi, Alessandro Bosetti, Fabtice Charles, Xavier Charles and has worked with the butoh dancers Masaki Iwana and Yukiko Nakamura. For many years he has been involved in the international improvised music scene, and done tours and festivals in Africa, Japan, Asia, Canada and Russia.
http://puffskydd.free.fr/neda/
Jonas Kocher, accordion
The Swiss accordion player, electronic musician and composer was born in 1977. He currently plays in many improvised music projects in Switzerland and Europe. Jonas Kocher uses several extended technics and preparations on the accordion. His practice is situeted at the border between sound, noise and theatrality. The instrument is considerated in his globality as sound and noise producer. Concerts and collaborations with Urs Leimgruber, Paed Conca, Hans Koch, Peter Evans, Lucien Dubuis, Michel Doneda, Christian Wolfarth, Christian Weber, Julian Sartorius, Thomas Lehn, HarS, Jean Bordé, Andrew Drury, Laurent Estoppey, Ensemble Rue du Nord, Lukatoyboy, Blank Disc duo, Raed Yassin, ... Self-taught composer, he works in the field of new music theatre. His theatral and/or music compositions have been played at Biennale Bern’03, Schlachthaus Bern, Theater Basel, Zentrum Paul Klee, Festival Encuentros Buenos Aires,, KlangKunstBühne Berlin, Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Festival Concentus Moravie, Biennale Zagreb. He regulary composes music for radio features (Hörspiel) for the swiss radio DRS2 and for theater.
Jonas Kocher is the Initiator and organizer of Swiss-Balkan Creative Music (2007-2009), artistic exchanges with south-east Europe in the field of improvised music.
http://www.jonaskocher.com
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