06/02 @ 8:00pm

Antoine Chessex + Valerio Tricoli + Gilles Aubrey

Three well-known figures in the european experimental music scene, Chessex, Aubry and Tricoli will join forces in this 2010 U.S tour presenting each a solo performance of their recent works. The aim of this project is to give a varied insight on the sonic practices of these three sonic researchers. The sound through its most physical and anthropological aspects will be presented in three intense pieces of electro-acoustic music.

Chessex, Tricoli and Aubry have been colloborating with musicians like Keiji Haino, Zbigniew Karkowski, Chris Corsano, Lasse Marhaug, C. Spencer Yeh, Dean Roberts, Oren Ambarchi, Anthony Pateras, Femail, Axel Dörner and presented their works worldwide since the mid nineties.

For this North American tour, concerts and lectures will happen in San Francisco (The Lab), Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, Boston, Washington, New York and Canada.

Antoine Chessex is a composer, saxophone player and performer born in 1980 in Vevey, Switzerland.

Chessex investigates the possibilities of both experimental electronic and acoustic music. His sonic researches include compositions for

ensembles, solo performances and collaborations with other fellow artists. Chessex’s works are mostly based on the exploration of the physicality of sounds and spaces with a strong focus on live performances and composition. His solo performances are experiences in total immersion in the sound. Chessex presents his works worldwide, performing in major experimental music festivals and venues in Japan, China, Russia and all around Europe.

Collaborations with musicians like Lasse Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, Chris Corsano, C.Spencer Yeh, Axel Dörner, Didi Bruckmayr, Thomas Ankersmit, Valerio Tricoli, Hans Koch, Robin Hayward, Lucio Capece, Kasper Toeplitz, Monno, Ilios, Sudden Infant, Dave Phillips, architect Christian Waldvogel and media artist Ulrike Gabriel.

“Chessex is a key in Europe’s experimental music community” Transmediale Festival, Berlin.

Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist & musician living in Berlin since 2002.

He uses environmental recordings, computer programming, surround sound technology and improvisation to create live performances, sound installations, CD and radio pieces.

Gilles Aubry’s work is informed by personal investigations on formal, perceptual and anthropological aspects of sound production and reception, including auditory perception, cultural acoustics, space representation and history of sound technologies.

Recent works include ‘Berlin Backyards’ (2007, audio piece awarded at the Phonurgia Nova Competition’07), ‘Modulor’ (2008, sound installation at Singuhr Galery, Berlin), ‘Outside of the Plane’ (2008, sound installation for the Cairoscape Exhibition, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin), ‘Planes’ (2009, sound installation for the Laptopia Sound Exhibition, BatYam Museum, Tel Aviv) and ‘les écoutis le caire’ (2009, audio piece premiered on Deutschland Radio).

Valerio Tricoli (*1977 in Palermo, based in Berlin) works as a concrete music composer, improviser, sound installation artist, producer, sound engineer, and curator. His compositions bridge musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound (i.e. the radical interest in how reality, virtuality, memory relate to each other during the acoustic event): music, as a recorded or as a

synthetically-modeled sound, is always hovering between the “here and now” of the event and the shady domain of memory – distant but at the same time present, like a déjà–vu experience. Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments – most of them analogue – (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers), however the structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place.

He is one of the founders of the Bowindo label/collective (“arguably the best thing to come out of Italy since Luigi Nono”, Dan Warburton, The Wire), and of the band 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a daring synthesis between improvisation, electro-acoustic composition and avant-rock

sensitivity. “Metaprogramming From Within The Eye Of The Storm”, “an intense investigation of disembodied perception in the form of a single electro-acoustic composition” (Daniel Sorenson), is his latest composition, released in 2006 and welcomed with great critical interest.

http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Valerio%2520Tricoli?ac=valerio%20tricoli