Von: Manuela Benetton
Betreff: Berlin June 6: Legendary Japanese Impro Masters
Datum: Sat, 21 May 2016
Marginal Consort
Monday June 6
Doors 19h00 – Concert 19h30-22h30
St. Elisabeth Kirche http://www.elisabeth.de, Invalidenstr. 3 10115 Berlin
PAN p-a-n.org/ and Manuela Benetton manuelabenetton.com
presents Japanese impro collective Marginal Consort first show in Germany
Tickets: bit.ly/1SNIXJj
Japanese avant-garde masters Marginal Consort will perform an extended
set of three hours as their first ever concert in Germany on June 6th.
Renowned for doing only one concert annually, witnessing this collective
is a rare opportunity.
Marginal Consort is a Japanese avant-garde improvisation collective
composed of sound and visual artists who were all students of Takehisa
Kosugi whitney.org/Exhibitions/TakehisaKosugi at the radical
Bigaku school of aesthetics in Tokyo in the ’70s. Founded in 1997 is a
reformation of the East Bionic Symphonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAaNKhVjiBQ , a large improvisation
ensemble in the spirit of Kosugi’s Group Ongaku and Taj Mahal Travellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3H4QIbcXpI projects. Marginal Consort’s
current line-up includes Kazuo Imai
http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/watch_kazuo-imai-solo-works-soloworks61-part-one,
Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii and Masami Tada. The group also featured
previously artists Yasushi Ozawa, bassist in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4VY0YZKT3A, and Chie Mukai, from dreamy
psychedelic group Che-Shizu.
In a Marginal Consort show nothing is predetermined. Duration, physical
separation of the performers and the shifting dynamic between them are
the key elements of a Marginal Consort performance. The kaleidoscopic,
intuitive and visual nature of their set – a battery of sound generating
equipment: mixers, oscillators, sensors, wind, string and self made
instruments, bamboo and objects – plays with the audience’s perception
of time with hypnotic, yet suspenceful effects. The desired state of
flexibility of their music creates moments of accidental or deliberate
unison through the temporary formation and dissolution of duos and trios
within the whole. A radical combination of improvisation, electronic,
psychadelic and traditional japanese music.
In 2013 the recording of a performance of theirs from Glasgow in 2008
resulted in a very limited live record released on the critically
acclaimed PAN label.
This is Marginal Consort’s final performance of 2016, following a show
at the St John at HackneyChurch http://www.stjohnathackney.org.uk/ in
London. Supported by Initiative Neue Musik e.V. http://www.inm-berlin.de/
In cooperation with Thirty Three Thirty Three