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Clayton Thomas
Electroacoustic / Jazz / Other



Berlin, Berlin
Germany

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Member Since7/9/2007
Band Websitewww.thenownow.net
InfluencesPublic Enemy, Schlippenbach Trio, Albert Ayler, Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, William Parker, F.Hecker, Jim Denley, BDP, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, BAG, Julius Hemphill, Henry Threagill, Thelonius Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Wilber Ware, James Brown, Axel Dorner, Andrea Neumann, Cor Fuhler, Amanda Stewart, MIMEO, Matt Earle, Xanakis, Nono, John Coltrane, Ghostface Killah.
Sounds Like..........................................................................................
CLAYTON THOMAS "BAD SELF" [GUTSTRING JAN 2009] 80 minutes of solo contrabasss improvisations recorded between 2004 and 2008. Chain reaction and meditation make up the majority of the work, sitting somewhere between Hecker and Haiti.

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Available for purchase at concerts or order online through METAMKINE

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Record Labelwww.thenownow.net
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Aug 1 2009 8:00P
Bremen with Burkhard Beins, Valerio Tricoli and Ignaz Schick Worspede, Bayern
Aug 2 2009 9:00P
Worpswede with Beins/Tricoli/Schick Worpswede, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Aug 4 2009 9:00P
B-Flat with Gebhard Ullmann & Chris Dahlgren Berlin, Berlin
Aug 7 2009 10:00P
Salon Bruit w/A Spirale (Italy) Berlin, Berlin
Aug 8 2009 9:00P
Froschkönig with MOTH//Mayas, Olsen, Thomas, Heenan Neukolln, Berlin
Aug 11 2009 9:00P
B Flat w/ Els Vandeweyer/Hannes Lingens + Matthias Schubert Berlin, Berlin
Aug 25 2009 9:00P
Frankfurt w/TRIO AUS Frankfurt
Aug 29 2009 11:00P
Wendel Hof Fest with LVSXY (Clare Cooper & Clayton Thomas) Berlin Kreuzberg, Berlin
Aug 30 2009 9:00P
Duo with Minako Seki Kreuzberg, Berlin
Sep 1 2009 9:00P
B Flat w/Achim Kaufmann, Frank Gratkowski & Christian Lillinger Berlin, Berlin
Sep 2 2009 7:00P
TRIO AUS CD LAUNCH - JazzWerkstadt Gallery Berlin-Charlottenburg, Berlin
Sep 6 2009 9:00P
B Flat with Peter Evans, Johannes Bauer & Louis Rastig Berlin, Berlin
Sep 9 2009 7:00P
JazzWerkstadt gallery with Floris Floridis Berlin-Charlottenburg, Berlin
Sep 11 2009 9:00P
TWIN TOWERS RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT - Les Couleurs Brive, Bourgogne
Sep 12 2009 9:00P
Tolouse, with Daunik Lauzo Tolouse
Sep 21 2009 9:00P
Theatrekapelle with Hans Koch, Alex Babel and Michael Thieke Berlin, Berlin
Sep 25 2009 9:00P
Aufsturz with Will Kellers & Frank Paul Schubert Berlin P’Berg, Berlin
Oct 5 2009 8:00P
MOSCOW, with Frank Gratkowski, Matthias Shubert and Michael Vatcher Moscow, Еврейская АО
Oct 6 2009 8:00P
Nijni Novgorod with Frank Gratkowski, Matthias Schubert and Michael Vatcher Nijni Novogorod, Иваново
Oct 9 2009 8:00P
Radialsystem V with Berlin Splinter Orchestra Berlin, Berlin
Oct 13 2009 9:30P
Radialsystem V with LVSXY (Clare Cooper & Clayton Thomas) Berlin, Berlin
Oct 16 2009 9:00P
WIST with Manon Liu Winter and Kai Fagaschinski Graz, Niederösterreich
Oct 17 2009 8:00P
Romania, with Tony Buck, Olaf Rupp, Harri Sjoestroem and Frank Paul Schubert I’ll know by lunchtime
Oct 21 2009 9:00P
OVERTOOM 301 with The Ames Room Amsterdam, Zuid-Holland
Oct 23 2009 9:00P
Paris with The Ames Room Paris, Centre
Oct 26 2009 9:00P
B-FLAT with Harri Sjostroem, Frank P. Schubert and Olaf Rupp Berlin P’Berg, Berlin
Oct 27 2009 9:00P
BRNO with STRIKE / Jon Rose & Mike Majkowski BRNO
Oct 28 2009 8:30P
WABE with STRIKE: Jon Rose & Mike Majkowski Berlin, Berlin
Nov 1 2009 9:00P
B-Flat with HAMMERIVER P’berg Berlin, Berlin
Nov 4 2009 9:00P
JazzWerkstadt gallery with Bass X 3 Berlin, Berlin
Nov 6 2009 9:00P
Gdansk with Olaf Rupp & Conny Bauer (OCC) Gdansk, Lesser Poland
Nov 13 2009 8:00P
Weikersheim w/Anthony Pateras/Will Guthrie/Natasha Anderson and Jerome Noetinger Weikersheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Nov 14 2009 9:00P
Jazz Club Karlsruhe with Anthony Pateras, Will Guthrie, Natasha Anderson and Jerome Noetinger Karlsruhe
Nov 15 2009 8:00P
Basel with Anthony Pateras, Will Guthrie, Natasha Anderson and Jerome Noetinger Basel
Dec 5 2009 9:00P
Schl8hoff Wels - with Christof Kurzmann, Ken Vandermark, Martin Brandlmayr & Eva Reitar Wels, Oberösterreich
Dec 7 2009 9:00P
Saal Konzerthaus Wien (El Infierno Musical with Vandermark, Reiter, Thomas and Brandlmayr) Wien, Wien
Mar 18 2010 9:00P
Le Carre Bleu, with The Ames Room Poitiers
Mar 19 2010 8:00P
Nantes - with THE AMES ROOM Nantes, Lorraine
Mar 20 2010 9:00P
Lille with THE AMES ROOM LILLE

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   About Clayton Thomas

Who & Why & How...and what

Clayton Thomas is a double bassist and grass roots organiser working in the broad spectrum of improvised and experimental music. He is Australian, but lives in Berlin.

I'm trying to work out a physical activity equally engaged in electronic and acoustic music aesthetics, while maintaining the kind of transitional and transformative energy of the music that changed my life. I draw inspiration from creative music of all eras, happily learning from and engaging with improvisers, sound artists, composers and thinkers alive and kicking in the 21st century.

I have been inspired and pushed by many great musicians, but would especially thank my first teachers Wilber Morris and Peter Kowald, and Jon Rose, Jim Denley, Andrew Meisel, Cooper-Moore, Tony Buck and Hollis Taylor for doing some real work on the topic.


Current Projects

Trio AUS with Johannes Bauer and Tony Buck
HAMMERIVER with Clare Cooper, Chris Abrahams, Tobias Delius, Christof Kurzmann, Werner Dafeldecker and TB
The Astronomical Unit with Matthias Muller & Christian Marien
MOTH with Magda Mayas, Morton Olson and Chris Heenan
Creoles with Jim Denley
Substation with Robin Fox
Morsal with Andrea Neumann
The Ames Room with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Will Guthrie
Truncador synthesiser duo with Chris Abrahams
Syringe with Werner Dafeldecker
Invisible Cinema with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dorner and Tony Buck
The Berlin Meeting with Johannes Bauer, Rudi Mahall, Uli Gumpert and Michael Zerang
The Tim O'Dwyer Trio with Darren Moore and TOD
LVSXY with Clare Cooper
Freenology with Sonny Simmons, Guy Bettini and Paul Lovens
The Fundamentalists with Wilbert DeJoode and Peter Jacquemyn
The Martian Vatican with Burkhard Beins, Thomas Ankersmit & Ignatz Schick
IWA with Asi Foecker, Andy Moor and Tony Buck

As well as collaborations with Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Mats Gustaffson, Peter Evans, Anthea Caddy, Andre Vida, Steve Heather, Manon-Liu Winter, Hannes Loeschel, Sherif and Christine Sehnaoui, Franz Hautzinger and The Ex

Sydney

He is also the founder of the NOW now festival of improvised music and the leader of the 30 piece electro-acoustic ensemble The Splinter Orchestra.

Recordings

NEW! AUS LIVE IN NICKELSDORF with Johannes Bauer & Tony Buck
NEW! BAD SELF solo contrabass
Broken River The Tim O'Dwyer Trio
Sonny Simmons Renegade Society with Brandon Evans & Andrew Barker
Creoles with Jim Denley
Artery with Jon Rose & Chris Abrahams
The Splinter Orchestra
CODE with Ken Vandermark, Max Nagle and Wolfgang Reisinger
MAP with Mary Halvorson & Tatsuya Nakatani
Substation with Robin Fox
Raw Square with Mathew Ottignon

Coming Soon
Hammeriver
Morsal
The Ames Room
The Astronomical Unit - four degrees from the sun
 


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Jean-Luc Petit





Jul 14 2009 12:38 PM

vendredi 24 juillet
Atelier Tampon-Ramier
14 rue Jules Vallès Paris 11
Duo Daunik Lazro/Jean-Luc Petit
Ahmad COMPAORÉ





Jul 12 2009 2:14 PM

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP!



mmothejr





Jul 9 2009 10:23 AM

Thank you for the friendship!!!
I like your music a lot...
With smiles,
Mmo
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Jul 1 2009 4:09 PM

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Marco Tocilj





Jun 29 2009 9:28 AM

Madame Claude





Jun 28 2009 10:01 AM







Saturday July 4th

(early show 20.30!!!)


Gregaldur
http://www.myspace.com/gregaldur

John Callaghan
http://www.myspace.com/johncallaghanmusic

Jumbo Jet
http://www.myspace.com/jumbojetjumbojet

Richard Steel (dj set)


@ Madame CLAUDE
Lübbener Str.19 X-BERG



Open Stage for Free Music Berlin





Jun 26 2009 1:08 PM

hello!

the next mweiooje - open stage for free music will be on the 29th of June, that's next Monday, at loophole, boddinstr. 60, berlin neukölln. I hope you'll all come, so we can have an other wonderful evening of improvised, free and borderless music (big words!). Again, please bring as much equipment as you have, although we'll have something there (amp, mixer, soundsystem, we'll see about the rest...). I'll also record it again this time.

See you on Monday, hopefully!
Kilian
Marco Tocilj





Jun 23 2009 11:31 PM

locandina porgy 25giugno
lee kwang





Jun 23 2009 2:44 AM

3rd Solo exhibition by Goh Lee Kwang

22nd June @ KLPac
Video+Live Concert, 8:30pm

Indicine, The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre吉隆坡表演藝術中心
Sentul Park, Jalan Strachan (Off Jalan Ipoh), 51100 Kuala Lumpur.

23rd - 28th June @ Findars Space无限发掘
Drawing & Sound

Tuesday - Friday, 3.00pm - 7:00pm,
Saturday - Sunday 12:00pm - 6:00pm.
(please call for non-opening hour)

Findars space, Lot2.01 The Annexe Central Market, Jalan Hang Kasturi, Kuala Lumpur.

ADMISSION FREE, SEE YOU THERE!!

CV:
Goh Lee Kwang is probably one of the most exciting Malaysia sound / new media artists in the scene. He has travelled around the world creating sound installations, sonic-visual interactive installation, single / multichannel video, appeared in electro-acoustic improvised music performances as well as worked on radio broadcasts and soundtracks for theater / dance / indie films. His work has been showcased at festival, galleries and privates spaces in Europe & Asia.

selected exhibitions:
2005
"n desir" Fluctuating Images media gallery, Stuttgart, Germany.
"Artist in the box" National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"Sound, video, media,interactive, installation" Rumah Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2007
"Good Vibrations" Reka Arts Space, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
"Good Vibrations" Annexe, Central Market, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2008
"Good Vibrations" Fluctuating Images media gallery, Stuttgart, Germany.
"Good Vibrations" Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Germany.
harico 





Jun 20 2009 3:02 PM

Thank You!!!
Kupplung Lassen





Jun 20 2009 2:58 PM

Hallo Clayton!
we hope to meet you in Berlin!
Kupplung Lassen Trio
MORNINGS





Jun 16 2009 10:02 AM

Marco Tocilj





Jun 15 2009 10:36 AM

 
 

Porgy's progam page

In Rodaun sind die Rodauner
und in Nickelsdorf der Hauner
in Kalksburg gibts nur Einzelbett
trotzdem wird der Abend nett

Se a Rodaun fanno gli impicci
ed a Nickelrlsdorf gli spicci
a Karlsburg vò solo a letto
eppur provo gran diletto
 
Indovinello numero cinque: Se il tempo e' denaro, chi viaggia alla velocita' della luce restera' sempre povero?
Max.Experimentell





Jun 14 2009 11:35 AM

Hi Clayton, check out the www.maxstrasse1.de or directly here on my myspace - some nice pictures of yours...

See you!

Wendelin

SBlock Festival 19./20.6. 2009 Stuttgart

www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell
www.interventionsraum.de
www.plattform-musik.de

19/20 JUNE - S’BLOCK FESTIVAL OF ADVANCED MUSIC, AUDIOVISUAL ART & PERFORMANCE, STUTTGART (GERMANY)

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Friday 19.06. 18:00
JUSTYNA KOEKE & NINA MÜLLER (Stuttgart)
www.justynakoeke.com www.nina-mueller.com
Street-Performace

Friday 19.06. 20:30
ANTENNA RESEARCH (Stuttgart)
www.myspace.com/antennaresearchinstitute
Audiovisual Performance

Friday 19.06. 21:00
DUO B. & PEDRO COFRÉ (San Francisco, USA - Concepción, Chile)
www.myspace.com/duobmusic
Live-Improvised Music / Poetry

Friday 19.06. 22:00
CHRISTINE SEHNAOUI (Paris, France)
www.myspace.com/christinesehnaoui
Solo Performance / Radical Improvisation

Friday 19.06. 22:15
RAGANI HAAS (Stuttgart)
Performance

Friday 19.06. 22:45
ZENIT & NADIR (Stuttgart)
www.zenitundnadir.de
Multimedia Performance: Quartier Ss



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Saturday 20.06. 21:00
EZRAMO (Italy / Stuttgart)
www.myspace.com/ezramo
Audiovisual Solo Performance: Beats Moar Bambus

Saturday 20.06. 21:45
OLIVER PRECHTL, PHILIPP GOLM (Stuttgart)
www.oliverprechtl.de
Experimental Theater: The International Besetztzeichen

Saturday 20.06. 22:30
ANJA ABELE (Stuttgart)
MIRIAM HUSCHENBETH (Stuttgart)
www.myspace.com/anjaabele
Performance

Saturday 20.06. 23:15
THE !S.A.D.! (Rome, Italy)
www.myspace.com/thesaddj
Pure Data – Performance: I C::ntr::l Nature
Louis Rastig





Jun 14 2009 10:05 AM

Hey Clayton!​ Tomorrow I will rock the B-Flat-Club with Paul Loven​s(!), Johannes Bauer und DJ Illvi​be a.​k.​a.​ Vince​nt von Schli​ppenb​ach! It's gonna be a ball and I would love to see you there....... Liebe​ Grüße​,​ Louis​

15.​06.​ @ B-​Flat,​ 21 Uhr
Rosen​thale​r Straß​e 13
U8-​Weinm​eiste​r Straß​e
Open Stage for Free Music Berlin





Jun 13 2009 8:43 AM

buenos dias there!

Next Monday, the 15 th of the month June will be the date on which mweiooje will go in it's fifth edition. You'll again find us at loophole, Boddinstraße 60, Berlin Neukölln. You are again very much invited to join us this time. There are no rules as such about how or what to play - the ability of spontaneous expression in a group consisting of strangers is the only requirement, performing interesting and unique music.
en plus: please bring all equipment you have with you, there will be some on location, but since i this time don't know what and how much, please make sure you have something yourself (mixers, mics, instruments)

so, see you on Monday!
Kilian





Tyson Naylor





Jun 10 2009 1:13 PM

hey clay. very nice show at wendel the other night. it was great to hear you play again. hope you enjoy poland.
Marco Tocilj





Jun 8 2009 8:46 AM


Porgy's program page
Ob Wienerlied, ob Rock'nRoll
Wir spielen alles in H moll
ob Trauermarsch, ob flotte Sohle
hernach gibts immer ein Gejohle
Viennalieder  o Rock'nRoll

Facciam  tutto in si bemol

Sia marcia funebre, o dance,  per ballare

Saranno tutti, alla fine, a cantare

Indovinello numero 4 : Perchè un mattone è più piccolo di un matto? e che dire del mattino?
Marco Tocilj





Jun 2 2009 9:54 AM

Concert's page
Open Stage for Free Music Berlin





May 29 2009 9:05 AM

hello there!
 
mweiooje - open stage for free music will take place in it's fourth edition on June the first, next Monday! After last time's success we are heading for the next great evening of improvised music where we'll once again try to make the border between artist and spectator vanish, at least make it appear vaguer than usual. So if you got any musical ideas you think you could share with us, perform at ours, come along next Monday for another great Open Stage! (But you of course are as well welcome as a spectator, maybe it will get you)
 
mweiooje – open stage for free music
at loophole
boddinstraße 60
berlin neukölln
u7 rathaus neukölln
u8 hermannplatz
 
So, see you on Monday!
Kilian Jörg
 
PS: impressions of last time’s mweiooje:
 
RYR





May 26 2009 4:06 PM

Max.Experimentell





May 24 2009 3:21 PM

Good News: Patrick Swayze is alive!

It was a great pleasure listening to your music and enjoying your presence.

See you in Berlin...

Wendelin


The Astronomical Unit 23.5.2009
4Spiral





May 23 2009 10:05 PM

vielen dank!
Max.Experimentell





May 21 2009 6:44 PM

C.U.

Cheers
Wendelin


THE ASTRONOMICAL UNIT
Matthias Müller - Trombone
Christian Marien - Drums
Clayton Thomas - Bass

live @ Max.Experimentell

23.5. 20:30
Bar & Bühne Maxstrasse Eins
Ludwigsburg

Marco Tocilj





May 19 2009 9:42 PM

Locandina Porgy 21 maggio

Porgy 21-05-09 h.23.30

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