Public 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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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
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
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.
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.
Hey Clayton! Tomorrow I will rock the B-Flat-Club with Paul Lovens(!), Johannes Bauer und DJ Illvibe a.k.a. Vincent von Schlippenbach! It's gonna be a ball and I would love to see you there....... Liebe Grüße, Louis
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)
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?
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)
