Friday 22nd October | 8pm | £8 / £6 Concession | FB EVENT
Jason Kahn was born 1960 in New York. Moved to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zurich, where he is active as a musician, artist and writer. He works with electronics involving chaotic feedback systems and placing his body in the circuit flow. Grabbing open leads with his hands makes and breaks circuits, causing the synth to overload or collapse. Various contact microphones and electro magnetic inductors and the synthesizer's own output via a mixing board are used to modulate the parameters of the synth, which oscillates between saturation and a brittle sputtering, like the death rattle of a machine on its last gasp. Live radio captures during the concert and recordings made in the performance
space and its environs provide further working material for each concert. These performances
are essentially site-specific works, improvising with the space at hand, both in the sense of its
physicality and the sounds found there. Born 1960 New York. Moved to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zurich, where he is active as a musician, artist and writer.
Among many others, Kahn has collaborated with Kevin Drumm, Jason Lescalleet, Norbert
Möslang, Günter Müller, Axel Dörner, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Magda Mayas,
Mark Wastell, Olivia Block, Chris Abrahams, Arnold Dreyblatt, Alan Courtis, Ulrich Krieger,
Sainkho Namtchylak, Z'ev, Shelley Hirsch, Peter Kowald, Taku Sugimoto, Elliott Sharp and
Keith Rowe.
"...feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns...more physicality than most you hear, which gives the performance some nice faux visual weight." The Wire
Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvisor who uses an amplified acoustic guitar body. He has performed in regular and ad-hoc groupings with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina, Cristián Alvear, Richard Sanderson, Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Ryu Hankil, Charlotte Keefe and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN. His Aural Detritus imprint released his latest cd; The Phantom Sunrise - a collaboration with Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina and Richard Sanderson and the compilation The Joy Of Isolation - a sonic artefact to accompany the JOY exhibition at The Ceramic House in Brighton - to which he contributed his piece Imaginary Duet.
His latest release with Daniel Spicer is Coastal Fulmar on a split lathe-cut 7" with Daniel's and Ron Caines' Hazeblaze on the flip. Previously the pair have a cassette, Sepertae, released on Richard Sanderson’s Linear Obsessional label. Paul's most recent solo album, Peoplegrowold was released on Mark Wastell’s Confront label.
Daniel Spicer - piano, bamboo sax, percussion, words.
Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster, improviser and poet based in Brighton, UK.
He writes about music for The Wire and Jazzwise magazines.
His book on Turkish psychedelic music, The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych 1965 to 1980, was published by Repeater Books in 2018. His collected Jazzwise column ‘Lost In The Vaults’ was published as Lost In The Vaults: Rare Collectables and Forgotten Gems From the Jazzwise Magazine Archives by Eleusinian Press in 2019. He is currently working on a book about Peter Brötzmann, to be published by Repeater. Since 2006, he has presented the radio show The Mystery Lesson, playing free-jazz and underground improvised music, on Brighton’s Radio Reverb 97.2FM and at totallyradio.com.
