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Un concert Ali_Fib :

MICK TURNER (Dirty Three) + CORRIDORS / Byron Westbrook
Dimanche 14 septembre
Les Voûtes, 19 rue des Frigos, 75013 PARIS, M° BNF

20h – 10 euros

Mick Turner (Australia, Drag City)
http://www.myspace.com/trenphantasma

Mick Turner is well known for his role as guitarist in the leading Australian instrumental rock trio Dirty Three, with Warren Ellis (also of Nick cave and the Bad Seeds) and Jim White. Turner also runs the band's record label, Anchor and Hope and creates the cover illustration for their albums, while regularly exhibiting his works in Australian galleries. The Dirty Three formed in Melbourne in 1993, with Turner's own background steeped in the Melbourne punk scene, having played with bands such as the Moodists and the Stick Things. Three years later Turner branched into a solo career, releasing with Drag City Records the album Tren Phantasma (1997), followed by Marlan Rosa (1999), Moth (2003) and most recently Blue Trees (2007).

In 1998 Turner and fellow Dirty Three member Jim White created their band the Tren Brothers, who have released three albums. In 1998, the Tren Brothers collaborated with Cat Power on Moon Pix (Matador Records). Turner has also performed as a supporting musician on records for other international performers such as Bonnie Prince Billy.

"Turner's moody instrumentalism is practically trance-like -- completely sparse yet not lacking in substance, there's just enough guitar strumming mixed with the occasionnal drone or percussive beat to hold attention, calm a tense mood and relax the body, soul and mind. If a collage could be put to music, this is what it would sound like."
Splendid


Corridors / Byron Westbrook
http://www.myspace.com/corridors

Byron Westbrook is a sound/intermedia artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His audio/video performances as Corridors involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light that uses amplifiers, speakers and video projections strategically placed within a performance space. It was originally developped as a distribution system for improvisated guitar feedback and has evolved over the last three years into composed works using a myriad of sound sources through the system, which is also now customized for the individual works. The project emphasizes how redistributed energy of sound and light in space alters one's perception.

Byron Westbrook has shared bills with Tony Conrad, Lichens or James Blackshaw, and has collaborated with Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Jonathan Kane or Phill Niblock.

"To call Byron Westbrook a composer of breathtakingly beautiful ambient pieces and drone works is reasonably accurate but painfully reductive; Westbrook, whose work under the name Corridors has involved acoustic instruments, field recordings, spatialized playback and lighting, is the kind of artist for whom the old, mostly disused term intermedia was coined".
TimeOut New York

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