What preoccupies me is foraging for resonance, searching out cavities, small acoustic spaces and amplifying surfaces as if they were food, finding and constructing containers, hollows, perforated spheres and caves. I work with blown objects like flutes, percussive objects, bowed objects and cassette tapes. The cassettes are usually from my own collection, accumulated between the years 1971 to the mid-1980s, played back through cheap cassette players connected to bone conduction and vibration speakers. These tiny speakers allow me to use materials and objects of various kinds – paper, tin cans, drum snares, cardboard boxes or my own teeth – to resonate and amplify whatever is on the cassette. All of these materials, including the cassette recordings themselves, have some personal resonance for me. Their lo-fi quality is intended, expounding as it does on the humility of certain materials, the decomposition and decay of artefacts, technologies, sound, memories and the body itself, all of which are significant for an improvised approach to life.
With thirteen solo albums spanning over fifty years, in this concert will we rediscover some of the improviser’s sounds using a combination of instruments, electronics and unusual objects.