With Apologies for Cross-Posting<br><br><b>Tuesday 04.12.12 </b>Doors 21h Concerts 21:30<br><br><b>LEAP</b> - Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13<br>
<br><b>THOMAS ANKERSMIT</b> quadraphonic solo set for serge analogue synth and computer <br><b>ANTOINE CHESSEX <i>Dans Une Cascade</i></b>:<i> </i>Premiere of the new composition for drums and
electronics by Antoine Chessex performed by <b>Daniel Buess </b>and<b> Martin
Lorenz</b>. <br>
<br>Kindly supported by Pro Helvetia<br><br><b><br>Thomas Ankersmit</b> (1979, Leiden, Netherlands) is a musician and
installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. His main instruments
are the Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone.
He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and
electroacoustic artists Valerio Tricoli and Kevin Drumm. "Ankersmit constructs a musical world that feels alive and capable of
going anywhere, and yet also manages to give the music a strong sense
of structured purpose, a degree of compositional control unusual in this
area of live performance. It is the fine balance between the sense of
chaos that threatens to pull everything apart and the controlled
formation of the music into clearly defined sections of differing
intensities that raises the work above that of so many of Ankersmit’s
contemporaries." Richard Pinnell, The Wire<br><a href="http://www.thomasankersmit.net" target="_blank">http://www.thomasankersmit.net</a><br><br>Born in Vevey in 1980, <b>Antoine Chessex</b> is a composer and sound artist
whose works span compositions for ensembles, solo performances, sound
installations and transdisciplinary collaborations.His compositions and
performances possess a raw energy and are characterized by textural
density as well as a strong focus on the physical dimensions of sounds
and spaces. <br><a href="http://www.soundimplant.com/achessex.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundimplant.com/achessex.html</a><br>
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Daniel Buess</b> is involved in various groups and Ensembles in the realm of
experimental music, like “Ensemble Phœnix Basel” of which he is a
core-member and solo-percussionist since its foundation in 1998,
“CORTEX” (with the composer and electronic-musician Alex Buess),
“16-17”, MIR (with Papiro and Michael Zaugg) and Buggatronic (with James
Hullick). His collaborations include artists like Zbigniew Karkowski,
Kasper T.Toeplitz, John Duncan, Michael Wertmüller, Phill Niblock, Iancu
Dumitrescu and many others.<br>
<a href="http://www.danielbuess.com" target="_blank">www.danielbuess.com</a><br>
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Since 1999, <b>Martin Lorenz</b> has worked as a freelance percussionist on the
contemporary and experimental music scene and has realized solo and
chamber music projects with assorted partners: with Conrad Steinmann
(Ensemble Diferencias, Ensemble Melpomen), with Teodora Stepancic
(piano/composition), with Canto Battuto (Eva Nievergelt and Christoph
Brunner), the ‘ensemble für neue musik zürich’ and others.<br>
<a href="http://www.martinlorenz.ch" target="_blank">www.martinlorenz.ch</a><br><br><br><br>LEAP LAB FOR ELECTRONIC ARTS AND PERFORMANCE<br>
(Berlin Carré, 1. Floor)<br>
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13<br><a href="http://leapknecht.de/" target="_blank">http://leapknecht.de/</a><br>