CHOPPA will be this Sunday the 12th of July at Night and Day (139 Selegie Rd) starting 8pm. We have a very special guest all the way from Zurich; Mr Thomas Peter, saxophonist, composer, musician and master improviser. Also on the bill will be Brian O’Reilly with his audio-visual extravaganza, a new group spearheaded by Stephen Black named 3how(4) and a duo from Mark Wong/Tan Wee Kwang for guitar, amplifier, electronics and kazoo.
Entry is $16 (which includes 1 drink)
See you there!!!!!!!!
Artist Profiles
Thomas Peter
Thomas Peter (*1971) is a musician and composer. His activities range from composing electro-acoustical music and theatre music, performing improvised music, creating sound installations to realizing and interpreting of live electronic. His main interests lie in the digital form of electronic music, in its adaption as an acoustical content in different spaces and in computer operated sound installations. Thomas Peter studied audiodesign, composition and improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, Switzerland.
Website: www.tpeter.ch (sorry, still only in german)
Label: www.domizil.ch/peter.html
3how(4)
Arte Vicci, 2009: A collaboration between sound artist wyxmm, vocalist Wilson Goh and Stephen Black. A performance by Maria Callas is used as the basis of this piece.
Tan Wee Kwang/Mark Wong
Playing together previously in such outfits as psych folk oddballs The Cosmic Mambo Jamboree (2006) and free jazz/ Indian classical- inspired Meteor Feather (2006-?), Wee Kwang and Mark play for the first time as a duo on guitar, amplifier, electronics and kazoo.
Brian O’Reilly
Brian O’Reilly is the creator of various works for moving images, electronic/noise music, mixed media assemblage, multimedia installation, and is a contrabassist, focusing on the integration of extended playing techniques with electronics treatments. While attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a scholarship for sculpture he spent his nights focused on the music of various members of the AACM, and the local free/noise music scene, until the late 1990’s when he relocated to Paris to study the composition techniques of the Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, during this time he worked extensively with Xenakis’ electronic music system utilizing graphic sound synthesis the UPIC. After a year of research at Les Ateliers UPIC, he received an appointment to become the studio’s Musical Assistant. Following his time in France he pursued graduate studies in MAT (Media Arts and Technology) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and is now teaching Sonic Arts in Singapore. He has worked with Eliane Radigue, Luc Ferrari, Matmos, Maryanne Amacher, Fe-Mail, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and regularly performs & collaborates on projects with Garth Knox, Stefanie L. Ku, Zbigniew Karkowski and Curtis Roads.
