Unique live rendition of the 2 fabulous pieces ‘Palmpest Geometry’ and ‘There Is A Danger Only Our Mistakes Are New’, composed by Anthony Pateras and released earlier this year by Brussels based label Futura Resistenza as ‘Two Solos’. The composer himself will be present. Opener will be Berlin based Japanese artist Michiko Ogawa.

Callum G’Froerer is an Australian trumpet player and composer based in Narrm/Melbourne. Through improvisation, interpretation, and collaboration, he explores the expressive possibilities of unique trumpet techniques and treats the trumpet as an interface for combining and activating diverse materials.

‘Palimpsest Geometry’ (2020) for double-bell trumpet & tape works with rapidly pulsed single trumpet notes at brisk tempos that often hover at the perceptual threshold between rhythm and a kind of tremolo. The interaction between different rates of pulse produces skittering echoes, as if G'Froerer’s layers of trumpets were really a single sound bouncing around the sonic space. In pitch, the piece at times uses a restrained variant of the fanning technique found in the works of Györgi Ligeti, where the various voices individually move away from an initial unison. But where Ligeti’s use of this technique is often dramatic, here it is fluid, almost searching, a constant movement in stillness like ripples on the surface of water.

Clara La Licata (IT.)is a vocal performer using mixed vocal techniques. She studied opera singing, contemporary music and performance in various conservatories and academies in Italy and abroad. In her vocal practice, she always fuses tradition and contemporaneity through transversal and interdisciplinary languages.

There Is A Danger Only Our Mistakes Are New (2021) for voice & tape goes to work on a see-sawing two-note melodic cell, insistently transposed and transposed again, hummed or sung with open vowels, contracting to a semitone and expanding to a minor third. The purity of La Licata’s tone and the consistent worrying at close intervals unavoidably call up Feldman’s Three Voices, but the effect of Pateras’ piece is far less austere. The music is suffused with a hazy dreaminess, as if a fragment of one of Ravel’s Mallarmé songs has floated away and spawned countless flickering reflections of itself.

We’ll start the evening with a set by Michiko Ogawa (JP.). She’s not only performs a classical repertoire but also contemporary and experimental music, including free improvisation and film soundtracks. Apart from her main instrument the clarinet she also plays the Hammond organ and "sho", a Japanese bamboo organ. Michiko has been collaborating with musicians Samuel Dunscombe, Taku Sugimoto, James Rushford, Carolyn Chen, Golden Fur, Lucy Railton, Klaus Lang,...