Na poética deste mês de Maio o Grémio apresenta, em mais uma colaboração com a hiperactivamente ruidosa Associação Terapêutica do Ruído, um concerto da dupla de improvisação Kocher & Manouach. 17 de Maio 22h//Abertura 23h//EXHAUSTION: Kocher & Manouach. Entrada Livre Jonas Kocher (ch) - Acordeão Ilan Manouach (gr) - Saxofone soprano EXAUSTION é um jogo instrumental construído numa arquitectura mental onde são exploradas as relações horizontais / verticais, densidades / drones, tensão / aborrecimento, numa relação bi-polar elástica que expande a linguagem da livre improvisação até ao limite. +Jonas Kocher é um acordeonista e compositor suiço que colabora regularmente com Burchard Beins, Axel Dorner, Alfredo Costa Monteiro ou Michel Doneda. +Ilian Manouach é um artista multidisciplinar sediado em Atenas com um interesse específico na banda desenhada conceptual, na música improvisada e em vários tipos de colagens sonoras. Para alem do concerto no Parqe dia 17, a dupla vai estar também a 15 Maio em Lisboa (Zaratan), 16 Maio em Montemor-O-Novo (Oficinas do Convento) e a 18 de Maio no Porto (Sonoscopia). Esta tourné tem o apoio do Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia e do Canton of Bern. AUDIO Jonas Kocher & Ilan Manouach: http://skeletondrafts.bandcamp.com/releases VIDEO Live in Biel [CH]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpPuGJolIM Live in Bucharest [RO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVUB3H6ZUeQ BIOS https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Kocher https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Manouach +info +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "EXHAUSTION a performance consumed, saturated digested, emptied and bled dry by Kocher & Manouach Exhaustion is a new project developed with the goal to explore the possibilities and the permutations of these different strategies. The duo experiments on the different permutations by following exhaustion as the necessary corollary for music. Their instrumental game has already been developed as a cognitive tool, forging a mental architectural construction: vertical planes vs horizontal grounds, sudden bursts vs drones, sound cascades vs pedal notes, tension vs boredom, vain attempts vs sudden developments. This bi-polar constraint acts as a rubber band, expanding around the contours of the work as it pursues exhaustion, stretching to its limits; rather than facing down the "blank page", this architectural conception of improvisation is an intuitive, purposeless machine that makes music. Kocher & Manouach, have vividly documented their eclectic approach to music. The duo collaboration has been questioning, beyond any style constraints, the very same tools of their craft : the holy respect of shared listening, the sanctification of ad-hoc and hic et nunc, stemming from an awkward solipsism, the capitalization on the ephemeral nature of music, the stretched wire, and all metaphors often crystallized into rigid rules and ordering sentences. Instead, they have tried to build music on attitudes that have been often dismissed as inconsequential, coercive or submissive." K&M +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The swiss sound artist, Jonas Kocher was born in 1977 and studied a.o. with Teodoro Anzellotti and Georges Aperghis. His interest in different artis- tic fields bring him to collaborate with different personalities from various backgrounds and in nu- merous contexts. His work explores the process of listening, the space and the perception. As accor- dionist he plays the instrument within physicali- ty and reduction, uncontrolled playing and high precision. His regular partners are musicians like Burkhard Beins, Jacques Demierre, Axel Dörner, Alfredo Costa-Monteiro, Michel Doneda, Hans Koch, Radu Malfatti, a.o. Since 2010, extended tour activity in Europe, US, Japan and Russia. As sound artist he realizes projects which are situated between composed theatre, installation and concert pieces. His works have been played and realized at Biennale Bern 2010 [CH], Zagreb Biennale [HR], Festival Encuentros Buenos Aires [ARG], Festi- val Concentus Moravie [CK], Zentrum Paul Klee [CH], The Forge London [UK], Biennale Thessa- loniki 2015 [GR]. His work on is documented on more than 15 recordings and on labels such An- other Timbre, Potlatch, Bocian Records, Creative Sources, Flexion records, Insubordinations, L'In- nomable. Jonas Kocher runs the label Flexion re- cords and is also active as curator and organizer of experimental music events here and there. http://www.jonaskocher.net https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Kocher +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ilan Manouach lives in Brussels for the last 15 years and while his main interest is the printed medium, publishing his book projects, he is an active mu- sician. He has released and performed music with various different projects such as Balinese Beast, a cut-up noise improv duo, Glacial, a hybrid collab- oration with DJ Lemos that brings together techno music and jazz and Wry, a free improvisation trio with piano player Agusti Fernandez. Besides this, he keeps up a large audio database diary, with field recordings documenting his stays in more than hundred hotel rooms all over Greece (www.vacant- greece.com). He is the instigator of two small pub- lishing houses, Topovoros, a hyper-local initiative where translations from seminal texts (Valerie Sola- nas, Robert Smithson, the Black Panthers, Griselid- is Real, amongst others) are printed, bind and sold in a very specific geographic area (www.topovoros. gr) and Inkpress, an alternative comics publisher (www.inkpress.gr). He is also the creator of the tac- tile language Shapereader, that gives the possibility to blind people to create their own narrative works (www.shapereader.org) and he is also a member of the Errands group (www.errands.gr), a multi-dis- ciplined formation with an interest in the relation between utopia and architecture. He travels the world extensively for workshops, concerts and exhi- bitions.
