Volkov + O'Rourke + Dunscombe + Talia, Syzygys, Chris SSG

Live:
Ilan Volkov + Jim O'Rourke + Samuel Dunscombe + Joe Talia
Syzygys
DJ:
Chris SSG

Artist information: 

Ilan Volkov
Born in Israel in September 1976, Ilan Volkov began his conducting career at the age of nineteen. Following studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music, he secured positions as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony. In 2003 he was appointed Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and subsequently became its Principal Guest Conductor in 2009. Between 2011 and 2014 he held the post of Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Volkov’s arrival coincided with the opening of Harpa, Reykjavík’s visually striking new concert hall. During his tenure in Iceland, he created the Tectonics Festival, which features programmes of classical modern music combined with other new music genres such as improvisation, electronics and rock. Since then, Tectonics has expanded around the world with residencies in cities like Glasgow, Adelaide, Oslo, New York and Tel Aviv.
Ilan Volkov profile
Tectonics festival

Jim O'Rourke
Born 1969 in Chicago. O’Rourke encountered the music of Derek Bailey as youngster and began visiting him in London at the age of 13. Eyes opened to the power of improvisational guitar, he released several of his own highly experimental works and has worked closely with John Fahey and Loren Mazzacane Connors. During his long association with the Chicago experimental and improv scene O’Rourke participated in several bands and projects including Gastr Del Sol and Loose Fur. His work with Takehisa Kosugi music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as well as Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Christian Wolff and others built bridges between contemporary and popular music. O’Rourke’s release of landmark albums Bad Timing and Happy Days in 1997 and Eureka in 1999 garnered much attention. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of Sonic Youth, playing bass, guitar and synthesizer as well as recording and mixing the band. In 2004 he won a Grammy Award for his production of Wilco’s A Ghost is Born. O’Rourke has also earned a loyal following for his participation in numerous albums by various artists around the world. He has a deep knowledge of Japanese culture and currently lives in Tokyo. Some of his many production credits in Japan include Quruli, Kahimi Karie, and Eiko Ishibashi.
Jim O'Rourke Bandcamp

Samuel Dunscombe
Samuel Dunscombe is an Australia performer-composer specializing in the use of clarinets, computers, and microphones. From free improvisation to field recording, MaxMSP coding, and performing notated 20th and 21st century repertoire, Samuel is involved in a diverse array of sonic practices. His work has been presented at the Tokyo Experimental Festival, Toronto Electro-Acoustic Symposium, and the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music in Australia. He has worked with musicians from improvisation legends Toshimaru Nakamura and Seijiro Murayama, to composers including Richard Barrett, Chikako Morishita, Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram. He has undertaken field recording projects in the Brazilian Amazon (with Francisco López), Japan (at Taizai-Katsudou-Izu with Michiko Ogawa), and the Australian outback (with Thembi Soddell). Samuel’s latest projects include creating a set of three grid based field recording maps of the state of California, and a new revision of Horatiu Radulescu’s Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets. He is an ABD doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego.
Samuel Dunscombe official site

Joe Talia
Joe Talia is an Australian drummer, composer and record producer/engineer based in Tokyo. He first established his reputation as a drummer in contemporary jazz and improvised music fields in which he is now active as a member of the ARIA award winning Andrea Keller Quartet and in numerous collaborative projects, including a long-term duo with Oren Ambarchi. In the last few years a great deal of his work as a drummer has taken place alongside outsider singer-songwriters (such as Ned Collette, Yuko Kono and Francis Plagne), in groups which synthesize his adventurous, exploratory drumming with the demands of song form. His longstanding musical partnership with Ned Collette has resulted in four records, on which Talia acts as both drummer and producer/engineer, most recently Networking in Purgatory (Bronze Rat 2013). In addition to the collaborations above he has performed, recorded and toured with Jim O'Rourke, Anthony Pateras, Richard Pinhas, John Duncan, Brous, Mary Halvorson, The Australian Art Orchestra, Thembi Soddell, Anthea Caddy, Sean Baxter, Robbie Avenaim, David Shea, Marco Fusinato, Rand and Holland, Adam Simmons, Magic Mountain Band, among others.
Joe Talia official site

Syzygys
Hitomi Shimizu (43 microtone organ)
Composer(Manual Of Errors Artists), piano player. Born in NARA city. Majored in music composition at Toho-Gakuen. Writing a lot of soundtracks for films, TVCM,videos, and Playstation too. Won The Best Film Music in Japan Academy Award 2002 for Toho Cinema"WATERBOYS". Favorite foods: sweets, tamatos. Interested in frontier things, especially sci-fi. A Star Trek fan, of course!!
Hiromi Nishida (Violin)
Violinist, born in Tokyo. Studied arabic style violin under Abdo Dagir in Cairo (1995～1998), played in his ensemble. Performed with Fathy Salama in Egypt and France, played and recorded with Nubian singer Mohamed Mounir. In 1999, played with German Oud player Roman Bunka group at the 1st oriental Jazz festival in Beirut. In 2001, toured in Tunisia with the classical arabic music group "Le club bachraf" supported by Japan Foundation. Favorite foods: hot stuffs, wine!! Likes to cook. Intersted in salt.
Syzygys official site

Chris SSG
Chris SSG is best known as the co-founder of the now defunct MNML SSGS blog, recognized as a leading source of critical insight on electronic music. In recent years, he has moved from the online world into the Tokyo techno scene. He is the organizer of a series of MNML SSGS events, and is a resident at the semi-regular Sound Garden chill out parties. As a DJ, Chris SSG eschews standard dancefloor music, instead focusing on a range of sounds from ambient, experimental, kosmische through to more abstract forms of techno. He has DJ’d at many major Tokyo clubs, including Unit, Air, Dommune, Galaxy, and SuperDeluxe, as well as at the FREEDOMMUNE and Rural festivals. His podcast for the New York based ‘Mysteries of the Deep’ series was included in Clubbing Spain’s top 10 mixes of 2014, and his podcast for Rob Booth’s ‘Electronic Exploration’ series was included in That Special Record’s ‘best of 2015’. Chris SSG commenced 2016 by playing in the Elektroakustischer Salon as part of Berghain’s Silvester party.
Chris SSG twitter