非/密閉空間 Non-Confined Space https://non-confinedspace.bandcamp.com/releases Non-Confined Space is an electronic improv duo created by Sonic Deadhorse (Guitar, Electronic, Live Visual) and Minyen Hsieh (Saxophones, Woodwinds) in 2014. Each has been treading in the ponds called Experimental Electronica and Contemporary Jazz respectively for many years, now they are back with a bounty of brand new chops.
Between the spheres of free improvisation, jazz, trap, and musique concrète, lies Non-Confined Space. The name of this Taipei-based duo – saxophone polyglot Minyen Hsieh and audiovisual electronica experimentalist Ge-Chun Cheng (aka Sonic Deadhorse) – aptly describes their approach to exploring the fertile space they find themselves in. Drawing inspiration from their differing musical approaches and worlds, plus energy from the lively Taiwanese music scene, Non- Confined Space is a bold and future-facing hybrid. Cheng deploys piles of samples alongside Hsieh’s versatile saxophone, re-sculpting the results into a sublime and boldly experimental debut album of beats and processed improvisations unlike anything you’ve heard before. Taking its title from a philosophical textbook about free-jazz, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces is a revelatory introduction to the duo, mixing the utterly free improvisations of their live shows (exemplified with spontaneous straight-to-tape takes on two of the album’s ten tracks) with an approach to studio composition inspired by the philosophy of improvisation. Basic outlines – often borrowing chord movements from the likes of Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, or pulling beats from Cheng’s huge library – would be cut loose in studio sessions, later augmented by psychedelic post-production. Utilizing methodology from the eponymous book, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces is nonetheless based on “simple elements” as the duo put it, “rhythm, intervals, timbre, and energy.
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非/密閉空間 Non-Confined Space (from 台湾 Taiwan )
Sonic Deadhorse / ソニック‧デッドホース (Guitar, Electronic, Live Visual)
謝明諺/シェ‧ミンイェン/Minyen Hsieh (sax)
From the South exit of Ogikubo station, turn left. Pass a Lawson and a Family Mart. Follow Oume street to the right and go straight ahead. Velvet Sun is on the right before another Lawson.
荻窪駅南口を出て目の前の線路に沿った道を新宿方面へ。
青梅街道に合流してから約100M。
荻窪駅から徒歩約8分。
荻窪ベルベットサン
音楽、演劇、文芸批評、お笑いetc
ジャンル横断、刺激的なイベントを開催中。
個性的な内装への評判も高く、新年会や結婚式二次会、映画の撮影での利用も可能。