Hans Koch (clarinet), Paed Conca (clarinet), Atsuko Hatano (viola), Cal Lyall (guitar)

Hans Koch has quit his career as a recognised classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing/Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene.

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Paed Conca

Born in Berne, Switzerland, bass and clarinet player Paed Conca is an experienced musician in the fields of experimental, improvised, and electronic music. Conca has written music for theatre, dance, and film productions and small ensembles, and his past and current projects include Blast4tet (with Dirk Bruinsma, Frank Crijns, and Fabrizio Spera), Best Before (with Bruno Meillier and Dominique Lentin), Cleee (with Martin Schütz, Patricia Wydmer, Madeleine Bishop, Margrit Rieben, Thomas Meier, and Dirk Bruinsma), Bushwac (with Steve Buchanan), Praed (with Raed Yassin), and Porta Chiusa (with Michael Thieke and Hans Koch).   

http://www.paed.ch/ 

Atsuko Hatano

Cal Lyall

Involved in the arts scene in Japan for over twenty years, Cal Lyall has organized large-scale performances involving both Japanese and overseas artists, while also remaining a key member of a number of musical groups which have toured both locally and internationally. His musical activities are documented on over 30 albums he has both produced (including three full-length compilations released on medama records in Japan) and contributed to as a writer or musician. As a curator, he established the monthly Test Tone concert series in 2005 at Tokyo's SuperDeluxe. With an active performance schedule in Japan and past tours through Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, China, Korea, Australia and the U.S., he also heads up the Subvalent record label and oversees the Tokyo Hub of Jolt Sonic Arts (Australia). 

https://callyall.bandcamp.com/