[Microsound-announce] Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells Live Dates November

[Jair-Rohm Wells]

 Improvising electric bassist Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells will be performing live in Germany during the month of November. He will be appearing in duo, trio and solo settings.

American improvising electric upright bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells from the trio Decision Dream will perform as a featured artist at selected venues in Germany during the month of November. Starting with November 25th, he will appear in trio with painter Marcus Heesch and live electronics wizard Knut Aufermann at Cafe Galerie Grün in Bremen. The evening's set will consist of Parker Wells improvising electronically manipulated soundscapes as Heesch crafts his trademark lively canvas creations in egg tempera. Parts of this will be captured and further manipulated by Aufermann. The audience will witness the production of two works of art, one audio one visual which are wholly interactive. 

Heesch and Parker Wells will perform in Hamburg at Dada de Nada on Sunday the 27th of November. In the immortal words of the curators of Dada de Nada: "Dada de Nada ist: KEIN CLUB, KEIN SALON, KEINE LOUNGE, KEINE PENSION, sondern einfach und grundsätzlich zuständig für: Restkulturrecycling. Literatur. Film. Experimente." Be there or be square. 

December 1st finds the duo at Berlin's Stralau 68 joined by Sarah Washington who builds and plays home-made electronic devices with a number of groups and duos, including the international improvising group Responge. She is closely involved with the London based radiostation Resonance FM. 

On November 28th Jair-Rohm Paker Wells will appear at the Forum for Electronic Music in Frankfurt, Germany (Tanzhaus West, Gutleutstr. 294, 60327 Frankfurt am Main). Together with live electronics improvisor Tobias Schmitt, evolving soundscapes and drones will be conjured and molded for what promises to be an inspiring set of sonic explorations by two of the scenes most original voices. 

Jair-Rohm Parker Wells:
an improvising musician based in Stockholm, Sweden. Curator of the MEETING series of festivals and developer of Loopadelica, a method of improvising with looping devices. Bassist with the improvising trio Decision Dream. 

American bassist, composer, programmer, conceptualist and record producer Jair-Rohm Parker Wells has been a resident of Stockholm, Sweden since 1985, he is widely recognized as a highly individual voice on the electric bass guitar, Ashbory bass, Fichter electric double bass and acoustic bass guitar, he has also distinguished himself as a programmer and synthesist developing with Max/MSP,Csound and Java. As a record producer and composer he has collaborated with many of the more prominent names in the international art world such as Peter Kihlgård, Machine Gun, Lydia Grey, Johannes Bergmark, Daniel Carter, Magnus Alexanderson,Tony Bianco, Elliott Sharpe, Olaf Rupp and the legendary Finnish band Kra.

Marcus Heesch:
1964    born in Hamburg, Germany
1980    drum lessons
1983    guitar, organ, first artworks - oil-painting, postmodern furniture
1987    starting with eggtempera
study trip to Catalunya, Spain
1988    study trip to the Pyrenees, France
1989    study trip to Médoc, France
diploma in graphic arts
1991    bass, improvisation sessions - then giving up for professional painting
atelier in Bremen
1992    Art Partout - painting in eggtempera, influenced by action-painting and luminograms
1993    - transfering to oil-painting (in traditional combination with eggtempera)
1994    - transforming to representational motifs
1995    rediscovering traditional materials for painting based on hemp
1996    atelier in Hamburg
1997    atelier in Berlin

Knut Aufermann:
studied audio engineering at the SAE Technology College in London, including recording of several free improvising groups (Morphogenesis, Caroline Kraabel + John Edwards).

His ‘instrument’ is a combination of piezo-pick-ups mounted on a glove and live electronics, consisting of a multi-fx board and a live sampler. Wearing all of it on his body, he moves around exploring the environment by touching things and processing their sound. Movement becomes an integral part of his site-specific performance.

Knut moved to England in early 1998 and since then:
he has contributed to the production of CD Nocturnal Coincidence with Dennis Austin (percussion) and Grahame Wright (saxophone) including playing (guitar, live electronics), recording, mixing, mastering and cover design

he has worked for radio station RESONANCE FM (live broadcast engineering and production of ID material) and NOW FM as part of NOW’98 festival in Nottingham (as radio artist in collaboration with performance artist Stephen Harding for the live radio performance Fresh Sounds of Today)

he has performed with Maggie Nicols in Glastonbury as well as at the Environmental Noise Jam at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)

he has participated as singer in the performance of Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning -Paragraph 7 led by Michael Parsons at Queen Elizabeth hall (London) as part of London Musicians’ Collective Festival

he has performed solo at the Contextrophe Night at the Arthaus (Lewisham, London) and has created and conducted a piece for London Skyscraper Orchestra based on smell triggering.

Tobias Schmitt:
born on the 50th anniversary of Erik Satie's death in Frankfurt/Main. He studied art-history and computer sciences and worked as a programmer, mason, office cleaner, undertaker, web designer etc.

Activities
Audio: recordings (releases on various labels), concerts (Europe and North America), remixes, production, sound-installations, sound-design, djing. Solo activities as Suspicion Breeds Confidence; collaborations see below. Visual: painting, collages, digital image editing, photography, video, homepage/software interface design and conception. Sometimes credited to the alter ego tot mischstab. Other: programming (artistic and commercial projects), label work (currently discontinued), event organisation (Abteilung für Musikerziehung, e-lab; etwas fehlt (discontinued); Forum für Experimentalelektronik; Institut für kognitive Dissonanz (discontinued) (all in Frankfurt), hosting radio show (Freundschaft at Radio X, Frankfurt).

Collaborators/other projects
Oliver Augst, Marc Behrens, Guido Braun, Tomislav Bucalic, Alexander Dames (as Sorry Entertainment) Ben Didier, Carsten Fietz, Manuel Kirchner, Cordell Klier (as The Unstable Domestic Elite), Gregor Knüppel, Aidan Mark (as Sessiz), Oliver Martinovic (as le miel qui siffle), Jozka Neduchal (as Chloé Gallimard (formerly as Testify of Eternity)), Lasse-Marc Riek (as Waldlust), Sarah Peebles, Günter Schroth/Claus van Bebber (as Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fruchttanz und artverwandte Orgien), Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, with changing line-up (as the Gameboy Orchester) and several one-offs.

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