Our occasional improvised music series has a special Tuesday iteration in October. We welcome the wonderful Jason Kahn from Switzerland to grace our ears with a solo, and a trio performance.
••• JASON KAHN •••
solo electronics
••• JASON KAHN / JIM DENLEY / LAURA ALTMAN •••
trio of winds, vocals, electronics
Doors at 7:15pm
Entry by donation: $15 concession /$20 full
(or what you can afford - you may also give more if you wish and are in a position to do so. Of course, you can also support the artists by buying their music or spreading the word about the show!)
It's a privilege to host these creative events by the Goolay'yari (Cooks River). We pay respects to the traditional custodians of this Country, the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation, and acknowledge that this land was never ceded.
Jason Kahn's tour has been kindly supported by the Swiss Arts Council / Prohelvetia.
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Jason Kahn
Born 1960 in New York, Jason Kahn is an artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Zürich.
Though having played in Australia numerous times since the mid-1990's, this will be Kahn's first visit back to the country since 2018. In the past he has worked with many Australian artists, including Dave Brown, Tony Buck, Mike Majowski, Rishin Singh, Adam Sussmann, Clayton Thomas, Aemon Webb, Ben Byrne, Tim Catlin, Jim Denley, Rob Curgenven, Carolyn Connors, Monika Brooks, Richard Johnson, Chris Abrahams, Nick Ashwood and Matt Earle. Kahn has also appeared at many Australian music festivals over the years, including Liquid Architecture, Avantwhatever, Sound Out, now NOW, Electrofringe, Open Frame and the Adelaide Festival.
On this tour Kahn will be working with electronics, using a chaotic feedback system that places his body in the circuit flow. Grabbing the open leads of a modular synthesizer with his hands makes and breaks circuits, causing the synthesizer to overload or momentarily collapse. Various contact microphones, electromagnetic inductors and the synthesizer's own output via a mixing board are used to modulate the parameters of the synthesizer. This results in a very dynamic system, often difficult to control, but allowing great expressivity—much like any acoustic instrument, but electronic.
Live radio captures during the concert and field recordings made beforehand in the performance space and its environs provide further working material for each concert. In the end, these performances are essentially site-specific works, improvising with the space at hand, both in the sense of its physicality and the sounds found there. Every performance is different, not only because the music is improvised but also because the source material used pertains directly to each space being played in.
Homepage:
http://jasonkahn.net
Newest CD:
https://awavepress.bandcamp.com/album/lacunae
Concert video:
https://vimeo.com/779873019
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/jasonkahn
Bandcamp:
https://jasonkahn.bandcamp.com
Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/jasonkahn
Discogs:
https://discogs.com/artist/72922-Jason-Kahn