TREATISE, Gigs and more

On Tuesday the 23rd of Jan I had a concert at Sound of Mu here in Oslo with a fantastic saxophone player from China: Li Tie Qiao and with Alex Gunia (Germany) on Guitars and electronics We performed a selection I did from the piece TREATISE by composer Cornelius Cardew.
originally a 193 pages long Graphic score. We performed the pages 1-3 and 67-74. and the instrumentation was:
me on Bass,gongs,cymbals,radio and electronics. Tie qiao on Alto & Tenor saxophone and flutes. and Alex Gunia, Extended guitar and electronics.And we projected the score pages on to the wall,so that the audience also was invited to interpret what they saw and heard.
I got the score some time ago,and thought it would be cool to perform this some day, and finally it happened as I got the chance to perform it together with Alex and Tieqiao.
About the piece: The score is freely interpreted and all the symbols and graphics are to interpreted according to each performers creative instincts, Cardew based his concept behind this piece on the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgensteins ideas about the philosphy of logic in the book "Tractatus" ( (hence the name TREATISE) Wittgenstein ideas in Tractatus is in short: It is in the language, the limits of thought is drawn and how the forms revealed by logic are embedded in the world of facts and, therefore, in the language that we use to describe it. Cardew applied this idea into a compositional and performing practise and he started to work on this in 1963 finished the piece in 1967.
some photos from the performance (photos by Kathinka)

apple releases iphone

Apple just released their multi touch capable device witch includes the OSX operating system,
http://www.apple.com/iphone
Now thats interesting for those of us that are performing and composing music, The question is: Can it be used as a multi touch controller? for example controlling sotfware wireless with OSC? like the Lemur from Jazzmutant I guess that question will be answered in a near future. I am not sure at this moment how advanced the Apple version of a multi touch technology is. At this moment of writing is not for sale yet according to Apples website.

some photos from the Gunia//Evensen//Tveit gig at Stadtgarten, Köln

pd conception in Feldkirch, Austria
photos by Lucas Dietrich-www.ilabori.com

and another one from a Liechtenstein paper

A review(TAS)from the Pd Conception gig at the Saumarkt,Feldkirch,Austria

2007

So now it is 2007, And the tour with Gunia//Evensen//Tveit in Germany went really well, in addition to playing concerts, we did some recording both live in Stadtgarten,Cologne and in a studio in Cologne.
Also did a concert in Feldkirch,Austria with Pd Conception, which also went really great.
Upcoming gigs with Gunia//Evensen//Tveit in mid Jan. at Sound of Mu and Spasibar,Oslo,Norway.
And there will be a gig the 1st of April at the Klangfest 07 in Triesen,Liechtenstein with Pd Conception.
I also have a nice project with singer EA composer Gyrid Kaldestad which we have to work more on,
we already did some rehearsels and looking foward to developing this concept we have, with bass, electronics and voice.