Ikue Mori has forged her own highly sensitive signature style as an improvising musician, using drum machines in the 80s and the laptop computer since 2000. Current working groups include ³Mephista² with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O¹Rourke, duo project with Zeena Parkins, Trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton. She has worked with Dave Douglas's ³Witness² "Freakin" ensemble and John Zorn's Electric Masada.
Hans Tammen works with a wide collection of mechanical devices on his "endangered" guitars, and uses an interactive software of his own design to rework his sounds in realtime. In a mix of formal awareness and improvisation he produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions and quiet atmospheres.
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