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Julian Gosper & Jeffrey Allport
[2000 Tic.Toc]
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Julian Gosper (Vancouver): samplers
Jeffrey Allport (Victoria): improvised percussion
Jeffrey Allport
"The spontaneity of European improvised music, the philosophies of modern composers such as John Cage and lancu Dumitrescu, and the textures found in "musique concrete" are the primary influences of the music which I create. The music is unconfined, and dynamic. Recent improvisational work has focused on the minute and colourful sounds extracted from various instruments and objects. Amplified through the use of contact microphones, the instrument or object becomes a palette of sound from which to work. Incorporated with incidental sounds and silence, the result is a spontaneous music which is distinctive and atypical of common improvisational genres."
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Selected Performances
19 January 1998, Big Apple, Kobe, Japan
-solo improvisation/duo with Uchihashi Kasuhisa
20 January 1998, Barton Hall, Kobe, Japan
-group improvisation with Kinoshita Kasushige and Jeff Bell
6 June 1998, Taku Taku, Kyoto, Japan
-group improvisation with Yamamoto Seichi, Tsuyama Atsushi, and Jeff Bell
10/11 October, Festival Beyond Innocence, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan
-group improvisation with Tsunoda Tsuguto and Kikuchi Naruyoshi
7 July 1997, Osaka Zokei Centre, Osaka, Japan
-group improvisation with Yamamoto Kosei and Jeff Bell as accompaniment to Butoh dance performance by Mushimaru.
Julian Gosper
"My collaborator, Jeffrey Allport, and I have performed improvised music for numerous years in many different contexts and locations. Currently, we are focusing on improvisation involving real-time sampling of live source material. Jeff's percussion is delicate and timbrally sensitive which allows me to gradually sample, process, and mutate subtle variations to great effect. The result is a dialogue of interdependence - my sampler is a blank slate until Jeff speaks and conversely, Jeff cannot interact until I have absorbed and processed his material. At times this collage of sound is quite fluid and sonorous, at other times staccato - reminiscent of speech patterns - but the result is always dynamic and captivating."
Selected Recordings:
- 1995 Uberjazz Quartet, s/t CD.
- 1999 Dixie's Death Pool, Beauty Sleep, Dimbulb Records
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