An evening of European collaborations with the Anglo/Austrian Barcode Quartet launching their CD 'You're It' and London-based cellist Hannah Marshall performing a duo with Spanish pianist Josep-Maria Balanya.
Barcode Quartet
Annette Giesriegl (A) voice and electronics
Alison Blunt (UK) violin
Elisabeth Harnik (A) piano
Josef Klammer (A) drums and electronics
Barcode Quartet started life in Alpenglow, a festival collaboration in 2010/11 that took place in both London and Graz between improvising musicians in Austria and the UK. A diversity of approach and character forms Barcode Quartet, the collision of these in performance creates the score.
George Haslam SLAM Productions: “Recorded live at Kunsthaltestelle Streckhammerhaus, Frohnleiten, Austria, July 1st, 2011 this CD is an outstanding record of the musical creativeness Barcode Quartet produces onstage.
Annette Giesriegl is a dynamic, exciting and creative vocalist who is based in Graz/Austria and works in the field of jazz and improvised music. Her studies of overtone singing, throat singing, Indian music with an emphasis on Indian vocal techniques, the use of electronics and other extended vocal techniques give line to the textural play of piano, violin and drums.
London based musician Alison Blunt has consuming interests in making music in the moment and in interdisciplinary explorations. Elisabeth Harnik is an accomplished classical pianist and composer based in the County of Styria/Austria who ́s consistently proved that academic training is no impediment to spontaneity.
Harnik and Blunt - both representing the generation of improvisers who didn ́t come to the discipline via jazz - work within an electro-acoustic inspired sound-world, using unique preparations and extended techniques. Graz based musician and media artist Josef Klammer has worked continuously developing his instruments and sound since the middle of the 80 ́s. His drums and subtle electronics bring expressive punctuation and a huge range of colour, providing the musical glue to the ensemble.”
