The Smaller Brethren
© reinhard sommer - nickelsdorf, austria
Steve Beresford - John Butcher - Paul Lovens
Listen ∇ live in graz
A new trio with Steve Beresford and Paul Lovens formed to play at the 2002 Musikprotokoll in Graz, and regrouped for the 2005 Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen.
Since then they have performed with Christian Marclay's video Screen Play at the 2006 Kill Your Timid Notion in Dundee, and will do so again in May 2007 in Paris.
"Screen Play" invites the live performers to provide aural correlatives to what they're watching. Percussionist Paul Lovens sometimes cheerfully did just that, but with the kind of surreal slippage we had in Bruszewski's films.
Loven's two companions, saxophonist John Butcher and soundman Steve Beresford, opted for a different course. Beresford laid in colour washes, mattes and occasional faux Bernard Herrmann effects, while Butcher took his horns on his now familiar, but still challenging long walk out past idiom.
Truly great stuff.
Brian Morton - WIRE.