CHRIST CHURCH - ST. JAMES
This 16mm film, by the Canadian Stephen Broomer, can be watched online or hired for projection. It uses the music "A short time to sing" from my CD The Geometry of Sentiment.In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti.
This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky.
NEWS FROM THE SHED
tokafi have published a piece - Missing Links & Emerging Structures looking again at the 1989 recording by this quintet with Lovens, Malfatti, Russell and Durrant.
The author is Tobias Fischer.
THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL
Freedom and Sound - This time it's personal.
My essay, first published in the book book "Aspekte der Freien Improvisation in der Musik", is now available in French translation.
Either online or as a booklet along with a 12 page A-Z on various aspects of my work (written by Guillaume Belhomme and Guillaume Tarche) of le son du grisli.
The original English version is at Point of Departure.
BUTCHER - DURRANT - RUSSELL
I've been digitising a few old VHS tapes - which has led to my first You Tube posting.
A video clip form our 1992 Leverkusen concert, which formed most of the Concert Moves CD.
Plume
Two trios, recorded in concert - London 2007 & 2011.
Tony Buck: drums and percussion
John Butcher: saxophones
Magda Mayas: piano
Burkhard Stangl: guitar
Dusted
Winter Gardens - Vinyl LP
Recorded in concert - London and Milwaukee 2011.
John Butcher: saxophones (acoustic and feedback)
all about jazz | still single
Bell Trove Spools
Released on Northern Spy
Tenor solos: Dan Flavin Gallery, Houston - 2010
Soprano solos: Issue Project Room, Brooklyn - 2011
Cover: Philip Marshall
tiny mix tapes | burning ambulance | all about jazz (1) | London Jazz | all about jazz (2)
freq
Live concert recording: London, 2010.
Matthew Shipp: piano
John Butcher: saxophones
burning ambulance | The Watchful Ear | improv sphere | all about jazz | Dalston Sound
Point of Departure
The White Spot
Sonarchy radio recording: Seattle, 2008.
John Butcher: saxophones
Torsten Muller: contrabass
Dylan van der Schyff: drums.
Point of Departure | squid's ear
Trio with Okkyung Lee | John Edwards
Playing to a film by Sylvian George.
:: 15 MAY - BRUSSELS.
Boazar Cinema, Centre for fine Arts, 23 Rue Ravenstein, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Common Objects with Rhodri Davies, Lee Patterson, Angharad Davies
:: 25 MAY - DURHAM.
Durham University, Durham.
Mark Sanders duo
:: 1 JUNE - HASSELT.
kunsten centrum, Burgemester Bollenstraat 54, Hasselt, Belgium.
Christian Marclay's Everyday
a video work with live music by Mark Sanders, Butcher, Marclay, Steve Beresford and Alan Tomlinson.
:: 8 JUNE - VIENNA.
wiener festwochen, Hall E, Museumsplatz, Vienna, Austria.
Mark Sanders duo
:: 10 JUNE - PARIS.
Live recording for Radio France
Solo and duo with Andy Moor
:: 16 JUNE - MONTREAL.
Suoni per il Popolo, Casa Del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent, Montreal, Canada.
Workshop 12:00PM
:: 17 JUNE - MONTREAL.
Suoni per il Popolo, La Sala Rosas, 4848 St. Laurent, Montreal, Canada.
4-tet with Thurston Moore, John Edwards, Steve Noble.
:: 19 JUNE - LONDON.
Meltdown, Purcell Room, South Bank,
Christian Marclay's Everyday
a video work with live music by Mark Sanders, Butcher, Marclay, Steve Beresford and Alan Tomlinson.
:: 20 JUNE - AMSTERDAM.
Holland Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, Holland.