John Butcher - some collaborations

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Some Collaborations

John Butcher

Toshimaru Nakamura :: Akio Suzuki :: Mark Sanders :: Carlos Zingao &: Günter Muller :: Bill Hsu :: Cortet
Michael Zerang & Fred Lonberg-Holm

Toshimaru Nakamura

In 2002 Hisashi Terauchi invited John Butcher for his first visit to Japan.
The tour was partly solo and partly with Japanese musicians suggested by Hisashi.

A duo concert with Nakamura was their first encouter and makes up half of the CD Cavern with Nightlife.
A second chance to play together again occured in 2004, at Plan B in Tokyo.

In 2008 The duo played the First Last LMC Festival in London, and recorded the next day for a forthcoming CD.

Cavern with Nightlife

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Two concerts, recorded in Japan in 2002. Out on Weight of Wax.

2nd half: Duo with Toshimaru Nakimura (no-input mixing desk).
1st half: Solo inside the Oya Stone mountain.

read :: Dusted

Akio Suzuki

Also at the invitation of Hisashi Terauchi, John Butcher and Akio Suzuki first played in duo at Strange Fruit, in the coastal Japanese town of Oiso in 2002.

In 2006 Arika (Barry Esson & Bryony McIntyre) invited them for their RESONANT SPACES tour of Scotland and the Orkneys.

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Mark Sanders

Sanders' and Butcher's paths have been crossing for almost 20 years, but with comparatively little playing together.
At last this is corrected with some duo concerts.

Filmaker Helen Petts has posted videos from last February's concert at St. Giles.

John Butcher & Mark Sanders - Part 1 :: Part 2

There are many other interesting YouTube videos by Helen Petts here.

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Butcher / Muller / Zingaro

CCB, Lisbon: July 2008.

Butcher and Zingaro first played in duo, in Oporto over 10 years ago - but re-aquainted in London in 2006 with Günter Muller and Martin Tetrault.
The trio pictured played in Lisbon in July 2008.

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Bill Hsu

Around 1996 Bill Hsu invited John Butcher to the USA for the first time, and organised the release of London and Cologne on Gino Robair's Rastascan label.

Bill is a musician who builds software and works with electronics in performance. He is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Computer Science at San Francisco State University.
In 2003/4 he and Butcher worked at Steim and Kraakgeluiden on developing software for timbre recognition within Butcher's playing styles. This has now evolved into a performance duo. In 2006 they spent a week at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe - undertaking further research and giving a concert.

visit :: Bill Hsu
read :: Using timbre in a computer-based improvisation system (pdf download).

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Cortet

Thomas Lehn - Rhodri Davies - Cor Fuhler - John Butcher

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Cor Fuhler

In 2003, Amsterdam based pianist Cor Fuhler invited the quartet to rehearse at his studio.
They gave their first concert at the 2004 dOeK Festival in the Bimhuis and have since played Musique Action in Vandouevre.
Many of Fuhler's inventions for exciting the piano strings directly are in evidence.

HHHH

Recorded at The Bimhuis, Amsterdam - 2004.
Cover artwork by Isabelle Vigier.

full info :: Unsounds

read :: Paris Transatlantic :: allmusic

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Michael Zerang & Fred Lonberg-Holm

John Butcher first played, seperately, with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and percussionist Michael Zerang (at 11am at WNUR) in Chicago in 1997. These duos are on Music on Seven Occasions released by Meniscus.
The trio formed a couple of years later, recorded Tincture and played in Chicago, Paris and Toronto.

read :: Chicago Tribune

visit :: Michael Zerang :: Fred Longerg-Holm

Tincture

Recorded at Airwave Studios, Chicago: 2001

full info :: Musica Genera

read :: Cadence

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