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Some Collaborations

John Butcher


Akio Suzuki | Mark Sanders | Carlos Zingao & Günter Muller | Bill Hsu | Cortet | Otomo Yoshihide

Akio Suzuki
Butcher and Suzuki
© Osamu Enomoto
Strange Fruit, Oiso, Japan: November 2002.
John Butcher and Akio Suzuki first played in duo at Strange Fruit, at the invitation of Hisashi Terauchi,
in the coastal Japanese town of Oiso in 2002.
John Butcher & Akio Suzuki
© garrard martin
Smoo Cave, Durness, Scotland: 2006.
In 2006 Arika (Barry Esson & Bryony McIntyre) invited them for their RESONANT SPACES tour of 6 unusual playing spaces in Scotland and the Orkneys.
Each nigh the performed solo - and then came together for a short duo.
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Mark Sanders
Mark Sanders
© Russ Escritt
The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham: October 2009.
Sanders' and Butcher's paths have been crossing for almost 20 years, but with comparatively little playing together.
At last this has been corrected with some duo concerts, one of which has been released on the recent Treader Duos.

treader duos
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Treader Duos

Recorded in February 2008 in concert in London, England.

1 JOHN BUTCHER: tenor or soprano saxophone
MARK SANDERS: drums

2 ALEX WARD: clarinet
ROGER TURNER: drums

3 JOHN TCHICAI: tenor saxophone or bass clarinet
TONY MARSH: drums



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Butcher / Muller / Zingaro
Butcher / Muller / Zingaro
© Nuno Martins, 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
Bill Hsu
© Damir Kafka.
Kraakgeluiden, Amsterdam, Holland: 2004.
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
cortet
© cor fuhler
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

Otomo Yoshihide
otomo
© elena márquez - barcelona feb 2010

Butcher and Otomo have played five times in duo.
Twice in Japan (2002 and 2004) and once at Cafe Oto in London (2009).
In February 2010 they met for two Spanish concerts; in Madrid and Barcelona.

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