[NewMusicEvents] 4/25: duo pantoMorf (from Sweden) @ CNMAT

[Amy X Neuburg]

My friend Palle is an extraordinary electronics composer from Sweden. 
I've not yet heard his improv project with Per but am looking forward 
to this concert. Hope to see some of you there.
-- Amy

duo pantoMorf
Palle Dahlstedt and Per Anders Nilsson, electronics

Wednesday April 25, 8:00 PM
CNMAT
1750 Arch St, Berkeley
$10 general, $5 students/seniors

"duo pantoMorf play electronic free improv. That is, we perform 
improvised electronic music as musicians, NOT looking like we check 
our email on stage. Our main rule is: if we take our hands away, the 
instruments go quiet. We use no fancy sensors or esoteric gestural 
controllers, but very basic stuff that we know well how to play. But 
we develop new ways of playing them, and -- most important -- new 
ways of mapping them to sound, using carefully designed sound engines 
that allows fingertip control, while retaining a vast sonic 
potential. Every sound relates to and comes directly from a physical 
gesture by the player, which makes a huge difference for the 
audience. There are no ongoing pre-programmed processes, and all is 
free improvisation, mostly non-beat based. If there is a beat, it is 
played by us. The main question is: How can we explore and control 
complex electronic sound spaces in improvisation, retaining the 
millisecond interaction that is taken for granted in acoustic 
improvisation, but has somehow got lost in electronic music?"

More at http://onsight.id.gu.se/~palle/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Works.DuoPantoMorf