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Attorneys General is the name of a sound art project run by Baltimore-based musician Matthew Byars in which he improvises with other musicians (on this occasion featuring Mark Sanders and Mark Hanslip) to generate utterly improvised sound with little advance guidance or preparation through an effects board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Previous collaborators include David Grubbs, Luke Stewart, Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux), Ian Williams (BATTLES), Zoh Amba, Susan Alcorn, and Alan Licht.
Support comes from Birmingham based ძიება 6 (search 6), pronounced 'dzieba', a technological reconstitution of the Georgian polyphonic choral tradition.
Mark Sanders is a drummer/percussionist who has played with many renowned improvising musicians. Work in 2024 included concerts with Wadada Leo Smith's ' Fire-Love Expanse' at Guimaraes and Huddersfield Festivals, in duo with Nicole Mitchell at Skopje Jazz Festival and concerts with Evan Parker, Joelle Leandre, John Butcher, a quartet featuring Shabaka Hutchings, Elaine Mitchener, Myra Melford, and Xhosa Cole.
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Tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip emerged in the mid-2000s as a key player on the London jazz scene, gigging nationally and internationally with groups including Outhouse, Nostalgia 77, Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet and Twelves, and has appeared on over 30 recordings on labels including Babel, F-iRE, Tru Thoughts, FMR and Tombed Visions. Now based in the north, he co-leads organ trio The Revival Room with keyboardist Adam Fairhall, plays in trio with laptop wizard Federico Reuben and drum legend Paul Hession, and is touring with his improvising group HTrio plus guest US trumpeter Nate Wooley. He is also engaged in doctoral practice-led research into generative systems for improvised music at York University.
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ძიება 6 (search 6) Using microtonal values derived by Sandro Shar, I retune a synthesiser patch to play through memories of Georgian folk songs. I improvise my place in a canon of tradition that is inseparable from my identity, but also part-constructed of nostalgia. Accompanied by eclectically sequenced samples of Georgian drumming, piano improvisation, and unstable live looping, ძიება 6 is an ongoing effort to chart and make tangible the live archive of my heritage.
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