SPACE IS THE PLACE: Made to Break + Linus & Økland/Van Heertum

Tuesday, October 18, 20:30, entrance €11 / CvA €8

MADE TO BREAK
MADE TO BREAK is improviser/composer Ken Vandermark’s newest ensemble and his most radical.  Combining elements of his interest and experience with the music of Ethiopia and the Ex, alongside the New Music ideas of John Cage and Morton Feldman, and mixing these with his perspective toward jazz and improvised music history, he has devised a compositional framework for the band that can be restructured for every performance and which deals with melody, sound, and rhythm in a completely unique way.  This creative system gives the music of MADE TO BREAK an almost unprecedented flexibility and immediacy.  The instrumentation of the quartet (drums, electric bass, electronics, and reeds) has given Vandermark an amazing palette of sounds to explore with each composition, but it is the individuals involved (with Tim Daisy, Christof Kurzmann, Jasper Stadhouders), and their diverse approaches to improvisation, that give the ensemble such a dynamic and spontaneous energy.

Tim Daisy drums | Christof Kurzmann electronics [lloopp] | Jasper Stadhouders bass | Ken Vandermark reeds

LINUS + ØKLAND/VAN HEERTUM
The music of Linus does not have a fixed trajectory which stifles the imagination. Nor does the duo engage in obvious grandeur or cheap effects. On the contrary, the music is sketched, patiently and with delicate shades of grey, measured and restrained, free from crude interventions and abrupt outbursts. Coherence and freedom are central. The music is cinematic without transparently clinging to images. Instead, it tickles the imagination with its combination of mystery and familiarity, beauty and a little confusion. It both challenges and comforts.

Ruben Machtelinckx acoustic baritone guitar, banjo | Thomas Jillings tenor & C-melody saxophone, alto clarinet, synth | Nils Økland hardanger fiddle | Niels Van Heertum euphonium, trumpet