TOPO2 Pivot // Masing // Flinn/Kim/Voccia

PIVOT
Liz Albee - trumpet
Chris Heenan - contrabass clarinet

Elo Masing - violin, voice, electronics

Stephen Flinn - percussion
Jung-Jae Kim - saxophone
Andreas Voccia - synthesizer

Pivot is Liz Albee and Chris Heenan.
a language of spontaneous repetitions that brush up against an autistic world.
a contrabass clarinet and a trumpet hashing out a bad marriage.
a strategy of recursive cycles and quick fixes.
an acoustic duo of discrete players creating a unitized system.
a three-legged horse in a two-legged race.
https://www.chrisheenan.com/PIVOT

Elo Masing is a composer/free improviser/sound artist of Estonian origin, currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her music has been performed internationally by renowned soloists and ensembles, such as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (EE), Ensemble L'Itinéraire (FR), Ensemble Adapter (DE), Ensemble Fractales (BE), Ensemble mmm... (Japan), Ensemble Synaesthesis (LT), Ian Pace (UK), James Aylward (AU/NL), and many others, and has appeared on labels such as Squeaky Kate, squib-box, CRAM, Creative Sources, and 577 Records. In 2015, she was awarded a PhD from the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she explored the physicality of instrumental performance in chamber music, and with support from the Academy, received private tuition from Rebecca Saunders in Berlin.
https://www.helilooja.ee/en/members/elo-masing/

Stephen Flinn is a composer, performer, and improviser who performs throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States. As well as being an accomplished percussionist, he works with unusual sound sources, including self made instruments and found objects. Stephen is based in Berlin.
https://www.stephenflinn.net/

Jung-Jae Kim is a South Korean saxophonist, composer, and improviser based in Berlin free/avant-garde/experimental music scene.
Push the boundaries of sonic aesthetics and sound definitions, taking a transdisciplinary approach to explore new possibilities and delve into human senses and communication through free improvisation.  
https://ejjemusic.bandcamp.com/

Andreas Voccia is a musician and video artist based in Berlin. Originally a trained jazz guitar player, he now works with a modular synthesizer to implement compositional practices from contemporary classical music in an improvisational and responsive environment. In his music he looks into abstract principles like movement, pattern, space, time, and how everything is interwoven with each other through resonance processes, in order to approach the fundamental question of the nature/essence of Reality. His main interest is to find in all the complex systems a poetic view which aims to draw out the tension betweeen the inside and the outside.
http://www.andreasvoccia.de


The TOPO series is curated by Chris Heenan and Andreas Voccia.