Q3A with Thomas Ankersmit
Brueder Selke are delighted to share the stage with Thomas Ankersmit:
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician based in Berlin, and one of the world’s few experts on the Serge Modular synthesizer.
His live performances - which range from Berghain to Tate Modern to experimental music festivals worldwide - are marked by a combination of intricate sonic detail and raw electric power, and an extremely physical and spatial experience of sound. Ankersmit collaborates with Phill Niblock and Valerio Tricoli, and his music is released on the Touch and PAN labels, with a new solo album forthcoming early 2018.
Next year, Ankersmit will be touring with new material exploring infrasound and large resonant buildings, Maryanne Amacher’s research on otoacoustic emissions, and the 50th anniversary - and first English translation - of Pierre Schaeffer’s "Treatise on Musical Objects", commissioned by GRM in Paris.
Also, Phill Niblock and Ankersmit will be celebrating 50 years of Niblock’s work - and his 85th birthday - with a new AV program of electronic music created together.
"Ankersmit constructs a musical world that feels alive and capable of going anywhere, and yet also manages to give the music a strong sense of structured purpose, a degree of compositional control unusual in this area of live performance. It is the fine balance between the sense of chaos that threatens to pull everything apart and the controlled formation of the music into clearly defined sections of differing intensities that raises the work above that of so many of Ankersmit’s contemporaries.” - Richard Pinnell, The Wire
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