SEYMOUR WRIGHT / SEBASTIAN LEXER
Sebastian Lexer and Seymour Wright have been actively involved in the London improvising scene as musicians and promoters over the past 9 years. Both players had met at Eddie Prévost's improvisation workshop in autumn 1999 and since been collaborating within several projects involving a wide range of musicians, including the ensemble 9!, a quintet with Jamie Coleman, Ross Lambert and John Lely, and collaborations with various musicians from the international music scene. In late 2006 a more focused approach was emerging as a duo.
Sebastian Lexer
A fascination in contingency of sound has been the basis for Sebastian's developments in extended piano techniques and a further exploration of modified sonorities derived from the acoustic piano using real-time computer processes. The resulting performance system piano+ has equally developed from a persistent interest in free improvisation and contemporary experimental music. The piano studies and continuing collaborations with John Tilbury and the association to Eddie Prévost's improvisation workshop were influential to the development of his musical style: a musical journey through the spaces "in between", the relationship to the instrument, sonorities and textures, musical processes, technology and most importantly: fellow musicians. Having been active in the London as a performer and promoter of free improvised music over the past 9 years, numerous collaborations have emerged resulting in concerts and radio broadcasts in the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, and Canada.
Seymour Wright
A saxophone player who plays saxophone music about the saxophone - music, history and technique – actual and potential, Seymour has recently described his playing as:
enquiry into saxophonic actuality, through the potential inherent in, for instance, imagination, re-proportion, inversion, transformation, juxtaposition, construction, deconstruction, reconstruction, permutation, truncation and extension. (from 'Acts of potential: learning future music' 2008).
He grew up surrounded by jazz and improvised music and has for the last ten years been a regular participant in Eddie Prévost's weekly workshop and currently plays in a range of groups primarily with close musical associates Jamie Coleman, Ross Lambert, John Lely, Sebastian Lexer and Eddie Prévost. His collaborative music is rooted in an interest in learning future music.
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