About:
Terje Evensen - Percussion/drums
Anders Tveit - Live Electronics
pd conception is a free improvisational electro-acoustic trio exploring new languages in contemporary music with their strong focus on phrasing, form and timbre.
pd conception started up in London in 2001, with founding members Liechtenstein pianist Ingvo Clauder and Norwegian drummer Terje Evensen. They shared a common concept and vision of improvised music, and after playing gigs around London, they headed into a studio in 2002 to record nine entirely improvised pieces in one singular take. Following this, they hooked up with Anders Tveit (Norway), an Electro Acoustic music composer and improviser. They asked him to re-compose the nine improvisations using only the recorded material, thus creating nine new pieces. This became their debut double album aptly titled phrased silence, and released in 2004 on the contemporary music label fonorum. The double album got great reviews in magazines such as The Wire (6/05) and Jazzwise (2/05)
Their new album Mishka is perhaps even more organic, and sensuous than its predecessor "phrased silence". The main asset of these astonishing albums is, naturally, the playing and musical interweaving between these outstanding musicians. Never focusing on personal brilliance, their sound is melted together into one large instrument, creating a resonance that is uniquely theirs. They label their sound as organic unity, always staying true to a shared philosophy of art and music. They are conscious about the roles each instrument/instrumentalist must fill, but they are equally willing to swap roles if it is beneficial to the overall feel and sound of the piece they are working with. Their main goal is to focus on form and to make good improvised music ñ grand and epic improvised music - free from the orthodox conventions one inevitably finds tagged onto every genre. There are no taboos in the world of pd conception. But there is certainly the presence of a well-developed vision.
This latest album is filled with totally free improvised music performed live at Ibsenhuset in Skien (Norway). It is also a concept album of sorts, leaving it all up to the imagination of the attentive listener to fill out the narrative contents cunningly suggested by evoking titles such as Mishka's Letter, The Hermaphrodite, and Icon. Mishka is scheduled for release in October 2006.
pd conception has performed in a variety of different venues in England, Austria
and Germany, and at festivals like: Henie Onstad Art Center 2004, Oslo;
Nattjazzen 2005,Bergen; Klangfest 2005 and 2007, Liechtenstein. And also at the Elektronische
Nacht 2006 der Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart.
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