AMSTERDAM MAY 21

ASTRAL COLONELS – KOLN 2011

DOTS

My years seem to alternate between touring years and writing years. This year is definitely a writing year.

First up is a trio for prepared piano, cello and quadraphonic electronics for Decibel in Perth. Afterwards I’m writing a violin duo for a duo who probably need no introduction, Richard Tognetti and Satu Vänskä from Sydney. Later in year I’m writing for Pinguins percussion trio, a newish group from Norway…

However most of my time will be spent thinking about an hour long piece for percussion sextet and 6 channel electronics for Synergy, mirroring the instrumentation from Xenakis’ second percussion sextet, Pléïades.

Pictured are Synergy Percussion’s set of Sixxen, the instrument especially designed for the work which each ensemble who want to perform it have to get built! You can read more about the genesis of the piece on Les Percussion Des Strasbourg’s website, who originally commissioned the work.

The piece should be ready sometime 2013.

THYMOLPHTHALEIN RECTIAL CENTRE SHOW ON ABC FM – APR 14

This Saturday night Thymolphthalein’s concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre from June 2011 will be broadcast on New Music Up Late.

Around the same time, we opened for Faust, and unfortunately no one recorded the gig. If anyone has a bootleg of the Forum gig, please get in touch!

Also broadcast is Flesh and Ghost for 12 percussionists from MONA FOMA 2011. Details here…

AP SPECIAL ON RADIO VALERIE

Colleague and pal Lloyd Honeybrook was kind enough to do a radio special on my work, featuring excerpts from the upcoming box set release. You can listen online or download as a podcast here.

BOX SET AVAILABLE SOON

PRESS RELEASE:

Throughout the last decade, the works of Anthony Pateras have been performed by some of the world’s leading ensembles and performers. He has collaborated with a broad array of contemporary artists including Han Bennink, eRikm, Christian Fennesz, Paul Lovens, Stephen O’Malley, The Necks and Mike Patton. He is also one half of the mind-blowing piano/drums avant-grind outfit known as PIVIXKI, and is founder of the Electro-Acoustic-Free-Concréte quintet THYMOLPHTHALEIN.

This 5-disc set covers many aspects of his musical output. Disc 1 features chamber and orchestral pieces, containing a string quartet, small ensemble works and a mammoth electric violin concerto with spatilized orchestra and quadraphonic electronics. Disc 2 is a re-issue of his widely performed Chasms for prepared piano, accompanied by a brand new piece to smash any cute-sy post-Cageian grooves right back into the emotronica abyss. Disc 3 features menacing pipe organ textures recorded on the largest instrument in the southern hemisphere. Disc 4 features two extended solo piano works captured live in the opulence of Sydney’s State Theatre, and Disc 5 features mind-bending works for solo and ensemble orchestral percussion.
 
As a self-contained box – handsomely packaged with foil text, satin ribbon and containing an informative, full-colour 16-page booklet with sketches and notes – this is an astonishing overview of one of Australia’s most unique, uncompromising and exciting composers. Usually releasing material on flagship labels Tzadik and Editions Mego, this is the first release on the composer’s own Immediata imprint.

Limited to 500 copies worldwide.

-FUSE



VOL. 1: CHAMBER & ORCHESTRAL

1. CRYSTALLINE (2010) for amplified string quartet [11:22]

Lachlan O’Donnell/Edwina George/Neil Thompson/Anna Orzech

2. BROKEN THEN FIXED THEN BROKEN (2009) for cello, bass clarinet & prepared piano [6:23]

Golden Fur

3. FRAGILE ABSOLUTE (2010) for winds, percussion, electronics & celeste [12:44]

ANAM Ensemble conducted by Anthony Pateras

4. LOST COMPASS (2011) for bass flute & percussion quartet [11:05]

Timothy Munro: bass flute & Early Warning System

5. IMMEDIATA (2010) for 6-string electric violin, quadraphonic electronics & spatialized orchestra [19:21]

Richard Tognetti: 6-string electric violin
Anthony Pateras & Samuel Dunscombe: electronics
ANAM Orchestra conducted by Brett Dean



VOL. 2: PREPARED PIANO

1-3. CHASMS (2007) for prepared piano [42:28]

4. DELIRIOSO (2012) for prepared pianos [10:47]



VOL. 3: PIPE ORGAN & ELECTRONICS

1-8. ARCHITEXTURE (2011) for pipe organ & quadraphonic diffusion [40:08]

Byron Scullin: live mix and diffusion

9-11. KEEN UNKNOWN MATRIX (2009-2011) for electronics (8:10)



VOL 4: PIANO

1. BLOCK DON’T BLEED (2012) for piano [25:53]

2. BLEED DON’T BLOCK (2012) for piano [20:03]

Anthony Pateras: prepared piano/pipe organ/Doepfer A-100/piano



VOL 5: PERCUSSION

1-7. REFRACTIONS (2008) for percussion sextet [19:16]

Speak Percussion conducted by Eugene Ughetti

8-11. MUTANT THEATRE ACT 2 (2002) for solo percussion [17:47]

Vanessa Tomlinson

12. HYPNOGOGICS (2005) for microsounds, crotales & electronics [8:04]

Eugene Ughetti

13-23. MUTANT THEATRE ACT 3 (2008) for solo percussion [13:44]

Vanessa Tomlinson

24. FLESH & GHOST (2010/11) for 12 percussionists [13:31]

Speak Percussion conducted by Eugene Ughetti



Exclusively distributed in Australia by FUSE/TITLE. Distributed in Europe and Japan by Metamkine.

THYMOLPHTHALEIN & KAYFABE AT FESTIVAL SONORE BREST – MAY 11/12

SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY NICE STUFF

“Je vous apporte de temps en temps des ¦uvres expérimentales assez ardues de l’australien Anthony Pateras mais j’ai été assez surpris d’écouter quelques une de ses nouvelles compositions qui seront éditées en avril sur le label Mego, tout d’abord parce qu’on y trouve une instrumentation composée de percussions, de cordes et de cuivres et que l’on a presque l’impression d’entendre des musiques, je n’ose pas dire écrites, mais nous en sommes peut être pas loin. On est donc par contre assez loin des déchirements et des télescopages de son répertoire habituel, il y a même un titre très dancefloor et des compositions élégiaques presque classiques. Errors Of the Human Body présente une autre facette du talent indéniable de ce compositeur toujours surprenant.” (Eric Serva pour France Musique – Mars 2012).

Há ecos de There Will Be Blood (2007), a banda sonora que Jonny Greenwood (guitarrista dos Radiohead) compôs para o filme de Paul Thomas Anderson, ou de Meek’s Cutoff (2010), que Jeff Grace criou para o pós-western de Kelly Reichardt. Filmes e bandas sonoras que, por sua vez, remetiam para a memória de Days of Heaven (1978), por Terrence Malick e Ennio Morricone, respectivamente.[...} Após alguns discos que passaram mais ou menos despercebidos, inclusive uma edição na portuguesa Sirr (Chasms, 2007), que Errors of the Human Body (Editions Mego, 2012) obtenha a merecida atenção e consagre Pateras como um dos mais estimulantes compositores da actualidade - Gustavo Sampaio, Bodyspace.net

On débute ce mois par une bande originale de film – et laquelle, mes aïeux. Tourné par un certain Eron Sheean à l’Institut Max Planck de Dresde, ‘Errors Of The Human Body’ (Editions Mego) se suffit TRES largement à lui-même pour ses qualités musicales. Jouée par sept instrumentistes, dont le compositeur australien ANTHONY PANTERAS au piano (éventuellement préparé), à l’orgue et à l’électronique, l’oeuvre développe en vingt et une transitions une narration mélodique qui fait fi des seuls emplâtres ambient post-Tangerine Dream. Atteignant parfois le sublime dans sa quête tonale, Panteras et ses acolytes touchent également au but lorsqu’ils s’épreignent de Morton Feldman – tout en ne négligeant pas le Tuxedomoon lunaire de ‘A Ghost Opera’ (qu’ils emmènent du côté de György Ligeti). L’évidence est là, et s’il ne faut guère s’attendre à de grandes envolées expressives, le sens ultra-raffiné du détail impressionniste vu par l’homme de Down Under - dont c’est la première collaboration avec son compatriote de réalisateur - vaut des louanges par cents et par mille.  Mais oui, à ce point - Fabrice Vaonoverberg, RifRaf

Qui Pateras viene coaduivato da un ensemble di strumenti a fiato e a corda che espande la gamma espressiva della sua musica, riuscendo a far si che il suono sintetico delle sue tastiere si bilanci perfettamente con un orchestrazione dal respiro piu ampio. [...] Dall’incontro si genera un serie di brevi composizioni scure e inquietanti, virate nei colori glaciali del laboratorio d’analsi (Automatic 1) e perfette nel rappresentare gli aspetti piu bui della psicologia dei personaggi (Burton’s Syndrome), impeccabili nel l’equilibrare elementi acustici ed elettronica (Milk & Mice) o addirittura sorprendenti in alcuni passaggi in cui le rimiche provocano vertigini da dancehall (XIJ). – Massimilano Busti, BlowUp

Though the album covers a diverse array of aural territories, never once does its shifting back and forth between styles come off as dizzying. I mean, few artists could ever make the jump from the plangent synths, 16-bit electronics, and frenetic gangs of percussionists of ‘XIJ’ to the exotic oboes, staccato trumpets, and lulling vibraphones of ‘Humans & Mice’ with such ease. Pateras, with an unparalleled stylistic maturity and engaging artistry, melds the film’s myriad of settings, emotions, and concepts into one hour-long listening ride. - Lee Vincent, Cyclic Defrost

PERCUSSION WORKS IN BASEL – MAY 4

Symphony Orchestra of Basel Percusssionists & guests will be performing Refractions and Flesh & Ghost next month….

PERCUSSION & BYTES

Das sprengt sämtliche Horizonte: In einem spektakulären Konzerthappening begibt sichein 14köpfiges Schlagzeugensemble auf eine Passage entlang bedeutender Stationen der neueren Musikgeschichte, unterstutzt von handverlesenen Gästen und Live-Elektronik.

Werke von Edgar Varèse, Anthony Pateras, Luigi Nono, Francesco Maria Paradiso, Keitaro Takahashi, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, Achim Christian Bornhöft, Pietro Luca Congedo, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis und Alex Buess.

Schlagzeuger des Sinfonieorchesters Basel und Gäste

Domenico Melchiorre, Konzeption und kunstlerische Leitung

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Haus fur elektronische Kunste, dem Elektronischen Studio der Hochschule fur Musik Basel und der
Christoph Merian Stiftung

FREITAG, 4. MAI 2012
20.00 Uhr – ca. 24.00 Uhr
Turoffnung: 19.00 Uhr

Dreispitzhalle Basel, Helsinki-Strasse 5, Munchenstein

Barbetrieb mit Grill und Risotto

Eintritt: CHF 35 / 20 (Schuler, Studenten, Lehrlinge)

Info here

KAYFABE AT MIUC THIS TUESDAY 27

Kayfabe play the Make It Up Club this Tuesday night March 27 before heading overseas…also on the bill are Mike Cooper (IT), Gary Butler and Dave “Candlesnuffer” Brown.  Pronounced “Ker – faib”.