Andrew Czink, keyboards & John Oliver, guitar & electronics + special guests
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the Cross-Canada tour
September 25 to October 26, 2002
"As composers and performers, all four made strong contributions to a program of 10 works.... electronic music is with us. And it gets more interesting all the time in the hands of people like Oliver (a master of the guitar), Czink (a pianist of extraordinary energy and power), Schmidt (who seems incapable of error as he skitters around the...accordion, and Magnanensi (who can manage a table piled high with blinking and beeping gizmos as skillfully as a surgeon...) Georgia Straight, April 6-12, 2000 issue
MANDATE and ARTISTIC OBJECTIVES
The mandate of our duo is to perform music we create together and in
collaboration with guest artists – other composer/performers or
creators from other artistic disciplines – to bring to audiences
a unique creative musical and visual experience that reflects the musical
and artistic advances of our time, while maintaining the historical
link to the traditional musical instruments of the past. As a duo we
perform on our main instruments, piano and guitar, whose sounds we extend
by unusual performance techniques and electronic extensions and manipulations.
The inherent theatricality of the musician’s performance gestures
are further enhanced by the addition of new performance devices that
sense the performer’s motion, proximity, and other spacial and
sensory information. Our goal is to create a gutsy and visceral experience.
HISTORY
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE first performed together in Vancouver on January 23,
1999 at Rainer Bürck’s Without Fear CD-release concert
[earsay CD 99001] in Vancouver. Composer/performers Czink and Oliver
formulated the idea for the group STRUCTURAL DAMAGE during their rehearsals
in preparation for this concert. The trio developed a new work by email
and mail during the months before the concert, and performed after a
week of rehearsal. The resulting 25-minute piece, called Structural
Damage, inspired the name for the group.
On March 30, 2000 they performed & recorded a special event at Vancouver’s
Western Front with special guest composer/performers Giorgio Magnanensi,
(DJ/electronics), and Douglas Schmidt (accordion). The resulting CD,
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE: Live at the Lux (es-00001) was released this
year on the earsay label. In January 2001 the duo performed at
the Standford University Ballroom (Palo Alto) and the Center for New
Music and Audio Technologies, (Berkeley) in California.
New CD!
Structural Damage: Live at the Lux
Released: January 15, 2001
Listen to MP3s (download)!
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