Eroteme’s September run continues with two performances at St Margaret’s Church, Manchester.
Australian composer and pianist Anthony Pateras makes his Manchester debut with a rare solo performance for piano. His work spans composition, electroacoustics and improvisation, with commissions and performances worldwide.
The second set features John Chantler (synthesizer), Steve Noble (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) — a trio formed in 2017 and documented on two albums, Front and Above and Atlantis. Their music moves between sparse textures and dense, energetic passages. Chantler’s serrated electronics entwine with Wright’s feedback-laced saxophone and Noble’s metallic percussion, creating an unpredictable sound world.
🍲 Food is included in the ticket price — arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Two-day pass: £20 (covers entry to this event and the previous night’s Eroteme concert on Fri 26 September with Arnaud Rivière + Lucia H Chung at PINK, Stockport)
Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electronic musician whose work spans contemporary composition, improvisation, electroacoustics and cross-disciplinary projects. He has been commissioned by institutions including INA-GRM, Südwestrundfunk, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Third Coast Percussion, with performances of his work by ensembles such as the LA Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra and International Contemporary Ensemble.
As a performer, Pateras has given hundreds of concerts across Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa, and has released over 50 albums on labels such as Editions Mego, Tzadik, Another Timbre and his own imprint, Immediata. His projects range from solo piano to collaborations with artists including Jérôme Noetinger, Erkki Veltheim, The Necks and Sunn O))).
📎 More info: anthonypateras.com
John Chantler is a musician and organiser living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesis and exploring the aesthetic implications of different infrastructure for electronic music performance.
Originally from Australia he spent a decade in London before moving to Sweden in 2014 where he has directed an annual festival for ‘other music’ in Stockholm called Edition and runs Fönstret — releasing music by local artists and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.
Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.
In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).
Seymour Wright is a saxophonist. His work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people and the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential.
Seymour's solo music is documented on three widely-acclaimed collections - Seymour Wright of Derby (2008), Seymour Writes Back (2015) and Is This Right? (2017).
Current projects include: @xcrswx with Crystabel Riley; abaria with Ute Kanngiesser; [Ahmed] with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Pat Thomas; GUO with Daniel Blumberg; XT with Paul Abbott; The Creaking Breeze Ensemble; a trans-atlantic duet with Andy Guthrie, and, with Jean-luc Guionnet a project addressing an imaginary lacunae in Aby Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne.
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