FRIM #66: Anouck Genthon + Minton-Beyer Duo
Anouck Genthon - violin
Phil Minton - voice
Kriton Beyer approaches - daxophone
200 / 150 SEK
Born in France and living in Geneva, Anouck Genthon is a violinist. Her musical achievements pay particular attention to sound and listening. She explores the potential of her instrument while developing a personal language enriched by improvisations and compositions. She collaborates in several duos with Lionel Marchetti, Ed Williams, Antoine Läng, David Meier and Laura Schuler as well as with the trio tangent mek, the LGBS Quartet, Le UN, Insub., and the Grand Chahut Collectif.
Her interest in sound is also expressed through devices that integrate walking in situ. Attuned to the environment, she develops her work based on the conditions of sound propagation and perception (Song walk with me w/Antoine Läng, Notice w/Mathias Forge, A l’affût w/Grand Chahut Collectif, Ring w/Jason Khan, Olga Kokcharova, Antoine Läng).
Trained as an ethnomusicologist, she retains in her musical performance the traces of the Tuareg musicians she encountered during her filed work in Niger.
Phil Minton comes from Torquay in the UK. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s- then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980′s.
For most of the last forty years, Phil has been working as a improvising singer in groups, orchestras and situations, in various locations worldwide. Some composers have written pieces that especially employ his extended vocal techniques and improvisations. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher and ongoing duos with all the above.
Kriton Beyer is a Greek-German musician and composer, who – as a performer and improviser – mainly works with the harmonium and the daxophone. He studied musicology in Greece where he collaborated with a variety of local music groups as well as musicians like Sakis Papadimitriou and Floros Floridis. In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he got heavily involved in the improvised music scene of the city.
