Zoro Babel

Gemany

2013.09.26 09:30-10:30 pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artist

Zoro Babel – Percussion

Zoro was born in 1967 in Upper Bavaria, Peter churches. Between 1975 and 1983 he performed with the group Anima Musica. He attended the summer sessions of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY from 1983 to 1984. This was followed by concert tours with Markus and Simon Stockhausen and first work for the theater.

In 1988, Babel together with the other group Kairos, 1990 he co-founded the band Focus Pocus. Since 1988, he produced film scores, notably in cooperation with the Austrian filmmaker Lisi Frischengruber; Babel works since 1991 in numerous projects with Alexei Sagerer and – as a musical and technical assistant – for Josef Anton Riedl. In collaboration with Michael Lentz created compositions of music and language. Babel appeared at various festivals for new music and sound art festivals since 1996, metal lockers, which he transformed into musical instruments. He took over the sound director for various projects of contemporary music and was awarded the Music Prize of the city of Munich.

Zoro Babel is also an excellent avant-garde drummer. He has published many records. Senior jazz fans of ECM should remember this one – Cosi Lontano… Quasi Dentro, which is his early works by cooperating with Markus Stockhausen, Gary Peacock, Fabrizio Ottaviucci…

Elmar Guantes

Austria

2013.09.26 08:00-9:00 pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artists:

Elmar Guantes – Double bass

Elmar Guantes

Elmar initially studied double bass in Austria’s Conservatory in Innsbruck. Then he keep studied at the Vienna Academy of Music, where he studied from Ludwig Streicher. He also learned the Jazz improvisation in Austria Graz Jazz Academy during that time and also had the collaboration with Wayne Darling.Later on he studied in electronic and experimental music school in Vienna followed by Dieter Kaufmann, and he callaborated with the bass masters Barré Phillips Orchestra.

Elmar began his tour in Austria, Germany and Italy Since 1988. In 1991 ,he has found the band of “Dada Kongress” . In 1992,he co-produced the album “Tyromania-Tour” with the Austrian national television. In1993, he began on solo tour in Italy, Belgium and France. In 1995 ,he participated in the sound art festival in Munich with works “Wellenbrecher” . And in 1996 he started callaborated with Fred Frith, has recorded Rabenstein in Bayern2 radio, and he cooperated with Cornelie Müller about the album“hier & jetzt“.

Since improvisation is an important part of his music, he tried to put individual elements and the music combine in a variety of structural forms as primers, and eventually collide with the mind together. It is hard for him to tell where his music journey will go, but this trip never comes to an end because the music is a continuous changing process. In addition, the solo is an extremely important aspect of performance that allows the formation of a person’s performance rich effect. Elmar has worked with many jazz players; his music was influenced by them for many years so he always shows the respect for them, they are Fernando Grillo, Stefano Scodanibbio, Barre Phillips, Barry Guy, and Dave Holland.

Elmar has now been living and working in Munich.