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Eroteme welcomes Pak Yan Lau & Darin Gray for a night of free improvisation with the material suggestions of electroacoustic experimentation. First in duo form and then joined as a quartet with sound-artist Lee Patterson & percussionist Charlie Collins. Expect complex architectures starting from minimal materials – insistent rhythms, amplified objects, barely hinted melodies & electronic effects as evocative as they are mysterious.
Pak Yan Lau : prepared piano, toy pianos, synth, objects, electronics
Darin Gray : double bass, preparations, objects, electronics
Charlie Collins : percussion, waterphone
Lee Patterson : objects, electronics
Pak Yan Lau, born in Belgium, with roots from Hong Kong and now based in Brussels is a sound artist, improviser, musician and composer, who has developed over the years a rich, dense and captivating sound universe from prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, electronics and various sound objects. Skilfully blending electro-acoustic approaches, she explores sound in a bewitching way, merging different sound sources with poetry, magic and finesse.
Her close collaborations go into different directions from grooving (Going) and abstract texturing (lauroshilau, Duo Pour 454 Chordes) to cross-media projects with photographers (Stills) and shadow theatre (Le Poisson et La Perle/ The Fabulous Choi Sisters). She composed music for dance theatre, short movies, sound walks and documentaries.
As an improviser she has shared music with musicians such as Chris Corsano, Akira Sakata, Darin Gray, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Mette Rasmussen, Toshimaru Nakamura, João Lobo, Giovanni Di Domenico, Norberto Lobo, Mathieu Ha, Mori-Shige, Daysuke Takaoka, Manja Ristic, Lionel Malric, Audrey Chen and many more.
She has toured different festivals (Rewire, Meakusma, Unsound, Jazztopad, Jazz Saalfelden, Keroxen, etc..) and venues (Ancienne Belgique, Botanique, Les Ateliers Claus, Cafe Oto, Cave12, etc..) in Europe, UK, China and Japan.
Darin Gray is known as a solo artist, tireless collaborator, session bassist, improviser, composer, educator, Jim O’Rourke’s go-to bassist for over 25 years, as half of the long standing duo On Fillmore (with Glenn Kotche of Wilco), as the touring bassist for TWEEDY (2014-2019), as a member of Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi, and as the bassist for Grand Ulena, Dazzling Killmen, You Fantastic!, and Brise-Glace.
Darin’s discography includes over 150 releases. He has composed for film, theater, dance, radio, and podcasts, and toured extensively in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Russia, and Europe.
Darin endorses Lakland Basses, Aguilar Amplification, GHS Strings, and D'Addario Orchestral.
Through using sound recording to train his ears, Patterson has developed a dual practice that includes live performance and fixed works. By exploiting chemical and mechanical synthesis, he has created a range of amplified devices and processes that produce or uncover complex sound in unexpected places.
From rock chalk to springs, from burning nuts to aquatic life and insect chants inside plants, he eavesdrops upon and makes a novelty of playing objects and situations otherwise considered mute.
His collaborators have included Mika Vainio, Jennifer Walshe, Vanessa Rossetto, David Toop, Rhodri Davies and John Butcher, Greg Pope, Benedict Drew, Luke Fowler, Lucio Capece, Rie Nakajima, Angharad Davies, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Xavier Charles and Tetsuya Umeda.
His works have featured on UK television, BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6, Resonance FM and on radio stations worldwide.
He lives and works in Prestwich, Manchester, UK.
Eroteme is a Manchester based concert series championing experimental music from the hinterlands. Home of the Uncategorizable. Foraging new sonic territories in electronics, improvisation and beyond.