*Marginal Consort* June 6th, 2016 | Doors 19, Concert 19:30—22:30 St. Elisabeth Kirche — Invalidenstraße 3, Berlin
FB event <https://goo.gl/66oony> Tickets <http://bit.ly/1SNIXJj> Video trailer <https://vimeo.com/167650828> A rare 3-hour concert by the legendary avant-garde improvisation collective Marginal Consort <http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/watch_kazuo-imai-solo-works-soloworks61-part-one> – their first ever appearance in Germany, in the dramatic setting of Berlin’s St. Elisabeth Kirche. <http://www.elisabeth.de> Marginal Consort collectively produce events that blur the traditional distinctions between sound art and visual art. Influenced by their teacher Takehisa Kosugi <http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/TakehisaKosugi>, pioneer of experimental music in Japan in the 1960s and closely associated with the Fluxus movement and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Marginal Consort's improvisation is freed of instrumental language. Their extended music of riotous inventiveness forms a tangible relationship between sound, time and the environment. "*When people think of improvisation, which is made up of sounds, they think of playing music. But the activity that takes place here is not limited to playing. There are sounds, for instance, that result from certain actions, and actions that do not have sound production as their object*." — Kazuo Imai <http://www.japanimprov.com/imjlabel/702-5/notes-e.html> Marginal Consort operates unlike regular bands. Each member is an independent soloist and just once a year they come together. In 2016 they made an exception. Invited to be part of the 100th Anniversary of Dadaism Festival in December in Tokyo and to perform at Sound Live Tokyo, they will have another show in London at St. John Church at Hackney <http://stjohnsessions.co.uk/events/2016/06/marginal-consort/> before their Berlin debut in June. Presented in collaboration with PAN <http://p-a-n.org/release/marginal-consort-instal-glasgow-2008/>. Supported by Initiative Neue Musik e.V. <http://www.inm-berlin.de/> In cooperation with Thirty Three Thirty Three <http://thirtythreethirtythree.com/>.
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