Daxophone trio: Uchihashi–Fishkin–Beyer / duo Nebbia – Scheer @ PAS

The daxophone being still a rather obscure musical instrument by itself, a daxophone trio would – even more so – be quite a rarity. Each one of the following three being accomplished musicians in their fields and also well-known as daxophone players, Kazuhisa Uchihashi (JP), Daniel Fishkin (USA) and Kriton Beyer (GR/DE) meet for the first time to form a new daxophone trio and to play a series of concerts together in Germany.

THE UCHIHASHI–FISHKIN–BEYER DAXOPHONE TRIO
Kazuhisa Uchihashi – daxophone
Daniel Fishkin – daxophone
Kriton Beyer – daxophone

DUO
Camila Nebbia – saxophone
Cyril Scheer – piano

Venue: Petersburg Art Space
Address: Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 101
10553 Berlin
Doors: 8:00 p.m.
Music: 8:30 p.m.

Kazuhisa Uchihashi is a Japanese composer, electric guitar and daxophone player and a music producer mostly working in the field of free improvisation. Born in 1959 in Osaka, Uchihashi began to play the guitar at age 12, playing in various rock bands, though he later studied jazz music. In 1988 he joined the band the First Edition, and in 1990 formed the band Altered States. He was also a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997. Uchihashi also plays daxophone, and in addition to his role as a free improviser, Uchihashi has been the musical director for Osaka theatre group Ishinha, has held improvisation workshops (a project known as New Music Action) in various cities in Japan, as well as London, Oslo, and currently in Vienna also. Uchihashi has set up his own record label, Innocent Records a.k.a. Zenbei Records, had held a music festival annually since 1996 Festival BEYOND INNOCENCE.
http://www.innocentrecord.com/

Daniel Fishkin is an American composer, sound artist, and instrument builder. He studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart. Fishkin performed as a soloist on modular synthesizer with the American Symphony Orchestra, developed sound installations in abandoned concert halls, and played innumerable basement punk shows. His lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal, 2014); as an ally in the search for a cure, he has been awarded the title of “tinnitus ambassador” by the Deutsche Tinnitus-Stiftung. He is the only luthier that studied with the daxophone’s inventor, Hans Reichel; Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world, and are played everyday by players based in Canada, USA, Norway, Germany, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Australia. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University, and has taught courses on instrument design and electronic music at Bard College and the Cooper Union. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia.
http://dfiction.com/

Kriton Beyer is a Greek-German musician and composer who – as a performer and improviser – works mainly with the harmonium and the daxophone. He studied musicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and from 1990 – 2004 he played with a variety of local music groups in Greece. In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he got heavily involved in the improvised music scene of the city.
Since then, he has worked with many musicians like Kalle Kalima, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kresten Osgood, Tristan Honsinger, Tomomi Adachi, Richard Scott, Willi Kellers, Matthias Bauer, Antonis Anissegos, Olaf Rupp, Els Vandeweyer, Harri Sjöström, Nicola Hein and Liz Allbee. Kriton Beyer is a member of the electroacoustic trio “uproot”, the ensembles “Redox Reaction”, “AEAEA” and the “Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra”. He is involved in the multimedia project “Dark Eye” with Korhan Erel and Nicolas Wiese, the movement, sound and light experiment “enLIGHTenment” with butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki and has cooperated with japanese visual artist and live painter Akiko Nakayama.
His daxophone play is characterized by a very personal musical and sonic aesthetic, deviating from that of the instrument’s inventor Hans Reichel, who often had a tonal approach to the instrument. Kriton Beyer chooses to work sometimes with a stripped, minimal and strictly acoustic sound of the instrument, while at other times – in contrast to that – he also works with setups ranging from subtle to sometimes extensive use of effects and electronics.
As an improvising musician, he has performed throughout Europe. He curates and manages the concert series and record label “The Procrustean Bed”, dedicated to Experimental Improvised Music.
https://www.kritonbeyer.com/