LAWRENCE CASSERLEY BRUSSELS HAEKEM RESIDENCY 11th & 12th March with Audrey LAURO, Piroska VISNYEI, Guilherme RODRIGUES, Istvan DROESHAUT, Jean DEMEY & J-M Van SCHOUWBURG

LAWRENCE CASSERLEY RESIDENCY @HAEKEM, BRUSSELS 11-12 March : SIGNAL PROCESSING INSTRUMENT in Improvisation Musics.

Born 1941, Lawrence Casserley is a British Composer and Improviser involved in Processing (the Signal) of acoustic sounds of fellow instrumentalists, singers and improvisers in Real Time through his own designed electro-acosutic installation with computers, devices and his own programmed softwares based on MaxMsp. He was Professor in Electronic Music at the London Royal College of Music during + 25 years. Director of the ColourScape, an unique, installation of inflatable multi-colored sculptures, a legendary U.K. migrating event - performance on urban sites and parks all around the country, sometimes on hundreds of meter squares. Lawrence has worked intensively in Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble in different EU countries from 1995 to 2008 and they recorded six landmark albums for the ECM label. He performed and recorded in duos, trios and quartets with Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Joel Ryan and Paul Lytton, touring in Japan w Parker, Ryan and Lytton in 2000. His most fascinating recordings and works include Integument with double bassist Adam Linson, Garuda with violinist Phil Wachsmann, Isla Decepciòn with Sverdrup Balance - pianist Yoko Miura & singer J-M Van Schouwburg. Two players invited in L.C.'s Residency Concerts have developped deep musical ties with him : alto saxophonist Audrey Lauro and his MouthWind duo partner Jean- Michel Van Schouwburg Audrey performed some great concerts w Lawrence in London and Brussels and they have recorded a duo due to be issued in a next future. From 2007, Lawrence and Jean-Michel have developped a long standing collaboration as a duo (MouthWind) and with other musicians as violonist Phil Wachsmann, clarinettist Jacques Foschia and pianist Yoko Miura with who they recorded two CDs and toured UK, Belgium and Italy.

Lawrence Casserley (GB), Signal Processing Instrument, is an unique processing sound designer improvising with other musicians in real time. Here :
Audrey Lauro Alto saxophone (France) / Piroska Visnyei Voice / Guilherme Rodrigues Cello (Portugal) Istvan Droeshaut Violin / Jean Demey Double Bass (on 12th only)/ Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg Voice.
Musicians will perform enhanced by & transformed through Lawrence Casserley’s own Signal Processing Instrument + one acoustic trio each day.
11th March 8PM :
- Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg - Istvan Droeshaut - Guilherme Rodrigues
- Lawrence Casserley - Piroska Visnyei - Guilherme Rodrigues
- Duo Audrey Lauro - Lawrence Casserley

12th March 8 PM :
- Audrey Lauro - Piroska Visnyei - Lawrence Casserley
- Istvan Droeshaut - Guilherme Rodrigues - Jean Demey
- Lawrence Casserley - Guilherme Rodrigues - Istvan Droeshaut - Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg


HAEKEM THEATRE Rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels https://haekem.blogspot.com/ Doors at 7:30 PM Music : 8PM Entrance Free donation.

Audrey LAURO : Études musicales et Philologie Slave. Composition et saxophone au Conservatoire de Bruxelles - Département Jazz. Évolue dans la scène Belge et internationale de jazz et d'improvisation en se consacrant à la recherche sonore tout en créant son projet art-rock Bambeen Grey fin des années 2000. Tourne en France, G-B, Belgique, Norvège, avec de nombreux improvisateurs : John Russell, J-M Van Schouwburg, Lawrence Casserley, Florian Bergmann, Mia Zabelka, Ståle Liavik Solberg, Veryan Weston et Gotis Diamandis avec qui elle a enregistré en duo (LP Dark Ballads). Projet Wolves avec une équipe d'improvisatrices féminines et la chanteuse Maggie Nicols aux Ateliers Claus. Lauroshilau avec la pianiste Pak Yan lau et la percussionniste Yuko Oshima (CD paru). Utilise de nombreuses ressources sonores, musicales et expressives du saxophone alto dans le flux de l'improvisation libre. Groupe La Nuée .

D'origine hongroise, Piroska VISNYEI obtient en 1993 une licence en musicologie à L'ULB. Par deux de ses professeurs, Madame Daloze et Myriam Beugnies, elle reçoit l'enseignement de la méthode de chant du professeur parisien Madame Rex. Dans cette voie elle poursuit ses études avec le ténor argentin Carlos Belbey et le ténor urugayen Antonio Leonel Cañete et plus récemment avec le ténor Zeljko Manic. A été membre de plusieurs chœurs et ensembles vocaux en y assumant toujours un rôle de soliste. Elle est admise dans les chœurs supplémentaires au Théâtre de la Monnaie.
Aujourd'hui en plus des airs d'opéra et d'airs baroque , elle travaille le répertoire du lied allemand, hongrois ainsi que de la mélodie française avec le pianiste Pierre Droeshaut et avec le pianiste finlandais Jaako Helske. Ensemble, ils ont constitués un répertoire de lied de Sibelius en finnois et suédois . Parallèlement elle développe tout un répertoire de chant tsigane hongrois qu'elle interprète soit 'a cappella' soit avec un ensemble tsigane classique. Dans sa quête du son, elle a toujours pratiqué l'improvisation voix ainsi que l'impro libre au piano.

Guilherme RODRIGUES is a cellist, improviser, sound explorer and composer from Lisboa, Portugal.
He was born in 1988 and started to study cello and trumpet when he was seven at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and later in Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory until his twenty-three.
With an intuitive approach to improvisation and exploration of the timbres, 
using both classical and extensive techniques, his music is exciting, polyrhythmic and full of contrasts. His work probes the physicality of the space in which listening occurs. His music, comprising both acoustic and electro-acoustic works has been described as delicate, intense, focused and physical. 
Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, he often works with dancers. Has created music aswell for theater, radio, television and silent film.
He is part of Creative Sources Recordings record label, music director of Hosek Contemporary Art Gallery and active member of Reanimation Orchestra.
Has been following a professional career in music since 1997 and performs in concerts and workshops around Europe and Asia. Currently living in Berlin.

Active as composer and improviser sharing the stage with the dancers Valérie Métivier, Yuko Kaseki, Gianni Penna, Catalina Lans, Hany Park, Catalina Lescano, Coline Tanzt, Gio JU and with musicians like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Tristan Honsinger, Axel Dörner, Sei Miguel, Harri Sjöström, Michel Doneda, Fred Longberg-Holm, Jeffrey Morgan, Mia Dyberg, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Blaise Siwula, Gino Robair, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Ame Zek, Leonel Kaplan, Tom Djll, Birgit Ulher, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Isabel Duthoit, Carlos Zingaro, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Heather Frasch, Mark Sanders, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Abdul Moimême, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Matthias Bauer, Christian Wolfarth, Kurt Liedwart, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Eric Wong, Magda Mayas, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Joker Nies, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim, Vasco Trilla, Hui-Chun Lin,Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, Sarah Saviet, Maria Luchese, Richard Scott, Ido Bukelman, Johnny Chang, Emilio Gordoa, Rieko Okuda, Adam Goodwin, Samuel Hall, Simon Rose, Olaf Rupp, Philippe Lemoine, José Oliveira, Luís Lopes, Hernâni Faustino, Biliana Voutchkova, Fred Marty, Gabriel Ferrandini, João Silva, Marco Scarassatti, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Bertrand Denzler, Paulo Curado, Nicola Hein, Luís Vicente, Tom Malmendier, Mike Majkowski, Albert Cirera, Karoline Leblanc, Paulo Ferreira Lopes, Raoul van der Weide, Ricardo Guerreiro, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Paulo Galão, Ramon Lopéz, Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Pignon, Klaus Janek, Yedo Gibson, Christophe Berthet, Fredrik Rasten, Bryan Eubanks, Dietrich Petzold, André Hencleeday, Andrew Drury, Harald Kimmig among others. Released more than 50 albums of his own projects.

Istvan DROESHAUT commence le violon à l'âge de 4 ans, bien plus tard, il suivra des cours à l'Imep de Namur en section jeune talent avec comme professeur Marc Danel(premier violon du quatuor Danel) et ensuite comme bachelier avec Gilles Millet (second violon du quatuor Danel).
Musicien hétéroclite, il s'intéresse à d'autres genres musicaux comme le blues et le jazz et apprends d'autres instrument en chemin (harmonica, guitare). Il poursuit son exploration dans le milieu de l'improvisation , élément qu'il a toujours recherché dans son approche de la musique. Istvan développe une relation intensément physique, organique avec le corps boisé du violon, sa résonance, la tension des cordes et le grain du son.

Jean-Michel VAN SCHOUWBURG improvising singer born 1955 Belgium - develops vocal improvisation and voice extended techniques : jodels, deep throat singing, falsetto, mouth noises, imaginary languages, etc… He coined the word « phonoetry » (phonésie in french) to describe the kind of poésie sonore in his solo voice performance « ORYNX ». Believes in and pratices free improvisation by mutual listening and imagination. Performed as a free improviser with John Russell as a duo, Kris Vanderstraeten & Jean Demey in Sureau, Lawrence Casserley & Yoko Miura as Sverdrup Balance, Ivo Perelman, Günter Christmann, Sabu Toyozumi, Audrey Lauro, Adam Bohman, Zsolt Sörès, Benedict Taylor… Toured in Great Britain, Italy, Germany,Hungary, France, Slovakia, Italy & Austria. Recorded around fifteen cd’s. www.orynx.bandcamp.com and http://soundcloud.com/jean-michelvanschouwburg

Jean DEMEY double bass Born 1953 Brussels, since the late sixties, Jean Demey learnt jazz bass with bass players Paul Van Gijsegem and Hein Van Der Gein. He took part in the first improvised music festivals of the WIM collective in ’73 and ’74 with the trio of free music legend Kris Wanders. He opened for the Brötzmann Van Hove Bennink and Schlippenbach / Parker/ Kowald / Lovens groups. Toured Belgium, Netherlands and Germany with the groups of Alfred Harth and Kees Hazevoet. Played with Kris Joris, André Goudbeeck, Noah Howard, Beaver Harris, among others. Lived in California and Australia while working as a free-lance musician. Since the late eighties, european tours with World Musique Company of dedicated tabla player Pierre Narcisse and Luk Mishalle projects. With the Moroccan singer and lute player Hassan Erraji and Narcisse, Jean Demey performed around three hundred concerts all over Europe as Arabesque Trio. He learnt to play darbukka and daf professionnally, teaching oriental percussion in his own workshops. Worked also with West African kora player N'Faly Kouyaté and Turkish musician Mahir Dezerdi. Toured with raï singers Cheb Mimoun and Cheb Kader with an electric bass.
His craft and sensitivity are revealing the organic nature and the densities of the big violin’s strings rather than a display of techniques. As a free improviser, Jean recorded and toured in Sureau trio with J-M Van Schouwburg & Kris Vanderstraeten, Kind of Dali with Ove Volquartz & Luc Bouquet, 876 + with Marcello Magliocchi, Matthias Boss & J-M VS, and many other players like Yoko Miura Jacques Foschia, Cel Overberghe, Mike Zinzen and the group Embryo.