Ignatz / John Also Bennett
Two sets of experimental electroacoustic sound by Ignatz (Belgium) and John Also Bennett (USA).
🔷 Ignatz is the alter ego of Belgian musician Bram Devens.
In 1910, the illustrator George Herriman created the Krazy Kat comic strip. Ignatz, a vicious mouse, was Krazy Kat’s arch enemy, and his favourite pastime was to throw bricks at Krazy Kat’s head.
Bram Devens uses Ignatz as his alter-ego, and comes armed with his own pile of bricks; sparse, emotive songs, wrapped in effects, corroded by tape, driven forth by improvisation and spontaneity. Ignatz’s songs stem from a stripped folk framework, being compared to the primitivism of V.U. or Henry Flynt – but these songs sound inverted, cast adrift, from beneath the surface. Where Devens’ fretwork is adorned, it is executed with a refined coarseness. Autonomous loops entwine each other. Songs brush past percussion, bass notes, or a scant keyboard motif. A voice recedes from the heart of the song into a dislocated, cracked drawl.
www.krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cure
🔷 John Also Bennett (b. 1987, Ohio), aka JAB, is a composer, flautist and multi-instrumentalist based in Greece who creates music that could be described as atmospheric, avant-garde, or minimalist. His work is characterized by the use of simple sonic ingredients to engage with empty spaces, time and resonance on a glacial scale to illuminate a complexity and magic inherent within everyday experience, or even apparent nothingness.
He has released albums on labels such as Shelter Press, Kranky, and Seance Centre, as well as his own label Editions Basilic, among others. He has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia, scored short films and art installations, and published and curated the works of others, including those of his father, the avant-garde poet and mail artist John M. Bennett.
www.johnalsobennett.bandcamp.com
The concert is held in collaboration with the project nual nebbia acustica (site / instagram / fb).