January 2012
December 1-February 28 - visiting artist at CalArts, Los Angeles
February 2012
December 1-February 28 - visiting artist at CalArts, Los Angeles
February 11 - CEAIT Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA - solo, new piece for Serge modular synthesizers
February 21 - Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, Boston, USA - lecture/presentation
February 22 - Non-Event, Goethe-Institut, Boston, USA - solo, new piece for Serge modular synthesizers
February 24 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA - lecture/presentation
February 25 - Lampo, Chicago, USA - solo, new piece for Serge modular synthesizers
March 2012
March 15 - University of Nantes, Nantes, France - solo
April 2012
April 22 - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway - Kevin Drumm/Mats Gustafsson/Thomas Ankersmit
April 24 - Helsinki, Finland - with Kevin Drumm, two solo sets
May 2012
May 10 - Aural Festival, Mexico City, Mexico - solo and with Phill Niblock
PAN 16 | Thomas Ankersmit/Valerio Tricoli "Forma II"
"Forma II" is the first collaborative output by Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli.
Composed and recorded in Berlin from 2008 to 2010 the music consists of four electroacoustic pieces based largely on analogue synthesizer material and one long-form swarm-like composition for multiple overdubbed saxophones. Additional sounds range from metal foil floating on ultrasonic sound-beams to mechanical clickers recorded in the abandoned radar domes at Teufelsberg. The raw materials have been extensively processed and re-constructed using analogue tape and digital methods. The five pieces shift between sharply detailed blizzards of electronic interference to passages of delicate balance, between calm and turbulence, between stasis and rapid shape-shifting, between multiple virtual spaces and non-spaces.
Thomas Ankersmit is a saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam, who combines abstract, intensely focused acoustic saxophone work with hyper-kinetic analogue synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock. Other recent collaborators have included Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus.
Valerio Tricoli is a Berlin-based composer, improviser, sound installation artist, producer, sound engineer and curator bridging musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound with a radical interest in how reality, virtuality and memory relate to each other during the acoustic event. He mostly uses analogue electronic devices (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers). The structure of the setup is ever-changing however, seeking multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place. He is one of the founders of 3/4HadBeenEliminated and the Bowindo label/collective.
The CD is mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, in a limited edition of 1000 copies. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which itself is housed in a one-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs, with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
Touch Radio 56 | Thomas Ankersmit
29.09.10 - Hangar Performance, Tallinn, May 29th 2010 – 19:02 - 192 kbps
Solo saxophone performance inside abandoned seaplane hangar, Tallinn harbour, Estonia.
Recorded by John Grzinich, May 29 2010, at the introduction event for Tuned City Tallinn 2011.
Touch Radio 56 | Thomas Ankersmit
www.tunedcity.net
Ash 8.8 | Thomas Ankersmit "Live in Utrecht"
CD in Jewel Case – one track, 39:18
Photography by Alexandra Leykauf
Track Listing
1: Live in Utrecht, 39:18
Recorded on November 17th 2007 at Rumor, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Thomas Ankersmit: Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer, alto saxophone. Pre-recorded saxophone and reel-to-reel parts composed by Valerio Tricoli, with source material by Ankersmit.
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye.
We are proud to announce the release by Thomas Ankersmit of his concert performed in Utrecht late in 2007. Here is some info about Thomas, who has no other solo CDs available at this time… in fact, Live in Utrecht is his first official CD album release.
Thomas Ankersmit (1979, Leiden, Netherlands) is a saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam, who combines abstract, intensely focused saxophone playing with hyper-kinetic analogue synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and Sicilian electroacoustic artist Valerio Tricoli. Other collaborators, mostly for live performances, have included Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus.
Buy Thomas Ankersmit "Live in Utrecht" in the TouchShop
www.ashinternational.com
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