1 hr 6 min
Podcast - Adrian Northover IMPROVISOR
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- Music
To mark the occasion of his 60th birthday - Improvisor releases a podcast talking to Adrian Northover, an inimitable presence on the improvised and experimental music scene in London UK for many years and in my view, an effortless master of the saxophone. (http://www.adriannorthover.co.uk).
Discussing his playing with electronic players we discuss tonality and the combination of ‘freedom and restriction’ in this environment- which Adrian summed up as 'having handcuffs on but still being able to jump out of the window’……
We talk about the function of playing improvised music live - the collaboration & interaction between players and ‘providing the meat and grist for the audience…. either successfully or unsuccessfully’.
He talks of his interest in ‘Sufi’ music and the idea of ‘the ecstasy’ behind the music and how he likes to know ‘the function of music’. The differences between processed and produced or un-produced music ‘a document versus a treated document.’
Improvised music has become ‘more acceptable and less weird…’……people in the past would say it ‘was just noise’ not music…..it was ‘really out there in terms of public awareness… now you can do anything and it is not so outrageous’….. ‘it has moved more centre stage………’
Show Notes and Mentions:
The Alligators
Adam Bohman
John Edwards
Sue Lynch
The Happy End
Triptik
Steve Noble
Tasos Stamou
Steve Beresford
John Stevens
Phil Vaxman
Berlin
Foley st
The Bonnington Club
Ronnie Laws
Steely Dan
Hard Evidence
Morley College
I’Klectik Art Lab
London Improvisors Orchestra
Linear Obsessional Label
Sufi Music
Jazz Thali
Bollywood
North Indian Classical Music
Lol Coxhill
Stockhausen
Edgard Varése
The Remote Viewers
Ann Homler
Refreshments: tea and pretzels
To mark the occasion of his 60th birthday - Improvisor releases a podcast talking to Adrian Northover, an inimitable presence on the improvised and experimental music scene in London UK for many years and in my view, an effortless master of the saxophone. (http://www.adriannorthover.co.uk).
Discussing his playing with electronic players we discuss tonality and the combination of ‘freedom and restriction’ in this environment- which Adrian summed up as 'having handcuffs on but still being able to jump out of the window’……
We talk about the function of playing improvised music live - the collaboration & interaction between players and ‘providing the meat and grist for the audience…. either successfully or unsuccessfully’.
He talks of his interest in ‘Sufi’ music and the idea of ‘the ecstasy’ behind the music and how he likes to know ‘the function of music’. The differences between processed and produced or un-produced music ‘a document versus a treated document.’
Improvised music has become ‘more acceptable and less weird…’……people in the past would say it ‘was just noise’ not music…..it was ‘really out there in terms of public awareness… now you can do anything and it is not so outrageous’….. ‘it has moved more centre stage………’
Show Notes and Mentions:
The Alligators
Adam Bohman
John Edwards
Sue Lynch
The Happy End
Triptik
Steve Noble
Tasos Stamou
Steve Beresford
John Stevens
Phil Vaxman
Berlin
Foley st
The Bonnington Club
Ronnie Laws
Steely Dan
Hard Evidence
Morley College
I’Klectik Art Lab
London Improvisors Orchestra
Linear Obsessional Label
Sufi Music
Jazz Thali
Bollywood
North Indian Classical Music
Lol Coxhill
Stockhausen
Edgard Varése
The Remote Viewers
Ann Homler
Refreshments: tea and pretzels
1 hr 6 min