Jamie Coleman, Grundik Kasyansky, Seymour Wright
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Mainly in private, as often as life allows, Grundik, Jamie and myself have been making music together, since December 2007, by now scores, if not hundreds of times. Equally, we have as regularly spoken about the music made. Frequently, these discussions entertain an attempt to escape from the dangers of safety toward a collective safety in danger. Growingly, we find this through embracing, simultaneously, control and the opposites of control.
Increasingly, the freedom afforded by having control out of control, staying there, thus, to hear, learn, take, hold, and/or leave. Variously, such control is more or less cohate and cognate; in my case from the having of a stiff upper lip to the holding of a stiff lower one. Riskily, the opposites appear: complex; gradable; complementary; direct; indirect; open; live; dead.
Seymour Wright, 2009.
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Jamie Coleman is a trumpet player, an improviser, a teacher and occasionally a man in a queue at the London Underground lost property office (brass instrument window). Jazz was his first love and continues to be a fine companion, but improvised music has been the priority since his first visit to Eddie Prevost’s Friday night workshop in 2000.
Grundik Kasyansky works in the fields of improvisation and installation, and designs sound for dance, theatre and film. He was born in Moscow in 1974 and has lived in New York and also in Israel before relocating to London in 2007.
Seymour Wright (b.1976) is a saxophone player who plays saxophone music about the saxophone - music, history and technique – actual and potential. Seymour has recently described his playing as: enquiry into saxophonic actuality, through the potential inherent in, for instance, imagination, re-proportion, inversion, transformation, juxtaposition, construction, deconstruction, reconstruction, permutation, truncation and extension. (from ‘Acts of potential: learning future music 2008).
Trio released album “Control and its Opposites” on Another Timbre label in July 2009.
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Online Music:
Seymour Wright of Derby, alto saxophone solos
Unnamed Music. Jamie Coleman (trumpet) / Ute Kanngiesser (cello) / Paul Abbott (electronics) / Grundik Kasyansky (electronics). Performed at the Unnamed Music Festival, Friday 12th June, Cafe Oto, London.
