Ghost Trance Duo / Cath Roberts

Tickets £16 // Under 30 £6
Advance booking required

Cath Roberts electronics / saxophone

Cath Roberts (UK, 1983)
Patch dynamics: three sections of a collage (2024) 30′ World Premiere
1. Designs for defying gravity
2. Lift it out of itself
3. Under your pillow rush herds of walruses and whales

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Kobe Van Cauwenberghe guitar / synth / voice
Mariam Rezaei turntables

Anthony Braxton (US, 1945)
Composition No. 284, 3rd species Ghost Trance Music (2000) 30’ – 40’

+ Composition No. 6F (1972)
+ Composition No. 40F (1974)
+ Composition No. 69Q (1976)
+ Composition No. 108A (1984)
+ Composition No. 120 “Trillium A” (1984)
+ Composition No. 249 (2000)
+ Composition No. 358 (2006)

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Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music (GTM) is a system of compositions that challenges the traditional roles of composer, score and performer. The GTM compositions are specifically designed to function as pathways between Braxton’s entire body of work, between notation and improvisation, between past, present and future. Guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe has expertly navigated Braxton’s GTM repertoire for several years, releasing critically acclaimed albums such as Ghost Trance Solos and Ghost Trance Septet Plays Anthony Braxton.

In this concert, Van Cauwenberghe joins forces with award-winning, boundary-pushing turntablist Mariam Rezaei. Braxton’s GTM, with its complex structures and rich improvisational opportunities, provides the perfect canvas for Van Cauwenberghe and Rezaei to create a unique and captivating Ghost Trance Duo. Through innovative sampling techniques and live interaction, they delve into the intricate layers and unpredictable pathways of this visionary work, offering audiences a unique and immersive musical experience.

n.b. The title of the main composition this Ghost Trance Duo will play is graphic, represented by the feature image above. The performance will also likely include a selection of other compositions, integrated in an undetermined sequence, listed above.

Cath Roberts is an improviser, composer and artist whose work combines acoustic and electronic improvised music, experimental composition, and DIY publishing/printmaking. Patch dynamics combines fragments of sound from synthesisers, objects, saxophone and small instruments into a collage guided by three collaged graphic scores. The work references ‘patch dynamics’, an ecological term describing a concept where ecosystems and landscapes are understood as living, constantly changing mosaics of distinct, connected patches.

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Photo credit: graphic composition title by Anthony Braxton