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DUO Carlos Bechegas / Barry Guy | DUO C. Bechegas / Alex Schlippenbach | DUO Bechegas / Joelle Leandre |
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_________________MUSIC PROJECTS - LIST1 ) SOLO “ flute landscapes “ ( on CD ) : ACOUSTIC flutes improvisations2 ) SOLO “ movement sounds “ (on CD ) – flute with ELECTRONICS set-up real-time control.
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C. BECHEGAS
CDs, and CDr as
DEMOS of
some CONCERTS
PROPOSALS:
" open textures "
forward 06 " open between " forward 07 ## acoustic duo with Reuben RADDING
“ open secrets “
forward 01 and " open
waves " forward.DEMO 001 ## acoustic
duo
with Joele
LEANDRE. “ open speech “ - forward.rec 003 ## duo with Alexander Von SCHLIPPENBACH “ open frontiers “ - forward.rec 002 ## flutes duo with Michel EDELIN
“ flute landscapes “
audEo 0298
and " open
landscapes" forward.DEMO 004
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acoustic flute
solos, extended techniques " open density " forward.rec 004 ## trio with André GOUDBEEK and Peter JACQUEMYN " open landscapes"
forward.DEMO 004 and
“ C. Bechegas projects “ Leo lab 032
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flute solo with electronic setup. " open monumental " forward.DEMO 003 ## electroacoustic trio with Carlos SANTOS and Etienne ROLIN “ C. Bechegas projects “ Leo lab 032 and " open diversity " forward.DEMO 002 ## C. Bechegas trio project- "C. B projects “ Leo lab 032 and " open landscapes" forward.DEMO 004 ## C Bechegas flute solos with electronics
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OTHER ENSEMBLES: In spite of the projects presented above, as an option for other possible ensembles, the achievable invitation concerning many know improvisation musicians,
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLES MUSIC LANGUAGE:
regarding my instrumental participation, these proposals are base on
projects with diverse conception, where differently, depending the
musician’s personal
language and the ensemble format, I play only acoustic flutes, or
flutes and electronics with real time control. THE BASE FOR THE MUSIC CREATION is the improvisation approach, as a collectively spontaneous composition, that sometimes could be pre-define through narrative structures. The players choice are in a way determinant, since the ensemble aesthetic result also depend, of each musician personality, speech and experience. |
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TRIOS PROPOSALS:________________________________________
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“ Live Communications “ Carlos BECHEGAS - flutes and electrónics Phil MINTON - voice Han BENNINK - drum
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It’
s formed by the English
singer Phil Minton,
the Dutch
Han Bennink on drums and Carlos Bechegas, playing flutes and
his electronics set
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__________________________“ bech / fred / sommer trio “
Fred Van HOVE - piano Carlo BECHEGAS - flutes Gunter " Baby " SOMMER - drum
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It’s
formed by the knew European reference pianist Fred Van Hove,
the large experiment German drummer and percussionist Gunter
“ Baby “ Sommer and Carlos Bechegas playing
flutes, here absent the electronics. They have meet to participate in the Peter Kowald homage at the Strasbourg Jazz D’or Festival, playing through a flexible and open structure of improvisation.
Through
spontaneous solos, duos and trios speeches, the narrative goes
intense, freely diverse, some times difficult with lots ideas
quickly changing as we can read in the concert review by Sophian
Fanen, on the Strasbourg News paper ( DNA nº45, 11.Nov.02 ):
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In duet or trio, the three musicians developed, a difficult free
jazz, where the gesture one takes as many sense as the note…
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" Open Speech ", the Lisbon base Carlos " Bechegas " trio, is the most regular music ensemble of the Portuguese flutist, support by acoustic players, with an eclectic diversity formation and experience, sharing between contemporary classic music extended techniques and jazz language. They develop a “ multidiomatic “ narrative, extend by the electro-acoustic possibilities, material that enhance the trio expression and the speech improvisations. .
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" Open Density TRIO “ Carlo BECHEGAS - flutes and electrónics André GOUDBEEK - reeds and bandoneon Peter JACQUEMYN - double bass
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Like the pure improvisation tradition this trio was spontaneously formed to play at the Antwerp’s 29th Free Music festival. The concert recording was posterior released on CD: “ Open Density “ CD forwad.rec # 04, and according to some below review words, the mainly speech, was continuously intense and dense as the record title suggest. Through a permanent trio resolute concentration, dissimilar ideas and materials occur fast. Powerful tense moments and intricate textures, contrasted with few flash detail of solos and duos.
_____________SUMMARY REVIEWS: Dense improvisations predominate here. While all three are accomplished free musicians, there is a sense of homogeneity to these free improvisations. Dynamics shift, the energy level rises and falls, but overall, the same thematic material continues to arise. CADENCE ( April 2005 ) – by Troy Collins
Together they create surreal Punch-and-Judy verbal play lets. Between Jacquemyn's brawn and Bechegas's brilliance, Goudbeek… picking up ideas from one musician and hurling them towards the other in a thrilling live translation. It's a truly awesome set… there's plenty of life left yet in the old cut-to-the-chase improv style. PARIS TRANSANTLANTIC - Dan Warburton
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Through this trio structured improvise performances, we simultaneously come across, of two unpredicted speech levels. The dynamic conception strategy, is centre on the recording of the wind players interactions, with subsequent sound treatment by the laptop computer of Carlos Santos. Base on the open Bechegas graphic structures, the musicians continually create new situations, interacting with them previous played sound, that is again throw up, as a new and different stimulating material.
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| DUOS PROPOSALS:_______________________________________________________________
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______________ “ Open Waves “ Carlos BECHEGAS - acoustic flutes Joelle LEANDRE - double bass |
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This
project, is the bottom for exploration and application of each
musician acoustic solo language, focused on is techniques and
aesthetic particularities. As the CD material reveal, there is a sequence of pieces manifestly contrasting through the different choice of materials and ideas, put on the improvisation. As different as, between an abstract sound treatment, producing dense and complex textures, and a silence space on quite atmosphere based on dialogues among percussive sounds with mix distorted voice. Conceptions and a dynamic, uncommon on a flute and acoustic bass duo, like the record reviews confirm: .
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____________ “ Open Textures “ Carlos BECHEGAS - fllutes and effetc processor Barry GUY - double bass
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Already released on CD, It’s a duo formed by the English DOUBLE BASS player Barry Guy, one of the most important reference in the improvise music scene, and the Portuguese flutist Carlos Bechegas, that use on this project sound processours on real-time control.
As the related CD " Open Textures "
forward.re # 06, a concert proposal, based on a radical
contrast music conception. - tonal
melodies live ensemble with abstracts textures and large palette of
aleatory timbre patches.
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___________ “ Open Speech DUO “ Carlos BECHEGAS - fllutes Alexandre Von SCHLIPPENBACH - piano
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Already released on CD, It’s a duo formed by the
Berliner Alex Von Schlippenbach , one of the central personalities and pianist, of the European Improvise Music,
and Carlos Bechegas.
They perform in the purely
improvisations spirit, realizing on stage the meeting for the music
freely come out.
Express is diverse creativity, through the Contemporary language: “ prepared “ piano, dodecaphonic phrases; large sound interval, fortify attacks clusters; flute extended techniques blending the voice, proposing strange, eccentric and abstract ambiences, textures with harmonics densities, a wave off continuously arpeggios based on circular breathing, etc…
A spontaneous open speech,
itinerant through a incessantly miscellaneous of
situations and idioms, put across, an extreme dissimilarity
of volume, interpretation, and concept registers. |
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SUMMARY REVIEWS: Both are great works …
if easy to adhere to the
“ tribalism “ character of
“ Open Frontiers “, |
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____________________“ Open Frontiers “ Carlos BECHEGAS - fllutes A Michel EDELIN - flutes
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Already released on CD, It’s a duo formed by the
French flutist Michel Edelin and Carlos Bechegas.
The focal conception, is to explore all
the potential and achievable possibilities of the many different
flutes, and sound objects ( piccolo, C , G and Bass flutes bansari,
bamboo Guadlupean flute, Indian mouthpiece flute, picco-sax,
bird-call, siren, etc… ) and
permutation between. As the title “ Open Frontiers “ suggest, a desire of travelling without frontiers, through an openly approach by multiples music idioms, and influences. The result pieces are mainly based on unprompted narratives; are the intentional research of crossing a diversity of instruments, contemporary flute extended techniques, materials and dialects, through the improvisation; by the spontaneous confrontation of two flutists with dissimilar music languages and experiences.
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SUMMARY REVIEWS:
Beyond the declination of all the ways of playing the flute without
trickery . . . what we witness here is an immediate complicity
between two companions. True to form, this stimulating encounter in
twenty small pieces . . . glows with a spontaneity lacking neither
humour nor depth. Bechegas and Edelin obviously speak the same
language, and their fertile terrain of understanding leaves us to
hope that other seeds will come.
(Nº
106 - JUIN – 04 ) Claude Colpaert - IMPROJAZZ
Bechegas is a virtuoso who has established his entire reputation
through total improvisation, sharing with Eric Dolphy a sinuous
quality and a vocalizing approach to the instrument. Edelin reveals
a tendency to offer more tonal proposals . . . while the Portuguese
glows with more abstract evasions. A superb complementarity.n°
547 Avril 04 2004.Gerard Rouy -JAZ Z MAGAZINE
After beginning with Peter Kowald (the CD Open Secrets) . . . and an
exemplary collaboration with Derek Bailey (the CD right off). . .
Bechegas finds
[in
Edelin]
a perfect match, occasionally heightening the force of the album’s
evocations through parallelism, circumventing and even straying from
the sketches of his companion at other times, through a play of
counterpoint, to take command of the moment and impose his own
approach to the instrument.
nº 60 juin 04 – pag 33 por - Pierre DURR. – REVUE & CORRIGÉE
Allow him ( Bechegas ) to coax more out of the instrument than one
might think humanly possible. it’s an inspired pairing….
surprisingly rich diversity of timbre that keeps things interesting
throughout. Bechegas and Edelin are clearly skilled in their
respective instruments; and by expanding the sonic capabilities with
unusual techniques and vocalizations, they create, for the most
part, a lush sound that is strangely compelling. MAIO / 04
John Kelman
- site ALL MUSIC GUIDE Still both CDs are worth investigation. As good as these CDs are… both are exceptional High and low timbres, long and short pitches -- these CDs showcase the limits to which woodwinds can be pushed… the sessions enunciate the advanced language of 21st century improvisers. Open Frontiers showcase a similar meeting of minds for the flute family with Portugal's Carlos Bechegas and France's Michel Ken Waxman www.jazzword.com - JAZZ WEEKLY
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__________“ Open Between “ Carlos BECHEGAS - fllutes Reuben RADDING- double bass
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With the American Reuben Radding, another Bechegas flute and double bass duo proposal. Musician having a consonant language with the Lisbon flutist, he articulates a surprising diversity of techniques and sound resources. The performance improvisation pieces, spontaneously succeed through unexpected ambiences and textures ideas. Radically punching forward both instruments possibilities, they create dissimilarity narratives that contrast between melodies dialogues, through radical abstract pictures.
Already released on CD: “ Open Between “ forward.rec # 007, this concert proposal enlarge the Bechegas project “ OPEN FLUTE and BASS DUOS “: an assignment concept, specifically focused to explore the creative possibilities of the duo interactions, with different approach and aesthetic double bass improvisers.
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FLUTE SOLO CONCERTS:_______________________________
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| _______________“Flute Landscapes “ acoustic flute SOLOS
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It is a acoustic flutes solo concert. base on improvisation pieces,
wish are predominantly identify
as, “expressionism-abstract narratives”.
They are create from the
radical diversity of the instrument atypical
acoustic-material, exploring the extended flute techniques
and the flutist
voice.
This
acoustic solo project, is the consequence of a systematic research
about the less knew and unexplored flute universe, offering very
different narratives, as the name introduce. |
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SUMMARY REVIEWS:
In Bechegas' hands
various flutes become breeding vessels for an astonishing ecology
of sounds. Attentive ears are likely to glean a great deal
from the stories he has to tell. (
Derek Taylor / issue #7-8 summer/fall 2001 ) ONE FINAL NOTE
Forget any preconception that the flute is a pastoral instrument.
It’s
difficult to conceive of a more thorough documentation
of the flute’s range of sound( Frank Rubolino – vol 28 nº 6 june
2002 )
CADENCE MAGAZINE
I
was surprised and tickled repeatedly by this CD… I would
recommend, especially those who don't like flutes.
(
by - Jeph Jerman internet site
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www.the
–improviser.com
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THE
- IMPROVISER
his originality and virtuosity are just as striking.
… slowly establishing himself as a creative force, Flute
Landscapes showed all the extent of his talent. … a glossary of
the modern flute. - www.allmusic com-– by François Couture )
ALL M. GUIDE this excellent Portuguese musician define again the flute play. … with an extraordinary unknown amplitude of sounds. This instrument required fresh impulses, Bechegas sets it. Fascinating. ( Flute Landscapes ) a rarely stretching recital. ( Han Schweiger - Nº 133 / 01)
JAZZ LIVE A very interesting and a pertinent work, by which you can feel conquered or even charmed… an ignored talent recommended to hear.
JAZZ NOTES
A
musician of great technical virtuosity in the service of a
heightened creativity. …creatively engaged in the struggle
against the physical and material limits of the instrument, he
achieves true notability in such pieces as…
Portug. – M. J.
Veloso / news-paper 29 / 1 / 2000 ) DIÁRIO NOTÍCIAS
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Movement Sounds “
flute SOLOS with electrónic set-up
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It’s
a
solo concert, for flute controlling in real – time a electronic
set-up, using a pitch-to-midi inter-active system.
The
flute, exploring the acoustic contemporary extended
instrument techniques, stays as the main narrative voice,
overbearing the electronic structure as a back rich palette of
coloured timbres, producing distinguish moments: clear
balance delay compositions, tonal chord arrangements,
contrasting with
discontinuous
distorted appointments, abstract polyphonic sound
pictures.
With
previously organization for each piece, sometimes pre-defined on
scheme narratives, the electro-acoustic by the effect sound
processors and electronic material, ( effects - reverb, delay,
pitch-sound; synthesisers sound patch’s ), are developed
through the
improvisation, creating with this technology, a
depth diverse music expression.
The
concert conception result, is a sequence of pieces, among tense and
dense dynamic sound textures, complex and asymmetric rhythmic
structures, that deeply contrast with, clear, simple sound lines,
calm and silence space tranquil atmospheres. |
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SUMMARY REVIEWS:
The
two concerts here, reveal with startling clarity what his acoustic
and electro-acoustic environments are capable of creating. His
ability to create sonic terrains for the group to explore is
remarkable The flute playing is marvelous … Given that, this is
such an auspicious debut… ( Thom Jurex- internet music
enciclopaedia expert review -
www.allmusic.com ) ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
…a
rich bank of sounds - the magic flute indeed.. His trio IK*Zs( 3 )
rewrites the rules for real-time playing. CODA (18 ) This C.D. is clearly one of the best ever released by Leo Lab records ( 1997 The solo work reveals great structural concern, turning his pieces into Portug. / Rui E. Paes critic and musicologue - in from AnAnAnA label – nº 36 Aug. 97 MONITOR ) curious sound puzzles.
A
very interesting and a pertinent work, by which you can feel
conquered or even charmed… an ignored talent recommended to hear.JAZZ
NOTE 19 )
Clearly interesting features are evident both in the solo work and
in the trio ( CD. – “ C. Bechegas Projects “ Leo lab 032 ) Pierre
Dur - ( nº 32, June / 97 ) - REVUE et CORRIGÉ( 20 )
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This C.D. is clearly one of the best
ever released by Leo Lab records ( 1997
The solo work reveals great structural concern, turning his
pieces into
Portug.
/ Rui E. Paes
critic and musicologue -
in
from AnAnAnA label – nº 36 Aug. 97
MONITOR )
curious sound puzzles.
A very interesting and a pertinent work, by which you can feel
conquered or even charmed…
an ignored talent recommended to hear.JAZZ
NOTE 19 )
Clearly interesting features are evident both in the solo work and
in the trio ( CD. – “ C. Bechegas Projects “ Leo lab 032 ) Pierre
Dur - ( nº 32, June / 97 )
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REVUE et CORRIGÉ( 20 )
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