10/30/2024, BEAM SPLITTER + Phil Minton with Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra Chorus

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MUSIC BEAM SPLITTER + Phil Minton with

Atlanta Improvisors Orchestra Chorus Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

Performing Arts Studio Department of Music 1804 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322

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Program Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage.

About BEAM SPLITTER (Audrey Chen & Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø) is a duo for amplified voice, trombone & analog electronics. They have been touring globally since 2015, playing over two hundred concerts in a wide variety of spaces and contexts, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their two individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of un-processed voice and trombone, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their hyper extended physical play. www.beamsplitter.org, www.audreychen.com, www.henriknorstebo.com Phil Minton comes from Torquay in the UK. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s- then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980’s. For most of the last forty years, Phil has been working as an improvising singer in groups, orchestras and situations, in various locations worldwide. Some composers have written pieces that especially employ his extended vocal techniques and improvisations. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher and ongoing duos with all the above. He also sings with many other musicians including Audrey Chen, with whom in the last fifteen years, he has performed worldwide. Since the eighties, his Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries. More recently, Phil has ongoing Duos with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Guylaine Cosseron, Hugh Medcalfe and Szilard Mezei. www.philminton.co.uk The Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra Chorus (AIOC) is a vibrant ensemble dedicated to spontaneous music-making, uniting diverse musicians and vocalists from the Atlanta area. Specializing in choral soundscapes through conduction, the AIOC embraces unpredictable ideas and individual creativity.

They have performed at venues like No Tomorrow, the Magic Lantern, and the Emory Performing Arts Studio, and will appear at the Red Light Cafe on January 28th alongside the Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra as part of the SoundNow Festival. Tonight’s composers/conductors are Majid Araim, Duffy, Monique Osorio, and Priscilla Smith. The AIOC is open to new members at all times. If you’re interested in large group singing and improvisation, please reach out to any of our members!

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