Thursday July 8th, 7:30pm
Impermanent: 154 Victoria Rd, Rozelle
Entry: $5 suggested donation
presented by places + spaces
Join Mike and myself on Thursday July 8th for an evening of instrumental exploration. Both Mike and I will perform a set of solo improvisations, followed by a duo, largely improvised set.
Mike has been a part of my collaborative modern jazz band, the Keijzer-McGuiness Quintet since it’s inception in 2006. Mike has taken himself to Europe a few times to explore the improvising scene there, and on one occasion last year our trips there coincided and we spent a couple of weeks in close orbit.
Mike Majkowski, born 1983, is a double bassist from Sydney, Australia. He began his musical activities as a jazz bassist and has performed with the likes of Mike Nock, Bob Mintzer, Kristin Berardi, Vince Jones, Dale Barlow, to name a few. Since then, he has developed an active interest in music of an exploratory and experimental nature. Mike is a long time devotee of the improvised music community in Sydney, where he frequently collaborates with improvisers Jim Denley, Jon Rose, Chris Abrahams, Robbie Avenaim, among others. He is a founding member of the Splinter Orchestra (large-scale electro-acoustic improvisational ensemble, which began in 2002). Other current projects include piano/bass/drums trio ROIL (with Chris Abrahams & James Waples – who just completed their first national tour funded by Sound Travellers), and his own work as a soloist – exploring how the use of refined extended techniques develops the sound and style of the work. His debut solo album ‘Ink On Paper’ was release by Portugese label Creative Sources in late 2009.
“[This CD is] about breaking sound down into its most fundamental constituents and then rethinking it” – Chris Field
http://www.realtimearts.net/feature/Earbash/9842
http://www.altmedia.net.au/mike-majkowski-ink-on-paper/15987
http://ausjazz.net/2010/02/28/ink-on-paper-%E2%80%94-mike-majkowski/
