Signal Quintet
«Yamaguchi»
Jason Kahn // analog synthesizer, percussion
Tomas Korber // guitar, electronics
Norbert Möslang // cracked everyday electronics
Günter Müller // ipods, electronics
Christian Weber // contrabass
During Signal Quintet's tour of Japan in 2006 these three improvisations
were recorded live in studio
at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
Jason Kahn formed Signal Quintet in 2004 to
record his graphical score «Timelines.» The group
has continued on as an improvising ensemble
with the recordings on «Yamaguchi» documenting
their first tour.
Signal Quintet draws on three generations of
some of Europe's most innovative musicians,
with their collective performance histories
spanning back to the late 1970's.
With instrumentation ranging from Norbert
Möslang's cracked everyday electronics
to the deep acoustics of Chrisitan Weber's
contrabass, the music of Signal Quintet
transfers fluidly from electronic to acoustic,
surging with an organic ebb and flow through
improvisations where the listener's notion of time
passing is lost in an immersive sound experience.
