[Attackpanther] Tetuzi Akiyama/ Jozef van Wissem on WFMU, Monday noon

[Woody]

Hey all-

Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama and Dutch lute player Jozef van  
Wissem will be playing duo and solo sets on my radio show on WFMU  
tomorrow afternoon.  Info/bios below:

-Woody

Tetuzi Akiyama & Jozef van Wissem
Monday, February 4th, Noon - 3pm
on WFMU
91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, wfmu.org on the web


JOZEF VAN WISSEM

Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual  
approach of the Renaissance lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces,  
reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings The  
unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard  
amalgam of contemporary folk and late Renaissance music Van Wissem  
probably plays the most unlikely instruments in the world of  
contemporary improvised music: the Renaissance and Baroque lute and  
has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth  
century lute literature and twenty-first century free improv of the  
silent type. Although he uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he  
has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and  
playing technique of the lute. Van Wissem first came to be noticed a  
few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to  
Renaissance lute music: he deconstructed existing compositions, for  
instance by playing them backwards. He also composed his own pieces  
for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music  
therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to  
a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. His music is  
quiet and not so much demands concentrated listening, as it will bring  
the listener in a state of concentrated listening ? an aspect that  
makes Van Wissem a natural ally of the current post-reductionist  
improvising musicians. He also runs the Incunabulum label, and  
performs regularly around the world in duo with guitar-wizard of  
Captain Beefheart-fame, Gary Lucas. He also works with M.B. / Maurizio  
Bianchi, James Blackshaw, Chris Forsyth, Tetuzi Akiyama and Elliot  
Sharp. Wire Magazine called his latest solo lute cd ? Stations of the  
Cross ? a small masterpiece.

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TETUZI AKIYAMA (guitar)

Tetuzi Akiyama plays the guitar with primitive and practical  
implications, by adding a desire of own to the instrument's  
characteristic nature in minimal and straight method.  He delicately  
and sometime boldly controls the volume of the sound from micro to  
macro level, and tries to quantize his physical system.  Since 1998,  
together with Taku Sugimoto and Toshimaru Nakamura, he had been  
organizing an inspiring monthly concert series, The Improvisation  
Meeting at Bar Aoyama (renamed The Experimental Meeting in 1999) and  
Meeting at Off Site in 2000 until 2003.  Besides making variety of  
solo albums which covers from fingerpicking and slide acoustic guitar  
atonalism to noisy experimental drone to never ending boogie, he have  
made many albums in collaboration with highly praised artists such as  
Jozef Van Wissem, Donald McPherson, Greg Malcolm, Bruce Russell,  
Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Michel Henritzi, Phantom Limb, Gul3, Tim  
Barnes, Oren Ambarchi, Martin Ng and Alan Licht, just to name a few.   
Akiyama is a frequent guest at international music festivals in  
Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand in recent years.
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