3BP (for Three-Body Problem): Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton, John Bowers - Plus Support

3BP (for Three-Body Problem): Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton, John Bowers - Plus Support

Sunday, 12 February 2023, 8.00pm

3BP

Born in and of the pandemic as a networked trio of improvisers, 3BP are now playing their first gigs together. 3BP (for Three-Body Problem) are:
Adam Pultz Melbye: FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass)
Paul Stapleton: VOLA (Volatile Assemblage of resonators, strings, synthesizers, turntable, etc)
John Bowers: room feedback, synthesizers, Pure Data patches

Film about 3BP: https://vimeo.com/640946914/cf858052e1

Adam Pultz Melbye is a double bass player, composer, and improviser working in the field of acoustic and electronic sound. Adam's work spans live performance, sound installations, sound for dance, theatre, film, multimedia, sculpture, algorithmic design, and instrument building, and has been performed and exhibited in Europe, Australia, the US, and Japan. They often perform with semi-autonomous feedback systems, such as the FAAB (Feedback-Actuated Augmented Bass)—a feedback double bass created in collaboration with Halldòr Ùlfarsson. Adam is currently finishing a PhD in music at SARC, Queen's University Belfast, is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and the guest-editor of a special issue feedback practices for the ECHO journal at Orpheus Institute in Gent, Belgium. https://www.adampultz.com/

Paul Stapleton is an improviser and sound artist originally from Southern California. He is currently Professor of Music at SARC, Queen's University Belfast, where he researchers the design, adaptation and exploration of musical instruments, often in improvisational contexts. Paul performs with his handmade inventions and other musical collaborators in locations ranging from Echtzeitmusik venues in Berlin to the annual NIME conference. He is particularly interested in how improvising bodies (broadly conceived) are constituted and entangled in wider musical ecologies. Paul co-directed the AHRC-funded network Humanising Algorithmic Listening, and has co-led previous funded interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from the relationship between music improvisation and law, to the study of ecological dynamics between musicians and virtual-acoustic instruments. He is also currently the director of Sonorities Festival Belfast, a biennial festival of sound and music. http://www.paulstapleton.net/

John Bowers works with modular synthesisers, home-brew electronics, feedback systems, self-made software, field recordings, esoteric sensor systems, experimental film, and spoken text. He often combines performance with walking and the investigation of selected sites to research an imagined discipline he calls ‘mythogeosonics’. He has performed at festivals including the Venice Biennale, Experimental Intermedia New York, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Piksel Bergen, Electropixel Nantes, BEAM London, Aldeburgh Festival and Spill Ipswich, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company performing David Tudor’s music to Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest. He contributed to the design of The Prayer Companion - a piece exhibited twice at the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and acquired for their permanent collection. He has just launched a personal record label, https://unlanded.bandcamp.com/. Its first album, Unlanded Volume 1, is planned for release February 2023. https://www.instagram.com/johnthemodulator/

Support by Giacomo Lepri (clarinet and electronics), Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (double bass), and Conor McAuley (drums)

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