Konk Pack (Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn & Roger Turner) (UK/Germany)

Konk Pack

For over twenty years, this international trio has toured throughout Europe and North America to play its energetic electroacoustic improvised music, documented on five recordings. Roger Turner’s quicksilver drumming generates enormous flows of momentum and dynamics without ever falling into predictable patterns. Tim Hodgkinson, best known for his membership in Henry Cow, contributes a radical set of musical resources with the unconventional instrumentation of lapsteel guitar, clarinet, and electronics. German analogue synthesizer player Thomas Lehn was featured at the 2017 festival, where he demonstrated an amazing command of an instrument capable of a bewildering range of sounds and timbres. Together, what distinguishes Konk Pack from much improvised music is the intense focus, the undeniable energy, and the long-wrought group rapport at the root of the group’s sound. Their capacity to sculpt noise into extraordinary musical shapes that flow and change in satisfying ways is nothing short of wonderful.

Friday, 14 September, 1:30pm, Silence (on a bill with Bernard Falaise)

Tim Hodgkinson website
Thomas Lehn website
Roger Turner website
Listen on YouTube