Gareth Davis + Ensemble Spectrum + Stratocluster

Davis (bass clarinet), Ensemble Spectrum – M. Sloboda (trombone), M. Švec (percussion), M. Haring (violoncello), Stratocluster – I. Mikyska (viola da gamba, recorder, baryton guitar), M. Jakeš (violin), M. Mrva (fretless bass guitar, live processing)

The collaboration of two ensembles playing contemporary music and a guest bass clarinettist Gareth Davis brings graphic scores and open songs by Slovak and Swiss authors to A4! Talking with Charlie (Roland Dahinden), Shuffle (Christian Marclay) and a selection of graphic scores by Milan Adamčiak and Matej Sloboda. Davises projects include contemporary classic, improvisation and orchestral music, but also rock, noise and electronics. He had collaborated with icons such as Elliott Sharp, Scanner, Merzbow, or Peter Greenaway.

Ensemble Spectrum is a Slovak chamber ensemble specialised in music of 20th and 21st century, regular initiator of creating new works especially through the project New Dawn focused on the young generation. Prague ensemble for free improvisation and multimedia creation Stratocluster recorded a number of albums and was a part of many creative collaborations – with the shakuhachi player John K. Neptune or explorer in the field of AI in music Ritwik Banerji.