Minute Made Music

Wir lieben Echtzeitmusik. We love Instant Composers. Aber jetzt gibts auch Minute Made Music!

After their first victorious concert at BIMHUIS 50^th anniversary this group of artists brought together by Oscar Jan Hoogland continues their trip. Standing on the shoulders of Amsterdams rich and notorious tradition of jazz and improvised music they go ahead into the future. The Amsterdam scene at the moment is very international and vibrant. The city is bursting of improvised music in dialogue with sexy cumbia, political post punk (The Ex), dada-esque performance art, live electronics, Monkish Misha Mengelberg jazz, acoustic chamber music, and music from South- West- and East-Afrika. In Minute Made Music all these musics meet in the modular concept of the group. Minute made music is both a program and a band. To really understand what we mean by that have a look at the BIMHUIS TV video of that crazy night at the BIM that it all started with:

MINUTE MADE MUSIC

Oscar Jan Hoogland – piano, electric clavichord, synth
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – voice, electronics, bass
Mola Sylla – voice, m’bira, xalam
Ben LaMar Gay – cornet, voice
Benjamin Herman – alt sax
Ada Rave – tenor sax, sopranino sax, bass clarinet
Mary Oliver – violin, viola
Harald Austbø – cello, voice
Uldis Vitols – bass, electronics
Andy Moor – electric guitar
Onno Govaert – drums
Sun-Mi Hong – drums

REVIEW

“Aan het eind van de avond is er maar één conclusie mogelijk: Het was fantastisch.” (“At the end of the evening there is only one conclusion possible: It was fantastic.)
Full article (Dutch) here.

Peter Bruyn, journalist