The Swedish electronic duo Midaircondo is coming to Brooklyn, New York on Monday, June 18th and performing in Williamsburgh. Coming off their recent performance at the Rochester International Jazz Festival this month, this group, largely unknown to New York audiences explores beat, sound, voice, and improvisation in an audio-visual environment, fusing highly visual performance with improvised live electro-acoustic music. Midaircondo was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in December 2002 when the gifted musicians realized during a knitting session that that they had a similar urge to experiment with sound and widen their musical range. They developed their unique sound through improvised jam sessions using saxophone, flute, vocals, and of course laptops and samplers. By further incorporating a plethora of unusual instruments and abstract recorded sounds, their jam sessions developed into structured and coherent improvisations. Before long Midaircondo were on stage, and the live element became the core of the band—something unusual in modern electronic music. Sending a breath of fresh air into the genre, they harness incredible sound design skills while managing to inject what can sometimes appear cold and calculated with life and vibrant color. Influenced as much by a stray radio broadcast or a glittering pop melody as by the latest star-studded albums, Midaircondo is a self-contained musical constellation. Midaircondo is Lisa Nordström (flutes, voice, computer) and Lisen Rylander (saxophones, voice, computer). For more information, visit www.midaircondo.com or www.myspace.com/midaircondo.
I had a chance to meet and, see them perform at the Swedish Jazz Showcase program at Scandinavia House on Wednesday the 13th of June and, I believe this group is worth a look. Their Current CD, SHOPPING FOR IMAGES, is a nice surprise and shows their range in voice and song selection. For further information visit the web sites above and www.swedeninnewyork.com
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