homeless of the sea and sky
Tasos Stamou is a sound experimentalist & visual artist based in Athens, Greece. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist and composer in various directions of musical expression, an enthusiastic circuit bender & an instrument modifier, he performs improvised sets both in collective or solo projects, also creating music/sound for film, video and theatre. Based on live-looped drones, sounds & melodies, he uses a variety of electronic and acoustic sources to create original instant compositions, whose main character is focused on exploring and deconstructing musical form.
Jim Campbell (aka jim permanent) is a turntapelist, for lack of a better term. Poor as hell & inspired by proponents of experimental work with vinyl, both avant-garde & hiphop, he started to experiment with the lofi electronics that he found lying around, primarily relics of the tape age. Over time this work elbowed out his time spent behind the drumkit & soon he had put together a unique instrument, his “cassette scratch orchestra”, composed of cast-off phrase trainers, self-made scratchbunnies, a re-purposed & prepared analog cassette multitracker & piles of found & self-dubbed tapes. Campbell works in a variety of contexts, most notably solo, improvising freely, scratching abstract-emotive tone poems on the fly. Aside from composing for theater & dance, he curates the innovative “Baender Bender” concert series in Dortmund, Germany & has played with musicians as diverse as Claus Van Bebber & DJ Elephant Power, to name a few.
Together, as "homeless of the sea & sky", the two improvisors make ideal duo partners, approaching spontaneous sound from opposite, but uncannily complementary ends of the spectrum, Stamou transforming his kinetic interplay with the material world into instant concrète loop poems & Campbell coming to the aid of sounds previously commited to magnetic tape & setting them free one scratched fragment at a time.
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