SYMBIOSIS ORCHESTRA "3+4, 5+4..." LIVE

Symbiosis Orchestra is a mix-media band, created by Andrea Gabriele at the Peam 2005 festival in Pescara.
The band is a variable ensemble of classical and electronic instruments that perform a symbiotic combination of music and images.
Instruments such as the flute and portable laptop, manipulated voice and electric vibraphone are used in combination with tangible images and abstract chromatic effects projected on an intricate set design.
The music is a synthesis of many styles, the result of pieces orchestrated in the studio and on the spot improvisation.
The “3+4, 5+4…” live titles comes from the poly rhythmic beats from wich the orchestra produces its music.

Iris Garrelfs (uk)
manipulated voice, laptop
www.irisgarrelfs.com
Iris Garrelfs is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magzine put it.

Scanner (uk)
laptop
www.scannerdot.com
British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

Claudio Sinatti (it)
video, set design
www.claudiosinatti.com
Director, video designer, multimedia artist.

Stefano Tedesco (it)
vibraphone, percussions
http://www.stefanotedesco.net/
Stefano Tedesco is a London-based musician.
Stefano’s research is focused on sound and space, in particular through the live performance.
His music is mainly of an electro acoustic nature and during his performances he aims to establish a dialogue between the music and the space within which he works.
Stefano’s music is basically experimental improvisation that explores silence, noise, live electronics, texture and abstract sound. His practice includes unconventional instruments often using unusual techniques.

Mario Masullo (it)
drum machines
www.mariomasullo.com
Mario Masullo is a musician, a producer and sound artist . His productions concerns differents kinds of musical projects from ambient to techno, from experimental music to audio-video installations. After a remix for BMG, he starts the project Defrag Sound Processing with Davide Rovito, Pasquale Basso and Carlo Notarangelo, which became one of the most important italian label for electronic music. The Knowledge with the artists Bianco and Valente is very important for his artistic experience.
In 2003 they started a project called “Bianco-Valente and Mass”, during these years their audio-video installations have been exposed worldwide: at offiCina gallery in Beijing, at Reina Sofia National Museum of Madrid, Future Gallery of Prague, Palazzo Te Museum of city of Mantova, at Utrecht festival for contemporary arts and at Certosa of Padula in Salerno, for the art exhibition “Le opere e i giorni” edited by Achille Bonito Oliva. In 2003 they start “Self Organizing Structures” an audio-video concert performed at Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, for the event RomaEuropa Festival 2003.
Next year, they showed this project at MACBA (Contemporary Arts Museum of Barcelona) for the event Sonar 2004. At the end of 2004, they are guest to the 48th Edition Biennale of Venice of Contemporary Music. Next year Mario Masullo moves from Naples to Rome where starts to work with Maurizio Martusciello, one of the pioneers and key figures in the italian electronic scene. Their collaboration start with “Fuorioraria”, an audio-video improvisation show created with Enrico Ghezzi. Right now they are working together with othar musicians from the ECM label to realise a performance and an album. During the same year Mario Masullo collaborates with Gez Varley (G-Man and ex LFO member) for “Amblos Chapler”, a techno oriented project.
Mario plaid minimal techno sets in the most important european clubs: Berlin, Koln, Amburg, Paris, Lille, Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbona, Oporto.

Geoff Warren (it)
flutes, saxophone
www.geoffwarren.com
Flautist saxophonist and composer, Geoff Warren's career has been characterised by a typically English eclecticism and a constant search for new sounds and new situations in which to express himself creatively.
He has played in Europe, Asia and the United States in situations from contemporary chamber music to ethno-jazz, from commercial recording sessions to New Age. Particularly significant collaborations have been with English composer and bandleader Graham Collier, Ukrainian guitarist Enver Izmailov, and Indian percussionist Badal Roy.
His career as a professional musician began in 1979 with a tour with Graham Collier which took in the Camden Jazz Festival. In the eighties Geoff Warren fronted a jazz quartet of his own which frequently broadcast for BBC Radio as well as touring for the British Council in Hungary (1985) and Yugoslavia (1986). During these London years he worked with many of the big names of the British jazz scene, including Harry Beckett, John Surman, Art Themen, John Marshall among others.
In 1988 he began a series of collaborations with musicians in Italy. Since then he has worked with, among others, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava and Carlo Actis Dato, and in 1992 played at the Seville Expo with Andrea Centazzo.
In 1993 his musical "Poker" was produced in Munich and the entire score was broadcast on Bavarian radio.
In 1995 he toured Italy, Switzerland and Germany with Ukrainian/Tartar guitarist Enver Izmailov and during the tour recorded the CD "Dancing Over The Moon" for TUTU records, which the following year was presented at the Nuremberg East-West festival. The duo teamed up again at the Odessa Jazz Festival (Ucraine) in 2002.
In 1997 Geoff Warren met Badal Roy, tablas player for Ornette Coleman and before that Miles Davis, and they put together their current trio project, which has toured Italy frequently since then. The CD Kolkata Rose, recorded in New York with bassist Stomu Takeishi has been released in the USA and in Europe, and second CD recorded in Verona with Italian bassist Marcello Sebastiani is due for release shortly.
Since 2001 Geoff Warren has been Artistic Director for the M.A.T. music school in Verona, Italy, where among other things he holds a Jazz Flute course every Summer.