PRESENT
SCATTERWOUND
Hellmut Neidhardt : electric guitar, effects / Dirk Serries : electric guitar, effects
Like a rising droning sound, something that starts inaudibly but builds and builds and builds until it’s all you can hear, Scatterwound were, well, scattered for a while, waiting for the universe to be ready for its pieces to finally fall into place. Known experimentalist Dirk Serries and Hellmut Neidhardt, aka N, had this collaboration idea floating around in the ether for, rumour has it, almost a decade.
And that it only came properly to fruition once they heard a forgotten recording done at a soundcheck while searching for something else. Somehow, it makes perfect sense that it should be like this – more than music, even ambient, abstract music as it is, Scatterwound is an idea, an ephemeral meeting of travelling minds, blinking in and out of existence, consuming you briefly and then drifting away into another dimension before coming back again.
Discography :
0.0 (TAPE, Midira Records 2017 / LP, Denovali 2018)
M.N. (CD, Midira Records 2018)
CB (TAPE, Midira Records 2021)
TL (3xCD, Midira Records 2023)
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LOUD AS GIANTS
Justin K Broadrick / Dirk Serries
13 years after their Fear Falls Burning & Final collaboration, these two kindred spirits return with an album that symbolizes their mutual fascination for the eighties culture in which they grew up and all the relevant and groundbreaking genres Justin and Dirk were influenced by.
Justin K Broadrick and Dirk Serries have been musically in sync since the early eighties when they both were active in the underground cassette network, individually producing experimental, industrial and noise music.
Both with the highest appreciation for each other’s work for almost two decades, they finally met during a joined tour where Dirk, as Fear Falls Burning, supported JESU during the CONQUEROR tour.
Finding out that they both a huge admiration for each other immense discography and versatile musical activities, working together was only a matter of time. Remixes (for Vidna Obmana), reconstructions (for Continuum), collaborations (with Dirk Serries’ Microphonics and Fear Falls Burning) and helping each other out at concerts became a constant until finally they unleashed LOUD AS GIANTS.
Discography :
Empty Homes (LP&CD, Consouling Sounds 2023)
TONUS
TONUS as an ensemble grew out of Dirk Serries’ jazzcase residency in 2017 for which he brought together a sextet to work around a slow piano motif by Martina Verhoeven. The literal translation of Tonus is muscle strength, but in this context defines a musical system that places equal importance on the space between notes. Both definitions apply here as the music is an exercise in discipline and anticipation while controlling the clarity, sustain and effect of each single note played. The birth of the TONUS happened when Serries realised that he needed a vehicle to explore and perform these exercises, as well as a general classification for his ongoing study in minimalism and free improvisation. TONUS is a constantly rotating group, assembled to the needs of the graphic sore. Members have been : Jan Daelman, Patrick De Groote, Graham Dunning, Kristoffer Lo, Cath Roberts, Benedict Taylor, Martina Verhoeven, Nils Vermeulen, Tom Ward, Colin Webster, Otto Willberg.
Discography :
Intermediate Obscurities I+IV (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2018)
Texture Point (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2018)
Cagean Morphology (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2018)
Ear Duration (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2019)
Segment Tones (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2019)
Intermediate Obscurities III (CD, Spontaneous Music Live Series 2020)
Monograph 50 (TAPE, Fort Fruit Evil 2020)
Modulation Grid II (TAPE, Midira Records 2021)
Analog Discourse (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2024)
IMPETUS GROUP
Conceptually part of the A New Wave Of Jazz modus operandi, to unite musicians and kindred spirits to create on the spot, curator Dirk Serries has a dream.. Heavily inspired by the late 70s/early 80s British free improvising ‘big bands’, Derek Bailey’s Company group, Iskra 1903 and John Stevens’ Spontaneous Music Ensemble, he has formed the IMPETUS GROUP – a large ensemble based upon the free improvisation principle. Members have been : Martin Clarke, Maya Felixbrodt, Peter Jacquemyn, Charlotte Keeffe, Andrew Lisle, Hannah Marshall, Cath Roberts, Benedict Taylor, Daniel Thompson, Tom Ward, Alan Wilkinson, Colin Webster, Otto Willberg.
Discography :
Density Dots (CD, Klanggalerie 2023)
MARTINA VERHOEVEN QUINTET
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass / Onno Govaert : drums / Dirk Serries : guitar / Martina Verhoeven : piano / Colin Webster : alto sax
Discography :
Driven – Live At Roadburn 2022 (CD, Klanggalerie 2022)
Indicator Light (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz 2024)
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