Inclusion Principle – 8 May 2013

After around two and a half years, we are happy to welcome back Martin Archer and Hervé Perez with their duo “Inclusion Principle” to the Sheffield Noise Upstairs.

They decided to base the name on a theory of the research physicist Wolfgang Pauli. They found a correlation in that they both worked with a digital scalpel on fields of microsounds; a science which took both our instruments and processed field recordings a little closer to the chemistry of natural sounds, complete with harmonic DNA sequences and rhythmical fragments quantum-jumping from cell to cell. They were intrigued by the idea of the ‘exclusion principle’ and decided that Pauli was ‘not even wrong’ in his theory since Martin and Hervé successfully managed to sit together in the same room… Their main source of inspiration is deep listening and a fascination for the science of the natural world. Sometimes, sitting in silence for hours in the crest of birdsongs or in wafts of windy harmony is more profitable than practicing scales.

Hervé Perez and Martin Archer – The Inclusion Principle

Reviews:

“Martin Archer, a mainstay of Sheffield’s experimental scene, has released electroacoustic improvisations on his own Discus label since the mid 1990s. Here he takes up his violin, processing the results at source with computer software. Perez sis at a laptop, treating field recordings of natural sounds. “Playing a violin and manipulating a mouse at the same time is an interesting physical process” reads Archer’s press release, and though listeners searching for examples of conventional virtuosity will do so in vain, the sense of considered, focused interplay between the participants is undeniable. An hour or so of abstract noise passes imperceptibly, then, suddenly, everything feels shockingly different.” – Stuart Lee, Sunday Times

“A CD of intricate moments, steering away quite nicely from many of the clichés associated with the vague beast that is the improv genre. Both (players) do indeed seem to be on an extended nature trip, albeit a microscopic one…..It’s an album of abstract micro-events, none of which help pin the improvisation down, and it feels at times that we’re moving along with the musicians on a cellular level of sound…..What I hear is the deep thinking of stones and the beating hearts of young trees, the dying wishes of leaves falling to the ground and the absurdist symphony of a gently running stream…..Guaranteed to make even the most hardened sceptics want to smell new spring flowers and run naked through the fields.” – Aaron Robertson, Sound Projector

Martin Archer – www.discus-music.co.uk, www.myspace.com/martinarchermusic

Hervé Perez – www.spacers.lowtech.org/herve, www.myspace.com/nexttime

Starts 8:30pm, FREE entry, bring your instruments for all the usual name-in-the-hat improv jamming!