It is a an international collective consisting of 11 improvisers living in Brussels and France. We come together around the desire to deepen a primordial research concerning the practice of non-idiomatic improvisation.
What characterises the collective is its open nature based on discursive exchange without a leader. The project engages in collective improvisation in the form of “solo parallels“, where several musicians play together while each one retains their solo. There are a number of ideas behind this artistic direction:
1) the essence of musical improvisation lies above all in deepening solo improvisation.
2) to avoid the risk of idiomatising non-idiomatic improvisation, we can’t imagine any other effective means apart from reflecting on the idiomatic itself.
3) the artistic is always linked to the socio-cultural. This becomes obvious
through listening attentively to the incomprehensible and the elusive, as well
as in the practice of sharing.
SKEW was born out of a series of workshops by Seijiro Murayama (Japan, 1957) and
consists of:
Hugo Abraham (double bass)
Cyprien Busolini (viola)
David Eyguesier (electric guitar)
Roger Fähndrich (e. guitar, voice)
Marcello Giannandrea (bassoon)
Victor Guaita (viola)
Mathieu Lilin (baritone sax)
Mattia Massolini (double bass)
Seijiro Murayama (percussion, voice)
Andrès Navarro (percussion)
Ana Simon (flute)
