Lemur

Improvising quartet, composers collective, curator group and creative team.

Bjørnar Habbestad flutes
Hild Sofie Tafjord  french horn
Lene Grenager  cello
Michael Duch   double bass

LEMUR is a fourheaded sonic organism that transforms, blends and breaks the boundaries of their instruments and the art of quartet playing. Drawing on their combined vocabulary from experimental music, noise, contemporary music and jazz, the four soloist appear as a tightly knit improvising unit and a conceptually guided composition collective.

Since 2006 LEMUR have performed across Europe and Asia in different formations ranging from acoustic and electronic quartet sets, via collaborations with pianist John Tilbury, guitarist Stian Westerhus and larger projects with Caput, Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra or the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. Their musical output includes music created live onstage, as well as a series of compositions drawing on titles from the canon of 20th century modernism.

Frequent collaborators include Glasgow-based avant-disco band AMOR, Zeitkratzer-leader and pianist Reinholdt Friedl, electro-acoustic pioneer Natasha Barrett and performance artist Kate Pendry.

 

Lemur web site

Lemur @ Soundcloud

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