Current collaborations:

Angel Trails

2024 - present Guitar duo with Gbg's Josef Zetterqvist. Detuned, glacial riff-abuse - equal parts premeditated and improvised.

ebb & flod

photo: Oscar Brask

2023 - 2025 ebb & flod is a musicians' collective started in January of 2023 by multidisciplinary artist Gabriel Nils Edvinsson and is currently functioning as a think-tank and incubator where participants share and test ideas within electroacoustic improvisation - exploring processing techniques, performance and more. Sessions encompassed solo to sextet constellations, game-pieces and graphic-scores.

Viktoria Pressman

photo: l i f

2025 Emerging from a shared understanding around concept and approach to improvisation and to the demarcation of time. the music was both spacious and dense, often simmering with high intensity at low volumes.

Tim Perkis

photo: l i f

2023 - present Following his recent relocation to Gothenburg, Tim and I have been exploring percussion and electronics in the duo-format and, more recently, live-processed percussion and electronics. Tim's ability to remain focused amidst constant flux is self-evident and natural. The level of mental-awareness and physicality I need to to maintain, particularly at the drumset is an intense and exciting challenge. https://perkis.com

Rasmus Persson

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2021 - 2025 Persson and I met through our shared residency at ELEMENTSTUDION in Gothenburg. Since our first recordings made in early 2021 we quickly found compatibility and a fluid working-relationship combining his Nord Modular Mini (Max/MS) with my own inputLoop sampler rig. Digital abstract sounds are humanised by gestural in-the-moment decision-making and by Rasmus' uncanny ability to make decisions that work. Our debut release "Ratios" was released 1 Nov 2024 on idealstate recordings. The follow-up, "ACTON" was released Feb. '25 on isr digital.

Barrie James Sutcliffe

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2014 - present Barrie and I have had a standing-duo since we first met at Brötz performance-space in Gothenburg a decade ago. At that time Barrie was setting up installations and performing with a stressfully unreliable no-input mixer and setting objects in motion with piezo speakers. Since that time we have played a splattering of concerts and amassed untold-hours of recordings exploring many instrumental and non-instrumental formats, some of it published (for example, here, here and here) and much of it not. Currently on hiatus due to health-issues, we hope to welcome Sutcliffe back into the fray again soon.

Barry Chabala

photo: Rosy Chabala

2006 - present I first came across guitarist Barry Chabala, now my longest-running musical partnership (and, if I'm not mistaken, his also) on the now long-defunct freejazz.org discussion forum . A shared-interest in the trend toward a more pared-back, reductionist style of improvisation led to us working together, reaching its most refined form in our 2009 release "The Shade & The Squint" . Barry subsequently went even deeper into this most fertile area, performing works by Wandelweiser composers, among them Antoine Beuger and Michael Pisaro-Liu, both on album and in concert. Our collaboration was taken up again with the onset of the global-event of 2020/21, culminating in releases on Mark Wastell's Confront label and Chabala's own Roeba imprint. The respect for silence and space remains in our current works, for example the the wholly electronic "Facets" from 2022, and our latest work "The Lightgiver", released on Ftarri in 2024, which has me composing at the piano after a break of several years, supported by Chabala's recent delving into virtual instrument environments. https://barrychabala.bandcamp.com/

Lance Austin Olsen

photo: Jamie Drouin

2012 - present Lance and I began working together shortly after being paired together by his Infrequency Arts co-founder Jamie Drouin in his video-project, RE_MOTE. Having already built a lifetime's body of work as a visual artist prior to his move into sound-art in the early-2000's, Lance's experience and dedication to the creative-life shows through everything he does. What I love most about his work is that there is not the least trace of tentativeness in his gesture, yet at the same time his works reveal an exploratory spirit, open to chance-occurrences and genuine surprise. This sense of the material leading the artist forward is beautifully exemplified in music that is firmly rooted in openness and dedicated listening. This parallel is possibly why Olsen now divides his time between both practices. Previously published are Olsen/Noyes duo albums Craig's Stroke (2014) and Particles & Waves (2017), both on Infrequency Editions, as well as the large-group realisation of the Olsen score Battle Maps, Battle Hymns: The Vast Field of Liberation (2017) on Suppedaneum. Solo realisations of the 17-page Night on the Veldt and the text/visual score entitled RUZAWI were completed summer 2024 and published on Ftarri in 2025. https://lanceolsen.ca/

Massimo Magee

photo: Gosia Basinska

2007 - 2023 Saxophonist Massimo Magee and I first met on the freejazz discussion boards. The majority of our collaboration has been via file-sharing, playing with someone who absolutely will not budge from their train of thought. I am thankful for what this working-method has brought to my live-playing. Our latest album, exploring the classic woodwinds & drums format and entitled Fallen Feathers, was completed in August 2023. https://www.massimomagee.com/

Past collaborations:

Finn Loxbo

Active 2012 - 2016 Christian Munthe introduced me to Finn shortly after my arrival in Sweden in January of 2012. We played often as a duo, and on occassion in trios with among others Anna Högberg, Isak Hedtjärn and Hunrik Munkeby Nørstebø. Finn plays an impressively wide array of styles, but it is his sense of space and internal timekeeping as well as the crystaline harmonics he coaxes from the acoustic guitar that are most missed since his move to Stockholm. Available to listen to are a guitar duet, Time Is Its Instrument. We adapted Ellsworth Kelley's Brushstrokes Cut into Forty-Nine Squares and Arranged by Chance 1951 for acoustic guitar and electronics, which can be heard here, and finally there is our full-length album HEX, a composition derived from I-Ching processes. Finn has continued to refine his sound and is creating wonderfully engaging music, particularly in his role as composer and bandleader of the ensemble Kommun. https://finnloxbo.bandcamp.com/

Johnny Chang

Active 2012 -2013 I believe it was hearing my duet with composer and fellow-New Zealander, Phil Brownlee that led to Johnny contacting me and suggesting a project. He sent me a text score which we interpreted independently - Johnny in Berlin, myself in Gothenburg. Later in May of '13, I spent four days in Berlin rehearsing and recording ahead of our premier of the work, Having Never Been To Beirut at Labor Sonor: a performance later described as "wide-open, managing to attain something of an epic quality, full of air and undulations" by Brian Olewnick in his review of the subsequent album-release. Now back in Auckland, NZ, Johnny is organising concerts and events under Partitions and Resonances. https://soundcloud.com/johnnychchang

Sally Ann McIntyre (Radio Cegeste)

Active 2009 - 2011 Sally and I began working via our mutal connection to None Gallery, the central-hub of the Dunedin experimental scene at the time. Her solo project, Radio Cegeste is a micro-broadcast on the FM spectrum. Utilising an FM transmitter with approx. 100m radius, Radio Cegeste captures and re-presents sonic information (78's, birdsong, field-recordings and more) to a given space on an array of mini radio-receivers. While Sally's stands on a rigorous conceptual-foundation, what appealed to me was the opportunity to work with and complement her material at exceptionally low volumes; to interact without overwhelming - emphasising situation and location... the close-in, spatialised listening of small speakers and small receivers. We performed and recorded at the None Gallery, art-openings, house-concerts, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Lines of Flight Festival; the latter of which demonstrated to me the power of a whisper to quiet a room. Our album-releases include If witness was an architect on idealstate no-number series and our farewell, to orient themselves with coastlines on ISR. https://radiocegeste.blogspot.com/

Paulo Chagas

Photo: Pedro Cabral

Active 2008 - 2020 Paulo is a phenomenal and prolific woodwind player based in Peniche, Portugal and someone with whom I have collaborated with often over the years since we first made contact online. The As Birds album, a jazz-trio release with Bruno Duplant was a particular highlight, as was his work on the 2014 ISR release Edges, his clarinets playing the fox traversing an icy lake of electronic-feedback. The latest in our sporadic, but ongoing musical dialogue is the quarantine/lockdown-instigated virtual-trio Where Fear Ends, released in 2020 and with Paulo on oboe and flute, myself on drums and featuring Italian jazz-pianist, Nicola Guazzaloca. Paolo is a main organiser of the M.I.A. festival of improvised music and publishes works on the Zpoluras Netlabel. https://zpoluras.blogspot.com/

Bruno Duplant

photo: Bruno Duplant

Active 2008 - 2013A self-proclaimed autodidact with a shared enthusiasm for distance-collaboration, we quickly began producing work with little consideration given to genre or instrumentation. From bedroom-folk experiments with loose song-form, Milford Graves-inspired percussion-duets, to more explicitly "free-jazz" material, over time the music changed to reflect our growing interest in composition for improvisors and for the prominent use of silence. Ceaselessly active, Bruno continued collaborating, producing and publishing at an extraordinary rate and has since established himself as composer of standing within the field of minimalism.15 Questions - an interview with Bruno Duplant

Stuart Porter

photo: Motoko Kikkawa

Active 2008 -2011Alto saxophonist Stuart Porter was a pioneer of the Wellington, NZ improvised music scene, active since the early 1980's. I'm not sure when he moved down south, but by the time I arrived in Dunedin in 2003, he was a fixture there with partner Susan Ellis. They were hosting meet-ups and recording-sessions out of their Maitland Street home with a revolving-door of different local musicians. With his proximity to the Ornette-tradition both generationally and instrumentally, I found my playing often moved into areas already amply covered by my legacy-influences on the drums, Billy Higgens, Ed Blackwell, et.al. It was only when I asserted my own tastes toward a more deconstructed style that, when combined with Stuart's ardent and lyrical playing, things got really interesting. Our collaboration culminated in the album like also and any, released just before my move to Scandanavia. While likened to oil and water by some, it was precisely this wilful-contrariness that led to others describing it as vast, powerful, original, airy, poetic, accessible, intense, a refreshment and a renewal. Stuart Porter's The Blithenian Mysteries YT Channel

Alex McKinnon

Active 2007 - 2011 Alex was an integral part of Dunedin's None Gallery scene as guitarist, installation-artist and live-in resident and he epitomised the ethos of the New Zealand D.I.Y. underground, where there's nothing that can't be fixed without solder and duct-tape. This was a neccessary skill given the physicality of his playing, a style that put the equipment under a great deal of stress, but gave me as a drummer turbulent, ecstatic waves of guitar noise to ride out on - absolutely liberating. We played many shows as a duo in Dunedin and Christchurch and together formed the core of several other bands, including the power-trio Wu when we were later joined by woodwind player Matt Middleton (CRUDE). A good deal of footage from the 2007 -2010 period that we were most active and offering insight into the Dunedin scene at this fertile time can be seen on Alex's Vimeo channel. Alex MacKinnon

Richard Neave

Active 2007 - 2008 Richard Neave's guitar style was absolutely unique: brittle, angular, uncompromising in its awkwardness. We got one album done, released as Un-Repent. An excerpt appeared on The Wire compilation Dirt Beneath the Daydream, a compendium of the NZ experimental music scene at the time and we also had a track included in the Fax the Root compilation on the Root Don Lonie For Cash label. We managed to play one show in Dunedin before Richard travelled to Thailand for a period to teach. Plans to continue our collaboration were tragically cut short however, due to his untimely passing. Although I never got the opportunity to deepen our friendship, the loss of a kindred-spirit hit me acutely at the time and his absence left a huge hole in the NZ cultural-scene.

cja (Clayton Noone)

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Active 2004 - 2011 Meeting and working with Clayton Noone (aka cja) was a revelation for me; record everything, release everything. Whether it was on his own Root Don Lonie For Cash label, or on any one of the seemingly hundreds of international connections had built up over his years of activity in the NZ underground, this working-method exemplified a level of professionalism not often present in underground circles: always show up ready to play. Since that time, I treat every session like a gig and I'll walk out of a session the second I feel people are not invested, or not listening. Kia kaha! https://rootdonlonieforcash.blogspot.com/

phil hargreaves

Active 2002 - 2011Being Liverpool-based, phil was just outside the circle of the London-hub, but had played with a number of musicians whose names I was already familiar with, Paul Hession, Simon H.Fell, Maggie Nichols and Caroline Kraabel among them. Having seen that he had already done a "postal project" in the same vein as works by musical heroes Derek Bailey and Han Bennink, I wrote to phil suggesting we work together. To my utter surprise he agreed. Our project, released as a present from the pickpocket, took four years to complete, but it was the first of many. phil has one of the most unique voices I've heard on saxophone. His latest release "Pi" is fantastic: check it out on Martin Archer's Discus Music.https://www.whi-music.co.uk/