THE SEALED KNOT
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Burkhard Beins - zither and live-electronics
Rhodri Davies - electric harp and live-electronics
Mark Wastell - tam tam and live-electronics
For the first ten years (1999-2009) the group has worked as an all acoustic outfit:
Rhodri Davies (harp), Mark Wastell (cello, double-bass) and Burkhard Beins (percussion).
In January 2010 they have played their first live-electro-acoustic concert at London's Café Oto.
"These are collaborative sound makers, loosely in the tradition of AMM
or David Tudor's realisations of John Cage, forging music through whatever means meet the needs of the moment. While electronic music
is an influence, it's the joint involvement with the tactile demands of objects and instruments that gives this music it's urgency."
- Will Montgomery, The Wire -
"Impulses seem crucial to the trio's ideas in their limited environment, and their music materializes
so freely. The air is filled with deceptively organized patterns and it becomes a nagging wonder that
these performances weren't preconceived at all. It is a brilliant work that exemplifies what we have
come to know as contemporary minimalism."
- Alan Jones, Bagatellen -
Will Montgomery: "Silence is a rhythm too - The Sealed Knot", THE WIRE 6/02
ROUND TABLE INTERVIEW, Bill Shoemaker interviews The Sealed Knot for Point Of Departure, 2010
Releases:
The Sealed Knot (Confront CD 06, 2000)
The Sealed Knot: Surface/Plane (Meniscus CD012, 2003)
The Sealed Knot: Unwanted Object (Confront CD, 2004)
The Sealed Knot: live at the Red Hedgehog (Confront CD-R, 2007)
The Sealed Knot: and we disappear (another timbre CD at23, 2009)