Exploratory Music From Poland on tour: audio video primer

September 2011

Find out more about the artists who will be on EMFP's international tour of Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Japan and the UK, 2 October–4 November.

An ongoing tour of Polish Improv, modern composition and more, supported by The Wire, with musicians performing their own works and collaborating with local artists. The Wire and EMFP previously collaborated on two CD compilations of new, exploratory Polish music, given away to subscribers in issues 304 and 317.

The EMFP tour features Mikrokolektyw, Tomasz Choloniewski, Konrad Geca, DJ Lenar and Rafal Mazur. Paris Les Instants Chavirés (2 October), Amsterdam OT301 (3), Brussels Le Cafe Central (4), London Cafe Oto (5), Berlin Die Friedenskirche (7), Tokyo Super Deluxe (3–4 November).‪

As a primer for the tour, we've put together a small collection of videos and tracks by the artists who'll be performing:

Mikrokolektyw's "Rocket Street‬"

Konrad Gęca's "Untitled (Cuts & Pieces)"

‪Marek Chołoniewski's "Dark & Light/FACE‬"

Tomasz Krakowiak/
Chris Strickland/Pau Torres live at Eminent Domain, 20 November, 2010

Robert Piotrowicz's "Lincoln Sea: Ice Walk"

Watch: Simon Whetham & Jan Hendrickse

Field recordist Simon Whetham performs with multi instrumentalist Jan Hendrickse in the third and final instalment of South Hill Park's Embedded series of concerts.

Watch: exclusive vintage Wolf Eyes videos

Watch two videos featuring Wolf Eyes from 2001, one of the Ann Arbor Noise outfit playing during the recording of their Slicer album, and another of them performing live at Detroit's St Andrew's Hall.

Vicky+Langan

Watch: Vicky Langan's Dirt

Watch Dirt, a portrait video of performance artist Vicky Langan. Langan is the subject of an article by Daniel Spicer in The Wire 350.

Watch: Loft Chronicles: Phill Niblock

Watch an exclusive film about Phill Niblock, by Frederick Bernas, visiting him at his Experimental Intermedia space in New York. Niblock will be performing at Cafe Oto on 28 February.

Alasdair+Roberts+and+David+McGuinness

Watch Alasdair Roberts and David McGuinness live

Watch a recording of Alasdair Roberts and David McGuinness performing their arrangement of the traditional song "Long A-Growing" at Glasgow's Print Studios, 6 September, 2012. Video by John MacKechnie.

Robin+The+Fog

Watch videos by Robin The Fog

Watch The Ghosts Of Bush and Haunted Homes Under The Hammer video slideshows. Sound artist and Resonance FM presenter Robin Warren aka Robin The Fog is featured in The Wire 345 in an article by Sukhdev Sandhu.