duo pantoMorf - improvisation

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"duo pantoMorf is a Swedish electronic free impro duo and research project. Beginning in 2006, they have actively developed new ways of controlling electronic sound. The video shows an improvisation on two instances of the instrument "the expressure pad", which has become their main performance instrument. Based on a completely novel way of mapping gesture sound, it allows enormous timberal flexibility and expressive fingertip control at the same time. Both members have a background as musicians on traditiona instruments, and this duo represents is one of the results of their efforts in bringing back musicianship into electronic music, that is, to be able to play electronic sounds as directly as acoustic instruments. The dogmas are: If we lift our hands, the instrument goes silent. That means, there are no pre-programmed processes, and every sound nuance corresponds to a physical gesture from the musician.

duo pantoMorf have performed in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, USA and Canada. Further tours are planned, for Portugal (October 2009) and USA (March 2010).

Left: Palle Dahlstedt
Right: Per Anders Nilsson

Video produced by Anders Bryngel - see http://www.youtube.com/user/waddagood... for more by him!

http://myspace.com/pantomorf

A technical paper on the instrument can be found here: http://www.init.ituniv.se/~palle/publ...

Thanks to University of Gothenburg, Swedish Research Council and Clavia."