In Search of a Sound: Remembering Bill Dixon
Follow the Sound Festival
Antwerp, Belgium
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| Ingrid Karl Recalls Bill Dixon |
Earlier this year, I was invited to participate in a musical remembrance of Bill Dixon. Rob Luerentop, Artistic Director of the
Follow the Sound Festival, had the notion to invite four artists, all of who had, at some point in their career, an association with Dixon. Franz Koglmann, Jacques Coursil and Barry Guy answered the call to collaboration, as did I. It would be fair to say that this particular combination of musicians would never have come together but for the invitation of the festival. The diversity of our approaches to the music guaranteed, at the very least, an unusual confluence.
We had several days to get to know each other through rehearsal, conversation and, my favorite, shared gourmet meals. My deepest connection was with Franz Koglmann and his wife Ingrid Karl. Franz and Ingrid were longtime friends of Bill Dixon, and presented his work in Vienna at the essential
Weiner Musik Galerie many times. Bill was fond of the city and his time there. There are plans afoot to honor Bill's memory in Vienna in the near future.
The music we created is best described as work in progress. Over an aesthetically adhesive bed of sound provided by Barry Guy, each of us improvised alone, in pairs and, at times, as a trio of trumpets. There were moments of great beauty. Check out one of the concert reviews, by
Guy Peters for goddeau.com.
images by Ingrid Karl, Stephen Haynes & Geert Vandepoele
We had several days to get to know each other through rehearsal, conversation and, my favorite, shared gourmet meals. My deepest connection was with Franz Koglmann and his wife Ingrid Karl. Franz and Ingrid were longtime friends of Bill Dixon, and presented his work in Vienna at the essential Weiner Musik Galerie many times. Bill was fond of the city and his time there. There are plans afoot to honor Bill's memory in Vienna in the near future.
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4 comments:
THANK YOU!
PEACE & BLESSINGS,
ANDREW LAMB
Nice to read to a new posting, I notice you haven't posted anything new since 2010. I'm also sorry that I missed this event in Antwerp (I'm living down in Brussels), not sure how it slipped by the radar!
Keep blogging ...... we need real musicians blogs.
Thanks for the encouraging words, Joe. High praise given your activity on your own blog, Cardboard Music!
Losing Bill Dixon took me longer to move through than I imagined it would.
I have added a link to your blog page here.
Hi Stephen
Thanks for your kind comment. It's great to see your blog functioning, you should write more and keep us all up to date. And of course it's also great to see you're keeping all the Bill Dixon stuff going as well.
I hope that we'll get to meet one of these days (over in Belgium probably) and with a bit of luck maybe we'll even get the chance to play together.
All the best - Joe
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