noisy town groove

meets contemporary improvisation

collaborators

lukas ligeti

drums

tom zlabinger

bass

chris janka

e-git

mia zabelka

vio., electronics

didi kern

drums

susanna gartmayer

clarinet

fritz novotny

sax

daniel pabst

e-git

description:

NTG is a collective based in New York
City and Vienna. We are recording, performing and cultivate
our music in Europe and the USA. Maybe somebody will say:" no matter! For us it is a big influence to have a base in both cities. The energy of New York City is the fuel of our music, it is the Groove of emergency. Vienna is the reflection of our deepness, of our melancholy and of our sensibility in social and musical abilities. The music of noisy town groove is free improvised.

I use this collective to play with many musicians in the free improvisers scene. Almost every time Chris Janka and Lukas Ligeti are playing in the band.

reviews

concerto feb/mär 2008

jazzzeit jan/feb 2008

der standard/25.11.2006/autor: andreas felber

der standard/11.02.2006/autor: andreas felber

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CHRIS JANKA
born in 1973
collaborations with: noel akchote, kontext, sowo, blendwerk, trafo, GELATINE
concerts in Austria, Germany, Suisse, Italy, USA
is also owner of a studio and makes productions with noel akchote.
he makes film-music, sound-collages and electro-technical sculptures
88-92 | htl-maschinenbauausbildung
93-95 | konstrukteur bei kranfirma palfinger
98-00 | lehrgang für computermusik und experimentelle musik (elak)
00- | aufbau eines tonstudios

97 | techn.leitung sommerspiele klosterneuburg/barbier v. sevilla
98 | techn.hilfeleistung für projekt der "time`s up" linz
99 | vertonung des theaterstücks "alarm" u.a. mit joseph hader, wien und salzburg
00 | vertonung der tanzperformance "99bücher+1fernseher" mit sonja schmidtlehner, wien
vierkanalvertonung der tanzperformance "ex onda II" mit s.schm. und sabina holzer , wien
vertonung einer performance von maxi schießwohl , maastricht/niederlande
01 | vierkanalvertonung der körperinstallationsperformance "der schlund" von den gelatin
im marstalltheater münchen
"you must stop curien!"mit gelatin , arnhem/niederlande
02 | ausstellung "oilslik" mit louise rath, ijmoiden/niederlande
und in wien/museumsquartier
03 | "bailette de sacacorchos",mit beat spichtig , wien
unterstützug der gelatin beim projekt "arc de triumphe", sbg

04 | unterstützung der gelatin beim projekt "otto-volante", mailand
klanginstallation bei der ausstellung "to be continued 2"
05| diverse film- und videovertonungen
bau der palatschinkautomatika mit andi strauss vom ir.rationalisation institute
"saus und braus", fahrradraketenrennen mit david moises
bau des hubschraubers "HUI" mit david moises
kuratierung und organisation von "Der Ohrenzeuge/Elias Canetti" 50 projrkte am kleylehof/burgenland
hubschraubereinsatz beim verein symposion lindabrunn
seit 1990 | als musikant bei diversen musikgruppen in sbg. und wien,u.a.:ROH,blendwerk,beiwagen,trafo..

LUKAS LIGETI
was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied at the Vienna Music University. Upon completing his studies there, he spent 1994-1996 as a visiting scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. Since 1998, he has lived in New York City. Yes, he is a relative of györgy (his son).
Oblivious to categorizations such as "classical", "pop", etc., his main interests include areas such as cultural exchange, polyrhythms/polytempo structures, and non-tempered tunings, and his music ranges from the through-composed to the free-improvised.
As a composer, he has been commissioned by the Vienna Festwochen, Ensemble Modern, Kronos Quartet, American Composers Forum, New York University, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Company, Radio France, and many others. His compositions have been performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, London Sinfonietta, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble "die reihe", and others at major festivals worldwide. He has also composed for dance, film, and installation. In June 2004, Tzadik Records released the CD "Mystery System", featuring five of Lukas Ligeti's compositions for chamber ensemble, interpreted by the Amadinda Percussion Group, the world-class percussion ensemble from Hungary; Ethel, New York's über-hip new string quartet; the great American contemporary music pianist Kathleen Supové; and the French ensemble Procédé Rodesco-Letort.
As a drummer, he has played and/or recorded with artists such as Henry Kaiser, Raoul Björkenheim, Michael Manring, Gianni Gebbia, Daniel Carter, Benoît Delbecq, John Tchicai, Pyrolator Kurt Dahlke, Elliott Sharp, Jim O'Rourke, Robert Dick, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Rupert Huber, Ned Rothenberg, etc., and performs solo concerts on electronic percussion.
He is also highly active in cultural exchange. In 1994, commissioned by the Goethe Institute, he conducted a workshop in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, which led to the founding of the experimental, intercultural group Beta Foly, many more trips to Abidjan, much touring in Europe, and the release of his first CD as a bandleader, "Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly" on Intuition Music in 1997. He has also worked on a project involving the Batonka people of the Lake Kariba area, performing in Zimbabwe, Moçambique, and South Africa; collaborated with Nubian musicians in Egypt, including a joint concert at the Cairo Opera; composed a piece for musicians of different Caribbean cultures which premiered in Miami Beach; and, since 2000, has collaborated with Maï Lingani, a singer from Burkina Faso. Their newest joint project, "Burkina Electric", was started in 2004 and combines the traditional music of that country with dance-oriented electronica.

Since 2003, he has curated the weekly experimental music series "Freezone NY" with guitarist Ty Cumbie.

MIA ZABELKA
Electric violinist, multimedia artist and curator, lives and works in Vienna, studied music, the violin, composition, electro-acoustic music and journalism in Vienna, Cologne, Berlin and New York. Numerous concerts and intermedial performances in Austria and abroad, in addition to CD, video, radio and TV productions. "Composer in Residence" at the Kunststation St. Peter in Cologne, numerous concerts and performances in Europe, America and the former USSR. Guest of the DAAD's (German Academic Exchange Service's) international artists' programme, scholarships and funding from prominent organizations and national offices (Ministry for Art & Education, Fulbright Commission), three-time winner of the Ars Electronica prize (1988, 1993, 1994), winner of the WDR competition for composition. Commissioned works for Ars Electronica, steirischer herbst, Wiener Festwochen, Bonner Tage f?r Neue Musik, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Inventionen
Berlin,Stiftung Akademie der K?nste Berlin, New Music America, The Kitchen, Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft and Transit.
Performances at the Festival Synthese Bourges, Ars Electronica, Frankfurt Feste, Inventionen Berlin, steirischer herbst, New Music America, Museum Moderner Kunst Wien and at the ORF state studios in Innsbruck, Dornbirn and Salzburg, at the Documenta in Kassel, the Biennale in Venice, the Kunsthaus in Graz, the Mediale in Hamburg and the Intermediale in Munich, the H?rg?nge and at De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam.
Artistic director of the Klangturm in St.P?lten from 1996 to 2000. Initiator (with Karin Schorm / cbb-projects) of the "Engelspfad" project in Vienna, which took place annually from 1998 to 2001. Numerous prizes and awards from international music festivals.
Zabelka makes music with John Zorn, David Moss, Fernando Grillo, Eliot Sharp, Wolfgang Mitterer, Fred Frith and Joe Zawinul. She works with the DJs Gerhard Potuznig, Robin Rimbaud and Electric Indigo, amongst others. Her work has been inspired by her acquaintance with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Andres Bosshard and Malcolm Goldstein.

DISCOGRAPHY
SOMATEME Ed. RZ/ Teldec LP ERZ 10002 (1987)
ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK. 2. TONBAND UND... Amadeo LP 427 040-1 (1988)
M.Z. AND ACTING SEVEN: BABEL. Viennola LP 1989
BEWEGTE T?NE. Klangskulptur, ED. 235 Media (1989)
BRENNPUNKTE, Ed. Michael Frauenlob Bauer, Video VHS 421 (1991)
POSSIBLE FRUIT, (M.Z. & John Zorn, David Moss, Jone Rose, Ferdinand Richard, Peter Holliger, ...) Extraplatte CD EX 172 093 (1993)
EXTRAJAZZ 95/96. THE MUSIC OF EXTRAPLATTE. Extraplatte CD EX-316 159-2 (1996) >


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