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  Tristan Honsinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tristan Honsinger is a cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation.
Tristan Honsinger's extremely energetic style of playing leads to the necessity to change bows at least once every few minutes.
Born in Vermont in 1949, Honsinger was given music lessons from a very early age on, as his mother had hopes of creating a chamber orchestra together with Tristan's brother and sister.
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 Tristan Honsinger - Biography - AOL Music
Born in New England, the cellist Tristan Honsinger studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
Honsinger worked with the great pianist in Europe, with Steve Lacy, Lol Coxhill, and Louis Moholo among them in the European free jazz community -- which, in the '70s, was thriving as far away as Florence, Italy.
The range of emotions that is covered in a piece by Tristan Honsinger is striking in that it is very accessible for so-called avant-garde music.
music.aol.com /artist/tristan-honsinger/39418/biography   (417 words)

  
 eau naturelle play natural music!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tristan personally trained the band for more than one year, performed with the band on several occasions, then brought them to the studio to record a CD.
As it is often Tristan’s case, the group language defies stylistic connotation: interplay relies mainly upon musicians’ ability to react quickly and adapt to sound environment that other group members may abruptly introduce, stimulus of sometimes unexpected nature.
Tristan Honsinger: During a thirty years tenure experience, most of it spent in the firing line of the avantgarde, the american born cellist shared collaborations with quite all the outstanding personalities of improvised music, from Cecil Taylor to Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, only to cite some.
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Tristan Honsinger grew up in New England, took up cello at age nine in Springfield, Massachusetts.
It was after moving to Montreal in 1969 that Honsiner began improvising and, after meeting Dutch percussionist Peter van Ginkel, uprooted to Europe, moving to Amsterdam in 1974 began playing with Maarten van Regteren Altena, Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg as well as being involved in Derek Bailey's Company Weeks and playing with Globe Unity.
Currently, Tristan Honsinger is a member of the Tobias Delius 4 Tet, Sean Bergin's various large and small groups, Ig Henneman's string groups and the ICP Orchestra.
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 Atavistic Worldwide | Beresford Honsinger Toop Kondo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tristan Honsinger is an American cellist who has lived for years in Europe and we met when we both played in Derek Bailey's 'Company'' at the ICA in London, 1977.
Tristan was back in London to play the ICA when we took the opportunity to schlep a cassette recorder and two microphones there one afternoon and record a set of duets, using their OK grand piano.
(Tristan went on to guest on a few sessions by The Pop Group, another band Dick was involved with).
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 www.jazzweekly.com | Reviews
American-born, long-time Dutch resident cellist Tristan Honsinger has been exhibiting his anarchistic tendencies since the 1960s and can even upset established mischief-makers like the members of Misha Mengelberg's ICP Orchestra, with whom he frequently plays.
All of these strands are tied together in Honsinger's "Ladida." A compendium of sounds and effects, it starts with a dark, reed-biting bleat from the clarinet, that subsides into glissando trills, while the cellist plucks at his instrument like a bass guitar and the pianist sounds as if he's tuning his instrument.
Soon through, the three are jointly sounding out a gigue-like pastoral melody so realistically that Honsinger conjures up the image of a cartoon violinist in the midst of playing a concerto, all rapt expression and flying curls and coat tails.
www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/mmoore_air.htm   (830 words)

  
 tristan honsinger cello supreme!
Tristan Honsinger, born 1949 in Vermont, he’s today one of the most outstanding world-recognised personality in the milieu of improvised music and avant-garde jazz.
Nowadays he’s ICP Orchestra staple member, he frequently meets old comrades and stays open to partnerships with younger musicians, as in the case of Eau Naturelle and Basse Sfere.
Today a returning expression between young musicians is this: Tristan has played with everyone, and everywhere too, I may add.
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 Free improvisation - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Free music performers come from a variety of backgrounds, and there is often considerable crossover with other genres.
For example, much of Peter Brötzmann's output is also widely considered free jazz, and Tristan Honsinger studied at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Music.
Elements of noise rock, IDM, minimalism and electroacoustic music are not uncommon in free improvisation.
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 Tristan Honsinger
Tristan Honsinger told Kevin Whitehead, 'I grew up in New England, took up cello at age nine in Springfield, Massachusetts...
Currently, Tristan Honsinger is a member of the Tobius Delius 4 Tet, Sean Bergin's various large and small groups, Ig Henneman's string groups and the ICP Orchestra.
Buium, G. Tristan Honsinger: the process and the dilemmas.
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 Cecil Taylor With Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker - The Hearth | Hot 103 Live
Cecil Taylor With Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker - The Hearth
Recorded in 1988 as part of Cecil Taylor month in Berlin, this trio, which consists of Taylor, saxophonist Evan Parker, and cellist Tristan Honsinger, is an improviser's dream.
Parker chose tenor for this gig, and he and Honsinger play to each other for the first couple of minutes, establishing a mutated kind of blues groove as Taylor sings in his tinny voice and claps in the background.
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 Oh My Gosh-- Francis Davis AGAIN!! - organissimo jazz forums - This is the place to discuss the band, jazz, and ...
CECIL TAYLOR: The Owner of the River Bank (Enja); Cecil Taylor: Incarnation (FMP) The Enja, with an Italian orchestra, is Taylor at his most Stockhausen, and the FMP a quartet notable for German cellist Tristan Honsinger's madcap élan in the face of the pianistic barrage.
But the one who pushes the gathering into overdrive is German cellist Tristan Honsinger, who goes after Taylor from the opening bar.
Honsinger's bowing introduces an element of parody not previously heard in Taylor's ensembles; it's as if he's mocking the idea of European propriety, humming silly little songs to himself and waiting for the others to join in.
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 ICP Orchestra in Seattle, WA
The group consists of Mengelberg, piano and voice; Bennink, drums; Mary Oliver, violin and viola; Tristan Honsinger, cello; Ernst Glerum, bass; Ab Baars, tenor saxophone and clarinet; Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone and clarinet; Michael Moore, alto saxophone and clarinet; Thomas Heberer, trumpet; and Wolter Wierbos, trombone.
The strings of violinist Mary Oliver, cellist Tristan Honsinger and bassist Ernst Glerum were to the fore as the engine built a head of steam, stoked by Bennink's drums.
Misha Mengelberg: piano and voice; Han Bennink: drums; Mary Oliver: violin and viola; Tristan Honsinger: cello; Ernst Glerum: double bass; Ab Baars: tenor saxophone and clarinet; Tobias Delius: tenor saxophone and clarinet; Michael Moore: alto saxophone and clarinet; Thomas Heberer: trumpet; Wolter Wierbos: trombone.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=21459   (2419 words)

  
 Earshot Jazz Festival | Event Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Its working principle is that any member of the band can spontaneously kick off one of Delius's or Honsinger's compositions, prompting the band to collective improvisation before moving on to a new tune, or back to a previous one.
Add to that Honsinger's mastery of the cello, and his embrace of the most unexpected changes in direction, and you have one of the most distinctive
Similarly, Tristan Honsinger, another ICP member, has been at the center of the Amsterdam and European scenes for over 30 years.
www.earshot.org /fest/artistinfo/tobiasdelius4tet.html   (460 words)

  
 Tristan Honsinger : Double Indemnity/Imitation of Life: 1980-1981 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Much of the music has a similar feel to what John Zorn and associates were up to in downtown New York City at the time.
In the duets, Honsinger's wry and sour cello contrasts effectively with Beresford, who -- no matter how outside his playing gets -- always seems pulled back into jazzy or romantic areas.
But there's more an atmosphere of noodling in search of something than of a conception wanting to be elaborated upon, and after a while a sameness sets in that reduces the music to more of a historical document than a breathing work of art.
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 www.jazzweekly.com | Reviews
Had the punks a sense of humor, they would have recognized that Honsinger's antics easily put their imitation teenage rebellion in its place.
Tying up the simian shouts and scratched cacophony into a package that ends with what appears to be an elongated solo on the spoons and a few squeaks from what sound like plush toys, the four easily prove how punks were too musically conventional to accept free improv.
In duo Honsinger and Beresford are almost as out-of-control, but at least the later has a bigger, many-keyed, metaphoric stick with which to beat off the cellist's lunacy.
www.jazzweekly.com /reviews/sberesford_imitation.htm   (1334 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: MOORE/TRISTAN HONSINGER/COR FUHLER, MICHEAL
With Michael Moore (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone), Cor Fuhler (piano, keyolin, hammond organ), Tristan Honsinger (cello).
Micheal has an irresistible bittersweet sound on alto or clarinet, which never gets cloying because it's no end in itself, but a vehicle for musical ideas.
Tristan is unafraid to introduce lyrical material into an open improvisation -- although his cello sound is less conventionally pretty, very idiosyncratic -- and is just as ready to scrape up trouble when things get complacent.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/moore.tristan.honsinger.cor.fuhler.micheal.html   (153 words)

  
 December 2003
The previously unissued Massy concert is paired on Incus CD 53 with a reissue of their subsequent album Duo (Incus LP 20, a mixture of studio and live recordings from London in February 1976).
The previously unheard material is nice to have, but it's dimly recorded and Honsinger overdoes it with the demented vocals; the main attraction here is the original LP, which is vintage Dadaist farce, at once harrowing and entertaining.
Honsinger's bow work is sublimely vehement and grating; he shouts and jabbers away unpredictably, giving a good impression of someone with an exotic speech impediment.
www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2003/12dec_text.html   (6850 words)

  
 carlo gatteschi - tristan honsinger
He has been very interested in meeting and collaborating with european musicians, he has lived in Florence for five years, until '82 and in that period he has played with Vernuccio and has met Gatteschi.
Tristan Honsinger is one of the most original cellist in the world, he plays with the European quartet of Cecyl Taylor, he has played with Steve Lacy, Toshinori Kondo, J.Jaques Avenel, Sean Bergin, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg.
The collaboration between Gatteschi and Tristan Honsinger began in '97, with some concerts in duo and in trio with the doublebass player Nicola Vernuccio, some recordings for an acoustic CD not yet printed, and with the collaboration with Gezz Zero Grup in three tracks recorded and printed in the last G.Z.G. CD "Musica Gezz"
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The results sound hardly eclectic, though, and there are few of the shifting patterns found in, say, the music of John Zorn.
Tristan Honsinger's cello is a major force, his lush and springy strings laying a groundwork for the clarinets and keyolin.
In abbreviated liners, Moore describes the effort as part of the "Dutch improvised music tradition," which usually means infused with humor, though there is none (or little) of that here.
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 Phil honsinger - Canadian Luthiers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ross Daly, Ron Coulter and Phil Honsinger and here's some of the talented guest musicians rounding up our line-up for recordings and performances.
On Incarnation, Taylor is joined by cellist Tristan Honsinger, electric guitarist Franky A Luttenbachers Primer - yeah, I could go for that Phil.
She has taken part in many free improvisation workshops with Joelle Leandre, Barre Philips, Tristan Honsinger, Phil Minton, and Maggie Nicols.
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Any member of the 4tet can spontaneously introduce one of Delius' or cellist Tristan Honsinger's compositions into the collective improvisations.
In 2004, Tobias Delius was awarded the Boy Edgar Prize, the Netherlands' most prestigious award in improvised music.
In addition to cellist Tristan Honsinger, the 4tet includes new bassist Valdi Kalli and the wonderful and imaginative Han Bennink on drums.
www.yardbirdsuite.com /Performers/Delius-Tobias.htm   (298 words)

  
 Broomriding : Alexander von Schlippenbach : CD Reviews : One Final Note
This September 21, 2002 session alongside bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall, cellist Tristan Honsinger and percussionist Paul Lovens focuses on "compositions" grounded in free improv that venture into the churning, swishing, building of tensions that followers of these musicians have come to expect.
Mahall's upper register jaunts and Honsinger's criss-crossing arco are part of the pulsating spurts that eventually form a crescendo thanks to the cellist's billowing cascades.
The other Honsinger track, "Attya", provides a glimpse into the gentler side of this encounter.
www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/s/schlippenbach/broomriding.asp   (554 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The material consists of seven Schlippenbach pieces (the numbered “Broomriding” tracks), two by Tristan Honsinger and two by Eric Dolphy.
The Schlippenbach pieces form the backbone of the album, providing a series of concentrated free improvisations that will reveal their merits over years, not months; suffice to say that “Broomriding 4,” a brisk-paced piece featuring rapid-fire clarinet, is already a favourite.
Personnel: Alexander von Schlippenbach, piano; Rudi Mahall, bass clarinet; Tristan Honsinger, cello; Paul Lovens, drums.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/review_print.php?id=12819   (263 words)

  
 ICP Orchestra: Personnel/Biographies
Since 1990 Delius leads his own 4tet with Tristan Honsinger, Joe Williamson, and Han Bennink; APA INI is currently a quartet with Hilary Jeffery, Wilbert de Joode and Serigne Gueye.
Thomas is member of several ensembles such as the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, European Jazz Ensemble, Aki Takase Quintet, Tome XX and of course has a duo with bassist Dieter Manderscheid.
Mary Oliver was born in La Jolla, California, and studied at San Francisco State University (Bachelor of Music), Mills College (MFA) and the University of California, San Diego where she received her PhD in 1993 for her research in the theory and practice of improvised music.
www.icporchestra.com /musicians.htm   (893 words)

  
 stg dOeK | Tobias Delius Quartet
One example is the Tobias Delius 4tet, which performs exciting contemporary improvised music.
Any member of the band can spontaneously introduce one of Delius’ or cellist Tristan Honsinger’s compositions into the collective improvisations.
These composed pieces of music influence the musical development in various ways: they can bring about, end or merely temporarily interrupt musical situations.
www.doek.org /tDelius4tet.html   (356 words)

  
 Tristan Honsinger : A Camel's Kiss - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tristan Honsinger : A Camel's Kiss - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
This CD on the house label of the Instant Composers Pool finds improvising cellist Honsinger in solo mode, performing as he does best a style of fractured but highly emotive avant-garde cello.
His vocalizing in improvisation is a kind of subconscious moan that is charming and somewhat frightening to hear over the squalls of cello lyricism.
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 Amazon.ca Music: Tristan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tristan And Isolde: Hlts by Wagner, Hofmann, Bernstein, and Brso (Audio CD - 1993)
Double Indemnity/Imitation Of by Tristan Honsinger, Steve Beresford, and David Toop (Audio CD - 2005)
Tristan Und Isolde by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Wagner, and Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus (Audio CD - 2004)
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 steve beresford / tristan honsinger
HOME > ARTIST: STEVE BERESFORD / TRISTAN HONSINGER
jounalist), Honsinger (cellist extraordinaire), David toop (experimental genius/author) & Kondo (japanese improv legend).
Tristan Honsinger is an american cellist who has lived for years in Europe who met Steve Beresford when they both played in Derek Bailey's 'company'' at the ICA in london, 1977.
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