OUC046-ODG182 : Shortest Job First / Fertile Fractures

Friday, 2 February 2024

OUC046-ODG182 : Shortest Job First / Fertile Fractures

Cover art by Lena Czerniawska

OUC046-ODG182 : Shortest Job First / Fertile Fractures

Shortest Job First dives deep into the waves of improvised electro-acoustic music via a cascade of continuous but broken sound events, a glitching and moving entanglement of different genres and styles. Driven by a mutual sense of empathy, structure and form, they assemble their sound shards and bits and tiles into unique and unpredictable sonic mosaïques. Inside the project both a common shared esthetic and the individual researches find space and allowance, by this means melodious fragments transition into noisy outbursts, rhythmic elements dissolve into pulses or simply acoustic movements.

The trio:

Edith Steyer is a free improvising and composing clarinet and saxophone player with her roots in jazz and classical music. As a former student for social anthropology she is also interested in world music.

She is dedicated to the exploration of her instruments and makes use of preparations with music tools and elements from every day life. She experiments with drum skins, wind and water and, lately, with electronic devices and feedback.

Aside from working on a solo practice, her foremost interest is to create intelligently woven nets of interaction and noisy sound scapes with other artists. She is part of the Improvised music scene in Berlin and

has worked with many musical theatre groups there.

Pietro Frigato is a musician and sound artist whose research is focused on the creation of ephemeral sound cosmogonies throughout improvisation, on open forms and non-linear narrative, on connections

via the means of sound.

His solo performance can be described as a dynamically emotionally wideranged, archetypical, primal, wordless storytelling torn in conflict between total abstraction and deep symbolism.

Pietro has been running since 2018 as artistic director, the Cataclisma Improvisation Festival, a space for new music, improvisation and social projects. Alongside his solo practice he performs with Ensemble Collettivo Crisis, Shortest Job First, S.P.I.I.C. ensemble, and other projects.

Dominic Jasmin is a composer and improviser from Montreal, Qc. His music, somewhere between free jazz and acousmatic music, blends the accidental and unpredictable nature of the former with the techniques of the latter to create what has been described as « structured noise ». Primarily working with found sounds and electronics, he also incorporates guitar and voice to some of his live sets.

He graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal in 2018 and has been active on the music scene there through his involvement in organizing concerts with Kohlenstoff collective and Mardi Spaghetti as well as being an active musician.

Apart from his solo practice through which he has collaborated with many other artists on a one-time basis, he is involved in different projects including Actors Artificial, SJF Trio and Larsen.

He is also a trained sound engineer, working in live sound for contemporary classical music and in the studio (or on location) recording, mixing and mastering different projects.