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Clare Cooper

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About Me

Born in Sydney, Clare Cooper plays the double action pedal harp and Chinese Guzheng. Now based in Berlin, Clare is completing a paper on 'extending the vocabulary of instruments with cultural baggage' with particular interest in recording the mechanics of the harp and creating electronic sounds from acoustic sources.
Over the past 7 years she has toured Europe, USA, UK, Australia, NZ and Japan performing solo and collaborating with artist from many disciplines.

From 2001-2007 Clare Co-Directed the NOW now festival of spontaneous music, Australia's experimental sound and film festival.

COLLABORATIONS / PROJECTS
Clare’s broad musical interests can be seen in the diversity of her projects...

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HAMMERIVER (Formed in Sydney 2003. Now Berlin based) Situated somewhere between Alice Coltrane and Led Zeppelin, Hammeriver draws inspiration from Jazz, musique concrète, blues, electro-acoustic improvisation and psychedelic rock. Clare Cooper, concert harp / Chris Abrahams, piano / Christof Kurzmann, electronics / Toby Delius, saxophone / Clayton Thomas, double bass / Werner Dafeldecker, double bass and Tony Buck, percussion.
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GERM (Sci-Fi duo with Chris Abrahams) studies the all too familiar ground between the DX7 synthesiser and the Chinese Guzheng (double album available on Split late 2008).
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Duo with Jean-Philippe Gross
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"All the Buttons" (LVSXY) duo with Clayton Thomas (Prince inspired electro-acoustic improv)
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Clare is also performing in the live incarnation of ' Kapital Band 1 : Playing By Numbers' with Nicholas Bussmann, Cello / Martin Brandlmayr, percussion / Tony Buck, percussion / Andrea Neumann, inside piano / Werner Dafeldecker, double bass. When based in Australia Clare performed and/or recorded with minimalist ensemble the Splinter Orchestra , the Scott Horscroft Ensemble, songwriter Darren Hanlon , Hip Hop producer Unkle Ho , and Australian Pop groups Sun , Prop , Gelbison and Inga Liljestrom .
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Outside of music, Clare is a producer, graphic designer, animator and Aunty to 20.
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'GUT' Clare Cooper, 7 pieces for solo harp & guzheng 2003 (NNCD003)

“Amazing, subtly brain-dazzling set of improvisation across the harp and guzheng from this Australian lightbulb that references a bunch of previously articulated improvisatory tangents without nailing its colours to any particular tree. Moves from weird revenant ghost shapes through to huge fields of subtly-discharged vibration. Not often you hear a voice as startlingly new as this”
- C. Spencer Yeh Volcanic Toungue Review

"the perfect soundtrack to the satanic verses" - John Safran

"awe-inspiring in precision, quiet confidence and beauty" - Gail Priest, RealtimeArts

"the animated tones she produces arrive from both hands and all parts of the harp, so that polyrhythmic overtones appear at the same time. With a bow on the harp or the guzheng's plectrum she mutates some of the strings into double bass territory, bowing vibrated sul tasto and ponticello tones. With its pedals, sides and bottom surfaces, the harp also has percussion qualities that she uses to advantage. Not only can the double-action harp suddenly be transformed into a drum, but by tapping or resonating lower strings she creates a secondary pitch to polytonally join with abrasively scraped higher-pitched strings. Other places the echoing mixture of friction and pizzicato plucks sound like frailing banjo notes. Then, when the strings are scoured for further ricocheting tones, what results could come from a steel guitar -- or maybe it's what dueling guzhengs would sound like in the Chinese Imperial court." Ken Waxman www.jazzweekly.com review

USA
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EUROPE
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UK
Email: [email protected]
Sound 323, 323 Archway Rd, Highgate, London N6 5AA ++44 (0)83489595

AUSTRALIA
Sydney:
So Music, King St Newtown NSW
Gleebooks, Glebe NSW

www.gutstring.net
[ See some action shots HERE ]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/24/2007
Band Website: gutstring.net
Band Members:


Benefit Concert for Andrew D’Angelo

Two long term musical partnerships combine for a night of super tight, completely intimate and heartfelt music. Our good friend and collaborator Andrew D’Angelo is struggling with a brain tumour that threatens his life. As he sits in hospital in New York, (without health insurance) musicians and friends around the world are raising money to get him through these dark days. http://andrewdangelo.com/

MOHA!
Morten J. Olsen, drums and supercollider3
Anders Hana, guitar and keyboard
http://www.n-collective.com/moha
http://www.myspace.com/themoha

ALL THE BUTTONS
Clare Cooper, harp
Clayton Thomas , double bass

DJ TOFUTRON
Plays The O’Jays, Mos Def, Sun Ra, Black Uhuru, Son of Bazerk & Betty Davis

5 euro recommended donation, all donations welcome
21.30 at AUSLAND, Lychener Str. 60 Prenzlauerberg Berlin

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Influences:

(Alphabetical order of live concerts, adding as I remember, and not including the seven years of NOW now festivals and series*...)

Anat Cohavi (Israel) - Aufsturz, Berlin 2007
Andre Vida & the Instrument (ALL) - Wendel, Berlin 2007
Andre Vida and Jurg Bariletti (DE) - Stralau 68, Berlin 2007
Andrew Bemky (USA) - the Stone, NYC 2006
Andrea Neumann and Tischa - Coma Gallery, Berlin 2007
Andrea Neumann & Annette Krebs (DE) - What Is Music? Festival, Brisbane
Andy Moor (UK/NL)
Anthea Caddy (AUS)
Anthony Pateras (AUS) - solo at Ballhaus Naunynn, Berlin 2007
Anthony Pateras, Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas (AUS) - Stralau 68, Berlin 2007
Anthony Pateras, Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas (AUS) - the NOW now festival, Sydney 2007
Alexander Von Schlippenbach (DE), Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas (AUS) - Berlin 2005
Atsihiro Ito (JP) - solo in Tokyo 2005
Au Revoir Simone (USA) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Alanis Morisette (CAN) - yes, It's true, Sydney 1998
Axel Doerner, Mathias Forge, Robin Hayward - Densites Festival, France 2006
Axel Doerner, Jurg Bariletti (DE) - Stralau 68, Berlin 2007
Annette Krebs (DE)
Bang Gang (AUS) Cookies, Berlin
Beastie Boys (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney 2006
Bertie Blackman (AUS) - Gaelic Club, Sydney
Ben Folds Five (USA) - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney 1999
Bingo Atlas (NL) - OT301, Amsterdam 2007
Black Dice (USA) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney
Black Grass (UK) - Field Day, Sydney 2005
Brotzmann (DE) Baltimore
Booka Shade - the Metro, Sydney 2007
Burkhard Beins (DE) - Stralau68, Berlin 2007
Burning Star Core (USA)
Chicks on Speed (USA) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney 2005
Christine Sehnaoui (LEB) 2007
Christof Kurzmann (AU)
Coldcut - Parklife, Sydney 2006
Cornelius (JAP) - the Metro, Sydney 2006
Cor Fuhler solo piano (NETH) - the NOW now festival, Sydney 2006
Clayton Thomas solo double bass (AUS) - Zentrale Randlage, Berlin 2007
Clayton Thomas solo double bass (AUS) - Anklamer Cafe, Berlin 2003
Cut Chemist (USA) - Parklife, Sydney 2006
De La Soul (USA) - Field Day, Sydney 2005
Dale Gorfinkel (AUS)
Daniel Schorno (NL/CK) - STEIM 2007
Darren Hanlon (AUS) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney & The Hopetoun, Sydney 2006
Darren Moore (AUS)
Datarock - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Derrick Carter (USA) - Harbourlife, Sydney 2006 & Field Day, Sydney 2006
Digitalism (DE
Dsico (AUS) - Electrofringe, Newcastle 2005
Elision Ensemble (AUS) - Sydney Conservatorium 2006
Erick Mitsak (AUS)
Erik M (FR) - Liquid Architecture, Sydney 2006
Eric Cordier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Pascal Battus (FR) - Densites Festival, France 2006
Fear Factory (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney
Freeform Five - Parklife, Sydney 2006
Freestylers - Field Day, Sydney 2007
Garbage (UK) - Sydney 1998
Gerry Hemmingway and Thomas Lehn - Densites Festival, France 2006,br / Hamid Drake (USA) - Knitting Factory, NYC 2001
Haino Keiji (JAP) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney 2003
Haino Keiji (JAP) - What Is Music? Festival, Brisbane 2003
Haino Keiji (JAP) - Musique Action, Nancy 2004
Haino Keiji (JAP) - with 10 sitar players - Tokyo 2004
Henry Grimes (USA) - the Stone NYC 2006
Hermitude (AUS) - Harbourlife, Sydney 2006
Hermitude (AUS) - the Great Escape, Sydney 2007
Huntsville (NOR) - Densites Festival, France 2006
Iggy Pop and the Stooges (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney
Ignaz Schick and Sabine Voegel (DE) - Stralau 68 2007
Interpol (USA) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Juerg Baraletti - Stralau 68 2007
Johannes Bauer (DE) Berlin, Melbourne, Sydney 2003-2007
Kai Fagaschinski (DE)
Kevin Drumm (USA) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney 2005
Kaskade (USA) - Field Day, Sydney 2007
Kraftwerk (DE) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney 2003
KTL (Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg) - DNK, Amsterdam 2007
Jaap Blonk (NE) - Densites Festival, France 2006
James Brown (USA) - Good Vibrations, Sydney 2005
Jerome Noetinger & Erik M (FR) - Musique Action 2005
Jim Denley (AUS) - Sydney, many times
Johannes Bauer (DE), Tony Buck, Clayton Thomas (AUS) - many times
Judy Dunaway (USA) - Kule, Berlin 2007
Justice Yeldham & the Dynamic Ribbon Device (AUS) - Bonnington, London 2004
Justice Yeldham & the Dynamic Ribbon Device (AUS) - Wagga Wagga 2005
Justice Yeldham & the Dynamic Ribbon Device (AUS) - Newtown RSL 2006
James Brown and the JBs (USA) - Good Vibrations Festival, Sydney
Joanna Newsome (USA) - Sydney Festival, Sydney 2007
Johannes Bauer (DE)
Jolly Goods - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Kanye West (USA) - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney 2006
Kellis (USA)- Melt Festival, Dassau 2007
Kevin Drumm (USA) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney
Kevin Drumm (USA) - the Strings Extended, Berlin 2007
Klaus Janek (DE/IT)
Le Tigre (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney 2006
Liza Lim (AUS) - Sydney Conservatorium 2006 & Ballhaus Naunynn 2007
Lucio Capece + Toshi Nakamura, OT301 Amsterdam 2005
Magda Mayas (DE)
Mattafix (UK) - Parklife, Sydney 2006
Mattin (BAS) - Stralau68, Berlin 2007
Malachai Favours (USA) - Central Park Summer Stage, NYC 2002
Mark Farina - Parklife, Sydney 2006
Martin Solveig - Field Day, Sydney 2007
Martin Solveig - Field Day, Sydney 2005
Mattin - Brisbane, Sydney, Berlin
Mazen Kerbaj (LBN)
Man Man (USA) - NYC
Merzbow (JAP)- Gaelic Club, Sydney
Metamkine (FR) - Vienna 2004
Michael Theike (DE)
Michael Vorfeld (DE) - Stralau68, Berlin 2007
Michael Zerang (USA)
Mike Cooper (UK) - Sydney
Mixmaster Mike (USA) - Parklife, Sydney 2006
MIA (UK) - The Metro, Sydney
Midlake (USA) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Midlake (USA) - Gaelic Club, Sydney 2006
MIT (DE) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Mouse on Mars (DE)- Melt Festival, Dassau 2007
Mohammed Jimmy Mohammed (ETH) - Densites Festival, France 2006
Mylo - Field Day, Sydney 2007
Neil Hamburger (USA) - the Annandale, Sydney
Neil Hamburger (USA) - Sydney Uni, Sydney
Nine Inch Nails (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney
Noriko Tujiko (JAP)- Gaelic Club, Sydney
Oliver Lake (USA) - Knitting Factory, NYC 2001
Oren Ambarchi (AUS)
Otomo Yoshihide (JAP) - Berlin
Otomo Yoshihide (JAP) - Musique Action, Nancy 2004
Paul Lovens (DE) - Musique Action 2005, Ausland 2007
Peeesseye (USA)
Peaches (CAN) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Peter Bjorn and John - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Peter Brotzmann (DE) Baltimore 2005
Peter Brotzmann 'Total' (DE) Berlin 2007 x2
Peter Farrar (AUS)
Peter Kowald (DE) - Kowald's House, Wuppertal 2002
Pita (UK) - the NOW now festival, Sydney 2006
Phillip Samartzis (AUS)
Phono Phono (DE) - Ballhaus Naunynn, Berlin 2007
Plump DJs (UK) - Field Day, Sydney 2007
Plump DJs (UK) - Field Day, Sydney 2005
Public Enemy (USA) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
P.U.S.A (USA) - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney 1995
Princess Superstar - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Prop (AUS) - the Metro, Sydney
Prop (AUS) - the Opera House studio, Sydney
Ravi Coltrane (USA) - NYC
Rashied Ali (USA) - Knitting Factory NYC 2001
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney
Rev. Kriss Hades (AUS) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney
Rizilli (AUS)
Robin Fox & Anthony Pateras (AUS) - the NOW now, Sydney 2004
Robin Fox & Anthony Pateras (AUS) - the NOW now, Sydney 2007
Robin Fox's laser show (AUS) - Lanfranchis, Sydney 2006 + the NOW now, Sydney 2006
Robin Hayward (UK/DE), Monika Brooks, Simon Ferenci (AUS) - the NOW now, Sydney 2007
Rod Cooper (AUS) - the NOW now, Sydney
Rosalind Hall (AUS)
Ruby Ruby Ruby (Berlin)
Rudi Mahal (DE)
Sachiko M (JAP) - Berlin, 2003, Tokyo 2004 and Sydney 2006
Sir Richard Bishop (USA) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney 2005
Scott Horscroft Ensemble (AUS) - the Gaelic Club, Newtown RSL, Sydney 2005 and the Hopetoun, Sydney 2006
Sharif Sehnaoui (LEB) STEIM Amsterdam 2006, Worm 2007
Shitdisco - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Sigur Ros (ICELND) - the Great Escape Festival, Sydney Enmore Theatre, Sydney 2006
Silverchair (AUS) - the Great Escape Festival, Sydney 2006
Stephen Heather (AUS)
Stereo MCs (UK) - Field Day, Sydney 2006
Stanton Warriors - Field Day, Sydney 2006
Sonic Youth (USA) - Central Park Summer Stage, NYC 2002
Sonic Youth (USA) - Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay 2006
Soul of Man - Field Day, Sydney 2006
Sub Bass Snarl (AUS)
Supergrass (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney
Sudden Infant () - Stralau 68, Berlin 2007
Sun (AUS) - the Annandale, Sydney 2003
Sun of the Seveth Sister (AUS) - the NOW now, Sydney
Sunn O))) (USA) - the Metro, What Is Music? Festival, Sydney
Sven Ake Johanson (DE) solo - Stralau68, Berlin 2007
Tetuzi Akiyama (JAP) - Offsite, Tokyo 2004
Tetuzi Akiyama (JAP) - Densites Festival, France 2006
The Dwarves (USA) - Columbiahalle, Berlin 2007
The Ex (NETH) - Densites Festival, France 2006
The Films (USA) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
The Green Light (AUS) - The Hopetoun, Sydney
The Go! Team - Postadion, Berlin 2007
The Hard-Ons (AUS) - the Annandale, Sydney
The Hard-Ons (AUS) + Neil Hamburger (USA) - the Annandale, Sydney
The Herd (AUS)
The International Nothing (DE) - Labor Sonor, Berlin 2007
The Flaming Lips (USA) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
The Necks (AUS) - The Basement, Sydney 2003
The Necks (AUS) - Wellington Jazz Festival, Wellington 2004
The Necks (AUS) - The Basement, Sydney 2005
The Necks (AUS) - The Basement, Sydney 2006
The Necks (AUS) - Sydney Festival, Sydney 2007
The Necks (AUS) - Ballhaus Naunynn, Berlin 2007
The Presets (AUS) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
The Presets (AUS) - Sage Club, Berlin 2007
The Presets (AUS) - Melt Festival, Dassau 2007
The Presets (AUS) - the Metro, Sydney 2005
The Residents (USA) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney 2005
The Roots (USA) - the Great Escape, Sydney 2007
The Roots (USA) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
The Thaw (AUS) - Lanfranchis Memorial Discotheque, Sydney
The Thaw (AUS) - the Annandale, Sydney
The White Stripes (USA) - Big Day Out, Sydney 2006
Tim Deluxe (UK) - Parklife, Sydney 2006
Tim O'Dywer (AUS)
Tiga - Field Day, Sydney 2005
Toecutter (AUS)
Tocotronic (DE) - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Tony Buck (AUS) - Lichtblick Kino, Berlin 2003
Tony Buck (AUS) - The Annandale, Sydney
Tony Conrad (USA) - Tonic NYC 2006 + Tesla, Berlin 2007
Toot: Alex Doerner, Phil Minton, Thomas Lehn (UK/DE) - STEIM 2007
Toshimaru Nakamura (JAP) - Densites Festival, France 2006
Toshimaru Nakamura (JAP) - Tokyo, 2004
Tortoise (USA) - the Metro, Sydney
Uffie & DJ Feadz - Postadion, Berlin 2007
Unkle (UK) - Melt Festival, Dassau 2007
Unkle Ho (AUS)
Ultrlyd (NOR) - DNK, Amsterdam 2007
Urthboy (AUS)
Vienna Philharmonic (OST) - Vienna, 2004
Werner Dafeldecker (DE) - What Is Music? Festival, Sydney
Werner Dafeldecker (DE) - Strings Extended, Berlin 2007
Werner Herzog - in conversation (Amsterdam IDFA) 2007
WIRE - Musique Action 2005
William Parker (USA) - Knitting Factory, NYC 2001
WOG (AUS) - The Hopetoun, Sydney 2007
WOG (AUS) - The Excelsior, Sydney 2006
Wolfeyes (USA) - Newtown RSL, Sydney
Wolfmother (AUS) - Byron Bay 2006
WhoMadeWho - Postadion, Berlin 2007 & Parklife, Sydney 2006
Wu Tang Clan (USA) - Columbiahalle, Berlin 2007
Xavier Charles (FR) - Melbourne, 2006
Xavier Charles (FR) - Haarlem, 2006
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (USA) - Enmore Theatre, Sydney 2006
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (USA) - Splendor in the Grass Festival, Byron Bay 2006
Yuko Kaseki - Berlin

2 Many DJs - Field Day, Sydney 2005

Sounds Like:

At the moment I'm listening to: Rhodri Davies and "Sampson", Taku Unami's 'Malignitat', Mayas - Nutters - Olsen - Galvez 'on creative sources, Erik Satie, Radiohead's 'In Rainbows', and the final mix of Hammeriver at Saal3.

Collaborators Past/Present:
Kapital Band 1 (with Nicholas Bussmann, Cello / Martin Brandlmayr, percussion / Tony Buck, percussion / Andrea Neumann, inside piano / Werner Dafeldecker, double bass), Burkhard Friedrich, Sascha Demand, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Hammeriver extended (with Chris Abrahams, piano / Robbie Avenaim, drums / Clayton Thomas, double bass / Matt Earle, electronics and guests Tony Buck, drums / Jeff Henderson, baritone sax / Lloyd Honeybrook, baritone sax/ Karen Booth, alto sax / Monika Brooks, accordion / Jaime Fennelly, harmonium / Daniel Whiting, laptop / Cicada, video), Kim Myhr, Katrin Geller, Robin Fox, Andre Vida, Pin Pin Pin (with Steve Heather and Magda Mayas), Michael Zerang, Sabine Vogel, Alex Nowitz, Andrea Neumann, Morten J Olsen, Dale Gorfinkel, Alex Babel, Nicholas Bussmann, Valerio Tricoli, Patrick Thinsy, Kinya “Zulu” Tsuruyama, Keiko Ninomiya, Miki Sato, Ten Gentle Joys (with Thomas Meadowcroft and Jasmine Guffond), Yuko Kaseki, CAB (with Burkhard Beins and Chris Abrahams), Hammeriver (with Chris Abrahams, Clayton Thomas, Tony Buck, Tobias Delius, Christof Kurzmann and Werner Dafeldecker), Annette Krebs, Christine Sehnaoui, Jean-Philippe Gross, Crax (with Axel Doerner and Cor Fuhler), Tony Buck, Sean Baxter, Louise Curham, Contrapuntal Metronimics (duo with Peter Blamey), Mike Cooper, Rod Cooper, Ivan Lysiak, Jon Rose, Unkle Ho, Ben Byrne, Thembi Soddell, Anthea Caddy, West Head Project (with Jim Denley, Clayton Thomas, Monika Brooks, Karen Booth, Adam Sussmann, Dale Gorfinkel, Peter Farrar), Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Michel Waisvisz, Takuro Mizuta Lippit (dj sniff), Tarek Atoui, Marko Cicilliani, Xavier Charles, Picket (duo with Cor Fuhler), Darren Hanlon, Inge Olmheim, Phil Minton, Joseph Hammer, C.Spencer Yeh, Audrey Chen, Andy Haylek, Peter Jacqumyn, Peeesseye (Chris Forsyth, Fritz Welch, Jaime Fennelly), Nate Wooley, the Splinter Orchestra, Germ, the Scott Horscroft Ensemble, Jim Denley, SUN (with Oren Ambarchi, Chris Townend, Scott Horscroft, Martin Siewert), John Butcher, Chris Burn Ensemble, Rhodri Davies, Toshihiro Koike, Kazumi Koiche, Tetuzi Akiyama, Cooper-Moore, Alex Waterman, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst,


Type of Label: Indie