We had a great concert on Wednesday, and we’re having another SPIL concert next Saturday (2nd December)! We’re happy to welcome our friend Anquan aka Andrew Hartwig (electronics/guitar/vocal) from Australia! Also on the bill are local musicians Aris Huzaimi (percussion), Everett Yeoh (percussion), MAB 189 (electronics) and Kok Siew-Wai (voice). This is likely to be the last SPIL concert of 2023. So come on out! See you at Percussion Store next Saturday!
Date: 2nd December, 2023 (Sat)
Time: Doors open @ 8pm
Venue: @Percussion Store
Add: A-01-03 LG Floor, Dataran Cascades, No. 13A, Jalan PJU 5/1, Kota Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Admission by donation: RM30
For Reservation, WhatsApp: 012 919 8031
More info and musicians’ profiles:
Design: Aixin Choo
More info:
[email protected]
www.klexfestival.com
www.facebook.com/groups/klexfest
Instagram: @klexfestival
#klexspil
Founded in May 2014, SERIOUS PLAY IMPROV LAB (SPIL) is a monthly music series of KLEX Festival. It is an art laboratory focusing on music experimentation and improvisation. SPIL provides a platform for musicians from various backgrounds to collaborate and present a new collective expression through improvisation. Over the years, many local and international artists have initiated experimentations and collaborated in the SPIL series, enriching the experimental and improvised music scene in the region.
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS:
Anquan is the solo project of Andrew Hartwig, vocalist and guitarist for Australian experimental punk band Leavings. Anquan employs acoustic and electric instruments, digital synthesis, voice, and field recordings to explore the intersections of ambient and experimental music, noise and sound art.
https://anquan.bandcamp.com/album/moving-continuity
https://leavingsband.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1cnfABEm3WiDMfczX9Auch
Aris Huzaimi is a passionate musician, educator, and performer. He has been in the industry since 2014 and performed on numerous projects and festivals, both local and international. He has collaborated with a lot of professional musicians, groups, institutions, and organizations such as Bernhard Wulff, Max Riefer, Freiburg Percussion Ensemble, Mannheimer Schlagwerk, and many more. In 2017 Aris started to join the music education industry for young children and teenagers as a one-to-one drums teacher. He helps them to get the best results on their music examinations so they can pursue their talent in music performance.
Malaysian-born Everett Yeoh is an experienced facilitator within the local community drum circle scene, and a self-taught percussionist and composer. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Music from UCSI University in classical composition. With a formal musical training background in piano and cello, Everett later ventures into playing percussion and building DIY instruments, turning “masak-masak” toys and found objects into makeshift instruments with rotans and chopsticks as mallets/sticks. He often performs as a multi-instrumentalist. Among the instruments he plays include the piano, cello, musical saw, Suzuki Andes, musical bones, spoons, asalatos, mouth harps, various hand drums, handheld lithophones and the jingle stick. He frequently collaborates with The Colours of Sound within the community drum circle scene, and has participated in major drum circle events locally such as the YSDAF’s drum circle events.
Kok Siew-Wai started out as a video artist, now active as a vocal improviser and artist-curator/organizer. She has shown her videos, curatorial video programmes, and performed in Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada and USA, including allEars Improvised Music Festival (Norway), Asian Meeting Festival (Japan), CTM Festival (Germany), Hanoi New Music Festival (Vietnam), Nusasonic, RRRec Fest (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival, amongst others. Siew-Wai is interested in improvisation and the exploration of expressions using the human voice.
MAB 189 is an individual who often wanders around the city of Melaka accompanied by a camera, digital recorder, touch microphone and hydrophone to achieve his aspirations of sonic adventure & eavesdropping experience.
More info:
[email protected]
www.klexfestival.com
www.facebook.com/groups/klexfest
Instagram: @klexfestival