Double Header: Myrh/Denley Duo + Streifenjunko (Norway)

8.30 – 9.30pm: Streifenjunko

Streifenjunko is an Oslo-based duo known for their vigorous music with the rare instrumentation of tenor saxophone and trumpet. Espen Reinertsen and Eivind Lonning apply unusual instrumental techniques to project a spacious sound of great power and clarity. Streifenjunko has collaborated with a lot of exciting musicians, like Keith Rowe, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshi Nakamura and video artist Kjell Bjrgeengen. With their debut album No Longer Burning just released, Streifenjunko appears in Australia for the first time, having toured Asia, USA, Africa and Europe.

Espen Reinertsen (saxophone) Eivind Lonning (trumpet)

10.00 – 11.00pm: Myrh/Denley Duo

It’s impossible to miss the long, slow pulses that run through each piece, giving them all a satisfying logic, or indeed the didgeridoo and hollow-log effects that lend the music an immediately identifiable provenance… a kind of sonic vernacular that plugs into what can only crudely be called a collective unconscious. – The Wire

Jim Denley, one of Australia’s foremost improvisers and innovative young guitarist Kim Myhr met in Sydney in early 2007 and recorded an impressive CD of experimental duo music for acoustic guitar and alto-saxophone/flute – Systems Realignment – six months later. Since then the duo has done numerous concerts in Europe and Australia. Their music is not only a completely new take on guitar/saxophone combinations, but an attempt to rethink their fundamental musical methodology, embracing elements from a vast range of sources ranging form traditional to contemporary and electronic music. The result is a lush and surprising flurry of acoustic, electronic and mechanical gestures.

With a career spanning over three decades, Jim Denley is renowned for spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration as instrumentalist, improviser and composer. He was recently awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council for 2006 + 07 and is currently working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone.

Kim Myhr has a vivid and fresh approach to acoustic guitar, with an emphasis on a wide range of percussive, harmonic and timbral effects. He has embarked on an international career with performances throughout Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan, working on a range of projects and collaborations.

Jim Denley (AUS: saxophone, flutes, electronics) + Kim Myhr (NOR: guitar)