Name: [SKRONK’]: Lucas Abela (AUS) // Christopher Cox + George Cremaschi (USA) \\ Master Oogway (NO)
Start: 2025-09-23T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Krásova 27, Praha

$[SKRONK\u2019]: Lucas Abela (AUS) \/\/ Christopher Cox + George Cremaschi (USA) \\\\ Master Oogway (NO)$

Lucas Abela
Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (fka Justice Yeldham) has performed their signature instrument; amplified shards of glass for over twenty years now. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, the glass evolving from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing some kind of organic electronica. Abela plays the glass by transmitting vibrations into the pane through their lips to control a modular patch using no traditional syntheses techniques. Instead of oscillators & envelope generators all sounds & modulations produced are derived from glass itself. The patch extracting control voltages from the dynamics & frequency of the performance, enabling the glass’ raw audio to modulate itself as it makes its way through varying parallel effects chains producing ghostly accompaniments, which blended together form dense layers of anomalous music.
Dualplover.com/yeldham

Christopher Cox & George Cremaschi
Christopher Cox is a veteran trombonist, composer, and improviser, who has worked with many of the world’s most celebrated free jazz explorers. Born and raised in Northern California, he was fortunate to be a young man during the 1990s Bay Area free jazz Renaissance. He has toured and performed with Marco Eneidi, Glenn Spearman, Jason Robinson, Billy Bang, Cecil Taylor, political hip-hop/jazz group Junkyard Empire, and famed poet Amiri Baraka.
His trombone sound is dark and expansive, while also having the ability to bring out the faintest frequencies the trombone has to offer, experimenting with split tones, multiphonics, and his own technique of manipulating the overtone series with a mix of lip movements, something he refers to as lip-phonics. His tone is bold and round, not unlike a bass trombonist in an orchestra. Add to all of this a healthy dose of electronics (see the groups Sapient Paradox and Cosmic Cluster) via bass and guitar effects pedals, and you have anything from a wall of sound to a faint whisper that echoes for minutes. His live performances frequently move from sparse and meditative ambient drones to psychedelic free jazz. What holds the entire thing together is a fierce dedication to tone, sound, and melody. He rarely relies on pure emotion when he plays.
https://on.soundcloud.com/y0PJ2RfNySP57pRDrF

Double bass player George Cremaschi (USA), former member of the NYC jazz and experimental music scene, works with a variety of approaches and strategies in the areas overlapping music, sound art and noise. In thirty years as a composer and performer he has a long and diverse history of working with musicians, filmmakers, dancers and choreographers, visual artists, and writers. Some of his current projects include the groups KRK (w/Matthew Ostrowski), Lambs Gamble (w/Fritz Welch and Eric Boros) and Broken Ghost Consort (w/Matthew Goodheart and Georg Wissel).
He is also the founder (w/Petr Vrba) and director of Prague Improvisation Orchestra (PIO), a 15-member group working
with conducted and free improvisation and graphic scores.
https://www.georgecremaschi.com/

Master Oogway
Master Oogway could be the elderly turtle from the Kung Fu Panda Movies, but in thiscase it’s a Norwegian band. Since Master Oogway’s beginning in 2015 they have released four albums and toured Scandinavia, Europe and Japan with their highly energetic, psychedelic, free jazz-punk-noise-whatever-music. Their latest album A Lot of Music About Everything (Nice Things Records, 2023) is their most gnarly album so far. JazzWise wrote the following about it: "Master Oogway feels like a wild workout, challenging each other with crazy turns designed to end in a crash."
Håvard Nordberg Funderud - guitar
Lauritz Skeidsvoll - saxophone
Karl Erik Horndalsveen - bass
Martin Heggli Mellem - drums
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmHe3E_Atry2JDhONKRddrc6zDl6fJY_k&si=PGfgPM6rzkZX5OPc
This concert takes part in SKRONK’ series, curated by Helena Konvalinová.
Entrance: 200-400 czk