DialoguesThe Empty Gallery

The intimate nature of the duo format has resulted in some of improvised music’s most memorable sessions - from John Coltrane / Rashied Ali’s Interstellar Space to John Tilbury / Marcus Schmickler’s Variety. The Empty Gallery is proud to present Dialogues, a special concert featuring improvised performances by two pairs of long-standing musical collaborators: Ko Ishikawa / Joel Ryan and Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa. Our first performance will be a duet between laptop and Sho (Bamboo Mouth Organ) while our second performance will pair amplified saxophone with feedback. Both of these performances explore unconventional groupings of instruments which seem to blend together in the act of listening, evoking a music which seems at once futuristic and archaic.