IMPROVOLYPTIC - Home live improv session zero two - track three

MARCIN STECZKOWSKI
Marcin Steczkowski is an artist who values creative freedom above all else. He loves to experiment. He plays flutes, saxophones and… anything else that makes sounds.
In addition to making his original compositions, he also creates music for films and theaters. He greatly appreciates collaborations with other artists.
In 2021, he launched a project called “duodemic”, about which he says, “I knew how to start, but what would come next… certainly a lot of interesting sounds recorded in collaboration with some inspiring artists”.
www.marcinsteczkowski.pl
NICK DEMOPOULOS - SMOMID ( ​⁠ )
S.M.O.M.I.D (string Modeling midi device) is a project by Nick Demopoulos, who is a musician and instrument builder. As Smomid, he utilizes instruments he has designed to create audiovisual performances. These instruments create sound, emit light through high powered LED displays embedded in the instruments and control video animations. He has toured throughout the United States and Internationally, with appearances at Lincoln Center in New York, the Vrystaat Kunstfees in South Africa and the 2023 Jogja Noise Bombing Festival in Indonesia. As a guitarist Nick Demopoulos worked with NEA jazz master Chico Hamilton and recorded on the albums The Inquiring Mind, Revelation and Euphoric. He also released recordings with Exegesis, a group that mixes jazz and electronic music. In 2008, on behalf of the U.S. State Department, Exegesis worked as cultural diplomats, performing in Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, U.A.E and Kuwait. Other artists he has performed and/or recorded with include Vernon Reid, Camille Brown, George Bohannon and Jimmy Owens. There are four full length albums of music created with Smomid and Pyramidi instruments, Cyber Solstice (2022), Pyramidi Scheme (2019), A Smoment in Time (2017), and Rhythms of Light (2015). Nick has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Film Society, Montreux Jazz Festival, LACMA, the National Geographic Museum, the Museum of Technology, the Whitney Museum, Hamberg Jazz Festival, the Phoenix Festival, and been featured with his self designed instruments on the Discovery Science Network, Guitar World, Create Digital Music, BOMB magazine, and Metal Injection among other media outlets. More information can be found at smomid.com
JEREMY CARLSTEDT
Jeremy Carlstedt has established himself over the past twenty five years as one of the most innovative and unique drummers in New York and appears on ten records as a leader and on over twenty-five records as a sideman. He has toured across North America, Europe, and Africa, playing some of the most high-profile music festivals including Newport Jazz Festival, Vision Festival, Cape Town Jazz Festival, and concerts at Lincoln Center. Having begun playing drums at the age of eight, Carlstedt later attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the New School but received his most profound training as the protégé of legendary jazz drummer, Chico Hamilton, appearing on 10 records by the latter maestro. Hamilton declared, “Jeremy will become one of the giants in the music world.” Having grown up playing along to Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin, and observing numerous gigs by drummer Denis Charles, Carlstedt’s path as a drummer and percussionist has fostered him to develop a unique approach to his instrument that blends jazz and rock. His solo records, When I Wake Up (2012), Stars Are Far (2015), and Sound Escapes (2020) established his unique sound. Carlstedt is also a cutting-edge composer and improviser much sought after in New York and beyond, having played with Hamilton, Vincent Chancey, Brian Settles, Ursula Rucker, Tim Motzer, Anders Nilsson, Neil Podgurski, K. J. Holmes (LIP-Love Is Power), Rick Parker, and numerous others.

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Meditative, spontanious, experimental, relaxing, Coltranesque, ElvinJonesesque...Merci pour ce bon moment d'oubli de moi, au Témiscouata, Québec.