KOSTAS CHONDROS
KOSTAS CHONDROS plays alto saxophone, rabab, recorder, trumpet, melodica, and sundry objects. He has been involved with free improvisation for 15 years as a listener, filmmaker and player cutting his Reeth with John Russel’s Mopomoso. A regular attendee at Eddie Prevost’s Workshop and the Siobhan Davies Studio I have performed at the Vortex, Skronk, the Horse Hospital and the Hundred Years Gallery with musicians as diverse as Dave Tucker, Slyvia Hallett, Rick Jensen and Verity Lane and poets Roddy Lumsden, Alex Bell and Tom Bland.
With a background in social and visual anthropology he has made a number of films exploring improvisation, most notably, Notes on Gesture (2008) – with narration by Steve Beresford), Suspended (2015 – a collaboration with Italian sound artist Giovanni Lamie) and Waterpulse (2017 – part of longer film Zero by American composer Coleman Zurkowski). For many years he documented the regular improvisation sessions at the Vortex which may be viewed on the Mopomoso Youtube channel.
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