Mimeo

MIMEO is an electronic music orchestra of 10 to 11 musicians. The instruments range from analogue (Thomas Lehn) and digital synthesizers (Marcus Schmickler), amplified objects and old analogue equipment (Gert-Jan Prins) to software designed especially for improvisation Phil Durrant); the line up varies from improvisers who started in 60's (Keith Rowe) to younger genereation of electronic musicians (Christian Fennesz); its aesthetics is floating from space-jazz (Rafael Toral) to noise (Pet…

mimeo: Keith Rowe, Phil Durrant, Kaffe Matthews, Jérôme Noetinger, Gert-Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler, Thomas Lehn, Marcus Schmickler, Markus Wettstein, Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg and Rafael Toral. The Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra (mimeo) presents a double CD with recordings made at the Cologne "Jack Pohl presents..." festival in December 1998. Marcus Schmickler and Rafael Toral each edited one CD from the seven hours of live material. After the documentation CD queue (GROB 005, now avai…

A staggering achievement, one is tempted to call The Hands of Caravaggio the first great piano concerto of the 21st century. The work is the brainchild of Keith Rowe, eminence grise of MIMEO and co-founder of AMM who, inspired by the recently discovered painting The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio, imagined a piece combining the mighty forces of MIMEO's electronics with the pure, gorgeous sound of John Tilbury's piano. Technically, therefore, the work is not really freely improvised, as the music…