Tern

The improvising trio Tern is Philipp Wachsmann, violin and electronics; Martin Hackett, Korg MS10 and Emil Karlsen, drums;. First coming together in 2019, they recognised in each other a commonality of approach to improvisation, based on each musician's concern with the expressive physicality of their instrument's sound. Bead Records is proud to present their debut album 'In Air', about the music: 

“For me, the instrumentation is unusual as is the relationship each musician has evolved with his instrument. Martin’s analogue electronics takes off into a wide range of emotions from the quasi vocal to abstraction, the unhuman and mechanical to personal expression, fluency with control, articulation, process and surprise. Emil uses space in a different way, as in his solo work, sensitive, subtle, creating colour, projecting spatially in addition to interactions that one might expect from sources of percussion. As for myself, am focusing more recently on the violin as an instrument, as well as an object in its own right, the human embodied as well as potential for athletic narrative. A kind of freedom to be and to do. I value the way that the three spaces of each musician come together and interact to create a sound landscape to which the listener joins completing the fourth space." -Philipp Wachsmann (01/07-22)