Jazz Articles about Furt

FURT: Sense

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 26, 2010

Attraverso le collaborazioni di cui il duo FURT è stato protagonista è possibile ripercorrere parte della buona musica improvvisata inglese degli ultimi dieci anni. Formatisi a Londra nel 1986, sono una micro-formazione, composta dai compositori/performer elettronici Richard Barrett e Paul Obermayer, che lavora tra l'improvvisazione e la composizione sistematica usando quasi esclusivamente materiali sonori (registrati/processati) “concreti". Dal 2003 è parte dell'Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble, e dal 2005 anche dell'ottetto fORCH. La loro collaborazione con Evan Parker è decisamente significativa, non ...

Furt: Omnium

by John Eyles
January 13, 2007

Live in concert, laptopists (is that a word?) can be a rather boring spectacle; it is frequently so difficult to see or understand what they are doing that they might as well be playing pre-recorded music while spending the concert shopping online or checking their email.

Furt is definitely an exception to that generalisation; although it remains almost impossible to know exactly what these two players are doing, they throw themselves into their work in concert, presenting an animated and ...

Furt: Omnium

by Nic Jones
December 7, 2006

Some times the real issues are the ends, and the means they're reached with, as much as anything else. Richard Barrett and Paul Obermeyer, together known as Furt, employ nothing in the way of conventional instrumentation to realise these soundscapes, which are as much about discontinuity as its opposite, and the resulting music can only be dealt with on its own terms. This in itself involves the suspension of many of the usual criteria by which music can be measured. ...