Anthony Pateras (electronics) / Daniel Beban (reel-to-reel)
Over his 2 night Pyramid Club residency, Pateras will play electronics in a duo collaboration with Daniel Beban on Thursday 15 May, and perform solo piano at an offsite house concert on Friday 16 May, with support from Peter Daly (viola).
Composer, pianist and electroacoustic musician Anthony Pateras has been active since the late 90s. Alongside writing concert works, he performs in electronic, improvised & experimental rock configurations, and composes soundtracks for cinema. Hailing from Australia, Pateras has worked extensively in Europe over two decades and releasing 45 albums on international labels including Tzadik, Another Timbre, Shelter Press/La Becque, Penultimate Press, Futura Resistenza and Ipecac among others.
Collaborations include with violinist Erkki Veltheim, electroacoustic musician Jérôme Noetinger and guitarist Stephen O'Malley. Pateras' tētēma project with vocalist Mike Patton headlined Mona Foma festival in 2017, and he featured on pipe organ for Sunn O)))'s 2019 release Life Metal. He has made work with Chris Abrahams, eRikm, Valerio Tricoli, Marco Fusinato, Han Bennink, Paul Lovens, Lê Quan Ninh and Steve Noble.
Since 2012, Pateras has worked on an ongoing cycle of solo/tape assemblies that blur recorded & performed sonic realities. He has written many orchestral percussion works. His early solo pieces Hypnagogics & Mutant Theatre are widely performed, as are ensemble pieces commissioned and performed by Sinfonieorchester Basel, Eklekto, Synergy, Speak, Percussion Group The Hague, Vanessa Tomlinson, Diego Espinosa and Third Coast Percussion/Timothy Munro. His most recent commission is the percussion/prepared piano quintet Chronotope, performed with Drumming Grupo de Percussão (Lisbon & Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2023).
https://www.anthonypateras.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pateras
Daniel Beban is a musician and sound artist who lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He performs on a number of different instruments in groups including Orchestra of Spheres, Farewell Spit, The Stinging Nettles, Devils Gate Outfit, Micro Soft Voices, UMU and others. He builds sound sculptures and invented instruments out of found objects and recycled materials. Through his work as a radio sound engineer, Daniel has experimented at length with reel-to-reel tape machines. The tape machine has formed the basis of much of his electronic work, especially with Imbogodom (duo with Alexander Tucker).
Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
