Video teaser, mailing list design and production assistance for the rare 3-hour concert of the legendary avant-garde improvisation collective Marginal Consort – their first ever appearance in Germany, in the dramatic setting of St. Elisabeth Kirche.

Presented by Manuela Benetton and PAN in cooperation with Thirty Three Thirty Three. Supported by Initiative Neue Musik. Partners: The Wire, Digital in Berlin, Mote Studio.

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Marginal Consort is a Japanese avant-garde improvisation collective composed of sound and visual artists who were all students of Takehisa Kosugi at the radical Bigaku school of aesthetics in Tokyo in the ’70s. Founded in 1997, the collective, which plays just one concert per year, is a reformation of the East Bionic Symphonia, a large improvisation ensemble in the spirit of Kosugi’s Group Ongaku and Taj Mahal Travellers projects. Marginal Consort’s current line-up includes Kazuo Imai, Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii and Masami Tada. Marginal Consort’s extended set explores forms of sound and ways of playing that never coalesce into music, but create a group dynamic of ebb and flow, exploration and fluidity.

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Project: Video Teaser, Event Promotion, Mailing List
Client: Manuela Benetton
Format: Video Full HD
Year: 2016
Video Credits: © South London Gallery