How did
you get together with Terry Bozzio?
(This is one of the most frequently asked questions which is why I
have gone into some detail)
In1998, Gerald Preinfalk met Terry at a festival in Graz, where
they were both playing. They go talking Terry was quite impressed
with Gerald, especially by the fact that Gerald played the bass clarinet
(Terry's favourite instrument). Plus the fact that Gerald is part
of "Klangforum
Wien" (a contemporary ensemble).
Shortly before they met, Terry had released "Chamberworks", music for
drumset, woodwindquartet and string quartet. The only "real" instrument
on this CD is the drumset, the rest was sequenced. Terry asked Gerald
if he could imagine a live performance of this music with the "Klangforum
Wien" or another ensemble.
The idea appealed to Gerald. He stayed in touch with Terry and
asked me if I would help him to put something together. The original
plan was to open up Terry's compositions for improvising. Gerald
also managed to set up a gig at the "Jazzfest Wien" with
an appropriate budget.
We received the scores of the midi arrangements for woodwind and
strings. We started to copy the individual parts and also rearranged
certain sections to make them playable for live musicians. Gerald
took care of the woodwind section and I had the pleasure of working
on the string arrangements! I have to say I learned and discovered
a lot in the process.
At
the time I only had an ATARI and it hadn't even occurred to me to
buy a printer (!) so we wrote the whole thing by hand...! In this intense
period of time Gerald and I were faced with the reality that it was
not going to be easy to incorporate new sections for improvising
into these pieces. We decided that it would be more effective to write
3 pieces for a trio and to play these between the movements of "Chamberworks".
As
soon as Terry got here we started rehearsing and it was immediately
clear that this trio had a lot of potential. And so we decided to
continue working together as a trio. We called the band BPM (Bozzio,
Preinfalk & Machacek),
recorded "Delete and Roll" and toured twice around Europe. A.M.
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