Philippe Micol

Philippe Micol (2018)

Philippe Micol (* 1955 in Basel ) is a Swiss improvisation musician ( soprano saxophone , bass clarinet , clarinet , tenor saxophone ), composer and concept musician . He has lived in Duisburg since 1995 .

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Micol lived in Bern between 1961 and 1994. He was a member of the Slow Brüter group , which dealt with the works of John Cage , Morton Feldman , Dieter Schnebel , Klaus Huber , Leoš Janáček , Hanns Eisler , Urs Peter Schneider and Simon Beyeler and tried out unusual concert forms. After studying classical clarinet, his interest in new music and new tendencies in jazz led him to the saxophone and improvised music . In 1982 he and others initiated the workshop for improvised music (WIM) in Bern. Between 1987 and 1995 there was a collaboration with Malcolm Goldstein ; During the same period he also appeared frequently as an interpreter of experimental music. From 1991 he also worked with performance artists such as Verena Schwab or Marion Leyh and played in a duo with Markus Eichenberger . In 1993 he was in New York City, where he performed with musicians such as Jim Staley , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Gregg Bendian and Michael Lytle . Micol has been a member of the Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern since 1990 .

After meeting the media and video artist Ruth Bamberg , he moved to Duisburg in 1995, where he has since worked with improvisation musicians such as Erhard Hirt , Joachim Zoepf , Uwe Oberg (CD Seven Blossoms ), Claus van Bebber , Stefan Keune , Thomas Lehn and Martin Theurer , Gunda Gottschalk , Paul Lytton , Hans Schneider , Jaap Blonk and Melvyn Poore worked together. Since 2012 he has been in charge of the exchange concert series “Soundtrips NRW - look inside” in the city of Duisburg.

Philippe Micol (in concert with Sofia Jernberg and Salim Javaid in the Atelier Dürrenfeld / Geitel Cologne 2018)

Urs Voerkel / Jacques Widmer / Philippe Micol Sechstel ( Unit Records 1987)
New York Interviews (Unit Records 1996; with Gregg Bendian, Jim Staley, Michael Lytle, Paul Plimley , Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sean G. Meehan, Paul Hoskin, Lisle Ellis , William Winant )
Malcolm Goldstein / Philippe Micol / Franz Aeschbacher Live in Montreal and Toronto (Arche Z, 1996)
Malcolm Goldstein A Sounding of Sources ( New World Records 2008; with Radu Malfatti , Philippe Racine, Beat Schneider)
Philippe Micol / Martin Theurer Zehn (Happy Few 2010)

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