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150: 22: 343:'s Institute Art Culture Perception in Paris, where long-term collaborations with Alan began, culminating in The Tradition Trio with Johannes Bauer. This group was central to his explorations of forms of free jazz, an interest that has seen him working with musicians on both sides of the Atlantic (including 327:
as a means of bending the sounds of various metal percussion instruments. This group, still existing, mixes song, jazz, punk/thrash, with acoustic detail in always shifting sonorities, and has worked throughout Europe, Canada and the UK, also recording for the French Nato label. Involvements with
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In the years immediately after 1974 his work was primarily concentrated on opening the way to a more personal percussion language. This was also a period of intense collaborations that structured many of his future approaches to music-making and saw the formation of two long-lasting acoustic duos
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An active involvement in visual art has always been in dialogue with his music, and an inspiration for it. In the forefront of this is his work with Susan Turcot (the investigation/documentation of music and sound-drawing both in Europe and Canada—including the
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Since the early 1980s his work has focussed on numerous projects with improvising musicians and groups, touring Europe, Australia, USA and Canada. Perhaps the most important of the later groups would be Konk Pack, formed in 1997, with
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during this period. He was awarded Arts Council of Great Britain bursaries for solo percussion in 1980, and in 1983 for investigation into percussion with electronics. Extensive festival and club solo work followed, including the
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percussionist. He plays the drumset, drums, and various percussion, and was brought up into the jazz and visual art cultures inhabited by his older brothers, playing drums from childhood in informal jazz contexts.
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for the British Council in 1968, a first concert in improvisation. His move to London gave him contact with the first and second generation improvisers and he began to play primarily with
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In addition to forming Trump music with Gary Todd to promote improvised music in London, he also involved himself in formative activities of the
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Turner's music-making with international improvisers in ad hoc and group collaborations have since the 1970s to the present day included
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in Austria, Japan, and U.K, and in the recent (2009) Hana-Bi three-day event in London that included the guitarist and the pianist
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event in Cologne, Germany in June 2009, set up to examine any possible relationship between improvisation and composition.
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and Mike Cooper exploring the possibilities of electro-acoustic music, in which Turner initially played drumset and
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focussing on single surface improvisations: a linear and reduced equipment approach he had started using with
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In 1979 he established CAW records with John Russell and Anthony Wood, and recorded the solo album
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in the trio with John Russell, but since the mid-1990s in concerts and recordings with guitarist
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He forged working relationships with Japanese musicians over the years: in the 1980s with
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experimental rock musics and open-form song included extensive work in duo with
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1983-5, with whom he toured in Europe and Scandinavia. They recorded the album
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His music for dance/performance includes work with Alexander Frangenheim's
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In March 2009 he was invited to travel and perform on the Arctic island
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by Bill Smith, Dan Lander, Vern Weber, et al, Charivari, 2010, p.181
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Turner studied English literature and contemporary philosophy at
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Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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Music is Rapid Transportation - From the Beatles to Xenakis
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box collection --, and music for her 2008 animation film
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In 1984-5, he was invited for workshop residences at
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