Dear supporters, friends and neighbours,
I’m raising money to buy a harp! If you’re in the mood for love, please chip-in some harp cash in return for an exclusive solo harp CD that I record on the new instrument. Hand-drawn cover artwork for donations of $100 or more!
SWR National German Radio – Profile on Clare Cooper
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June 30: GERMANY, Berlin – LABOR SONOR
with NEVERS (duo with Jean-Philippe Gross)
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July: HAMMERIVER CD RELEASE – MIKROTON
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July 18: AUSTRIA, Nickelsdorf – KONFRONTATION FESTIVAL Trio with Clayton Thomas and Andrea Neumann
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Aug 20: GERMANY, Berlin – VENUE TBA
Help the Harp-less concert
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Aug 26: GERMANY, Berlin – Ohrenstrand at Hauptbanhof
The Splitter Orchestra (24 piece improvising ensemble)
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Aug 27: GERMANY, Berlin – Aufsturz-Klub, Oranienburger Str. 67
TRISTAN’S FUN RAZOR – Benefizkonzert für Tristan Honsingers gestohlenes Cello
In verschiedenen Kombinationen treten unter anderem auf: Alex von Schlippenbach, Antonio Borghini, Axel Dörner, Clare Cooper, Clayton Thomas, Sven-Åke Johansson, Tobias Delius
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Sept 8: GERMANY, Berlin – Ausland
Echtzeitmusiktage Festival. Solo Harp
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Sept 12: NORWAY, Oslo – Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Karl Johans gate 25
Germ Studies (duo with Chris Abrahams) + John Tilbury
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Sept 17: GERMANY, Berlin – Sankt Elizabeth Kirche
HAMMERIVER (Tobias Delius, Chris Abrahams, Clayton Thomas, Christof Kurzmann, Werner Dafeldecker, Will Guthrie and Clare Cooper) + PHOSPHOR
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Oct 3: GERMANY, Berlin – Ethnographic Museum, Berlin Dahlem
Solo guzheng
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SOME OF MY PROJECTS…
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MP3 ‘Crouton’ – recordings of inside pedal harp | Clare on Myspace
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C. Spencer Yeh writes about Clare’s solo album ‘Gut’
January 29, 2006: C. Spencer Yeh Contributor Column - Volcanic Tounge UK
C. Spencer Yeh has long been a one-man underground out in Cincinnati, Ohio, formulating some of the heaviest post-Dream Syndicate metal this side of Faust, putting on shows, hooking up with itinerant improvisers like Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano and John Olson and releasing a ton of deeply defiant shit via his suave Drone Disco imprint. Yeh is also a sub-cultural thinker of some renown and his knowledge of various obscure musical/filmic byways is fairly staggering. Here he sweats a whole lot of brain-muscle over Australian harpist/improviser Clare Cooper’s new solo CD, Gut.
Hammeriver explores, dissects and celebrates the music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda – composer, harpist, pianist, organist, bandleader and swamini. The music is a march, a pulse, a drive towards and through territories of a psychedelic jazz but also drawing inspiration from musique concrète, blues, electro-acoustic improvisation and psychedelic rock.
Australian harpist Clare Cooper formed Hammeriver in Sydney in 2003, and created the band anew when she moved to Berlin in 2007. Hammeriver presents musicians from Europe, UK and Australia who are at the forefront of creative music.
Hammeriver self-titled debut album released on Mikroton August 2010
Audio links from the album available through the Mikroton site (July 2010)
Hammeriver is
Clare Cooper, concert harp
Chris Abrahams, grand piano
Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone and clarinet
Werner Dafeldecker, double bass
Clayton Thomas, double bass
Christof Kurzmann, lloopp
Tony Buck, drums
NEVERS: Jean-Philippe Gross, electronics jxpx.free.fr/ & Clare Cooper, guzheng gutstring.net/
ON TOUR WITH C.SPENCER YEH NOV 2009
C. Spencer Yeh, solo violin www.myspace.com/cspenceryeh
Oct 31 : Berlin – CSY solo at Ausland
Nov 1: Berlin -CSY + JP Gross + Cooper with Hammeriver Big Band at B-flat (10 piece)
Nov 2: Llubljana
Nov 3: Berlin – Miss Hecker
Nov 4: Geneva – Cave 12
Nov 6: Berlin – White Rabbit
John Butcher Group:
Chris Burn – piano, Gino Robair – percussion
John Butcher – saxophones & pre-recordings
John Edwards – bass
Thomas Lehn – synth, Dieb 13 – turntables
Clare Cooper – harp/ghuzeng
Adam Linson – bass and electronics.
Axel D̦rner/Clare Cooper/Cor Fuhler РCrax (Conundrom)
review posted by Brian Olewnick at 7/19/2008 09:53:00 AM Another fine release from Fuhler’s willfully obscure Conundrom label … A single 35 minute track, recorded on December 21st of 2007, it’s a lovely blend of bittersweet, long tones, Dörner providing the acerbity, Fuhler the tonal ground and Cooper, a harpist from Australia new me, the glistening pinpoints of color. Several very beautiful “patches” where the trio is absolutely unified as well as cohesive throughout. Good stuff and good luck finding it, but here’s Cor’s site.
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