MARTIN ARCHER
Jazz Related Improv/Composition / 21st Century Modern / Avant-Garde Jazz • United Kingdom
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Born 1957, in Sheffield, Yorkshire; composer, saxophones, synthesizers.
Martin Archer has been active in creative music as a composer, performer and recording artist since 1980. Originally a saxophonist influenced principally by Evan Parker and Anthony Braxton, Archer has moved toward electronics and new music technology in the 1990s. As a composer he is interested in organising sound material rather than in producing notated music, with emphasis on the interaction between composed, improvised and random events in the music, believing strongly that the area of greatest interest occurs when space is given for creative musicians to make a personal statement within a pre-existing framework. Archer's compositions increasingly use chance, which will always create an exciting musical event that no amount of planning could engineer.
Since 1980 Archer has performed many concerts of improvised music in one-off situations, and was involved in Company Week in 1988. However, his main work has been in the
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88 Enemies
Jazz Related Improv/Composition
1997
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Wasp Honey
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2022
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