Release event and artist’s talk at Dom Dom Location: 3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi 20:00, Friday August 30 Signal in noise is a double CD with The Six Tones and guests from the Hanoi scene of traditional and experimental music. Recorded in Hanoi at Kiên Quyết Studio, the CD is now released on dB Productions, Sweden. The group is now in Hanoi working at Dom Dom and invites the audience to an event with live music and conversations about a music project that bridges many distinct cultural and musical traditions.   Location: 3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi Since 2006, The Six Tones has been bringing art music from Vietnam and Europe together, touring as an instrumental music group or in music theatre projects, and working with choreographers. We play traditional Vietnamese music in hybrid settings for Western stringed instruments and traditional Vietnamese instruments. We improvise in traditional and experimental Western idioms and also commission new music by composers in Asia as well as in Western countries. The Six Tones are Nguyễn Thanh Thủy and Ngô Trà My and the Swedish guitarist Stefan Östersjö (also playing many other stringed instruments). Since the project started, we have been collaborating with the composer and improviser Henrik Frisk, who has both composed works for the ensemble as well as toured with the group as a lap top improviser. The name of the group, emanating from a composition by Henrik, relates to the... 

Time: 19:00 Sunday 26th May 2013 Location: Manzi 14 Phan Huy Ích, HN. Known as one of the most significant improviser in the freeform/ improvisation/ new music/ experimental music in North Europe, Lotte Anker has come back to Vietnam after the festival Hanoi New Music Meeting 2009. Item fulltext In this collaboration project with Vietnamese musicians and improvisers, Lotte Anker presents to us a music that will be based on absolute improvisation to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sounds in a contemporary musical landscape. In The Moment- an impressed concert which has took place last weekend as a result of this project,  is more than anything, the adventurous landscape of tradition and abstract modernism; traditional Vietnamese instruments and Western electronics; energetic, hardcore...