Praed is not only
the duo of switzerland’s Paed Conca and
Lebanon’s Raed
Yassin, it is the opening of dynamic space where
both musicians fill in different roles sometimes simultaneously with
Yassin’s use of double-bass, electronics, tape and radio material
as
well creating the video that provides the visual material for
their performances, and
Conca’s multi-instrumentalist approach
playing electric bass, prepared and un-prepared,
clarinet and
electronics. This multiplicity serves the core of this duo’s
originality,
presenting several levels of interpretation and making
them coexist, never trying to settle
on any given atmosphere or
developing on a specific mixture of sound and image. The
result is a
constant construction and deconstruction process, everything that
builds up is
set to disappear or be recuperated or altered by means
of addition or subtraction.
We could expect a
fast pace and the generation of a dense soundfield, but surprisingly
it
is all the opposite, the music evolves around consecutive ideas
thrown with utmost
precision and the alternation of roles, textural,
white noise, minimalist as well as
fragments of more conventional music played both by the instruments
and samples of pre-existing music. No dimension could be left out
creating a tense multi-layered world
where the visual calm of the
musicians can contrast with the violence of the onscreen
images and
vice-versa.
It is difficult to further
describe Praed, as both their music and performances are the
unique
result of both Conca and Yassin exponential combinatory
possibilities of their
various artistic dimensions.
