BrÖtz no. 935 Onsdag 29/10 19:30 Harald-Klara-Malin + Pressman/Noyes

Pressman/Noyes

Viktoria Pressman (EE) – piano
Lee Noyes (CA/NZ) – percussion

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Pressman/Noyes a collaborative project based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Rooted in non-idiomatic improvisation, their music explores the outer edges of texture, timing, and touch—delicate, unhurried, and structurally unstable. With a shared commitment to deep listening, the duo cultivates a sound world where silence and sound hold equal weight, and where fractured rhythms and microtonal tensions unfold in sometimes slow, more-often ecstatic motion. Their performances are less about statement than emergence: music that reveals itself in real time, guided by attentiveness, risk, and restraint.
Lee Noyes (b.1977, Burns Lake) made significant contributions to the late ‘90’s and early 2000’s New Zealand experimental noise scene but quickly gravitated to improvisation, both acoustic and electroacoustic and has since broadened his interest to composition for improvisers, alternate notation systems and alternative tuning systems. Based in Sweden since 2012, he has held Artist in Residency status at the Elementstudio for electroacoustic and *other music since 2020. Led by a pragmatic approach to both composition and improvisation where every sound is a potential building block, his work is often based on contrasts – harsh sounds and harmonic sounds, noise and silence, consonance and dissonance, familiarity and surprise. Producing both solo works and collaborating locally and internationally, his most recent works have been released this year on Ftarri records (JP) and his own Idealstate Recordings. www.leenoyes.net
Viktoria Pressman (b.1977, Tallinn) is a pianist and improviser whose work bridges extended techniques, minimalism, and non-idiomatic performance practices. Initially self-taught, she developed her distinct voice performing across Europe and Asia in non-traditional venues and interdisciplinary contexts, before entering the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in her mid-40s. Currently pursuing an MA in improvisation and world music at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, she is an active force in the city’s experimental scene. Her work explores the full sonic range of the piano—often employing preparations, field recordings, and found objects—to reveal new tonalities and temporalities. She performs and collaborates regularly in multimedia, multidisciplinary, and site-specific contexts, and has appeared at ContemPlay (Baltic States), international festivals at EMTA, and Gothenburg venues including Scen 46, Skeppet GBG, and Sockerbruket.