Liudas Mockunas (LIT) – saxophones, clarinets.
Jakob Riis (SWE/DK) – laptop, mixing board feedback.

The Lithuanian reed player Liudas Mockunas and the Danish laptop musician Jakob Riis have been playing a lot together since the early 2000s in different constellations and contexts such as Toxicum, Copenhagen Art Ensemble and Rød Planet. Their collaboration as a duo resumed in 2010 after some years on hold. Two dedicated musicians in an unreserved tribute to free improvised music, and to the energy in the interaction between acustics and electronics.

Liudas Mockūnas (b.1976) has received his MA from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre under Vladimir Chekasin and a master in jazz performance from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. In 2000 he and the Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg founded a group called Toxikum. Their album of the same title in Denmark was hailed Jazz Discovery of the Year 2004. He has received the Lithuanian daily newspaper "Lietuvos Rytas "prize for cultural activities in 2004, "Talent" prize from "Rhythmic Music Conservatory" friends in 2005, "Vilnius Jazz" festival prize in 2006," Birstonas Jazz "2008 and Lithuanian Musicians Union "Golden Disc" 2008.

Jakob Riis. laptopmusician and composer based in Malmö, Sweden specializing in noise, electronic- and electroacoustic music. Jakob have worked with orchestras and musicians like Liquid Nails, Mats Gustafsson, Wrrp, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Ars Nova, Lotte Anker, Expanded Botanics, Rød Planet, Riis/Mockunas, Ris och Ros, Bill Horist and Nguyen Thanh Thuy.

Wedensday february 15th, 19:30, 2012
Skånes scen för live- och crossoverkonst, Bragegatan 15, Malmö, SE.
Arranged by Frim/Syd