Robert Stillman ft. Seán Carpio + Francesca Ter-Berg (solo)

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Robert Stillman presenting his new record 10,000 Rivers. The record is a genre-defying suite of jazz, ambient and smooth pop–influenced compositions that reflect critically on technology, control and early ’90s techno-utopianism.

Blending synthetic textures with fragile acoustic improvisation and abstract soundscapes, the album moves between the human and the digital, the aspirational and the uncanny, standing as one of Stillman’s most ambitious works to date. Stillman is joined by multi-instrumentalist Seán Carpio.

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Musician biog

Robert Stillman is a saxophonist, improviser, and composer. His projects are characterised by a willingness to ask and answer questions about reality, and his relationship to it, as well as by a radical commitment to spontaneity and process.

He has been heavily influenced by regular collaboration over the past five years with Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner as a touring solo support for and performing member of The Smile, as well as in projects led by Skinner, Dave Okumu, and co-led with Sean Carpio and Anders Holst, among others.

In addition to 12 records under his own name, he has also created work for installation and various media, has curated the ‘Oscillate’ collection of artist lecture performances/essays in collaboration with the Turner Museum, Margate, and contributed to film score recordings by Adem Ilhan, Daniel Pemberton, Jonny Greenwood, and Thom Yorke.

Originally from Maine, USA, Stillman has played saxophone since the age of 11, and his teachers have included George Garzone, George Russell, and Danilo Perez. Based in the UK since 2007, he makes music from his studio based in Margate, UK, and lectures in Music at Canterbury Christ Church University.