IKB

IKB is a changing large-ensemble project associated with Ernesto Rodrigues and Portuguese and international improvisers. Its recordings bring together orchestral combinations of strings, reeds, brass, percussion, objects and electronics.

Creative Sources has documented IKB across an extended sequence including Monochrome bleu sans titre, Anthropométrie sans titre, Rhinocerus, Dracaena Draco, Chelonoidis nigra, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, Apteryx mantelli, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, Hippocampus guttulatus, Limosa limosa and Titanus giganteus.

The flexible group builds forms in real time, often drawing on a relationship between visual concepts, changing instrumental masses and the detailed behaviour of individual sounds.