Phil Durrant

For most of his career, Phil Durrant has led two separate lives: violinist on the London free improv scene and electronician in the techno underground. His work in a trio with John Butcher and John Russell in the late '80s onward established his name and started a journey into reductionism influenced by Butcher and Radu Malfatti. By the late '90s, he was improvising using either or both violin (with Quatuor Accorde, Burkhard Beins, Thomas Lehn, Chris Burn's Ensemble, etc.) and electronics (in Ticklish, the M.I.M.E.O.). Durrant is a classically trained musician in violin and ...