BLIP:
Jim Denley: alto saxophone, flutes, balloons
Mike Majkowski: double bass, objects, pitch pipes

"The most refined and complex music available on the planet can be found in the work of Jim Denley."
- Jon Rose

"Stunning and subtle. I don't know many bass players with such a command of extended and alternative techniques."
- Aire Altena

Blip is a duo collaboration between Jim Denley and Mike Majkowski: two of Australia's most prominent improvising musicians. They began playing together in 2002, as members of The Splinter Orchestra, and formed Blip in 2009. Both musicians are from Sydney, Australia, with Majkowski currently basing himself in Berlin.

They have been developing their own approach to the woodwinds/strings duo arrangement, deconstructing and reconstructing this format. Their music focuses on duration, the subtleties of sound, the pitch within timbre and texture, as well as pulse. With this they move from clear and simple structures to multi-layered complexities. They regard their work as being both composed and improvised.


Dead Space (recorded in Sydney, 2011 at the Anechoic Chamber of Studio 256) is their second released, with the Polish label Bocian.

Information on the artists:

With a career spanning over three decades, Jim Denley (b. 1957) is renowned for spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration as instrumentalist, improviser and composer.
He has been working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone. He also uses bass flute, dismantled bass flute, prepared flute, czech school flute,
bamboo flute and balloons - although sometimes it's easier to just say wind instruments. Denley regards the main instrument he works with as being breath.

Brian Morton wrote about Denley's playing in WIRE (June 2009): 
“At 52, saxophonist and flautist Jim Denley is Australia's most important improvising musician, similar in spirit to Ross Bolleter in that his creative language .......
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