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{{short description|British-Siberian experimental music ensemble}}
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{{Infobox musical artist | 
| name = K-Space
| image =
| caption = From the left: [[Ken Hyder]], Gendos Chamzyryn, [[Tim Hodgkinson]]
| background = group_or_band
| alias =
| origin = [[Tuva]], Russia
| genre = [[Electroacoustic improvisation]], [[Experimental music|experimental]], [[Overtone singing|throat singing]]
| years_active = 1996–present
| label = Ad Hoc
| associated_acts =
| website = [http://www.hyder.demon.co.uk/K-SPACE.htm www.hyder.demon.co.uk/K-SPACE.htm]
| current_members = [[Ken Hyder]]<br/>[[Tim Hodgkinson]]<br/>[[Gendos Chamzyryn]]
| past_members =
}}

'''K-Space''' are a British-[[Siberia]]n [[experimental music|experimental]] [[electroacoustic improvisation]] music ensemble comprising Scottish percussionist [[Ken Hyder]], English multi-instrumentalist [[Tim Hodgkinson]], and Siberian percussionist and [[Overtone singing|throat singer]] [[Gendos Chamzyryn]]. The trio was formed in [[Tuva]], [[Siberia]] in 1996. They have played in concerts in Asia and Europe, and released four CDs, including ''[[Infinity (K-Space album)|Infinity]]'' (2008), which was a new type of CD that is different every time it is played.<ref name=prlog>{{Citation |url=http://www.prlog.org/10110044-space-group-release-first-cd-that-plays-differently-every-time.html |title=K-SPACE group release first CD that plays differently every time |work=PRLog |access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>

In a review of K-Space's second album, ''Going Up'' (2004), François Couture of [[AllMusic]] described their music as a mixture of "psychedelic [[shamanism]]" and "the strangest [[Krautrock]] you ever heard".<ref name=AM-GoingUp>{{Citation |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r823122|pure_url=yes}} |title=Going Up |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |first=François |last=Couture |access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>

==History==
[[Tim Hodgkinson]], co-founder of the English [[avant-rock]] group [[Henry Cow]], and [[Ken Hyder]], founder of the [[Celtic music|Celtic]]/jazz band [[Talisker (band)|Talisker]], first began collaborating in 1978.<ref name=TH-calyx>{{Citation |url=https://www.calyx-canterbury.fr/mus/hodgkinson_tim.html |title=Tim Hodgkinson |work=The Canterbury Website |access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref><ref name=Wire>{{Harvnb|Montgomery|2005}}</ref> After one of Hodgkinson's concerts in Moscow in 1989, Hodgkinson asked Hyder if he would like to play "all of Russia".<ref name=Herald>{{Harvnb|Cavanagh|2008}}</ref> Hodgkinson, a [[social anthropology]] graduate, was interested in making contact with rural Russian musicians and [[ritual]] specialists. In 1990 and under the banner "[[Friendly British Invasion]]: in Search for the Soviet Sham(an)s",<ref name=Herald/> Hodgkinson and Hyder toured seven Soviet cities covering [[Siberia]] and [[Soviet Far East]] as well as Moscow and Leningrad, requiring (quite regular for foreigners at the time) separate registration ([[KGB]]) clearance for every city they performed in. They were the first British musicians to play in [[Vladivostok]] since the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]].<ref name=Herald/>

This was the first of a series of study trips Hodgkinson and Hyder made to Siberia to explore [[shamanism|shamanic culture]]. At the time shamanism had been suppressed by the Soviets but was still practised in secret by the locals.<ref name=Herald/> Initially little interest was shown in the duo, but soon they started to meet shamans and experience first hand shamanic rituals in which the shaman enters a [[trance]] state using drum and voice.<ref name=Wire/> This had a profound effect on Hyder and Hodgkinson.<ref name=Herald/> What interested them was the improvisational and musical aspects of the ritual, because it raised questions as to whether the psychological state of a performer is more important than musical technique.<ref name=Wire/> They began working with shamans from [[Tuva]], [[Altay people|Altay]] and [[Khakassia]], and meet the musicians of [[Biosintes]], "a kind of Tuvan [[Sun Ra]] band" which included [[Gendos Chamzyryn]].<ref name=prlog/> Chamzyryn, a shaman from Tuva, played a variety of traditional Tuvan instruments and used the deep-vocal [[overtone singing|Kargiraa]] style of overtone-singing. Hyder and Hodgkinson invited Chamzyryn to join them on a tour of Altay villages in 1996. During this tour Chamzyryn took the unusual step of "shamanising" on stage, which had never been done before because the use of voice and drum by shamans is not primarily musical.<ref name=Wire/> But their performances were well received and the success of this experiment prompted the trio to form a group they called K-Space.<ref name=prlog/>

From 1999 K-Space began touring Siberia and later Western Europe, which included concerts in France, Germany, Austria and Italy. In 2005 they returned in Tuva and performed with local musicians and shamans.<ref name=KH-K-Space>{{Citation |url=http://www.hyder.demon.co.uk/K-SPACE.htm |title=KSpace |work=K-Space homepage |first=Ken |last=Hyder |access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>

===Recordings===
K-Space's first CD, ''Bear Bones'' (2002) contains recordings made by the trio between 1996 and 2001. For their next CD, ''Going Up'' (2004) they took K-Space performances recorded in Siberia and Europe, plus [[field recording]]s of shamanic rituals, and manipulated and superimposed them on one another to produce a [[sound collage]] of what Hyder called "total music".<ref name=prlog/> In 2008 K-Space broke new ground when they released ''[[Infinity (K-Space album)|Infinity]]'', a new type of CD that is different every time it is played.<ref name=prlog/> It was created with the help of programmer [[Andy Wilson (programmer)|Andy Wilson]], and uses software to [[audio mixing (recorded music)|remix]] source material located on the disc to produce an "infinite" number of different musical pieces.<ref name=prlog/>

In 2013 a live album, ''Black Sky'' was released, which was recorded in [[Catania]], Sicily.

===Name===
K-Space is short for Kozyrev-Space and refers to a space/time warp supposedly created by Russian [[Astrophysics|astrophysicist]] [[Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev|Nicolai Kozyrev]].<ref name=nthposition>{{Citation |url=http://www.nthposition.com/bearbonesbyk.php |title=''Bear Bones'' by K-Space |work=nthposition |first=Ian |last=Simmons |access-date=26 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031101062214/http://www.nthposition.com/bearbonesbyk.php |archive-date=1 November 2003 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Kozyrev believed that time was a channel for energy and built a device known as [[Kozyrev Mirror|Kozyrev's Mirrors]] to prove his theory.<ref name=Wire/> When Hodgkinson and Hyder were in [[Akademgorodok]], the educational and scientific centre of Siberia, they experienced first-hand the effects of Kozyrev's Mirrors.<ref name=Wire/><ref name=KH-Erzin>{{Citation |url=http://www.hyder.demon.co.uk/trip.htm |title=The Road to Erzin |work=Ken Hyder's homepage |first=Ken |last=Hyder |access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>

Hyder has said that their second album, ''Going Up'' (2004) was directly influenced by the "esoteric theories" of Kozyrev.<ref name=Wire/>

==Members==
*[[Ken Hyder]] – drums, vocals, amplified ektara, sampling, electronics
*[[Tim Hodgkinson]] – lap steel guitar, clarinet, electronics, alto saxophone
*[[Gendos Chamzyryn]] – vocals, percussion, amplified doshpulur, piano, cello

==Discography==
*''Bear Bones'' (2002, CD, Slam Records, UK)
*''Going Up'' (2004, CD, Ad Hoc Records, US)
*''[[Infinity (K-Space album)|Infinity]]'' (2008, CD, Ad Hoc Records, US)
*''Black Sky'' (2013, CD, Setola Di Maiale Records, Italy)

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*{{Citation |last=Montgomery |first=Will |title=Ken Hyder: Technician of ecstasy |newspaper=[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]] |url=http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/262/?show=full#print_description |volume=262 |date=December 2005}}. (reproduced in full [http://www.hyder.demon.co.uk/wire.htm here])
*{{Citation |last=Cavanagh |first=John |title=Infinity |newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |date=7 September 2008}}. 

==External links==
*{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p542193|label=K-Space}}.

===Further reading===
*[http://users.unimi.it/~gpiana/dm1/dm1s01th.htm "Improvised Music and Siberian Shamanism"]. ''An essay by [[Tim Hodgkinson]]''.
*[http://www.hyder.demon.co.uk/trip.htm "The Road to Erzin"]. ''One of [[Tim Hodgkinson|Hodgkinson]] and [[Ken Hyder|Hyder]]'s trips to Siberia, including their experiences with Kozyrev's Mirrors''.

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[[Category:British experimental musical groups]]
[[Category:British world music groups]]
[[Category:Russian experimental musical groups]]
[[Category:Electroacoustic improvisation]]
[[Category:Musical groups from Tuva]]
[[Category:Tuvan throat singing]]
[[Category:Russian world music groups]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1996]]

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