TATSUYA NAKATANI / DAVE DOVE / JAWWAAD TAYLOR
GABE GLOBUS-HOENICH / PATTY FRANCESCHY / DAN CAPPECHI
ASHLEY DEEKUS / DAWN WEBSTER
@ University City
Arts Leauge (UCAL)
4226 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA
8:00 pm, $5 - $10
Although civilization's oldest instruments were percussion, the full
investigation of its potential as generators of non-rhythmic textures
is a more recent phenomenon. The Japanese-born and
Pennsylvania-resident Tatsuya Nakatani, among today's most exciting
performers, has distinguished himself as a constant leader in
innovative approaches to percussion. Often surrounded by a battery of
gongs, cymbals, bells, and singing bowls, Nakatani commands a universe
of sounds with both athletic poise and painterly delicacy. For this
performance, Nakatani will be joined by two Houston-based musicians:
David Dove and Jawwaad Taylor, both making their first ever Bowerbird
appearances. David Dove's trombone improvisations can be described as
the sound of lips, breath, voice, and tongue, amplified through a
brass tube. He is the director of Nameless Sound (formerly the Deep
Listening Institute Houston), a ground-breaking non-profit program
that teaches improvised music and listening skills to youth. It was
at Nameless Sound where Jawwaad Taylor, a former student of Dove's,
first began to formally develop his childhood interest in the
spontaneity of free improvisation. Taylor, also an active hip-hop
artist, uses trumpet, voice, and electronics when performing in a free
improv setting.
TATSUYA NAKATANI percussion Japan/USA DAVE DOVE trombone Houston, TX JAWWAAD TAYLOR mc, trumpet NYC
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) is originally from Osaka, Japan. In 2006 he performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD.
He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
In addition to live solo and ensemble performances he works as a sound designer for film and television. He also teaches Masterclasses and Workshops at the University level. He also heads H&H Production, an independent record label and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was selected as a performing artist for the Pennsylvania Performing Artist on Tour (PennPat) roster as well as a Bronx Arts Council Individual Artist grant.
A trombone player, composer, improvisor, and educator, David Dove has given performances and workshops all over the US and some internationally (Mexico, Canada, Scotland, Vietnam). He has collaborated with many of his favorite local/national/international artists (more and less well known) and has developed an approach to creative music education.
Dove grew up learning the trombone in the public school band program, while at the same time playing bass guitar in punk bands. After high school, he spent years studying and playing a wide variety musical styles (including 6 years in the band Sprawl). In the early 1990’s, he became dedicated to free improvisation. This eclectic background and commitment to creativity eventually led him to conceive of a new approach to music education.
In 1997, Dove started working at MECA, an inner-city arts community center, where he began to develop this approach. In 2000, Pauline Oliveros invited him to start a branch of The Deep Listening Institute (DLI) to further his educational goals and bring contemporary musicians to Houston. In 2006, DLI Houston became Nameless Sound, an independent organization. Nameless Sound reaches over 1500 young people in Houston every year through workshops in public schools, community centers, and homeless shelters.
As a preteen, Northside Houston’s Jawwaad Taylor had an early exposure to creative music when his uncle played him records by Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton. At the same time, Jawwaad was developing his skills as a hip-hop MC. At a young age, Jawwaad became an accomplished freestyle rapper. But after several years, a shift in musical focus was followed by a meeting with Dave Dove. He joined the group of musicians around Nameless Sound (and the NS Youth Ensemble), and his interest weighed more heavily on trumpet and free improvisation. After a period, Jawwaad returned to rhyming. This return had a goal to bring his musical activities together and form an original approach. He and Dove worked steadily for several years to craft a creative music that kept the authenticity of its sources and maintained the spontaneity of free improvisation. Jawwaad’s broad artistic palette moves the music forward. In addition to his vocals and trumpet playing, Jawwaad brings a producer’s ear to his use of electronics and samplers.
In addition to improvising, Jawwaad is working on a solo hip-hop album. The album will be a follow up to the success of “Craft of the Lost Art” (Lex Records), 2007’s acclaimed release by Shape of Broad Minds, the Philadelphia based underground hip-hop duo that features Jawwaad.
Jawwaad is currently living in New York City. .
GABE GLOBUS-HOENICH PATTY FRANCESCHY DAN CAPPECHI percussion
Montreal native Gabe Globus-Hoenich is one of Philadelphia's most
promising young percussionists. As an orchestral percussionist, Gabe
has appeared at, among others, Carnegie Hall in New York City,
Shostakovich Hall in St. Petersburg, and Boston's Symphony Hall, and
has worked with renowned conductors including Christoph Eschenbach,
Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, and Alan Gilbert. Gabe is also an avid
performer of contemporary classical music, and performs with the
Philadelphia-based Chamber Music Now! Ensemble. He has performed with
members of the Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird and with
marimba virtuoso Robert Van Sice, and has premiered works by rising
star composers Stratis Minakakis, Gene Coleman, Susie Ibarra and
Sebastian Chang, among others. Gabe also co-leads the Curtis
Percussion Quartet, which recently won the 2008 Percussive Arts
Society Percussion Ensemble Competion and will be appearing in the
2008 Percussive Arts Society Convention in Austin Texas. As an
improviser, Gabe has played with Tim Berne, Ralph Alessi, Mark Helias,
Marc Ducret, Andy Milne, Drew Gress, Larry McKenna, Matt Davis, and
many others. In 2007, Gabe studied jazz and improvisation at the
School for Improvised Music in New York City, where he worked with
improvising artists such as Vijay Iyer, Jim Black, Gerald Cleaver,
Steve Coleman, Tony Malaby, and Ravi Coltrane. Gabe continues to
perform improvised music in Philadelphia in a variety of musical
contexts, often collaborating with fellow percussionist Patricia
Franceschy.
In addition to his work as a classical and improvising musician, Gabe
also studies several types of world percussion. He is a member of
Alokli, a Philadelphia-based Ewe drumming ensemble, and also
frequently studies and performs Cuban Bata music with Philadelphia
multi-percussionist Shawn Hennessey. Also, Gabe is a member of Latin
Fiesta, where he plays latin percussion in educational presentations
and concerts. This past June Gabe served on the faculty of the
inaugural session of the Reading Summer Music Institute, a program
designed to offer intensive music study to students in and around
Reading PA. Gabe has also teaches extensively within the Philadelphia
school systems, as a member of the outreach department for the Curtis
Institute.
A 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Gabe has studied
with some of the premier percussion teachers in the world, including
Don Liuzzi, Robert Van Sice, Alan Abel, Stanley Leonard, Sal Rabbio,
She-e Wu, Rolando Morales-Matos, Scott Robinson, and many more. Also
Gabe has studied privately with Tyshawn Sorey and Ted Poor.
Patricia Franceschy, a recent graduate from The Curtis Institute of Music, began her percussion studies with marimbists Miguel Gonzalez and Juan Martinez, and has since studied with Don Liuzzi, Nancy Zeltsman, Peter Prommel and Robert van Sice, among others.
In her native Mexico, Ms. Franceschy served as timpanist and percussionist of the ISMEV Symphony Orchestra in Veracruz, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and Mineria Symphony Orchestra. In the U.S. she has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra Percussion Ensemble, and with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.
In addition to classical percussion her musical pursuits extend to jazz and improvisation and include her participation in the 2007 summer intensive workshop at the Center of Improvisational Music in Brooklyn, New York, where she worked with Ralph Alessi, Andy Milne, Tom Rainey, Marc Ducret, Gerald Clever, among others. She has also worked with performers and teachers such as Tony Miceli, Christos Rafalides, Joe Locke, and Ed Saindon.
Her musical collaborations include the premier of several works by composers like Sebastian Chang and John B. Hedges. Ms. Franceschy can also be heard in Michael Udow's "The Shattered Mirrow" released by Equilibrium Records, and in works by composer Solbong Kim, recorded on the EMI-Korea label. She has also worked with performer and composer Susie Ibarra.
Still in her early 20s, Ms. Franceschy a top prize winner of several competitions, has appeared throughout Mexico, the US and in South America and Korea, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City among many others. Ms. Franceschy was recently selected to participate in the John Hollenbeck "Big Ears" residency at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA.
Born and raised in the Twin Cities of Minnesota (St. Paul and Mineapolis), Dan Capecchi moved to Philadelphia in the fall of 2002, where he became increasingly interested and active in the world of in improvised music. Dan has been fortunate to be involved in long term projects of Shot x Shot, Peter Robbins, Jeff Baumeister, and Toshi Makahara as well as short term engagements with Susie Ibarra and others. A percussionist, composer, and teacher, he currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife and sons.
ASHLEY DEEKUS percussion DAWN WEBSTER trumpet
Ashley Deekus (b.1987) A percussionist and composer who holds a dynamic approach to her marimba playing. Initially, having the interest in attending a conservatory, being prestigious and well respected; she found herself with passions that led elsewhere. With a career beginning as a featured marimbist for Canadian indie-rock artists, to an established improviser in the NY/PA community, to an ever advancing world music percussionist; her focus is on the end result. Beautician by day, musician by night; she continues to pursue studies in various traditional music without excluding classical or jazz studies. Her desire to find the connections is ever enticing. When working with tradition, she finds there is a fine line present that naturally keeps everyone connected, and that being the importance of community. Some artists she has worked with are; Pauline Oliveros, Matthew Welch, Neil Feather, Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, Feist, and Susie Ibarra to name a few. Performs with: Alokli (Traditional West African ewe drumming ensemble) West Philadelphia Orchestra (traditional Balkan/Gypsy) The Old Goats (Brazilian folk).
Comfortable in many genres, Dawn Webster is one of Philadelphia's rising young trumpeters. Dawn has been spotted playing with local rockers, British-style brass bands, raucous improv street ensembles, and classical and contemporary musicians. She has appeared as recitalist and soloist in the tri-state area, performed orchestral music in festivals and orchestras in the US and France, and performed Renaissance cornetto and recorders at early music festivals. Dawn is currently working on several recital programs to be performed in the Philadelphia area, and experimental music to be performed at local eclectic arts gatherings.
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