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JOZEF VAN WISSEM
LONE WOLF RECITAL CORPS
STEVE PARKER
AMNESA SPENTAS |
@ Pageant:Soloveev [
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607 Bainbridge St
Philadelphia, PA
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8:00pm, $5
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JOZEF VAN WISSEM
lute and electronics
the netherlands
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 Jozef Van Wissem continues to liberate the lute. Once the most popular of portable instrument, it then entered 250 years of neglect, but today suffers from being regarded as a museum piece, only to be played in accordance with theories about authenticity. Van Wissem has improvised with guitarists Gary Lucas and Tetuzi Akiyama, while his solo Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear alternated his own palindromic compositions with processed field recordings of airport lounges. The excellent A Rose By Any Other Name is a ‘straight' lute record, though Van Wissem's scary monochrome cover photo harks back to a more innocent age when lute playing, like vegetarianism, would have been evidence of mild insanity. All 22 pieces here are anonymous- as Van Wissem points out, this could have been because the composer was too much of a celebrity to be worth naming, or else an aristocratic amateur unwilling to demean himself by appearing as a professional musician. There's one 14th century Italian drone-dance, but most are from the early 17th century, late Renaissance and pre-Baroque. Many have a forthright and folksy quality, and it's not until “ En Me Revenant” ( from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) that we hear the tricky contrapuntal lines typical of upmarket Renaissance lute. This is straight away followed by “General Leslys Godnight”, which sounds like the bastard offspring of a sarabande and the blues. Rendered still stranger by a sharp tuning (an experiment characteristic of the period, apparently). This Scottish melodie illuminates how European tunes were shortly to traverse the Atlantic and mutate in the New World. Van Wissem's playing is unfetterd and lacks tea-party politeness. He ranges from moody to muscular, and coaxes a good range of colors from his ten-course, Canadian-built lute, evoking African kora as well as blues guitar. My favorite, “Untitled”, by Anonymous, is a stirring, spacious Scottish lament, conjuring up windswept wastes.
[ for more info on Jozef van Wissem ]
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LONE WOLF RECITAL CORPS
Terry Adkins - woodwinds, guitar, electronics, and installation
Sherman Fleming - voice, enactments
Kristen Gayle - video
philadelphia |
this performance will feature three abbreviate works:
CORPUS SPECERE
MATINEE
REVOCO
 
Terry Adkins is a visual artist and musician whose multivalent approach to creative expression has been featured in galleries and museums as well as on the avant-garde music scene since the late seventies. He started out in his native Washington , DC as a charter member of Harmolodica with fellow saxophonist Yahya Abdul-Majid (presently with Sun Ra Arkestra), played in Don Cherry's Community Orchestra and collaborated with performance artist Sherman Fleming's AFRO ( Anti Formalist Reclamation Organization). Since moving to New York in 1982, Adkins has performed with Julius Hemphill, Jemeel Moondoc, Charles Gayle, Vincent Chauncey, Denis Charles, William Parker, Peter Kowald, Reverend Frank Wright, Butch Morris, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Brian Smith, Bern Nix and many others. In 1986 while on a yearlong visiting artist exchange between P.S.1 in New York and Binz 39 in Zurich , Adkins founded the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, a multi media performance unit that premiered at Rote Fabrik. While in Zurich he also collaborated with Gunter Muller's Nachtluft and co-founded and premiered Lithium AZ with Daniela Zehnder at the Rigiblick Theatre.
The Lone Wolf Recital Corps usually performs at the sites of Adkins' sculpturally based installations, which comprise memorial tributes to individuals whose societal contributions are either unheralded or unknown. Recited text, sounding sculpture and ritual actions are combined in an effort to recover and reenact the deeds of the honored, which in the past have included Jimi Hendrix, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, John Coltrane, Sojourner Truth and John Brown. In his current recital at Pageant, Belted Bronze , Adkins illuminates the life and work of the great blues artist Bessie Smith, who lived and performed in South Philadelphia from 1921 until her untimely death in 1937. Corpus Specere, Matinee and Revoco feature a collaborative reunion with Sherman Fleming and a video by Kristen Gayle from the University of Pennsylvania where Terry Adkins is currently Associate Professor of Fine Arts. The Lone Wolf Recital Corps has performed at the ICA London, Whitney Museum , The Studio Museum in Harlem , The New World Symphony of Miami and ICA Philadelphia among other venues worldwide. Adkins appears on the Nachluft CD Telefonia and on The Regulator by Bazillus.
presented in conjunction with Adkins' current exhibition at Pageant:Soloveev:
BELTED BRONZE - RECITAL IN EIGHT DOMINIONS - TERRY ADKINS AFTER BESSIE SMITH
[ for more info on the current exhibition at Pageant:Soloveev click here ]
photo credit:
Black Beethoven contrabass: Tasha Doremus
Lone Wolf flute: Anthony Rodriguez
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STEVE PARKER
trombone
with Sheridan Seyfried, violin
philadelphia |
the performance will feature:
Luciano Berio: Sequenza for solo trombone
Giacinto Scelsi: Tre Pezzi for solo trombone
Improvisions based on multiphonic riffs by Albert Mangelsdorff for violin and trombone
 Philadelphia-based trombonist Steve Parker recently returned from Germany where he worked as a Fulbright Scholar, collaborating with Abbie Conant and Mike Svoboda. He has worked with Pierre Boulez and Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Lucerne Festival, soloed at the Music in Time at the Spoleto Festival, and recently played the North American premiere of David Lang's MEN for solo trombone, ensemble and video at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. His recent concerts have included solo performances at Backfabrick in Berlin, Roulette in New York, the Green Mill in Chicago and a residency in Charleston, SC with cellist Jason Calloway.
Born in Philadelphia in 1984, composer and violinst Sheridan Seyfried has received performances of his music in major venues throughout North America, South America and Europe. His string quartet, Pro and Contra, was awarded a 2001 ASCAP award. In 2002, he was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and performed his own music at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Sheridan has been frequently commissioned by orchestras and in 2004 his work Subtle Electric Fire was read by the Minnesota Orchestra as part of their Composer Institute and Reading Sessions. That same year the State College Choral Society premiered his 80-minute work for chorus and string quartet, Voices of the Holocaust. A 2006 Presser Music Award recipient, he was also a composer-in-residence at the 2006 Music from Angel Fire (NM) festival. Sheridan continues a long-standing relationship with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra with a new commission for bass trombone and orchestra to be premiered by soloist Zachary Bond at Verizon Hall in 2008. Sheridan currently studies with Richard Danielpour at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he has also participated in master classes with composers including Aaron J. Kernis, John Corigliano, and Lukas Foss.
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AMNESA SPENTAS
eli litwin - drums
rustin grosse - 7 string guitar
philadelphia |
Ruston Grosse has been playing music using whatever he could for as long as he can remember. His main focus is on the drums and guitar although he plays on an interesting variety of instruments including the bouzouki. Ruston is a member of SilVeth, Time is Like a Sword, Bulgina, Schizoid: the Anachronism, and will be replacing Jon Cole on drums in the band Psyopus for a tour with Melt Banana and a tour with Dying Fetus.
Eli Litwin was born in 1983 in Morristown , NJ . He began playing drums at the age of 9 and started his first rock band in 6 th grade. Through high school he continued to play in a variety of rock bands as well as the high school jazz band. Eli chose to attend the Esther Boyer College of Music at Temple University where he studied drum set with Erik Johnson. Since graduating with his Bachelors of Music in Jazz Performance, Eli has remained in Philadelphia to pursue music on both the performing and teaching ends. Though his area of expertise is largely in metal, Eli has significant experience playing in jazz, rock & avant-garde idioms as well. He is currently a member of Knife the Glitter, Normal Love and Time Is Like A Sword. In his own time, Eli composes a variety of music on the computer, ranging from ambient and experimental electronic music to “crazy metal MIDI 's.”
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98.
old projects and big noise
JASON TALBOT
VERTONEN
HZL
WRIGHT / LIPSON / MAKIHARA
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@ University City Arts League
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4226 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA
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8:00pm, $5 - $10 sliding scale
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JASON TALBOT
turntables
richmond |
Jason Talbot is originally from Boston , Massachusetts ; he currently resides in Richmond , Virginia . Although he earned much notoriety as the "turntable abuser" half of the Stelzer/ Talbot duo, his solo performances have definitely drawn attention to his individual composition skills. Live sets involve turntables with modified tone arms, needles, and records coupled with other electronic and acoustic devices; the result is cascading electronic wall of noise and subtle, creaking musique concrete. His first CD, A Love So Bright in Shines a Hole Through My Heart, was released by? C.I.P. in 2005.
[ for more info on Jason Talbot ]
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VERTONEN
blake edwards, electronics
chicago |
Vertonen is Blake Edwards from Chicago , Illinois . Vertonen has been staggering mirthfully through the audio forest since 1991. Armed with custom electronics, scrap metals, hand altered records, an oversized russian synthesizer, and other devices, Vertonen lunges at you six ways to Sunday, with particular attention paid to off-kilter lurching rhythms, harsh blasts of noise, field recording souffles, and sinus clearing drones. In addition to numerous 7" records, 3? CDRs, and full-length CDRs, Vertonen releases include a CD on Groundfault, three CDs on C.I.P. that were funded by City of Chicago grants, and a forthcoming split LP with Demons.?
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HZL
tim albro, guitar, radio, electronics
jesse kudler, guitar, electronics
philadelphia |
 Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler have played together since becoming friends at Wesleyan University around the turn of the century. They first worked together in the large electronic improvising ensemble Phil Collins, playing synthesizer and guitar/electronics, respectively. After graduating in 2002, the two didn't play together again until Winter 2004-2005, after Jesse's move to Philadelphia. Their interest in a more restrained and spacious form of improvisation was first realized in the guitar trio G3 (with Ben Stanko). Where that group had them playing guitars in a more or less conventional manner (Tim on electric 12-string and Jesse on acoustic), HZL arose from a more intense investigation of the use of electronics and electro-acoustic means. Fall 2005 found Jesse moving again, to West Philadelphia, and he and Tim became close neighbors. A schedule of record-listening sessions and concert attendance developed into a more focused musical collaboration in Winter 2005-2006, when proximity and available practice space allowed the two to work intensively on developing a duo language. Jesse resumed use of his "regular" set-up of table-top guitar, synthesizer, contact mic, various objects and devices, and sundry electronics. Tim began working with a unique electronics rig that incorporated radio and an archtop guitar prepared with surface-mounted speakers inside its body. Small rooms and intensive listening led to the configuration of a still-changing sound, making ample use of resonances, small sounds, and an awareness of the spaces containing them. Live performances have focused on subtle room-filling drones and textures, with speakers arrayed around the audience, evoking installation art as much as musicians on a stage.
[ for more info on HZL ]
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WRIGHT / LIPSON / MAKIHARA
jack wright, saxes
evan lipson, bass
toshi makihara, drum kit
philadelphia |
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Over the past twenty-five years Jack Wright has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, which continues to grow through regular No Net weekend sessions. As a musical explorer as well, his music passes through radical shifts of style and approach from one year to the next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes even recognizable as such. He lives in Easton, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also active in Europe, touring both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians, and will tour Japan with Michel Doneda and Tatsuya Nakatani.
Toshi Makihara studied drums, percussion and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the United States in the late 1970's he has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies internationally. Makihara has provided original music to Arden Theater Company, Diversions Dance Company (Wales), Pennsylvania Ballet, ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company among others, and has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists, filmmakers and performance artists widely.
Evan Lipson is a bassist/composer currently residing with three other musicians in Jack Wright's Spring Garden Music house, located in West Philadelphia. His principal teachers included both Michael Formanek & Robert Kesselman (Phila. Orch). Other private teachers have included Mark Dresser, Mark Helias, Ralph Alessi, and Brad Shepik, as well as Robert Black (Bang On A Can) at the Festival Eleazar Carvalho in Fortaleza, Brazil. He attended the Peabody Conservatory, as well as Temple University. Evan works with several bands/ensembles/gangs including: NORMAL LOVE, SATANIZED, DYNAMITE CLUB, Mike Pride's FROM BACTERIA TO BOYS, and Gene Coleman's ENSEMBLE NOAMNESIA He has also performed and/or recorded with artists such as: Charles Cohen, Maria Chavez, Gene Coleman, Alvin Curran, Andrew D'Angelo, Stuart Dempster, Dr. Dog, Andrew Drury, Helena Espvall, Bryan Eubanks, Peter Evans, Cynthia Folio, Mike Gamble, Ben Gerstein, Devin Gray, Mary Halvorson, Andy Hayleck, Katt Hernandez, Charlette Hug, Rick Iannacone, Michael Johnson, Darius Jones, Matthias Kaul, Jesse Krakow, Andrew Lafkas, Charlie Looker, Lukas Ligeti, John McLellan, Toshi Makihara, Mat Maneri, Tatsuya Nakatani, Pauline Oliveros, Mike Pride, Gregory Reynolds, Jane Riggler, Make A Rising, Jamie Saft, Christine Sehnaoui, Alex Waterman, Veryan Weston, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, and Yoshida Tatsuya (RUINS). Evan Lipson strongly values and enjoys the evolving process of social collaboration/exchange in order to produce various states of excitement, tension, confusion, and perceptual revelation."
[ for more info on Jack Wright ]
[ for more info on Toshi Makihara ]
[ for more info on Evan Lipson ]
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97.
a night of solos
ERIC LEONARDSON
ANNA FRIZ
DAN CAPECCHI
SEBASTIAN PETSU |
@ University City Arts League
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4226 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA
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8:00pm, $5 - $10 sliding scale
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ERIC LEONARDSON inventions
chicago
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 Eric Leonardson is a Chicago-based electroacoustic composer, radio artist, sound designer, instrument inventor, improvisor, visual artist, and teacher. He has produced, toured, and performed in hundreds of experimental sound and music concerts throughout North America, Japan, and Germany.
Leonardson's interest in creating new sounds for performance and studio composition led to the invention of the Springboard, an electroacoustic percussion instrument made from inexpensive and readily available materials. Its sounds belie its humble origins. Applying his percussion skills to the rich enharmonic timbres of coil springs, plastic combs, pocket radio, and crude wooden daxophones, Leonardson's work has been described as "...ritualistic music, electronically synthesized industrial vibrations miraculously created with ordinary household objects...."—Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader
Leonardson has created numerous sound scores for award-winning works South African choreographer Robyn Orlin. Leonardson was a member of the experimental sound trio Wormwood with Spencer Sundell and Dylan Posa. An ever-growing list of his artistic collaborators include experimental vocalist Carol Genetti; Philadelphia percussionist Toshi Makihara; Chicago's premiere percussionist Michael Zerang; "noise boy", Jason Soliday; Tokyo computer musique concrète artist Yasuhiro Otani; avant-bassist Tatsu Aoki; Seattle audio artist Steven A. Barsotti; Oakland guitarist John Shiurba; Pistoia composer Jacopo Andreini; Montreal sound artist, Anna Friz; free improvising saxophonist Jack Wright; multi-instrumentalists Jim Baker and Bob Marsh; "anti-cellist", Fred Lonberg-Holm, and "sound mechanic" Neil Feather, among many others.
Leonardson co-founded the Experimental Sound Studio, in the 1980s, where he coordinated "Sounds From Chicago," one of the city's first internationally broadcast radio art programs. He co-founded the physical theater company Plasticene, designing and performing sound and music for all its productions since 1995. Leonardson is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Media Arts Fellowship in 2002 and 2006, and also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the First Year Program and the Department of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his MFA degree in 1983.
Leonardson's early audio work is featured on the CD Radio Reverie in the Waiting Place. His 2005 collaborative work for radio, "Other Music" is available on the CD compilation Deep Wireless 3 from New Adventures In Sound Art.
[ for more info on Eric Leonardson ]
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ANNA FRIZ accordion / radio
montreal |
 Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Toronto and Montreal. Since 1998 she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. From the childhood fiction of "the little people in the radio" to documentary remixes of live political events, she creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes. Anna has presented installation and solo performance works incorporating low-watt FM transmission at the Western Front in Vancouver, Sea of Sound Festival in Edmonton, Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg (2000, 2004), Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston, Studio XX, Suoni per il Popolo, Rad'a Gallery, and the Société des arts technologiques in Montréal, Deep Wireless in Toronto; as well as at free103point9 gallery in Brooklyn, PS 122 in New York City, the Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago, the Fifth Biennale of Radio in Mexico City, Ars Electronica 2002 in Linz, the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; and Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. She has produced numerous original radio works for campus/community radio stations across Canada and the U.S.; and for national public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Mexico. Together with Annabelle Chvostek, Anna toured the electro-radio-acoustic piece The Automated Prayer Machine across Europe and Canada (2004).
[ for more info on Anna Friz ]
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DAN CAPECCHI drum kit
philadelphia |
Dan Capecchi , drums and percussion, is a native of Minneapolis, MN., and has played drums professionally for eight years. In Minneapolis, he was a member of the rock-folk group, Jackaro , with whom he toured the Midwest and California, and the experimental-computer-pop group, Triangle . He moved to Philadelphia in the Fall of 2003 and has since earned a Master of Music degree from The University of the Arts. He is currently playing, teaching, and writing about music in the Philadelphia area. He is in the group Shot by Shot.
[ for more info on Dan Capecchi ]
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SEBASTIAN PETSU electronics, tapes, etc
philadelphia |
Sebastian Petsu is one half of sound sculptors Rain of Belle Isle. Through a DJ mixer he layers cassettes, from various found and self-recorded sources, to create senses of space, tension, and rhythm. |
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DILETTANTE
PADS & STEEL
EMBARKER
SWEETNOTHING
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@ Nexus [
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Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA
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doors 8:00pm,
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DILETTANTE
ryan mcquire, bass
andrew eisenberg, percussion
joshua jefferson, reeds
boston, ma
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Dilettante is the improvised music trio of Ryan McGuire, Josh Jefferson, and Andrew Eisenberg.? They met through a common network of boston area musicians and have been working together on developing a shared approach to improvisation over the last 6 months.? Dilettante exploits happenstance, cultivating new concepts of inertia, texture and silence.
Ryan McGuire- Double Bass Ryan is in his final year completing a composition degree at Berklee college of Music. He has travelled extensivley with Kayo Dot and regularly performs around boston in a multitude of groupings.
Andrew Eisenberg- Percussion Andrew has been involved in boston area for improv for 6 years organizing shows and playing in numerous bands.? He is boastfully self-taught, although his lack of a proper understanding of how to handle drum sticks has caused numerous injuries to himself and others.
Joshua Cletus Jefferson Alto Sax / Bass Clarinet Josh came to improvised music late following an education of visual art.? Other projects include Skinny Vinny (improv duo with andrew eisenberg), baking boston cream pies and collage art.
[ for more info on myspace ]
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PADS & STEEL
david fishkin - amplified saxophone
ricardo lagomasino - drum set, cymbals
john deblase - bass
philadelphia |
Philadelphia-based drummer, Ricardo Lagomasino, has been playing music since the age of ten. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Billy Hart, Jamey Haddad, and Michael Rosen. While a student, he had the opportunity to play in bands led by Joe Chambers, Roscoe Mitchell, Wendell Logan, Marcus Belgrave, and soundpainter Walter Thompson. Since graduating, he has worked with trumpeter Roger Prieto, and most recently, Joe Lally of Fugazi. He can also be heard in other Philadelphia-based groups such as Capillary Action, who tour relentlessly to rave reviews and have one commercial release, Fragments, the drums/electric saxophone duo Pads & Steel with saxophonist David Fishkin, along with various pick-up groups around the city. Ricardo Lagomasino has one self-released EP, Patience, a compilation of live performances consisting of four original compositions, and one original arrangement. The EP features two bands that include pianist Sullivan Fortner, and saxophonist Arnold Lee. He has plans to record and tour this year with Joe Lally, Capillary Action, Pads & Steel, and under his own name, Ricardo Lagomasino.
[ for more info on Pad and Steel ]
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EMBARKER
michael barker, electroincs
philadelphia |
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Michael Barker (b 1976) has attention deficit disorder. He even has the doctor's note to prove it. Since 1998 mb has improvised as a double bassist, with voice and laptop, using analog and homemade electronics, while collecting found sound and video. After moving to Philadelphia from Baltimore in 2002, Michael organized improvised music shows at the short lived Table Space Gallery. He played in The High Zero Festival in 2002 which "allegedly" ruined/changed his (music) life. He has been a resident artist at the Experimental TV Center in collaboration with RF Avatar (2005 & 06) and will be at STEIM (NL)in early 2007. He has improvised with many players from around the country, none of whom deserve name dropping in this short bio. He currently plays in Sharks with wings, PIMA group, Wet Cement and The George Steeltoe Ensemble.
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SWEETNOTHING
jared burak, electrionics
philadelphia |
A harsh static signal carrying a hushed cacophony of confessions out into everything. SweetNothing is Jared Burak. Burak lives in North Philadelphia and runs Lowest Fidelity Recordings. He also performs in Black Blood, RLStein, Sanguine Vessel, Seekers of the Claw, WetCement, and Whine.
[ for more info on Sweet Nothing ]
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SIGNAL QUINTET (switzerland)
JASON KAHN percussion, electronics
TOMAS KORBER guitar, electronics
NORBERT MÖSLANG cracked everyday electronics
CHRISTIAN WEBER double bass
GUNTER MÜLLER percussion, electronics
The SIGNAL QUINTET brings together five of Switzerland’s finest improvisers. Under the leadership of innovative American-born percussionist and composer, Jason Kahn, the quintet includes guitarist and electronic musician, Tomas Korber, cracked everyday electronics master Norbert Möslang, percussionist and electronic musician Günter Müller, and innovative contrabassist Christian Weber.
Vienna might have played an essential part in the development of a form of free improvisation that turned away from the instrument itself to focus on sound and its brother silence (in that regard, see the 8pm concert on Sunday, featuring Austrians Werner Dafeldecker and Christof Kurzmann), but Switzerland – and particularly Zurich – soon entered the picture as an another main laboratory. Let us simply mention the groups Voice Crack and poire_z, along with record labels For 4 Ears and Cut, at the forefront of this highly demanding yet fascinating avant-garde.
Signal Quintet brings the crème de la crème of this Zurich scene, under the leadership of Jason Kahn, whose music career is a case study for the transformation that has been shaking up free improvisation for a decade. This US-born drummer first played in alt-rock bands, the most important of which was The Universal Congress Of, despite an early taste for jazz and improvisation. When the Berlin Wall crumbled down, Kahn decided to move to ex-East Germany and live History to its fullest. There, he played for five years in Arnold Dreyblatt’s Orchestra of Excited Strings, before relocating to Zurich. He spent the second half of the ‘90s stripping down his drumming style and integrating electronics to his setup, before gradually abandoning conventional playing to focus instead on the sonic qualities of percussion instruments, whereto he occasionally adds analog synthesizer frequencies.
Günter Müller’s path is similar, leading from jazz drumming to evermore abstract and disembodied electro-acoustic percussives. Nowadays, he often performs without any percussion instruments, as he focuses on manipulating electronics and recordings on minidisk and ipod. Tomas Korber’s guitar work is just as enigmatic as his once-percussionist colleagues, his gritty textures evoking many things, though rarely a guitar. Just like Müller, ex-Voice Crack Norbert Möslang took part to poire_z and thus will be in Victoriaville for the second time. His cracked everyday electronics remain as puzzling as ever. Finally, bassist Christian Weber may be better known as a jazzman (Day & Taxi, Michel Wintsch), but he is getting increasingly involved with atypical improvisation.
At first, Kahn had put together Signal Quintet to perform Timelines, a graphic-score composition conceived especially for these musicians, and recorded for his Cut label in 2004. Since then, the ensemble has carried on as a free improvisation unit. Their music is a delicate assemblage of abstract textures that may seem irritating on first contact but soon wrap up the listener, instigating an altered state of consciousness in which the mind, as incorporeal as this music is immaterial, surfs on noises as if they were waves.
>François Couture, 2007
[ for more info on Jason Kahn ]
[ for more info on Tomas Korber ]
[ for more info on Norbert Möslang ]
[ for more info on Christian Weber ]
[ for more info on Günter Müller ]
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95.
SIGNAL QUINTET
with
Marc Zajack, Alban Bailly, Andrew Gaspar, Jesse Kudler, Paul Neidhardt, Toshi Makihara, and Chandan Narayan
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@ Circle of Hope [
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Broad and Washington Branch
1125 South Broad Street 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA[
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8:00pm, $5-$10 sliding scale
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I. SIGNAL QUINTET (Moslang, Weber, Korber, Muller, Kahn)
II. Norbert Moslang / Marc Zajack / Andrew Gaspar
III. Christian Weber /Jason Kahn / Jesse Kudler / Paul Neidhardt
IV. Gunter Muller / Tomas Korber / Alban Bailly / Toshi Makihara / Chandan Narayan |
Toshi Makihara studied drums, percussion and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the United States in the late 1970's he has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies internationally. Makihara has provided original music to Arden Theater Company, Diversions Dance Company (Wales), Pennsylvania Ballet, ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company among others, and has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker and John Zorn.
Jesse Kudler improvises on guitar, synthesizer, and electronics and makes music on the computer. Kudler has performed with Matt Bauder, Kyle Bruckmann, Gene Coleman, James Coleman, Tim Feeney, Marcos Fernandes, Margarida Garcia, Brent Gutzeit, Horse Sinister, Bonnie Jones, Newton, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Christine Sehnaoui, Mike Shiflet, Jason Soliday, Howard Stelzer, Barry Weisblat, Ellen Weller, Matt Weston, Jack Wright, Jason Zeh, and many others.
Baltimore's Paul Neidhardt is one of the countries most astonishing new music percussionists. A trained, highly disciplined player with a flair for complex textural sound produced by friction, Neidhardt's approach to improvising covers the majority of the terrain explored by the explosive side of European free music and subtle textural players like Sean Meehan and Jason Kahn, while retaining a freshness and flexibility of purpose all his own. His background playing rock and African music adds a potential for propulsive intensity to his playing not usually found in players so skilled in the arts of minimalist reductionism.
Alban Bailly's first adventure of music making began with rock in his native France. Music lessons with Eric Le Lann and Cesarius Alvim in Rennes opened him to jazz and free improvisation in the late nineties. Since 2002, he has collaborated and performed with Sebastien Coste, Camille Perrin, Louis-Michel Marion, Claire Cooper, Marit Schechte, Dominique Repecaud, Chris Heenan and many others. Performances at Musique Action festival, Theatre du Saulcy, MJC Lillebonne , France , Belgium and Germany. He continued his pursuit of eastern European music by playing traditional Balkan music in Novi Sad ( Serbia ). Alban landed in the USA in 2005 and now calls Philadelphia his home.
Chandan Narayan (b.1975, Alameda CA), a recent transplant to Philadelphia, improvises with the autoharp, to which he applies extensiions (wires mostly) and preparations (rocks mostly). His solo recording is entitled “Eight vignettes for solo autoharp.” He frequently collaborates with Jeffrey Allport (snare) and Robert Pedersen (trombone) in the Canadian acoustic trio, Glass Plates which has released a few choice recordings. He usually shares the stage (or living room, basement, etc.) with performers of acoustic instruments like Angharad Davies (violin), Jonathan Sielaff (clarinet), Chris Cogburn (percussion), and Zach Wallace (pump organ) but doesn't mind the occasional amplified collaborations with Lee Hutzulak (various electric instruments), Gust Burns (tape players), and Charles Sipperley (sampler) among others.
Andrew Gaspar is in the band Satanized. He plays the turntable and likes to wear red.
Marc Zajack has performed in such projects including Sharks with Wings, Pima Group, George Steeltoe Ensemble, Doo Doo Butter and singularly Antler Piss. Marc also runs the small label Deep Fried Tapes which focuses on limited edition short run cassettes and other various media forms. He's been recording, performing and promoting improvised/electronic music within philadelphia for the last 6 years. He resides in Kensington, Philadelphia which has transformed into a virtual dreamlike segway for his current inspiration within Audio and Visual production.
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94.
SIGNAL QUINTET
with
AMNESIAC MUSIC AND DANCE
Nicole Bindler, Director
Ensemble: Naomi Pressman, Liza Clark, Sara Narva, Michelle Stortz, Gabrielle Revlock, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Summer Schultz, John Luna, Graeme Mchenry, Rebecca Patek, and Adams Berzins |
@ Community Education Center
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3500 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA[
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9:30pm, $5-$10 sliding scale
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Amnesiac Music and Dance formerly the Philadelphia New Dance and Music Ensemble, was featured in the Sept 2006 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. The 20 + Member company, directed by Nicole Bindler, features dancers musicians and visual artists. AMD has been primarily a vehicle for large group improvisational exploration, but this spring Bindler is making a departure with the company and is choreographing an evening length work, PIA MATER, to be presented by Bowerbird in November 2007.
Nicole Bindler, (b.1977) is an experimental dance artist whose work ranges from complex personal and political commentaries to abstract explorations of form. Her movement vocabulary is inspired by her studies of Modern Dance, Butoh, Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais and Martial Arts.She has choreographed over fifteen original dance works and has performed dozens of improvised dances in cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina and In Berlin. Some notable venues include, Links Hall, Williamsburg Art neXus, The Joyce Soho, The Somerville Theater, The Creative Alliance, The Theater Project and The Kennedy Center. In August 2004, her solo "Places I've Never/Been" was performed in Quito, Ecuador by dancer, Stephanie Sherman. Bindler has performed in The High Zero Festival, The Transmodern Age Festival, The Shawinigan Street Theater Festival, The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the D.C. Improvisation Festival, the Performance Mix Festival and the nEW Festival. Bindler has performed in the work of Linda Diamond, Heather Azano-Brown, Brenda Divelbliss, Jennifer Hicks, Debra Bluth, Ju-Yeon Ryu, Leah Stein, Zaitoun Dance Troupe and has collaborated with Hana van der Kolk, Joe Burgio, Asimina Chremos, Bhob Rainey, John Berndt, Katt Hernandez, Axel Dorner, Andy Hayleck, Le Quan Ninh, Helena Espvall, Leonel Kaplan, Leandro Barzabal, Tim Feeney, Jack Wright, Gene Coleman, Gregory Reynolds, Reuben Radding, Christine and Sherif Shenoui, Janene Higgins and Walter Wright, among others. She is a member of the Spontaneous Performing Artists Network, dances with PIMA Group and she directs the 20 member company: "Amnesiac Music and Dance".
[ for more info on Nicole Bindler ]
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93.
TWEETER
ANTLER PISS
TOM GRIMLEY
MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED |
@ the Rotunda [
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4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
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8:00pm, $5-10 sliding scale |
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TWEETER
Alex Nagle - guitar, contact mic, styrofoam, etc.
Jesse Kudler - guitar, synthesizer, electronics, etc.
Eli Litwin - drums
Philadelphia, PA
Alex plays shredder guitar in bands like Normal Love, Satanized, Flittermice of Eld, formerly Thoughtstreams, etc. Jesse plays improvisation and noise with a bunch of people. Yngwie Malmsteen meets Maryanne Amacher. Loud, high-frequency flutter and crunch.
http://www.myspace.com/thetruetweeter
ANTLER PISS
Marc Zajack - cassettes, machines, cuts
Philadelphia, PA
Marc Zajack has performed in such projects including Sharks with Wings, Pima Group, George Steeltoe Ensemble, Doo Doo Butter and singularly Antler Piss. Marc also runs the small label Deep Fried Tapes which focuses on limited edition short run cassettes and other various media forms. He's been recording, performing and promoting improvised/electronic music within philadelphia for the last 6 years. He resides in Kensington, Philadelphia which has transformed into a virtual dreamlike segway for his current inspiration within Audio and Visual production.
Selected Recordings:
Mixed Cassette w/ Michael Thomas Jackson and Brian Osborne_Heat Retention018 Antler Piss_Destroyer Digestive System_CS40_BTR16/DFT01 Antler Piss_Spit Plain_CS40_DFT08 Antler Piss_Deadteeth/Cavity Withdrawl Symptoms_ DFT09_Lathe 7"
http://www.deepfriedtapes.org
TOM GRIMLEY
automated electronic ensemble
Los Angles, CA
Tom Grimley studied composition with Leroy Southers Jr. at Loyola Marymount University. While there, he wrote traditional chamber music for the student choreographer, Lisa Grecco. After graduating he served apprenticeships with Los Angeles sound artists Joseph Hammer and Damion Romero. In 1996 he began developing an automated electronic ensemble to perform his music. His instruments are built from amplifiers modified to oscillate, coupled with cascading motor-switches which introduce variations in voltage allowing the instruments to play by themselves. Nearing fifteen instruments strong, the ensemble has appeared as an installation at "the Black Dragon Society" in Chinatown, Los Angeles, as well as "LoBot Gallery" in Oakland. Tom has performed with the ensemble on both coasts, most recently as part of SASSAS's summer concert series at the "Schindler House" in Los Angeles. It is also featured on seven independantly released CD's and DVD's.
http://www.tomgrimley.com
http://www.myspace.com/tomgrimley
http://www.youtube.com/tomgrimley
MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED
electronics
Philadelphia, PA
"imagine a hovercraft.. now imagine that hovercraft blasting through hyperspace at warp 666 and arriving at an interstellar spacecraft dance party!.. this could describe the sound created by "mincemeat or tenspeed" ( a.k.a. davey harms), a one man band from philadelphia. a true mad scientist, he uses every crayola color variety of guitar pedal to summon a dazzling array of actual wandwrought compositions (no guesswork knob noodling or hiding behind laptops here, folks). a live show can inspire a wide spectrum of mental pictures including, but not limited to: doomsday avalanche, baby robot's first steps, kegger-in-a-wind-tunnel and a synchronized swim in the primordial ooze."
http://www.myspace.com/mincemeatortenspeed
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92.
JACK WRIGHT / BEN WRIGHT / KATT HERNANDEZ
UNAMI vs. PRETTY JUNK
ALBAN BAILLY / BEN WRIGHT / ANDREW DRURY
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@ the Rotunda [
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4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
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8:00pm, $5-10 sliding scale |
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ANDREW DRURY
percussion
New York, NY
Described as “a thoughtfully avant-garde drummer and composer” (Nate Chinen, New York Times) Andrew Drury grew up near Seattle, studied drum set with Ed Blackwell at Wesleyan University, and works primarily in free improvisation and avant-jazz, with occasional forays into rock, pop, new music, and ethnic genres.Drury’s work in free improvisation (and increasingly in other genres) is characterized by the exploration of unconventional techniques for acoustic sound production, such as scraping drum heads with piano wire or slivers of bamboo, blowing into drums, and using a drum as an acoustic filter and resonator for vibrations produced by other objects. In North America he has performed or recorded with Jack Wright, Wally Shoup, Wadada Leo Smith, Mazen Kerbaj, Christine and Sharif Sehnaoui, Nate Wooley, Jane Rigler, Peggy Lee, Dylan Vander Schyff, John Tchicai, Sean Meehan, and others. In Europe he has worked with Michel Doneda, Ly Than Tien, Sebastien Cirotteau, Wade Matthews, Ingar Zach, Ernesto and Guilherme Rodrigues, Manuel Mota, Ferran Fages, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, and others.
http://www.andrewdrury.com
KATT HERNANDEZ
violin
Philadelphia, PA
Katt Hernandez has been living in the Boston area, playing the violin, for the last six years. She has collaberated with a magnificently variated sea of musicians, dancers, and others including- but certainly not limited to- Joe Maneri, Zack Fuller, David Maxwell, Marc Bisson, Matt Somalis, John Voigt, Allisa Cardone, Gordon Beeferman, Jonathan Vincent, Walter Wright, Joe Burgio, Eric Rosenthal, Jeff Arnal, Jaimie McGlaughlin, Andrew Neumann, Dave Gross, and Hans Rickheit. She has twice been invited to perfrom on the Autumn Uprising , High Zero , Mobius ArtRages , and Improvised and Otherwise festivals, and has also appeared at the Montreaux-Detroit , Brandeis New Music , Boston CyberArts , Michiania , IAJE , IASJ , and Ear Whacks festivals. She has been a guest artist at MIT, Harvard, and the New England Conservatory, performed in a vast slew of local venues and- to date- any number of subway passages, urban grottos, and troglyditical performace slaces, as well as other experimental and life-making places throughout the Bos-Wash metropolii.
http://www.katthernandez.com
http://www.myspace.com/katthernandez
ALBAN BAILLY
guitar, accordion
Philadelphia, PA
Alban Bailly's first adventure of music making began with rock in his native France . Music lessons with Eric Le Lann and Cesarius Alvim in Rennes opened him to jazz and free improvisation in the late nineties. Together with percussionist Loup Barraud, Alban formed Ghenso Project and the two traveled to Morocco to study Arabic music in 2001. Under the instruction of Marrakchi Master Mohammed El Quadi, Alban practiced classical guitar and oud. While attending Music Academy in Nancy , Alban came upon a world of free improvisation. Since 2002, he has collaborated and performed with Sebastien Coste, Camille Perrin, Louis-Michel Marion, Claire Cooper, Marit Schechte, Dominique Repecaud, Chris Heenan and many others. Performances at Musique Action festival, Theatre du Saulcy, MJC Lillebonne , France , Belgium and Germany . New found interest in gypsy jazz music, learned the gypsy music with gypsy local guitarists and founded the ÒMeri WagoÓ gypsy swing jazz trio. He continued his pursuit of eastern European music by playing traditional Balkan music in Novi Sad ( Serbia ). Alban landed in the USA in 2005 and now calls Philadelphia his home. He frequently performs with Jack Wright and plays actively with many musicians ( Evan Lipson, Dave Smolen, John BerndtÉ ) and dancers ( Nicole Bindler, Eun Jung Gonzales...) with the guitar or the accordion.
http://www.albanbailly.com
JACK WRIGHT
saxes
Easton, PA
Over the past twenty-five years Jack Wright has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, which continues to grow through regular No Net weekend sessions. As a musical explorer as well, his music passes through radical shifts of style and approach from one year to the next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes even recognizable as such. He lives in Easton, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also active in Europe, touring both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians, and will tour Japan with Michel Doneda and Tatsuya Nakatani.
http://www.springgardenmusic.com
BEN WRIGHT
saxes
New Mexico
Ben Wright plays acoustic bass, brass, and saw. He lives in northern New Mexico far from traditional venues for improvised music. The experience of creating music with people drives him frequently to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and less often to the coasts and the nether regions of the U.S. to perform and to seek concurrent communities of musicians.
He persistently experiments with various forms of music, but is inevitably drawn back to experimental music.
His current projects include, a long standing duet with trombonist Kurt Heyl, a blasphemous marching brass band, The Rumble trio, Submersible Trio, a Baroque ensemble, Radio free Bassanda, Modern Hillbillies, periodic tours with his dad, and instantaneous collaborations with odd musicians across the US. A recent recording with Kurt Heyl, Gross Motor Music, is now available for mass consumption.
Unami vs Pretty Junk
Philadelphia, PA
Two collaborative production/composition/improvisation efforts by Nick Lerman (rulmon the nihilist) and Elliott Hasiuk (stills for caesar) will set up collisions between Mechanized Glamcore and Outsider Shoegaze for the first time on stage.
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91.
MICROKINGDOM
BIG OCEAN
JACK WRIGHT / GENE COLEMAN DUO
THOMAS CLARK
"What is the relationship of politics to experimental music?"
PANEL DISCUSSION @ 7pm |
@ the Rotunda [
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4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
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discussion 7:00pm
concert 8:00pm,
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A discussion about the social and political implications of the practice of improvised and experimental music outside of academia and traditional high-art institutions. We will discuss the political content of the music itself as well as implications arising from the way it is practiced (small and inexpensive concerts, little money changing hands, self-released CD-R recordings, performances by ad hoc ensembles, etc.). Is this music more or less welcoming of women, minorities, and the economically disadvantaged than other musical cultures? Why? Is self-styled "difficult music" inherently elitist? Or is it a bulwark against reductive reasoning in other spheres? Is this music anti-capitalist and anti-hierarchical? Or is it another manifestation of bourgeois cultural privilege?
with panelists:
Shaun Brady, music journalist and critic
Gene Coleman, composer, musician, director of Soundfield
Katt Hernandez, musician, community activist, bowerbird collective member
Jack Wright, musician, runs an independent label
Jesse Kudler (moderator), musician, bowerbird collective member
"What is the relationship of politics to experimental music?"
PANEL DISCUSSION @ 7pm
*Light refreshments will be served* |
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MICROKINGDOM
Will Redman - percussion
Marc Miller - e. guitar
Andrew Walsh - contrabassoon
more tba...
Washington D.C. / elsewhere
MICROKINGDOM is an improvising (somewhat) drums/vibraphone and electric guitar duo made up of Will Redman and Marc Miller. They are from Baltimore. For this performance of Will Redman's composition "Book" MICROKINGDOM will joined by Andrew Walsh (contrabassoon), Katt Hernandez, and other musicians.
Will Redman is a composer, percussionist, and teacher who tries to play and write as much polyrhythmic, ecstatic, melodic, sculptural, off-kilter, corroded, harmonic, humorous, and bent music as is possible, but never succeeds (really, how much music is possible?). He has played music for audiences in houses, dive bars, nightclubs, restaurants, art galleries, parks, amphitheaters, record stores, book shops, hotels, and concert halls. Composition teachers have included Stuart S. Smith, Michael Finnissy and Jeff Stadelman; percussion teachers have included Kevin Norton and Tom Goldstein. Frequent co-conspirators include John Dierker, Steve Baczkowski, Todd Whitman, and others. Will is a founding member and Vice President of the Open Music Foundation, an organization dedicated to the promotion of non-conventional means of communicating musical ideas.
Marc Miller has lived in Baltimore forever and is a member of the Oxes. With the Oxes Marc has toured the world and the moon and played on John Peel. He has also played with Cass McComb and International Soundscape Internationale, among others. Marc is a demon with a Telecaster, a little Fender tube amp, and a volume pedal.
http://www.willredman.com
http://www.bookmusic.org
BIG OCEAN
Jake Anodide - drums
Ben Remsen - e. guitar
Eliot Klein - keyboards
Philadelphia, PA
Big Ocean is Little Ocean plus Eliot Klein. Little Ocean is Jake Anodide and Ben Remsen playing wannabe minimalism on acoustic guitars. Eliot plays keyboard in several Philly bands. In Big Ocean, Jake plays drums, Ben plays electric guitar through looping pedals, and Eliot plays keyboard through looping pedals. Clear points of reference would be Glenn Branca, the '70s krautrock bands, Steve Reich, afropop, and most things that repeat a lot and rock. Jake, Ben, and Eliot are also working on a looping-pedal-generated version of Terry Riley's "In C," so this performance will probably sound like that, except more improvised and more headbangy
http://www.myspace.com/anodideremsen
COLEMAN / WRIGHT DUO
Gene Coleman - bass clarinet
Jack Wright - saxes
EVERWHERE, USA
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and artistic director. He has created over 40 works for various instrumentation, often-using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Radical use of the instrument's sound producing possibilities makes Coleman, both as a composer and as a performer, a musician who seeks a greater synthesis between what is called sound (or noise) and what is called music. Since 2001 his work has focused on globalization and music's relationship with architecture and video.
Over the past twenty-five years Jack Wright has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, which continues to grow through regular No Net weekend sessions. As a musical explorer as well, his music passes through radical shifts of style and approach from one year to the next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes even recognizable as such. He lives in Easton, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also active in Europe, touring both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians, and will tour Japan with Michel Doneda and Tatsuya Nakatani.
http://www.soundfield.org/genecoleman.html
http://www.springgardenmusic.com
THOMAS CLARK
percussion, piano, electronics
Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Clark has been involved with many artistic initiatives, he is co-founder of Pima Group, a philadelphia based dance company. He also >plays with Sharks With Wings, George Steel Toe Ensemble, and Wes Mattheu.
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90.
THUS
BLACKBIRD
DRUMS LIKE MACHINE DRUMS
CAPECCHI / ENGLE / ROGERS
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@ the Rotunda [
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4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
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8:00pm, $5-10 sliding scale |
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THUS
neil feather - invented instruments
john berndt - intevnted instruments
Baltimore, MD
Since 1992, Neil Feather and John Berndt have worked together as “THUS,” performing an astonishing array of strange music played on an orchestra of instruments of their own invention. Feather, who has been endlessly compared to Harry Partch, is one of the most active artists in the area of experimental instrument design in the U.S. His collaborator is intense multi-instrumentalist improviser John Berndt. Their chemistry, along with the mechanical imperatives of the unusual instruments themselves, produces an original idiom of music that is at once otherworldly, funny, and somber. Feather’s creations (which can be seen on www.neilfeather.org) are highly refined prototypes for new families of instruments, each expressing one or more mechanical or psycho-acoustic principles new to musical history. Berndt’s creations are similarly exploratory, but tend to have a more elemental character, relying on vocabulary of highly developed extended technique for their full articulation. Collectively and separately they have collaborated and recorded with many notable figures of contemporary music including Peter Kowald, Eugene Chadbourne, Jaap Blonk, Le Quann Ninh, Joe McPhee, Kaffe Matthews, Jack Wright, Gianni Gebbia, Paolo Angeli, Jon Rose, Susan Alcorn, and many other creative musicians. They are both also founding member of the critically acclaimed Red Room performance space and international High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music.
http://www.neilfeather.org
http://www.johnberndt.org
BLACKBIRD
Dan Blacksberg - trombone
Dustin Hurt - trumpet
Philadelphia, PA
Daniel Blacksberg is a trombonist who is making himself known in the jazz, new music, and improvised music scenes along the East coast. Daniel has performed in Boston in venues including the Lily Pad (formerly the Zeitgeist Gallery) and in Philadelphia at venues such as the Rotunda with his contemporaries. He has also performed with improvised music veteran Joe Morris at the Stone in New York. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Daniel has had the fortunate privilege of learning from many master teachers and talented peers.
Called Philadelphia's "Best Facilitator of Unnatural Noise" by the CityPaper (Nov. 2006), composer, improvisor, and organizer Dustin Hurt has emerged as a key element to Philadelphia 's experimental and new music scene. An active trumpeter and accordionist, Dustin's frequent collaborators include Jack Wright, Gene Coleman, Andy Hayleck, Paul Neidhardt, Alban Bailly, Dan Blacksberg, Katt Hernandez, Jesse Kudler, and Tim Albro. Dustin's diverse catalogue of composed works have been performed by members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, and regularly by the Philadelphia based avant-supergroup, Normal Love. Dustin is also the founding director of bowerbird, a Philadelphia based experimental music presenting organization.
DRUMS LIKE MACHINE DRUMS
(DLMG plus percussion)
Richie Morsberger - electronics
Brian Morsberger - electronics
Brandon Morsberger - electronics
Eli Litwin - percussion
George Korein - percussion
Philadelphia, PA
Drums Like Machine Guns, masters of the seven-minute sonic set, reign supreme as visionaries of all things aural. They will urge you to 'Get Radical', and get radical you will. An occurrence: when you hear them you will think you've heard them before. This is not uncommin. In the darkness of your subconscious, in the subconscious of us all, there lives a common spectre which hums their assault into our collective memory. Some will say they are from the future. They will say 'We are not, for there is no future.' Enjoy them now before the present comes to an end and the great wall comes crashing down upon us, wrenching bodies and twisting pure flesh into shapes unnatural.
George Korein was born in a Wawa and raised on Mole Street, Philadelphia. Together with Colin Marston (of Dysrhythmia and Behold... the Arctopus) he created electro-acoustic metal as Infidel?/Castro!. He has a solo album Memoirs of a Trilobite featuring more than nine styles of music arbitrarily corresponding to the nine orders of trilobite. It features guest appearances by Forbes Graham (Kayo Dot), Alex Nagle (Normal Love), Kevin Hufnagel (Dysrhythmia) and Richard Fortey (President of the Geological Society of London). His new album Too Many Days was just released on Galvatraz Rcords in the US and Peacific in Europe.
WFMU music/program director Brian Turner remarks "Happy to see our boy back in the lab, and his latest is a masterpiece of even more schizoid stylings". He recorded and electronically accompanied/produced/glitchified Espers cellist Helena Espvall's solo debut, Nimis and Arx. He is Jesse Krakow's accomplice in We Are The Musk Brigade, a series of collaborations done through the mail. He has recorded as Grim Shady, the black metal rapper, $and Dollar, the surf rapper, and Lobe Stub, an uncensored idiot. He will soon release the Naked Mall Rats project, a concept album about the internet generation.
Eli Litwin was born in 1983 in Morristown , NJ . He began playing drums at the age of 9 and started his first rock band in 6 th grade. Through high school he continued to play in a variety of rock bands as well as the high school jazz band. Eli chose to attend the Esther Boyer College of Music at Temple University where he studied drum set with Erik Johnson. Since graduating with his Bachelors of Music in Jazz Performance, Eli has remained in Philadelphia to pursue music on both the performing and teaching ends. Though his area of expertise is largely in metal, Eli has significant experience playing in jazz, rock & avant-garde idioms as well. He is currently a member of Knife the Glitter, Normal Love and Time Is Like A Sword. In his own time, Eli composes a variety of music on the computer, ranging from ambient and experimental electronic music to “crazy metal MIDI 's.”
CAPECCHI / ENGLE / ROGERS
(3/4 of shotxshot)
dan capecchi - percussion
matt engle - bass
bryan rogers - tenor saxophone
Philadelphia, PA
Dan Capecchi , drums and percussion, is a native of Minneapolis, MN., and has played drums professionally for eight years. In Minneapolis, he was a member of the rock-folk group, Jackaro , with whom he toured the Midwest and California, and the experimental-computer-pop group, Triangle . He moved to Philadelphia in the Fall of 2003 and has since earned a Master of Music degree from The University of the Arts. He is currently playing, teaching, and writing about music in the Philadelphia area.
Matt Engle, bass, grew up ten minutes outside of Philadelphia in South Jersey. He now resides in Philadelphia where he is a working member of the music scene. Matt studied with Kevin McConnell and Tony Marino while attending The University of the Arts. He has an integral role in Shot by Shot as both a performer and composer. In addition to Shot × Shot, Matt plays with Trio Rhizome, Seth Meicht and Sonic Liberation Front .
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