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SUMMARY:Bernard Parmegiani's "De natura sonorum"
DESCRIPTION:Bernard Parmegiani (b. 1927): “De natura sonorum” (1975)\nSuite in twelve movements \nDigital artist Peter Price will perform live projected visuals to accompany the digital playback. The concert will be preceded by a brief introductory talk by Thomas Patteson. \nABOUT THE EVENT \nBuilding on the acoustic investigations of his teacher Pierre Schaeffer\, the founder of musique concrete\, French composer Bernard Parmegiani creates what he calls “acousmatic music” — a kind of sonic art conceived especially for presentation through loudspeakers\, designed to invoke powerful mental images through the pure play of disembodied sound. Parmegiani’s 1975 composition De natura sonorum is an unrivaled masterpiece in this genre. Each of the work’s 12 movements is an etude in which opposing sonic properties–percussive versus sustained tones\, or synthetic versus natural–are played against each other in a highly refined counterpoint of acoustic forms. At once playful and imposing\, sensual and cerebral\, De natura sonorum leads the listener on a unique exploration of the nature of sound.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bernard-parmegianis-de-natura-sonorum/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120602T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop:  Listen Here Now
DESCRIPTION:Listen Here Now investigates how listening\, recording and mapping can transform our sense of place\, time and physical relationship to a given location in the neighborhood of Pt. Breeze/Grays Ferry. This workshop involves listening\, recording and mapping sound. Through focused listening\, the participant becomes more aware of their environment as they discover their surrounding in an audible way. Each participant will be mapping out their sonic experience thereby creating a narrative of their relationship to the given location. \nUsing a map and a recording device\, each participant will track their movement through space. Starting and ending at a designated place and time\, each participant will navigate their walks based on what they hear\, thereby shaping the trajectory of their sonic journey. Participants are to stop\, listen and record the surrounding landscape and mark the location on their maps. The recordings and maps will be gathered\, then later on strung together in a composition that visually and audibly reference each other. \n  \nSound Places is a part of Commotion\, a project that brings together diverse art makers and communities to interact and explore the Grays Ferry\, Point Breeze\, and South of South Street neighborhoods of Philadelphia in unique and unexpected ways.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/workshop-listen-here-now/
LOCATION:Zion Hill Memorial Baptist Church\, 2702 Ellsworth St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19146\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120526T160000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T164648Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Mobile Field Recording
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will introduce participants to mobile field recording in an urban park setting. We will listen to and record the sounds of traffic\, the recycling center\, park visitors on foot/bicycle/ rollerblade/skateboard/ segway/stroller\, aircraft\, and watercraft. Non human-made sounds that may also be encountered include birds\, the wind\, insects\, squirrels\, rats\, feral dogs\, and water lapping against the riverbank. While the only certain sound will be that of automobile traffic\, it is very likely that we will also encounter sounds we do not expect. We will discuss microphone polar patterns\, stereo methods\, recording\, playback/delivery considerations\, storage\, best practices\, editing\, processing\, geotagging\, metadata\, archiving\, and equipment. Workshop participants will walk approximately 2 miles (from the starting point and back). There will be 8 spots available; headphones will be provided. \n  \nSound Places is a part of Commotion\, a project that brings together diverse art makers and communities to interact and explore the Grays Ferry\, Point Breeze\, and South of South Street neighborhoods of Philadelphia in unique and unexpected ways.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/workshop-mobile-field-recording/
LOCATION:Schuylkill Banks Grays Ferry Crescent
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120420T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120420T230000
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SUMMARY:Diamond Terrifier + Femme Tops + Wait + Patrick Higgins
DESCRIPTION:Difficult to summarize\, yet unified in ethos and affect\, this evening features three solo projects – Diamond Terrifier (Sam Hillmer of the Zs’s)\, Partrick Higgins (in an extensive reworking of JS Bach’s music)\, and Wait (a solo electronics project by Robert J). Also on the evening is a new quartetFemme Tops featuring Alex Hampshire\, Rick Weaver\, Evan Lipson\, and Jeff Zagers.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/diamond-terrifier-femme-tops-wait-patrick-higgins/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111111T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111111T230000
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SUMMARY:Michael Gordon's TIMBER
DESCRIPTION:American composer Michael Gordon’s new piece\, Timber\, is an evening-length tour de force. Scored for six graduated wooden Simantras — Greek liturgical percussion instruments used by French composer Iannis Xenakis — the work brings the physicality\, endurance and technique of percussion performance to a new level. In this new work\, Gordon shapes the music in both polyrhythmic and dynamic waves of textures — often each players’ hands are in separate rhythmic ‘worlds’\, each traversing a different dynamic contour from loud to soft to loud\, similar in some respects to his solo for percussion\, XY. \nMuch of Gordon’s music demonstrates a deep exploration into the extreme possibilities and stunning nature of rhythm\, as well as the enriching\, yet disturbing\, multidimensionality of polyrhythmic layers — what has been termed in his music to be\, “glorious confusion.” Many of Gordon’s works\, including Trance\, Gotham\, Decasia\, and his most recent orchestral work\, Dystopia\, point to Gordon’s interest in complex rhythmic and textural territory. Gordon’s percussion sextet takes these elements and explores the extreme possibilities of rhythm and texture to a beautifully intense degree. The new evening-length work is indeed a unique and exciting addition to the world of percussion. \nPresented with Crane Arts
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/michael-gordons-timber/
LOCATION:Crane Arts\, 1400 N American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111021T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111021T220000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T170317Z
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SUMMARY:POWERS OF TEN
DESCRIPTION:When we think of documentary films\, we probably call to mind certain familiar forms\, such as archival footage of World War II battles or British-accented narration of natural scenes. But conceived in the broadest terms\, the documentary is an extremely diverse cinematic genre with at least as much room for artistic experimentation as the fictional film. This program is intended to trace the fascinating variety of short documentary films\, which spans the roughly century-long history of cinema itself. \n  \nIn different ways\, the films featured in this program explore the possible meanings of cinema as a vehicle for human knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. Some are self-consciously experimental\, while others challenge us through their historical and cultural distance from our ingrained habits of perception. All these films both expand our experience of the world and force us to re-examine our comfortable relationship with the “reality” that film presents.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/powers-of-ten/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110916T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110916T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190502T170741Z
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SUMMARY:Xavier Le Roy's More Mouvements für Lachenmann
DESCRIPTION:Something between dance\, music and theater\, More Mouvements für Lachenmann is French choreographer Xavier Le Roy’s poetic and fascinating version of a contemporary music concert from the point of view of someone obsessed with movement. This dance for eight extraordinary virtuoso musicians\, including members of the Austrian new music ensemble Klangforum Wien\, breaks down the work of making music by uncoupling sounds and movements\, sonic events and silences\, actions and stillness. More Mouvements includes the Lachenmann works “Pression\,” “Salut für Caudwell\,” and “Gran Torso.” \n  \n  \nPROGRAM DETAILS \n  \nXavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier\, France\, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. He has performed with diverse companies and choreographers. From 1996 to 2003\, he was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin. In 2007-2008 he was “Associated Artist”at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier\, France. In 2010 Le Roy is an Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge\, MA). Through his solo works such as Self Unfinished (1998) and Product of Circumstances (1999)\, he has opened new perspectives for dance and his individual approach has radicalized academic discourse about the body and choreographic art. Le Roy develops his work like a researcher\, while simultaneously focusing on the relationships between process and product and his own involvement in the process. He regularly initiates projects to question modes of production\, collaboration and conditions of group work with projects such as E.X.T.E.N.S.I.O.N.S.(1999-2000)\, Project (2003)\, and 6 Months 1 Location (2008). His latest works\, such as the solos Le Sacre du Printemps (2007) and Product of Other Circumstances (2009)\, as well as the group piece low pieces (2009-2011)\, explore more explicitly diverse mode of relationships between spectators and performers. \n  \nXavier Le Roy’s More Mouvements für Lachenmann is the culmination of several years of artistic exploration of the relationship between music and dance\, sound and movement. As early as 2003\, Le Roy was creating choreography for the music of Edgar Varese and Bernard Rands\, but it was with his 2007 solo work Le Sacre du Printemps in which he directly confronted the reality and multilayered contradictions in the sound/movement relationship. \n  \nIn Sacre Le Roy observed the Berlin Philharmonic during a rehearsal of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring\, and took keen interest in the conductor’s movement\, and the precipitous ambiguity as to whether the conductor’s movement was driving music\, or the music was binding the conductor to certain movement. It is here that Le Roy began to explore ideas of synchronicity between the visual and the sonic cues in performance as he magnified the inherent theatricality within them. \n  \nMore Mouvements takes Le Roy’s earlier explorations and brings them to fuller fruition through the pairing of a more historically developed\, and conceptually apropos partner in Lachenmann. In many ways\, More Mouvements\, is as much based on Lachenmann’s music as it is about the music\, and the composer’s own peculiar relationship with sound\, sound production\, and the exceptional demands put on the musicians. \n  \nLachenmann has referred to his compositions as musique concrète instrumentale\, implying a musical language that embraces the entire sound-world made accessible through unconventional playing techniques. His music is therefore primarily derived from the most basic of sounds\, which through processes of amplification serve as the bases for extended works. His scores place enormous demands on performers\, due to the plethora of techniques that he has invented. \n  \nLachenmann’s gravitation toward these basic parameters of sound\, and his somewhat contradictory creation of new techniques to execute the ‘normal’ sounds\, is very much echoed in the deceptively pedestrian movement vocabulary of Le Roy’s other work\, or\, for example\, the technique required to make an illusion of a moving headless body\, as in his solo piece Self Unfinished\, (1998). The aesthetic marriage is so complete that Le Roy is able to draw so deeply from the visual cues of Lachenmann’s music that More Mouvements für Lachenmann does not require any dancers (in the traditional sense) to perform. And though the movements of the performers are very much ‘dancerly’ at times\, the work\, like much of Le Roy’s work\, invites the most fundamental question\, “What is dance?” \n  \nCREDITS \nChoreography Xavier Le Roy\nMusic Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935)\nPerformers Gunter Schneider (guitar)\, Barbara Romen (guitar)\, Tom Pauwels (guitar)\, Günther Lebbing (guitar)\, Annette Bik (violin)\, Sophie Schafleitner (violin)\, Dimitrios Polisoidis (viola)\, Andreas Lindenbaum (cello)\nDramaturg Bojana Cvejic\, Berno Odo Polzer\nTechnical Director Götz Dihlman\nSound Engineer Wolfgang Musil \n  \n  \nThe presentation of More Mouvements für Lachenmann in the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/xavier-le-roys-more-mouvements-fur-lachenmann/
LOCATION:Arts Bank\, 601 S. Broad Street\,\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110306T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110306T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190502T171336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T151218Z
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SUMMARY:Blind Date: Part 2
DESCRIPTION:We invited ten of the most interesting performers – five musicians and five dancers – and paired them up with someone they’ve never performed with – on a Blind Date. We played match maker – and we were careful to take risks. What will happen? We don’t exactly know\, but Blind Date is here to inspire that conversation\, to bring the possibilities between music and dance into focus\, to help us understand and challenge the continuum of improvisation and composition in performance\, and to anticipate the unknown\, and the inherent potential for disaster but also greatness that comes from this edge of inquiry. We liked this idea so much\, we did it twice. \n  \nThe lineup for part two is: \nBethany Formica & Jeb Lewis \nLisa Kraus & Tatsuya Nakatani \nMakoto Hirano & Evan Lipson \nScott McPheeters & Sam Cusamano \nLorin Lyle & Gene Coleman
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/blind-date-part-2/
LOCATION:Christ Church Neighborhood House\, 20 N American St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110305T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110305T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190513T172732Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: Marshall Allen & Farid Barron
DESCRIPTION:Blistering virtuosity from another dimension. Legendary saxophonist Marshall Allen and keyboardist Farid Barron – both from the cosmic Sun Ra Arkestra – join for a duo of sonic exchanges\, at the very edge of possibility. Critics have described Marshall as one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era. Pianist Farid Barron was born and raised in Philadelphia and has performed with Wynton Marsalis\, Ralph Peterson\, Johnny Coles\, Mickey Roker\, and Bobby Durham\, among others.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-marshall-allen-farid-barron/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110305T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110305T233000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190513T173019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T173019Z
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SUMMARY:COMBO: Marshall Allen / Farid Barron + Subcircle
DESCRIPTION:Blistering virtuosity from another dimension. Legendary saxophonist Marshall Allen and keyboardist Farid Barron – both from the cosmic Sun Ra Arkestra – join for a duo of sonic exchanges\, at the very edge of possibility. Critics have described Marshall as one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era. Pianist Farid Barron was born and raised in Philadelphia and has performed with Wynton Marsalis\, Ralph Peterson\, Johnny Coles\, Mickey Roker\, and Bobby Durham\, among others. \nOnly Sleeping is a dance and design rabbit hole with unseen possibilities revealed at every moment. A dialogue between video and live performer\, a silent film faces a live dancer with an original score that tests the boundary of imagination\, loneliness and detachment. Subcircle’s work\, in collaboration with Geoff Sobelle\, of rainpan 43\, and with music by Michael Kiley asks the audience to come with them on an adventure yet unknown. The goal remainsto test people’s ideas of where they see dance and theatre\, how\, and most importantly\, why.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/combo-marshall-allen-farid-barron-subcircle/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110304T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110304T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190523T172057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T172057Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: Parker Kitterman
DESCRIPTION:Pulling out all the stops: this is chance to hear the Curtis Organ played by its year-round keeper. Parker’s newly appointed tenure at Christ Church has radically changed the musical content in the congregation. He is bringing a 17th century parish to the 21st by bringing amusical genres and traditions not often associated with the service. He also performs regularly as a recitalist\, where his repertoire ranges from the late Renaissance and early Baroque to the French Romantic/Symphonic period to great and little-known works of the 20th and 21st centuries\, and includes original works\, transcriptions\, and improvisation.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-parker-kitterman/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110304T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110304T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190523T172223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T172223Z
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SUMMARY:COMBO: Parker Kitterman + Subcircle
DESCRIPTION:A chance to hear the organ played by its year-round keeper. Parker’s newly appointed tenure at Christ Church has radically changed the musical content in the congregation. He is bringing the 17th century parish to the 21st by incorporating musical genres and traditions not often associated with the Service \nA dialogue between video and live performer\, Only Sleeping treads inside the realm of contemporary loneliness and detachment; the contradiction of choice and inevitability. Subcircle’s work\, in collaboration with Geoff Sobelle\, of rainpan 43 and with music by Mike Kiley asks the audience to come with them on an adventure yet unknown. A dance-video tour de force\, Subcircle is the collaboration between choreographer Niki Cousineau and designer Jorge Cousineau. Founded in 1998\, the company is committed to creating work that transforms theatrical and site-specific spaces\, merging dance\, sound\, set design\, lighting and film. With collaboration at its core\, Subcircle’s inventive collaborations build scenarios that engulf audiences in full-scale atmospheric environments.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/combo-parker-kitterman-subcircle/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110303T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110303T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190523T172422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T172422Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: The Dufala Brothers
DESCRIPTION:Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala practice in a variety of media\, approaching sculpture\, theater\, performance\, music\, digital media\, and good old-fashioned drawing with equal passion and zeal. They organized a now infamous toilet-trike race through the streets of Old City and they rode a cardboard tank across town on city streets during rush hour\, amazing pedestrians\, puzzling motorists\, and in general\, giving the audience a dose of dark\, dark humor. Steven was a founding member of the experimental\, performative band\, Man Man\, in which Billy currently performs
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-the-dufala-brothers/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110303T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190523T172514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T172514Z
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SUMMARY:COMBO: The Dufala Brothers + Subcircle
DESCRIPTION:Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala practice in a variety of media\, approaching sculpture\, theater\, performance\, music\, digital media\, and good old-fashioned drawing with equal passion and zeal. They organized a now infamous toilet-trike race through the streets of Old City and they rode a cardboard tank across town on city streets during rush hour\, amazing pedestrians\, puzzling motorists\, and in general\, giving the audience a dose of dark\, dark humor. Steven was a founding member of the experimental\, performative band\, Man Man\, in which Billy currently performs.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/combo-the-dufala-brothers-subcircle/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110303T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110303T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190523T172818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T172818Z
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SUMMARY:DANCE: Subcircle: Only Sleeping
DESCRIPTION:Only Sleeping is a dance and design rabbit hole with unseen possibilities revealed at every moment. A dialogue between video and live performer\, a silent film faces a live dancer with an original score that tests the boundary of imagination\, loneliness and detachment. Subcircle’s work\, in collaboration with Geoff Sobelle\, of rainpan 43\, and with music by Michael Kiley asks the audience to come with them on an adventure yet unknown. The goal remainsto test people’s ideas of where they see dance and theatre\, how\, and most importantly\, why.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/dance-subcircle-only-sleeping/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110302T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110302T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190523T173018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190523T173018Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: Andrew Thiboldeaux
DESCRIPTION:Andrew is probably best known as half of Pattern is Movement\, a indie rock band where he sings and plays keys. Its sounds like he’s going to be drummer and a couple of horn players. We can’t decide: will it be the indie-cabaret-lumberjack-crooner vibe or the shimmering-orchestral-polyrhythmic pop that’s going to be most amazing to hear transferred onto the big pipes of Christ Church.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-andrew-thiboldeaux/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110227T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110227T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T145336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T145336Z
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SUMMARY:Blind Date: Part 1
DESCRIPTION:We invited ten of the most interesting performers – five musicians and five dancers – and paired them up with someone they’ve never performed with – on a Blind Date. We played match maker – and we were careful to take risks. What will happen? We don’t exactly know\, but Blind Date is here to inspire that conversation\, to bring the possibilities between music and dance into focus\, to help us understand and challenge the continuum of improvisation and composition in performance\, and to anticipate the unknown\, and the inherent potential for disaster but also greatness that comes from this edge of inquiry. We liked this idea so much\, we did it twice. \n  \nThe lineup for part one is: \n  \nMegan Bridge & Joo Wan Park \nShavon Norris & Andrew Nelson \nJumatatu Poe & Gillian Grassie \nLeah Stein / Germaine Ingram & Dave Champion / Dan Blacksberg
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/blind-date-part-1/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110226T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110226T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T145634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T145634Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: Tony Conrad
DESCRIPTION:Tony Conrad is considered one of the first minimal composer / performers\, associated in his early period with La Monte Young\, John Cale\, Henry Flynt and legendary New York underground filmmaker Jack Smith. Conrad is also acknowledged as a pioneer of structuralist filmmaking (his 1960s film The Flicker is one of the key early works of the structural film movement)\, and in recent years he has presented and performed at festivals and events worldwide. During the last ten years\, Conrad has focused on music and performing recent works in new music venues\, museums and clubs in the US and internationally. He has composed more than a dozen works\, primarily for solo amplified violin with amplified strings\, using special tunings and scales.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-tony-conrad/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110226T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110226T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T145824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T145824Z
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SUMMARY:DANCE: Moving Parts/PIMA Group
DESCRIPTION:Specific. Abstract. Specifically abstract. Meg is an all around movement geek. She makes astonishingly specific movement with dancers who love discussion. Match vs. Match pulls apart a dance while putting it back together\, in a relentless search for identity and connection. A layered examination of architecture and space and the dancing body within (How many parts are you composed of? How about now?)\, all is revealed over time. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes all at once. \nPIMA Group so clearly defies categorization it’s not dance\, its not theater\, its not music\, and yet its all of these things. Featuring live music and video projections\, Ohhorror is a theatrical re-imagining of the evocative moods and mysterious feelings found in horror films and reveals how the cliches can get at the psychological essence of personal nightmares\, inner fears\, demons.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/dance-moving-parts-pima-group/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110225T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110225T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T150013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T150013Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: Troy Herion
DESCRIPTION:Troy Herion is a composer\, sound designer\, music director and improviser. His music brings together interests in fields relating to biology\, traditional cultures\, visual art\, drama\, and improvisation. Dramatic collaborations have included music for International Opera Theater\, Pig Iron Theatre\, The Wilma Theater\, The Arden Theatre\, and Azuka Theater. He has been nominated for three Barrymore Awards\, including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist Award\, and his work was pronounced Best Sound Design 2006 in Philadelphia Weekly. In 2008 Troy was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship to study and perform gamelan music in Bali\, Indonesia with the world-renowned Cudamani ensemble. In 2009 he completed an artist residency at Swarthmore College. Troy is the recipient of the Perkins Prize and Roger Sessions Fellowship of Princeton University\, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-troy-herion/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110225T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110225T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T150226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T150235Z
UID:10001019-1298662200-1298674800@www.bowerbird.org
SUMMARY:COMBO: Troy Herion + Moving Parts / PIMA Group
DESCRIPTION:Troy Herion is a composer\, sound designer\, music director and improviser. His music brings together interests in fields relating to biology\, traditional cultures\, visual art\, drama\, and improvisation. Dramatic collaborations have included music for International Opera Theater\, Pig Iron Theatre\, The Wilma Theater\, The Arden Theatre\, and Azuka Theater. He has been nominated for three Barrymore Awards\, including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist Award\, and his work was pronounced Best Sound Design 2006 in Philadelphia Weekly. In 2008 Troy was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship to study and perform gamelan music in Bali\, Indonesia with the world-renowned Cudamani ensemble. In 2009 he completed an artist residency at Swarthmore College. Troy is the recipient of the Perkins Prize and Roger Sessions Fellowship of Princeton University\, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition. \n  \nSpecific. Abstract. Specifically abstract. Meg is an all around movement geek. She makes astonishingly specific movement with dancers who love discussion. Match vs. Match pulls apart a dance while putting it back together\, in a relentless search for identity and connection. A layered examination of architecture and space and the dancing body within (How many parts are you composed of? How about now?)\, all is revealed over time. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes all at once. \n  \nPIMA Group so clearly defies categorization it’s not dance\, its not theater\, its not music\, and yet its all of these things. Featuring live music and video projections\, Ohhorror is a theatrical re-imagining of the evocative moods and mysterious feelings found in horror films and reveals how the cliches can get at the psychological essence of personal nightmares\, inner fears\, demons.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/combo-troy-herion-moving-parts-pima-group/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T150522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T150522Z
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SUMMARY:ORGAN: John Zorn
DESCRIPTION:A extraordinarily gifted and diverse musical mind and recent MacArthur Fellow\, John Zorn is probably the closest thing avant-garde music has had a house hold name in since John Cage. And despite his prolific output as a composer\, arranger\, record producer\, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist\, opportunities to hear Zorn live in performance\, especially in Philadelphia\, are very rare. The chance to hear John Zorn perform a solo organ concerts – truly once in a lifetime.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/organ-john-zorn/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T150955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T150955Z
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SUMMARY:COMBO: John Zorn + Moving Parts / PIMA Group
DESCRIPTION:A extraordinarily gifted and diverse musical mind and recent MacArthur Fellow\, John Zorn is probably the closest thing avant-garde music has had a house hold name in since John Cage. And despite his prolific output as a composer\, arranger\, record producer\, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist\, opportunities to hear Zorn live in performance\, especially in Philadelphia\, are very rare. The chance to hear John Zorn perform a solo organ concerts – truly once in a lifetime. \n  \nSpecific. Abstract. Specifically abstract. Meg is an all around movement geek. She makes astonishingly specific movement with dancers who love discussion. Match vs. Match pulls apart a dance while putting it back together\, in a relentless search for identity and connection. A layered examination of architecture and space and the dancing body within (How many parts are you composed of? How about now?)\, all is revealed over time. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes all at once. \n  \nPIMA Group so clearly defies categorization it’s not dance\, its not theater\, its not music\, and yet its all of these things. Featuring live music and video projections\, Ohhorror is a theatrical re-imagining of the evocative moods and mysterious feelings found in horror films and reveals how the cliches can get at the psychological essence of personal nightmares\, inner fears\, demons.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/combo-john-zorn-moving-parts-pima-group/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190530T150800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T150800Z
UID:10001023-1298575800-1298588400@www.bowerbird.org
SUMMARY:DANCE: Moving Parts/PIMA Group
DESCRIPTION:Specific. Abstract. Specifically abstract. Meg is an all around movement geek. She makes astonishingly specific movement with dancers who love discussion. Match vs. Match pulls apart a dance while putting it back together\, in a relentless search for identity and connection. A layered examination of architecture and space and the dancing body within (How many parts are you composed of? How about now?)\, all is revealed over time. Sometimes slowly. Sometimes all at once. \n  \nPIMA Group so clearly defies categorization it’s not dance\, its not theater\, its not music\, and yet its all of these things. Featuring live music and video projections\, Ohhorror is a theatrical re-imagining of the evocative moods and mysterious feelings found in horror films and reveals how the cliches can get at the psychological essence of personal nightmares\, inner fears\, demons.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/dance-moving-parts-pima-group-2/
LOCATION:Christ Church\, 2nd Above Market\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091218T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091218T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190620T171855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T172022Z
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SUMMARY:ICE PLANET
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird pays homage to the eclectic past of the GATE series\, and offers a synth laden night of psychedelic slow jams and industrial thrashes. Headling the evening will be New York City’s post-punk electronic band OUTPOST featuring Mark C of the 80s no wave band Live Skull on guitar\, synths\, and vocals\, with Stuart Argabright (Ike Yard\, Dominatrix\, Death Comet Crew) on synths\, laptop\, vocals\, and bassist Kent Heine (Holy Ghost\, Steve Shiffman & the Land of No). Opening the evening will be Charles Cohen and Tyler Weaver’s duo project COLOR IS LUXURY\, and a solo by DAVE SMOLEN.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ice-planet/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091213T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091213T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190620T170754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T170952Z
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SUMMARY:OVER-NITE SENSATION: Winter Edition
DESCRIPTION:With its most eclectic offering to date\, the winter edition of OVER-NITE SENSATION will offer a unique opportunity\, for the seasoned and the uninitiated alike\, to sample a broad array of artistic inclinations. This evening offers a bizarre mix of composers improvising\, improvisers composing\, realtime laptop processing of a counter tenor voice\, music from the Japanese avant-garde composer Toshio Hosokawa\, new works\, and old reunions\, all in one night. \n  \nTHE EPICUREANS (Dave Gross\, Ricardo Donoso\, Ryan Mcguire) – Boston’s lovable lowercase wedding band \nVAN STEIFEL and MARK RIMPLE – anachronistic laptop / counter tenor duo \nJASON CALLOWAY  – plays Toshio Hosokawa’s Sen II for solo cello \nTIM ALBRO  – low fi 12-string electric guitar noise-blue \nMARTHA SAVERY / EUGENE LEW – instigating the most controversial viola / percussion jams since 2009 \nSPECIAL WHAT? (Amnon Freidlin\, Bryan Rodgers\, Pete Angevine)  – one show reunion tour for Philly’s favorite one-show-reunion-tour-only band \nPaula Diehl’s SOUNDS2 performed by Paul Billbrough and Gabe Globus-Hoenich \n  \nImportant notes: Set durations will be generally between 10 – 15 minutes\, making for a quicker\, but not exhausting parade of performances. Quig’s Pub\, the Plays and Players on-premise speakeasy\, will be offering adult beverages and other libations throughout the night. Seasonal revelry will abound. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n  \nTHE EPICUREANS (Boston) \nDave Gross – sax \nRicardo Donoso – drums \nRyan Mcguire – bass \nFormed in 2008\, The Epicureans have the hottest new sound out there. they range from sparse ‘lowercase’ type music to “full on” (as the kids say these days) noise with a hardcore metal edge. at once playful and brutal\, the epicureans are your best friends and your enemies worst enemy. when they say ‘we love you’ at the end of every show they mean it. music is all about love and the epicureans\, with their thirst for seeking pleasure\, are here to provide. \n(Sea of Tranquility) “Avant-garde music has always been something for a relatively small group of listeners\, a musical art form that can be rather dissonant\, noisy\, and unmelodic\, rarely taking the shape or form of common song based structures. Then again\, there are acts that perform an even more extreme form of avant-garde\, of which The Epicureans certainly fall into. This trio\, whose new album A Riddle Within a Conundrum Within a Game is out now on Public Eyesore Records\, simply fails to meet any sort of criteria that would qualify it as music. Even after giving it 5 spins (and I’ve sat through a lot of releases from Public Eyesore over the years\, none of them being easy listening by any means)\, there’s nothing here that’s remotely pleasing to the ears. Dave Gross (sax)\, Ricardo Donoso (drums)\, and Ryan McGuire (bass)\, have put together six tracks of noise\, the first half of the CD barely registers a blip on the audio counter\, slight tinkering of cymbals & drums while bass strings are scraped against\, while the last two pieces\, “Blade of Fury” and “H.S.” brings to mind images of what a herd of dinosaurs farting might sound like\, Gross’ bleating\, squonking sax and McGuire’s bass practically unrecognizable\, instead rumbling like bad gas being squeezed out between many butt cheeks. Sounds harsh? Well\, I’m all for saying that there’s a market out there for just about anything\, and you have to give these guys credit for REALLY going out there with this\, but in the end I’d have a hard time recommending this flatulent nightmare to even the most loyal avant-garde lover out there. From what they’ve presented\, the listener has no clue that they know how to play their instruments\, let alone write a tune. Next time guys\, give us a little something extra…please?”- Pete Pardo \n  \nVAN STIEFEL – laptop processing \nMARK RIMPLE – counter tenor \nIn music by Van Stiefel lyrical voices are teased out of usual instrumental combinations: electric guitar quartets\, laptop ensembles\, turntables\, as well as more conventional ensembles. Trained as a classical guitarist at an early age\, Stiefel attended the Centro Flamenco Paco Pena in 1983\, studying with guitarist John Williams. He has collaborated with a variety of artists and ensembles including: visual artist Caroline Lathan-Stiefel\, improvisation trio maison vague\, Ursula’s End\, guitarist Eliot Fisk\, violinist Nurit Pacht\, guitarist Dan Lippel\, the Vega String Quartet\, choreographer David Dorfman\, the Nash Ensemble\, Thamyris Contemporary Music Ensemble\, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet\, the Talujon Percussion Ensemble\, and the Macon Symphony. Stiefel is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Chester University School of Music in Pennsylvania and is completing a CD of chamber music with electric guitar\, laptop\, and other instruments. \nMark Rimple is a countertenor\, lutenist\, and composer who enjoys mixing his dual passions of early and new music. The Washington Post has praised his “splendid” countertenor singing\, and in 2004 a Chicago Tribune reviewer wrote of a performance with the Newberry Consort that “Rimple’s technique as a lutenist is fluid and confident\, adding a kinetic lift to the ensemble. His considerable assets as a countertenor include a centered\, clear tone\,” and “effortless upper notes capable of pinpoint agility.” He is a founding member of Trefoil\, an ensemble devoted to the performance of late medieval music from mensural notation\, and he can be heard on two recordings with the ensemble: Cristo e Nato: Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy\, and Masters\, Mazes and Monsters: Treading the Medieval Labyrinth (both recordings available at www.msrcd.com). He is a frequent guest of the Newberry Consort\, and appears on their most recent medieval recording\, Puzzles and Perfect Beauty. He also appears regularly with Piffaro\, the Renaissance Band\, and The Folger Consort. He is a specialist in the theory and notation of early music and often teaches this material at workshops throughout the country. Mark is an accomplished composer\, and holds a DMA in Composition from Temple University. His compositions have been performed by the ISCM Chamber Players\, Parnassus\, and The Network for New Music. He has also championed new music for guitar\, lute\, mandolin\, and countertenor with such ensembles as the Cygnus ensemble and the Network for New Music. Mark is an Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. \n  \nJASON CALLOWAY – cello performing Toshio Hosokawa’s (b. 1955) Sen II for solo cello \nCellist Jason Calloway has performed to acclaim throughout North America\, the Caribbean\, Europe\, and the Middle East as soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared at festivals including Lucerne\, Spoleto USA\, Darmstadt\, Klangspuren (Austria)\, Acanthes (France)\, Perpignan\, Valencia\, Citta’ della Pieve (Italy)\, Jerash (Jordan)\, Casals (Puerto Rico)\, Sarasota\, Blossom\, Music Academy of the West\, the New York String Seminar\, and Encore. Mr. Calloway has appeared around the world as cellist of the Naumburg award-winning Biava Quartet\, formerly in residence at the Juilliard School\, in addition to collaborations in chamber music with members of the Curtis\, Juilliard\, Miami\, Tokyo\, and Vermeer quartets and with principal players of most of the world’s leading orchestras. He has also travelled widely as a member of ‘In Freundschaft\,’ a duo with trombonist\, Steve Parker\, and with Animato!\, a duo with pianist Christopher Weldon. He gave his Carnegie Hall recital debut under the auspices of Artists International and has also been heard in New York at Alice Tully Hall\, Steinway Hall\, the Museum of Modern Art\, the Kosciuszko Foundation\, the 92nd Street Y\, and the Polish Consulate; in Los Angeles at Disney Hall\, the Bing Theatre\, the Skirball Center and Pepperdine University; in Washington\, D.C. at the Kennedy Center; in San Francisco at Hoover Auditorium; in Philadelphia at the Academy of Music and the Ethical Society; and live on NPR\, WQXR (NYC)\, KMZT (Los Angeles)\, WFLN (Philadelphia)\, and on RAI television (Italy). \nA devoted advocate of new music\, Mr. Calloway has performed with leading ensembles around the world and with the New Juilliard Ensemble both in New York and abroad\, in addition to frequent appearances in Philadelphia with Bowerbird\, Soundfield\, and Network for New Music. Mr. Calloway also inaugurates this season the (h)ear project\, a Philadelphia concert series devoted to new and experimental music\, in addition to appearances with Instrumenta Contemporanea in Oaxaca. Among the hundreds of premieres he has presented are solo and ensemble works of Berio\, Knussen\, Lachenmann\, and Pintscher\, and he has collaborated intensively with some of today’s most important composers including Birtwistle\, Carter\, Davidovsky\, Dusapin\, Henze\, Hosokawa\, Husa\, Franke\, Rihm\, and Yannay. As a dedicated supporter of young composers\, he has for several seasons presented a series of concerts of solo cello works newly composed for him\, most recently at Harvard and Temple universities\, and at Spoleto USA gave the public premiere of Yanov-Yanovsky’s Hearing Solutions for cello and ensemble. \nMr. Calloway prizes his work with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain\, both at the Lucerne Festival and at the Zug (Switzerland) Kunsthaus in Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Serenade as part of a major Kandinsky/Gerstl exhibit\, in addition to his collaborations with the violinist Gilles Apap and with tap dancer Savion Glover. He is also artistic director of Shir Ami\, an ensemble dedicated to promoting the music of Holocaust composers\, and In Flux\, a recently formed new music ensemble. A native of Philadelphia\, Jason Calloway is a recent graduate of the Juilliard School and the University of Southern California. His teachers have included Ronald Leonard\, Orlando Cole\, Rohan de Saram\, Lynn Harrell\, Fred Sherry\, Robert Cafaro\, Joel Sachs\, Felix Galimir\, Luis Biava\, and Seymour Lipkin. Mr. Calloway is grateful for the assistance of the Maestro Foundation. \n  \nTIM ALBRO – guitar\, electronics \nBorn in Worcester\, MA in 1980\, currently based in Philadelphia\, Tim Albro received a BA in English at Wesleyan University. Since Wesleyan\, he has done ethnographic work on gospel music in West Philadelphia\, composed music for a dance ensemble\, as well as participate in the vibrant improvised/creative music community growing in Philadelphia. This work as an improvising/creative musician includes performing on the 12-string electric guitar /w electronics\, on the prepared guitar/electronics/radio in the duo HZL\, and recent solo work with home built radio transmitters. Current research interests include: the life of milarepa\, green anarchism\, and good advice. \n  \nPAULA DIEHL – composer \nDiehl’s SOUNDS 2 will be peroformed by guitarist Paul Billbrough and percussionist Gabe Globus-Hoenich. \nDiehl became interested in improvisation in 1982\, one result of a music system\, SEPARATION\, which came to her. She formed the ensemble SOUNDS to find out if the system could be used for improvs. It could. In 2009 SOUNDS became SOUNDS 2\, a duo which brought into being a new performance style. Separation improvs call for gradual decrease of INTERLOCK among\, usually\, three Fourths\, its working intervals\, until all are discrete entities. It also calls for varied ORDERINGS: that is\, designation of an open or closed status for the first and the last pitch of every Fourth\, a setup which\, in conjunction with interlock\, drives the music to an ending. Changed orderings are chosen for each new phase of interlock. A few orderings not chosen – and thus ‘wrong’- can be used; they add interest to the improvisation\, but must be made ‘right\,’ that is\, closed when closure of that phase takes place. All these pitches interact with adjacent exposed or closed pitches. At present a basic ensemble is one guitar\, acoustic or electric\, and non pitched percussion. The percussion is ‘composed. It mirrors in rhythm the ‘orderings’ which have become a part of each Fourth. In the new improv style all exposed notes from intervals in use are given to the guitar. \n  \nSPECIAL WHAT? (formerly BRKFST?) \nBryan Rodgers – sax \nPete Angevine – drums \nAmnon Freidlin – guitar \nSpecial What is a trio consisting of tenor saxophone\, electric guitar and drumset based in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Their music is a blend of semi-composed\, semi-improvised newness; they exemplify a distinct and singular group aesthetic and musical vocabulary. Employing and enjoying the use of pulse (both abstracted and real)\, references to tonality and form\, Special What creates comprehensible yet exciting and unusual music. With a focused and direct approach\, their music yields high impact and compact abstractions of stuff that normal people would listen to. Members include Bryan Rogers (Shot x Shot\, The Scriptors\, Bobby Zankel)\, Amnon Freidlin (Zs\, Normal Love\, Pepi Ginsberg\, Model Barbers) and Pete Angevine (SATANIZED\, Model Barbers). \n  \nMARTHA SAVERY– viola \nEUGENE LEW – drumset \nMartha Savery was born in Swarthmore\, Pennsylvania in 1980. She had a happy childhood and began studying classical music at the age of 8. She studied a variety of instruments including the viola\, saxophone\, bassoon and bass. After winning a series of honors and competitions for classical music she felt unsatisfied creatively and decided to be an artist. She has been blowing glass for seven years\, and has studied at the Tyler School of Art and Salem Community College. In 2003 she received a scholarship from the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass and in 2004 completed a 5-month assistantship residency at the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville\, New Jersey. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the famous Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State in August\, 2007. She currently lives in her studio in North Philadelphia\, which is also a martial arts dojo.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/over-nite-sensation-winter-edition/
LOCATION:Plays and Players\, 1714 Delancy St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003744
CREATED:20190620T164645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T164645Z
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SUMMARY:YOU SAY HELLO\, I SAY GOODBYE
DESCRIPTION:There is something wonderfully fleeting about improvised music. The music itself lives for only the briefest of moments\, and collaborations\, even extended ones\, can come and go quite often. Maybe this has to do with the relative ease with which partners can interchange with one another\, or the transient nature of its practitioners\, but in any case this openness for possibility creates great potential for artistic exploration. \nOn this evening Bowerbird offers a geographical survey of projects new and old from across the region\, nation\, and world. The night will an international quartet of Margarida Garcia (born in Lisbon\, now based in New York City\, playing upright electric bass)\, Manuel Mota (from Lisbon\, playing guitar)\, Barry Weisblat (from New York City\, homemade electronic inventions)\, and Marcia Bassett (aka Zaimph\, predominately using guitar and vocals); Andrew T. Royal\, a solo violinist from Chicago; and a fantastic trio of Philadelphia-based musicians\, Ian Fraser\, Jesse Kudler\, and Tim Albro (playing a combination of laptop\, guitar\, craked electronics\, cheap consumer devices: a no-name table top electric guitar\, hand-held cassette recorders\, radios and transmitters). Also this evening\, as a special farewell\, the once-upon-a-time based in Philadelphia duo Hisswig\, featuring double bassist Evan Lipson (now in Chattanooga) and microtonal violinist Katt Hernandez (heading to Boston)\, will say so long\, see ya later to Philadelphia. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \n  \n(1) MANUEL MOTA\, MARGARIDA GARCIA\, \nBARRY WEISBLAT\, MARCIA BASSETT \n(2) JESSE KUDLER\, IAN FRASER\, TIM ALBRO TRIO \n(3) HISSWIG (EVAN LIPSON / KATT HERNANDEZ) \n(4) ANDREW T. ROYAL \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n  \n Barry Weisblat was born in Brooklyn in 1975 and remains one of the unsung heroes of deep and investigative Sound Thought. Beyond a long-running commitment to participating in the underground’s underground of improvisation and a dynamic sense of musical conversation\, Weisblat has extended his reach and pool of knowledge beyond rubbing the surface of the black box of sound to designing and implementing his own systems. Translating light into sound\, sound into action\, action into thought\, and thought into light\, Weisblat’s ceaseless curiosity and simultaneous obsessive desire to participate and join in dialogue has pushed his output farther out than most people can see or conceive of. \n  \nManuel Mota guitarist born in Lisbon\, with public activity since 1989. From that to 1997 he studies and experiments with prepared guitar\, mainly acoustic. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a personal language for fingerstyle electric guitar and started working in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia. A lot of acoustic guitar has been played at home in the last years\, and it has also been possible to find him playing with bands Osso Exótico\, Curia\, Dru\, and collaborating with David Maranha and Afonso Simões. Worked with Sei Miguel from 1997 to 2005. Founds the record label Headlights in 1998. Draws and shoots. \n  \nMargarida Garcia and Marcia Bassett first collaborated in a group working with sound\, text and light projections. Other members of the group included Mattin\, Emma Hedditch and Jeffery Perkins. Through these early meetings\, Bassett and Garcia recognized a similar sonic aesthetic. Further meetings of the two have lead to handful of local improvised shows and a forth-coming LP to be released on the label Headlights. \nMarcia Bassett\, born in USA Bassett aka Zaimph\, predominately uses guitar and vocals to create sounds that shimmer in a dark metallic buzz of sonic noise and drone\, before a swift shift into blissed out ragas or crippling\, brutal\, white-hot noise. The organic improvised elements of Bassett’s work leave traces of eerie ghost voices and deep-space echoes that recall the electrified ritual of nomadic Japanese avant-gardists Taj Mahal Travellers — but more immediately sound like a magnification of her contributions to Double Leopards and Hototogisu\, generating towers of electricity that move from malevolent arcs of anti-gravity and spumes of throttled single notes into deep wormholes that do violence to feeble notions of time and space. \nMargarida Garcia\, born in Lisbon. Using double bass as her main instrument\, she developed a close collaboration with guitarist Manuel Mota in 1997. The two have worked as a duo as well as in the group\, Curia\, which includes Afonso Simões and David Maranha (organeye\, osso exótico). Garcia has also worked with Sei Miguel from 1999 to 2002. Other close collabs include Marcia Bassett\, Barry Weisblat and Mattin. She has played in live/recording settings with Nöel Akchoté\, Otomo Yoshihide\, Ferran Fages\, Alfredo C. Monteiro\, Ruth Barberán\, John Tilbury\, Eddie Prevost\, Rhodri Davies\, Matt Valentine\, Erica Elder\, David Keenan and Alex Neilson (tight meat duo). \n  \nEvan Lipson (b. 1981\, Toronto) is a bassist and composer who currently resides in Chattanooga\, Tennessee. Lipson has worked in a variety of contexts and styles since adolescence; with roots predominantly based in modernist classical\, punk\, jazz\, outsider pop\, noise\, and free improvisation. However\, Lipson has been invariably focused on transcending the politics of genre. Following his own forms of occult research and pragmatic synthesis\, Lipson’s efforts strive towards cultivating the rarefied\, esoteric\, and iconoclastic world(s) of unconventional music. With a central emphasis on working directly with his own bands (including regular tours and regional performances)\, Lipson’s music and his modus operandi have always been based on the intuitive search for the liminal zones where intellect and instinct\, history and myth\, and creative and destructive forces intersect. \n  \nFocused primarily on freely improvised music\, Katt Hernandez draws a firey array of electronic-like sounds and keening melodies from her completely accoustic violin. She also works extensively with microtonality\, drawn from a study of a mixture of sources\, including traditional folk and sacred musics of the Middle East\, Turkey\, and Eastern Europe\, various odd-ball whisps of old Americana\, and the Maneri/Sims 72 note system. Playing with as wide and unexpected a variety of other performers as possible is tantamount to her sonic and spiritual pursuits. She has also played music of the late Ottman empire and Whirling Dervish ceremonies with the Eurasia Ensemble. She spent some time playing old-time\, vaudeville\, and early jazz tunes with Matt Somalis(a.k.a. Shoe) whilst channelling the spirit of Amelia Earhart in the duo Lindy’s Radio. And she also plays the mysterious incarnation of a disturbing cartoon character in the frightening music and performance art duo Dr. Selenium and Madame Margo. In fact\, she plays somewhere for somebody at least weekly\, come hell or high water. Katt has collaborated with a magnificently variated sea of musicians\, dancers\, and others including- but certainly not limited to- Joe Maneri\, Zack Fuller\, David Maxwell\, Beat Circus\, Nicole Bindler\, Matt Somalis\, Vashti Bunyan\, 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 perform 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\, University of Indiana and the New England Conservatory\, performed in a vast slew of localized venues and life-making places throughout the east coast metropolii. \n  \nJesse Kudler\, born 1979\, improvises on cheap consumer devices: a no-name electric guitar\, hand-held cassette recorders\, radios and transmitters\, various small junk\, and pedals/electronics. He uses a computer to assemble his recorded music. Kudler’s work often operates on the extremes of volume\, demonstrating an interest in the subtleties that can arise from intense softness or loudness\, and it is marked by special attention to the stereo field. Recent interest has focused on both internal (electronic/radio) and external (microphone/speaker) feedback. Beyond simply exploring non-pitched sounds\, Kudler investigates their use in creating improvised structure. Kudler attended public school until Wesleyan University\, where he studied music with Ron Kuivila\, Alvin Lucier\, and a little bit with Anthony Braxton\, among others. In his various travels\, Kudler has performed with Matt Bauder\, Kyle Bruckmann\, Chris Cogburn\, 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\, Christian Weber\, Barry Weisblat\, Ellen Weller\, Matt Weston\, Jack Wright\, Jason Zeh\, and many others. He has toured the United States several times.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/you-say-hello-i-say-goodbye/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091113T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091113T220000
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SUMMARY:AN OUTSIDER'S GUIDE TO SAXOPHONE
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird returns to the stately ballroom of the Powel House for an intimate evening of new and unusual acts of musical creativity.  In this installment of the popular Bowerbird@Landmarks series\, three trail blazing saxophonists\, John Butcher (Great Britain)\, Hans Koch (Switzerland)\, and Jack Wright (United States)\, showcase the amazing sonic palate available on their instrument and inventive sonic language they have explored over the course of each of their prolific careers. \n  \nJohn Butcher (born 1954 in Brighton\, England) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing at the University of Surrey where he was studying physics. He received his PhD in theoretical physics with his thesis published as Spin effects in the production and weak decay of heavy Quarks. After that he left academia to focus on music. He began by playing conventional jazz (he has spoken of his initial skepticism concerning free improvisation)\, but quickly converted to a freer approach. He has taken the concern with the manipulation of multiphonics (split tones and false notes) bequeathed by earlier improvisers such as Evan Parker in new directions: though his earlier albums could be busy at times\, he has come increasingly to focus on creating rich\, slowly-changing strata of sounds (layers of hums\, buzzes and brittle metallic noises). He has also experimented with the use of amplified saxophone and overdubbing (most notably on the solo album Invisible Ear). That said\, he is also capable of playing quite lyrically: on soprano\, especially\, he will sometimes leaven a passage of abstraction with bursts of pennywhistle-like melody. \nButcher worked with Elton Dean\, Chris Burn\, and Jon Corbett at first. Later he formed a trio with guitarist John Russell and violinist Phil Durrant\, which recorded three albums and also served as the nucleus of News from the Shed\, a shorter-lived quintet with Paul Lovens and Radu Malfatti. Another key relationship has been with singer Phil Minton\, which included Butcher’s participation in mouthfull of ecstacy\, Minton’s setting of texts from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. More recently he has become centrally involved in the form of rarefied\, minimalist improvisation that has been dubbed “electroacoustic improvisation” or “lowercase”\, most notably as a member of the pioneering Austrian group Polwechsel. Other playing partners have included John Edwards\, Simon Fell\, Gino Robair\, Georg Gräwe\, Gerry Hemingway\, and Dylan van der Schyff. A recent\, self-released album\, Cavern with Nightlife\, included a duet with no-input-mixing-board specialist Toshimaru Nakamura. Butcher’s octet “john butcher 8” debutet at the 2008 edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. \n  \nHans Koch was born in 1948 and lives in Biel Switzerland. He has quit his carreer as a recognised classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing/Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound\, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene. \nAfter teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing\, by the late 1970s \n  \nJack Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring\, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard\, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment\, his art has always grown\, expanded\, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist\, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical\, with humor never far away. \nToday Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006)\, making new musical and human connections\, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker\, Axel Dorner\, Michel Doneda\, Andrea Neumann\, Denman Maroney\, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label)\, performed in over 20 countries\, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US)\, as well as his own website.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/an-outsiders-guide-to-saxophone-2/
LOCATION:Powel House\, 244 South Third Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091023T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091023T230000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003745
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SUMMARY:OVER-NITE SENSATION: Fall Edition
DESCRIPTION:For over three years Bowerbird has stood under the banner of “experimental” and championed the multitude of perspectives that umbrella encompasses. OVER-NITE SENSATION offers a unique opportunity\, for the seasoned and the uninitiated alike\, to sample a broad array of artistic inclinations\, all in one night.  Artists from Philadelphia and far beyond will beguile the audience with free jazz\, electro-acoustic improvisation\, free improv\, inter-media video and sound works\, dance\, euphoric drones\, and psychedelic compositions. \n  \n1. Damon Smith – solo bass; not jazz\, not not jazz; west coast style\, maybe a bit upside down. \n2. Phill Sheldon – unresolved investigations at the edge of Fluxus\, not a little bit Yoko Ono. \n3. Ian Fraser – electronic array I: analog electronic circuits\, laptop\, tapes\, radio\, etc. \n4. Mike Szekely (drums)\, Matt Engle (bass)\, Matt Mitchell (keyboards/electronics); Jack Wright (saxophones) – also not jazz\, not not jazz. \n5. Travis Woodson – solo guitar; \n6. Scott Allison – electronic array II: analog electronic circuits\, laptop\, tapes\, radio\, etc. \n7. Mikronesia \n  \n(order subject to change and further obfuscation) \nImportant notes: Note 9pm start time. Set durations will be generally between 10 – 15 minutes\, making for a quicker\, but not exhausting parade of performances. Quig’s Pub\, the Plays and Players on-premise speakeasy\, will be offering adult beverages and other libations throughout the night. Revelry will abound. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/over-nite-sensation-fall-edition/
LOCATION:Plays and Players\, 1714 Delancy St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091021T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091021T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003745
CREATED:20190620T160932Z
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SUMMARY:BROTHERS PEEESEEYE
DESCRIPTION:PHANTOM LIMB + WOOLEY \nSHARKS WITH WINGS \nSANGUINE VESSEL \n  \nBowerbird presents BROTHERS PEEESEEYE \nWhen the three members of Peeesseye get together\, they speak a strange vocabulary all their own\, something akin to the secret language of twins or a deliberately aggressive Esperanto. So when one member of the trio is missing\, the remaining members could be forgiven for feeling an itch where their other should be. As Phantom Limb\, Jaime Fennelly (on harmonium and electronics) and guitarist Chris Forsyth\, who recently moved himself and his Evolving Ear label to Philly\, will scratch that itch with the addition of Nate Wooley\, who should fit right in given the way he seems to speak in tongues through his trumpet anyway. \n  \nSharks with Wings returns after a long hiatus with a new line up featuring Brian Osborne\, Marc Zajack\, Thomas Clark\, and Michael Barker\, and local band Sanguine Vessel\, the long running project of Jared Burak and Matt Raedman\, rounds out the the night. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n  \nCHRIS FORSYTH – guitar \nChris Forsyth’s music eludes easy categorization. He is a founding member (with Jaime Fennelly and Fritz Welch) of Peeesseye\, an iconoclastic transcontinental amalgam of minimalist rock\, noise\, folk\, drone\, psych\, improv\, sound poetry\, and absurdity that has produced seven CDs\, one 7-inch\, over 145 concerts in Europe and the US\, and untold blown minds since forming in 2002. He also performs solo on both electric and acoustic 6- and 12-string guitars\, leads the free rock trio Ideal Heads\, and is a member of the elusive and rarely spotted experimental group Phantom Limb & Bison. Other notable collaborators have included reductionist/blues guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama\, Bay Area composer/performer Ernesto Diaz-Infante\, trumpeter Nate Wooley\, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin\, plus an international cast of improvisors\, experimenters\, and rockers too numerous too mention. His first solo CD Live Journal at the Mice Machine VIP Dance Floor was released in 2008 on the Incunabulum label. The follow up Two Versions (Dreams) is due this year on LP. Other upcoming releases include the Dirty Pool LP\, with Farfisa organist Shawn Edward Hansen\, on Ultramarine\, and Peeesseye’s next opus\, Pestilence & Joy\, on LP from Evolving Ear . He is the caretaker of Evolving Ear and lives in the City of Philadelphia. \n  \nNATE WOOLEY – trumpet \nNate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father\, and after studying he moved to Colorado where he studied more with Ron Miles\, Art Lande\, Fred Hess\, and improvisation master Jack Wright.  His tenure with Jack began to break Nate out of self-imposed molds and into the sound world that he has embraced as his own. Nate currently resides in Jersey City\, NJ and performs solo trumpet improvisations as well as collaborating with such diverse artists as Anthony Braxton\, Evan Parker\, Paul Lytton\, John Zorn\, Fred Frith\, Marilyn Crispell\, Joe Morris\, Steve Beresford\, Akron/Family\, David Grubbs\, C. Spencer Yeh\, Daniel Levin\, Stephen Gauci\, Harris Eisenstadt\, Taylor Ho Bynum and Peter Evans. \n“Nate Wooley is one of those rare players who seemingly pop up from nowhere\, fully formed and confidently indicating the future of his instrument in contemporary music.” – Bill Shoemaker\, Moment’s Notice
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/brothers-peeeseeye/
LOCATION:Vox Populi\, 319 N 11th St\, 3rd Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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