New sound and video works by Maria Chavez, New York City based turntablist, with special guests. In the last couple years, Maria Chavez has compiled an impressive list of residencies and festival appearances including STEIM (Amsterdam), Wien Modern festival of contemporary music in Vienna (performing with fellow turntablists Otomo Yoshihide, dieb13, and ErikM), and was…
Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist from Peru, living in New York City. She focuses on electro acoustic sound of vinyl and needle and has a collection of needles from immaculate to ruined that she calls her "pencils of sound" and a collection of records that provide the palette. She has toured with Christiina Carter (Charlambides,…
Shot x Shot is a Philadelphia quartet that has forged a distinctive sound through five years of steady collaboration. Their work is based in collective improvisational compositions that run the gamut from delicate to ruthless. The band was formed in 2004 while the members were students at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. They…
Alexander Bruck and Jason Calloway perform new music from Latin America and the former Soviet Republics. Never before has the exchange ideas and information proliferated so widely and easily. As the world continues to become more interconnected through shifting economies and the increasing reach of new technologies, countries that were once over shadowed by the…
Nate Wooley / Ivar Grydeland Ben Hall / Chris Riggs Bring It Inside with McOmber Toshi Makihara ABOUT THE ARTISTS Guitarist Ivar Grydeland (b.Trondheim 1976) started his music education degree in the mid-nineties. Having a base as a free jazz artist, Grydeland has continually expanded his experimental style to include new sounds. This…
THE MAGNETS featuring Annette Krebs, Anthea Caddy, and Magda Mayas NATE WOOLEY WRIGHT MITCHELL ALBRO TRIO ABOUT THE ARTISTS THE MAGNETS Annette Krebs - prepared guitar, objects, electronics Anthea Caddy - cello Magda Mayas - piano "Spanning the genres of chamber music, noise, music concrete and improv abstracted by precise temporal shifts, accelerations…
Bowerbird presents SONIC MIRRORS featuring music by The International Nothing, Lopass Mates, and Ko Koed. For as much as the duo format highlights the creative boundaries of its individual artists, duos featuring two of the same instrument push these frontiers even further. Hidden beneath a veneer of sameness, the minute and nuanced details of sound…
Bowerbird presents METALS AND ELECTRONICS with TATSUYA NAKATANI, MORALLY GRAY, JESSE KUDLER + RICHARD KAMERMAN ABOUT THE ARTISTS One of two exceptional improvisers based in Easton, PA, master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (the other is saxophonist Jack Wright), will make his first solo appearance on Bowerbird. Highly physical and inventive in his approach, Nakatani's music twists…
Bowerbird presents SIZE MATTERS featuring ENSEMBLE PAMPLEMOUSSE and ENSEMBLE NOMOS presented with Plays and Players. Often pursued, rarely achieved, the attempt to conquer the dynamic possibilities in a large ensemble is the holy grail of experimental music. Somewhere after the fourth or fifth person is added, the same individuality that makes a duo or trio…
DAVID DANIELL, JACK ROSE, GLENN JONES, and ANDY GILES presented with Plays and Players The guitar is arguably today's most important vehicle for musical creativity. Despite the enormous amount of material that already exists, or perhaps because of it, there are a number of artists that continue to redefine and recast the boundaries and…
Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet are both highly respected artists, with small but intensely hardcore followings. Since 2001, they've been gradually moving closer towards realizing a collaborative project, and The Breadwinner is the results of two years of recording, reworking and polishing. Lambkin first entered the public consciousness at 19 when he formed his band…
Fabrizio Spera - Alberto Braida - Jack Wright Mike Szekely - Matt Mitchell - Matt Engle Larry Toft - Dawn Webster - David Fishkin Much of the jazz tradition is built on well defined instrumental roles - bass and drum in the rhythm section, horns playing melodic solos and harmonic supporting material. But just…
Some of the most exciting music to cross the Atlantic in recent memory, saxophonist Espen Reinertsen and trumpeter Eivind Lonning are part of the bright young generation of Norwegian improvisors. The two play high energy "acoustic noise" music maybe more evocative of a summer's evening in the country, then their traditional trumpet/sax duo might suggest…
THE PROGRAM Rafael Toral - Tatsuya Nakatani Vuitton (Alex Nagle - Joe Lentini) Dave Smolen ABOUT THE ARTIST Rafael Toral is researching performance possibilities in electronic music. Using custom-built or modified electronic instruments, he's developing the long-term Space Program to structure musical phrasing in "post-free jazz electronic music". Approaching jazz as a system of…
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…
A triple bill of haunting beauty and sublime intensity closes out the Bowerbird summer season. Detroit's Graveyards (members of Wolf Eyes, Melee), will be joined by Melisa Putz and Thomas Clark's dance and music collaboration PIMA Group, and special performance by Chris Madak's Bee Mask. The event will take place on the air-conditioned 3rd Floor…
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…
SHOT X SHOT with special guest MATT MITCHELL Shot x Shot is a Philadelphia quartet that has forged a distinctive sound through five years of steady collaboration. Their work is based in collective improvisational compositions that run the gamut from delicate to ruthless. The band was formed in 2004 while the members were students…