Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie uses home-made instruments, amplified found and junk, microphones & electronics alongside more conventional drums and cymbals. Originally a drummer he has worked in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation, studio composition. In Australia and France he organizes concerts and also runs the experimental improvised CD label and mailorder service;…
ELI LITWIN / JON BARRIOS / CARLOS SANTIAGO DAVE SMOLEN LIONSHEAD (JULIUS MASRI / BEN REMSEN) plus a special screening of CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL: a new short film by Alex Tyson * CD RELEASE SHOW * Dan Capecchi- Drums Matt Engle- Bass Bryan Rogers- Tenor Saxophone Dan Scofield- Alto Saxophone Philadelphia,…
CHICAGO LUZERN EXCHANGE Josh Berman cornet Frank Rosaly drums Keefe Jackson saxophone Marc Untern tuba Chicago, IL So this is the beast that ought not to be -- a music that is jazzlike in a number of ways but also is more or less measureless, improvised from scratch and without pre-determined harmonic or structural frameworks.…
Breakfast? 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. They employ and enjoy the use of pulse (both abstracted and real), references to tonality and form to…
Join Bowerbird for an evening of improvised experimental music featuring a Philadelphia premiere and only the second-ever duo performance from two linchpins of the Philadelphia scene. The three-state-spanning trio of Bowerbird favorites Newton Armstrong (from Dartmouth, NH, originally Australia), Tim Feeney (Ithaca, NY), and Nate Wooley (Jersey City) appears for the first time as a…
ARAM SHELTON'S ARRIVE (Chicago, IL) DAN BLACKSBERG'S SYNTHESIS MUSIC MATT DAVIS SOLO The quartet of Aram Shelton, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke and Tim Daisy. Arrive features Shelton on alto saxophone, Adasiewicz on vibraphone, Roebke on bass and Daisy on drums. All four are active players in the modern international creative music world, with Tim Daisy…
WOODEN GUITAR HEROES It is doubtful that any instrument carries with it more images and references than the acoustic guitar: the college crooner on a grassy lawn or the bandana-clad protester. But often behind such stereotypical images is an element of truth. In many ways, the acoustic guitar is the great democratic instrument: Affordable to…
We are extremely excited to present the amazing free jazz duo of Paul Flaherty and Randall Colbourne. They have been playing together for over 20 years and have over 15 releases together, but this is only their first tour. Alto and tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even…
Slought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening of new and experimental music featuring Vienna/London-based ensemble Polwechsel on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 from 8:00-9:30pm. Polwechsel features Werner Dafeldecker (double bass), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion), Michael Moser (cello, electronics), and Burkhard Beins (percussion). They will be performing new compositions as well as selections from…
Phill Niblock (b. 1933) is a New York-based minimalist composer, filmmaker, multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music. Niblock's work is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations. This highly original music that, while…
Daniel Levin has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith and others. He has recorded as a sideman Clean Feed Records, EMANEM, Not Two and Rogue Art, and as a leader on HatHut and Riti records.…
Brazilian pianist Paulo Alvares joins forces once again with Philadelphia composer Gene Coleman and his new music group Ensemble Noamnesia for a program of sounds from Brazil, Argentina, Europe and the US. Music by Argentine Maurico Kagel (John Zorn's favorite composer) is featured in the form of Kagel’s piano and the seminal Sound Art composition…
Film, video, sculptures, and live performances by Vivian Caccuri, Gabriel Stuart, Brian McComber, Michael Barron, John Heron, J Makary, and Alex Tyson. Using custom amplified make-up tools and hand-coded processing software, the artist renders live make-overs on 2 participants that linearly build a sound composition. SCULPTURAL AUDIO PERFORMANCE This would be the first live performance…
Compositions by Werner Moebius played by Ensemble Noamnesia lought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening with sound artist and composer Werner Moebius and Philadelphia's Ensemble Noamnesia. Werner Moebius is based in Vienna and London but has been building an international reputation via a series of residencies in Chicago, Liverpool and Mexico…
CONSERVATORY OF NOW Some of the greatest things in music have been happening at the edges of the Rock genres. The depth of complexity, instrumental coloring, and overall creative ingenuity rivals, if not surpasses, the level of compositional prowess happening in concert halls today. And with the popularity of bands like the Dirty Projectors or…
Nagoski presents new work and excerpts from his lecture CD, Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics, 1918-1954 including Ottoman Songs in New York Cafes, 1910s-30s. ABOUT BLACK MIRROR Drawn from the best of Nagoski's vernacular 78 collecting, Black Mirror is a compilation of 24 recordings from the first half of the 20th century…
Join us for tour of improvised music's intangible character as Bowerbird bring together some of jazz and free music's most celebrated voices to the histortic Physick House Museum for an evening of duos. New York City based trumpeter Nate Wooley will show two drastically different sides of his playing when he performs with Swiss bassist…
THE PROGRAM Nmperign Dan Cappechi + Tim Albro Dave Smolen Burak ABOUT THE ARTISTS NMPERIGN Bhob Rainey - soprano sax Greg Kelley - trumpet Nmperign has been hailed the world over as the leading purveyors of whatever that strange thing they do is. Their palette of sounds makes laptops seem as flexible as…