PIMA Group is a non-profit dance and music company based in Philadelphia that performs and presents innovative live music and dance, developing new approaches to the integration of dance, music and visual art. PIMA Group is currently undertaking a residency with Landmarks Contemporary Projects that will result in an original, site-specific performance piece at the…
Born 1968 in Freiburg, grew up in Hamburg. Since 1996 primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and…
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…
NOISE TOURISM Perhaps it ís serendipity, but maybe the level of excitement over the last several years has gotten out, and our city is finally a must stop on any east coast tour itinerary. Either way, we are thrilled that two separate tours, John Wiese (solo) and The New Monuments, have converged on Philly for…
JEFFERY ALLPORT percussion GREG REYNOLDS saxophone BONNIE JONES circuit bending Vancover - NYC - Baltimore Gregory Reynolds is a musician whose drive to investigate and explore the dynamics of modern sound making has shaped his unique identity as a performer, composer, listener, and thinker. At the root of his practice is an attempt to present…
The Jack Quartet performs IANNIS XENAKIS : ST/4 and JOHN ZORN : Cat O'Nine Tails JACK QUARTET John Pickford Richards, viola Ari Streisfeld, violin Christopher Otto, violin Kevin McFarland, cello Praised for its powerhouse playing by the Chicago Sun-Times, the JACK Quartetmaintains a steady appetite for today's most demanding string quartet repertoire. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and…
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…
Although civilization's oldest instruments were percussion, the full investigation of its potential as generators of non-rhythmic textures is a more recent phenomenon. The Japanese-born and Pennsylvania-resident Tatsuya Nakatani, among today's most exciting performers, has distinguished himself as a constant leader in innovative approaches to percussion. Often surrounded by a battery of gongs, cymbals, bells, and…
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…
Films and live performances by Atsushi Yamamoto, Christian Schneider, Delgado Fuchs, Hammes, Zende, Helena Gough, Pe Lang, Richard Garet, and Zimoun co-presented with GATE Join us for an evening of experimental video and sound performances featuring a survey of work from of European, Asian, and American artists of the Leerraum network. In a world clamoring…
Music at the intersection of sound, language, and yes, even bodily functions. Performances and perspectives by Bernhard Gal (Austria), id m theft (Maine, USA) and Steve Parker (Philadelphia, USA). Even in an age of massive technological advances, the power of spoken word remains an unparalleled means of communication. In the years of presidential elections, the rhetoric and speeches…
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…
Performing artists from Austria and Philadelphia collaborate and perform during weeklong residency. Soundfield and paraphrase/NEXUS are pleased to announce "Philadelphia Bridge, Part 1," an evening of improvised and choreographed works by movement artists Mariella Greil and Emily Sweeney with sound artists Werner Moebius and Bilwa and composer Michael McDermott performing works inspired by the exhibition…