MATTHIAS MULLER with CHRISTIAN MARIEN (trombone; drums) free improv DAN BLACKSBERG (solo alto trombone) free jazz STEVE PARKER (trombone) new and avant garde compositions for trombone LARRY TOFT (trombone) ABOUT THE ARTISTS The collaboration of Matthias Müller and Christian Marien started, when Matthias joined the band "Olaf Ton" in 2003. Playing together in various…
Wolf Eyes really tend to divide folks right down the middle. Love 'em or can't stand 'em. And in typical Wolf Eyes fashion, they're did their very best to annoy the fuck out of everybody with their 'big break' Sub Pop debut. A caustic mouthful of acid, spit right in your eyes (ears?). A head…
curators Jared Burak Mat Rademan Laundry Room Squelchers Big Ocean the Black and Blues Cars Will Burn! Vs. Holy Ghost Color is Luxury Dave Smolen with tinnitustimulus Drums Like Machine Guns Embarker HZL BRD M Ax Noi Mach Mincemeat or Tenspeed Ospreys Pennsylvania Pharmakon Ruined Sanguine Piss Satanized Suicide Magnets with Blue Shift Serpents of…
International Noise Conference on Tour 2008 Philadelphia, 20 Bands, 15 minute sets. No lap tops. No mixers. No droning Curators Jared Burak & Mat Rademan. Precious support pledged by Badmaster, Malleable, Zradio, Deep Fried Tapes, Send Help, Bowerbird and curated by Lowest Fidelity and Breathmint. Show posters by Mark Price, recording and live podcasting by…
Born in 1966 in Freiburg, Carl Ludwig Hübsch began basic training in music at the age of five. He played clarinet in the local traditional band and at the same time started to play drums in Punk and Rockbands. Around 83 he exchanged the clarinet for a tuba. Lessons with W.Erhart from the local orchestra followed.…
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.…
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…