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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
PETER EVANS trumpet COLIN STETSON saxophones KATT HERNANDEZ violin *record release* What if Evan Parker played the trumpet? A possible answer to that captivating question comes in the personage of Peter Evans and his newly released solo venture on Psi. Evans adapts the familiar Parkerian extended techniques of circular breathing, split tones and multiphonics to a…