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SUMMARY:AN OUTSIDER'S GUIDE TO SAXOPHONE
DESCRIPTION: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 and inventive sonic language they have explored over the course of each of their prolific careers. \n  \nJohn Butcher (born 1954 in Brighton\, England) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing at the University of Surrey where he was studying physics. He received his PhD in theoretical physics with his thesis published as Spin effects in the production and weak decay of heavy Quarks. After that he left academia to focus on music. He began by playing conventional jazz (he has spoken of his initial skepticism concerning free improvisation)\, but quickly converted to a freer approach. He has taken the concern with the manipulation of multiphonics (split tones and false notes) bequeathed by earlier improvisers such as Evan Parker in new directions: though his earlier albums could be busy at times\, he has come increasingly to focus on creating rich\, slowly-changing strata of sounds (layers of hums\, buzzes and brittle metallic noises). He has also experimented with the use of amplified saxophone and overdubbing (most notably on the solo album Invisible Ear). That said\, he is also capable of playing quite lyrically: on soprano\, especially\, he will sometimes leaven a passage of abstraction with bursts of pennywhistle-like melody. \nButcher worked with Elton Dean\, Chris Burn\, and Jon Corbett at first. Later he formed a trio with guitarist John Russell and violinist Phil Durrant\, which recorded three albums and also served as the nucleus of News from the Shed\, a shorter-lived quintet with Paul Lovens and Radu Malfatti. Another key relationship has been with singer Phil Minton\, which included Butcher’s participation in mouthfull of ecstacy\, Minton’s setting of texts from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. More recently he has become centrally involved in the form of rarefied\, minimalist improvisation that has been dubbed “electroacoustic improvisation” or “lowercase”\, most notably as a member of the pioneering Austrian group Polwechsel. Other playing partners have included John Edwards\, Simon Fell\, Gino Robair\, Georg Gräwe\, Gerry Hemingway\, and Dylan van der Schyff. A recent\, self-released album\, Cavern with Nightlife\, included a duet with no-input-mixing-board specialist Toshimaru Nakamura. Butcher’s octet “john butcher 8” debutet at the 2008 edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. \n  \nHans Koch was born in 1948 and lives in Biel Switzerland. He has quit his carreer as a recognised classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing/Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound\, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene. \nAfter teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing\, by the late 1970s \n  \nJack Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring\, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard\, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment\, his art has always grown\, expanded\, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist\, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical\, with humor never far away. \nToday Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006)\, making new musical and human connections\, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker\, Axel Dorner\, Michel Doneda\, Andrea Neumann\, Denman Maroney\, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label)\, performed in over 20 countries\, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US)\, as well as his own website.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/an-outsiders-guide-to-saxophone-2/
LOCATION:Powel House\, 244 South Third Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:AN OUTSIDER'S GUIDE TO SAXOPHONE
DESCRIPTION: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 and inventive sonic language they have explored over the course of each of their prolific careers. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n  \nJohn Butcher (born 1954 in Brighton\, England) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing at the University of Surrey where he was studying physics. He received his PhD in theoretical physics with his thesis published as Spin effects in the production and weak decay of heavy Quarks. After that he left academia to focus on music. He began by playing conventional jazz (he has spoken of his initial skepticism concerning free improvisation)\, but quickly converted to a freer approach. He has taken the concern with the manipulation of multi-phonics (split tones and false notes) bequeathed by earlier improvisers such as Evan Parker in new directions: though his earlier albums could be busy at times\, he has come increasingly to focus on creating rich\, slowly-changing strata of sounds (layers of hums\, buzzes and brittle metallic noises). He has also experimented with the use of amplified saxophone and overdubbing (most notably on the solo album Invisible Ear). That said\, he is also capable of playing quite lyrically: on soprano\, especially\, he will sometimes leaven a passage of abstraction with bursts of pennywhistle-like melody. \nButcher worked with Elton Dean\, Chris Burn\, and Jon Corbett at first. Later he formed a trio with guitarist John Russell and violinist Phil Durrant\, which recorded three albums and also served as the nucleus of News from the Shed\, a shorter-lived quintet with Paul Lovens and Radu Malfatti. Another key relationship has been with singer Phil Minton\, which included Butcher’s participation in mouthful of ecstasy\, Minton’s setting of texts from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. More recently he has become centrally involved in the form of rarefied\, minimalist improvisation that has been dubbed “electroacoustic improvisation” or “lowercase”\, most notably as a member of the pioneering Austrian group Polwechsel. Other playing partners have included John Edwards\, Simon Fell\, Gino Robair\, Georg Gräwe\, Gerry Hemingway\, and Dylan van der Schyff. A recent\, self-released album\, Cavern with Nightlife\, included a duet with no-input-mixing-board specialist Toshimaru Nakamura. Butcher’s octet “john butcher 8” debuted at the 2008 edition of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. \n  \nHans Koch was born in 1948 and lives in Biel Switzerland. He has quit his career as a recognized classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing/Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound\, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene. \n  \nAfter teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing\, by the late 1970s Jack Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring\, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard\, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment\, his art has always grown\, expanded\, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist\, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical\, with humor never far away. \nToday Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006)\, making new musical and human connections\, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker\, Axel Dorner\, Michel Doneda\, Andrea Neumann\, Denman Maroney\, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label)\, performed in over 20 countries\, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US)\, as well as his own website.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/an-outsiders-guide-to-saxophone/
LOCATION:Powel House\, 244 South Third Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:KILLICK'S KINDA QUIET CONTINUO QUARTET / SULLENDER / HERNANDEZ DUO / JOHN HERON SOLO
DESCRIPTION:Killick’s KINDA QUIET CONTINUO QUARTET\nKillick – H’arpeggione\nMary Halvorson – guitar\nMatt Weston – percussion\nMatt Bauder – clarinet \nSick\, modern\, geeky\, heavy and deep. Old enough to repay\, but young enough to sell. The cat with the mostest\, a rockalicious throwdown in the spiraling murk of musical sojourners. This here devil cello weaves African trance\, improvisational beauty\, er\, instability and heavy metal. I’m Killick of Athens\, Georgia. I doggedly chase extemporaneity. I play some quasi-guitars and my devil cello: the H’arpeggione\, an upright acoustic instrument with sympathetic strings. Acoustic may be a dirty word\, yeah\, though that’s my preferred (dirty) bag. My style blends primitive folk\, beloved metal\, and sacred musics from around the world into a doomy/pretty/physically exhausting voice. I’ve had the good fortune to play with countless amazing musicians as I hop\, skip\, and leap throughout this fair land of ours. I’m comin’-a getcha! \nMary Halvorson is a guitarist\, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall\, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish\, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris\, Nels Cline\, John Tchicai\, Elliott Sharp\, Lee Ranaldo\, Andrea Parkins\, Marc Ribot\, Tony Malaby\, Oscar Noriega and John Hollenbeck. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (On and Off\, Skirl Records\, 2007); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (Misbegotten Man\, I & Ear Records\, 2007). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum\, Ted Reichman\, Tatsuya Nakatani\, Jason Cady\, Matthew Welch\, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring. \nMatt Weston plays percussion and electronics\, and has performed throughout the US and in Europe. He has appeared on CNN\, VH1\, and CBS TV. He has studied and/or collaborated with Arthur Brooks\, Bill Dixon\, Kevin Drumm\, Milford Graves\, William Parker\, Jack Wright and others. His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the Wire\, the Village Voice\, Signal To Noise\, Cadence\, All About Jazz\, Grooves\, and Bananafish. His solo album Vacuums has garnered international acclaim\, as have his recordings with Barn Owl and with Tizzy. He has recorded for the Tautology\, Sachimay\, Breaking World Records\, Imvated\, Crank Satori\, BoxMedia\, and Drag City labels. A new label\, 7272Music\, is set to launch with the aim of releasing limited editions of Weston’s live performances. In addition to his solo work\, Weston is a member of Barn Owl (with guitarist Chris Cooper and bassist Andy Crespo); and is guitarist/vocalist with Tizzy (with drummer/vocalist Teri Morris and bassist/vocalist Jen Stavely). \nWOODY SULLENDER banjo \nKATT HERNANDEZ violin \nnew york city / philadelphia \nUnder the not-so-clever moniker of Uncle Woody Sullendert\, Woody Sullender performs improvised banjo music\, playing with and against the cultural baggage of the instrument. While alluding to the traditional musics of his home states of Virginia and North Carolina\, he explores a diverse plane of plucked string music from around the world as well as incorporating punk\, noise\, free jazz\, etc.. He has performed with Pauline Oliveros\, Fred Lonberg-Holm\, Michael Zerang\, Kyle Bruckmann\, Carol Genetti\, Jason Ajemian\, Chris Forsyth\, members of the Vandermark 5\, TV Pow\, and Cheer Accident\, among others. In 2004\, he collaborated with sound artist Maryanne Amacher\, incorporating his banjo recordings into TEO! A sonic sculpture which won the Golden Nica at the 2005 Ars Electronica festival. Among other activities\, he can currently be heard Sunday nights (Monday mornings) 12am-3pm\, DJing on WFMU. \nKatt Hernandez has been living in the Boston area\, playing the violin\, for the last six years. She has collaberated with a magnificently variated sea of musicians\, dancers\, and others including- but certainly not limited to- Joe Maneri\, Zack Fuller\, David Maxwell\, Marc Bisson\, Matt Somalis\, John Voigt\, Allisa Cardone\, Gordon Beeferman\, Jonathan Vincent\, Walter Wright\, Joe Burgio\, Eric Rosenthal\, Jeff Arnal\, Jaimie McGlaughlin\, Andrew Neumann\, Dave Gross\, and Hans Rickheit. She has twice been invited to perfrom on the Autumn Uprising \, High Zero \, Mobius ArtRages \, and Improvised and Otherwise festivals\, and has also appeared at the Montreaux-Detroit \, Brandeis New Music \, Boston CyberArts \, Michiania \, IAJE \, IASJ \, and Ear Whacks festivals. She has been a guest artist at MIT\, Harvard\, and the New England Conservatory\, performed in a vast slew of local venues and- to date- any number of subway passages\, urban grottos\, and troglyditical performace slaces\, as well as other experimental and life-making places throughout the Bos-Wash metropolii.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/killicks-kinda-quiet-continuo-quartet-sullender-hernandez-duo-john-heron-solo/
LOCATION:Powel House\, 244 South Third Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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