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SUMMARY:CHRIS HEENAN & JONAS KOCHER + BHOB RAINEY
DESCRIPTION:CHRIS HEENAN & JONAS KOCHER (accordian)\nBHOB RAINEY (solo electronics) \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird commences the fall season with a concert featuring first rate music from local and distant sources. This is a rare chance to see the duo of Berlin-based American contrabass clarinetist Chris Heenan and Swiss accordianist Jonas Kocher (who are in the midst of a US tour) and perhaps the first of what we hope to be more regular local appearances by recent Philadelphia transplant Bhob Rainey\, who will be doing a set of solo electronics. \nChris Heenan and Jonas Kocher work with the unlikely pairing of contrabass clarinet and accordion using improvisation to create worlds of changing depth and mood that both expand upon and fixate on particular sonic zones while simultaneously belying the instrumentation of the duo. Sudden shifts in texture and tempo give way to areas of quiet and stasis\, a reprieve from constant movement that gives way to a burst of loud focused activity. \nBhob Rainey’s eight member BSC will be appearing in Philadelphia later this fall\, performing two original realizations of John Cage’s “Song Books” (1970). \n  \nMade possible with the support of Pro Helvetia\, the Swiss Arts Council.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chris-heenan-jonas-kocher-bhob-rainey/
LOCATION:Vox Populi\, 319 N 11th St\, 3rd Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:BROTHERS PEEESEEYE
DESCRIPTION:PHANTOM LIMB + WOOLEY \nSHARKS WITH WINGS \nSANGUINE VESSEL \n  \nBowerbird presents BROTHERS PEEESEEYE \nWhen the three members of Peeesseye get together\, they speak a strange vocabulary all their own\, something akin to the secret language of twins or a deliberately aggressive Esperanto. So when one member of the trio is missing\, the remaining members could be forgiven for feeling an itch where their other should be. As Phantom Limb\, Jaime Fennelly (on harmonium and electronics) and guitarist Chris Forsyth\, who recently moved himself and his Evolving Ear label to Philly\, will scratch that itch with the addition of Nate Wooley\, who should fit right in given the way he seems to speak in tongues through his trumpet anyway. \n  \nSharks with Wings returns after a long hiatus with a new line up featuring Brian Osborne\, Marc Zajack\, Thomas Clark\, and Michael Barker\, and local band Sanguine Vessel\, the long running project of Jared Burak and Matt Raedman\, rounds out the the night. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n  \nCHRIS FORSYTH – guitar \nChris Forsyth’s music eludes easy categorization. He is a founding member (with Jaime Fennelly and Fritz Welch) of Peeesseye\, an iconoclastic transcontinental amalgam of minimalist rock\, noise\, folk\, drone\, psych\, improv\, sound poetry\, and absurdity that has produced seven CDs\, one 7-inch\, over 145 concerts in Europe and the US\, and untold blown minds since forming in 2002. He also performs solo on both electric and acoustic 6- and 12-string guitars\, leads the free rock trio Ideal Heads\, and is a member of the elusive and rarely spotted experimental group Phantom Limb & Bison. Other notable collaborators have included reductionist/blues guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama\, Bay Area composer/performer Ernesto Diaz-Infante\, trumpeter Nate Wooley\, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin\, plus an international cast of improvisors\, experimenters\, and rockers too numerous too mention. His first solo CD Live Journal at the Mice Machine VIP Dance Floor was released in 2008 on the Incunabulum label. The follow up Two Versions (Dreams) is due this year on LP. Other upcoming releases include the Dirty Pool LP\, with Farfisa organist Shawn Edward Hansen\, on Ultramarine\, and Peeesseye’s next opus\, Pestilence & Joy\, on LP from Evolving Ear . He is the caretaker of Evolving Ear and lives in the City of Philadelphia. \n  \nNATE WOOLEY – trumpet \nNate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father\, and after studying he moved to Colorado where he studied more with Ron Miles\, Art Lande\, Fred Hess\, and improvisation master Jack Wright.  His tenure with Jack began to break Nate out of self-imposed molds and into the sound world that he has embraced as his own. Nate currently resides in Jersey City\, NJ and performs solo trumpet improvisations as well as collaborating with such diverse artists as Anthony Braxton\, Evan Parker\, Paul Lytton\, John Zorn\, Fred Frith\, Marilyn Crispell\, Joe Morris\, Steve Beresford\, Akron/Family\, David Grubbs\, C. Spencer Yeh\, Daniel Levin\, Stephen Gauci\, Harris Eisenstadt\, Taylor Ho Bynum and Peter Evans. \n“Nate Wooley is one of those rare players who seemingly pop up from nowhere\, fully formed and confidently indicating the future of his instrument in contemporary music.” – Bill Shoemaker\, Moment’s Notice
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/brothers-peeeseeye/
LOCATION:Vox Populi\, 319 N 11th St\, 3rd Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:METALS AND ELECTRONICS
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird presents METALS AND ELECTRONICS with TATSUYA NAKATANI\, MORALLY GRAY\,  JESSE KUDLER + RICHARD KAMERMAN \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nOne of two exceptional improvisers based in Easton\, PA\, master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (the other is saxophonist Jack Wright)\, will make his first solo appearance on Bowerbird. Highly physical and inventive in his approach\, Nakatani’s music twists between the explosive and the serene. For this performance\, the final performance of a three-month long national tour\, Nakatani will be augmenting his already large array of percussion with three enormous gongs. \n  \nFocused on dynamic textures and improvised structures\, and armed with an arsenal of selected percussion\, mechanical parts\, cheap consumer devices\, a no-name electric guitar\, hand-held cassette recorders\, radios and transmitters\, various small junk\, and electronics\, the first-time duo of New Yorker Richard Kamerman and Philadelphian Jesse Kudler\, is a prime example of the innovative re-purposing of objects and instruments currently ongoing in today’s experimental music. \n  \nMorally gray is the duo of Marc Zajack (Antler Piss / Deep Fried Tapes) and Mat Rademan (Newton / Breathmint Records). The two have a strict cassette only policy where no additional effects are used. Through various methods of tape manipulation such as home made tape loops\, modified players\, various recording techniques and so on\, the two are on a mission to mangle. At times subject matter plays an important role in what they decide to utilize as a initial source of which to extract from. These ideals and techniques lead to never ending possibilities within their sound. For this performance they are choosing to focus on bird sounds\, specifically those indigenous of Florida. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/metals-and-electronics/
LOCATION:Vox Populi\, 319 N 11th St\, 3rd Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nmperign
DESCRIPTION:THE PROGRAM \nNmperign \nDan Cappechi + Tim Albro \nDave Smolen \nBurak \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n  \nNMPERIGN \nBhob Rainey – soprano sax \nGreg Kelley – trumpet \nNmperign 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 doorbells\, and their precise but wildly unpredictable improvisations would have you at the edge of your seat if you weren’t so afraid of the noise you would make getting there. Fierce and fragile\, lush and fractured\, nmperign is tough to pin down and all the better for it. Nmperign’s music seems to unwind as two parallel soundtracks being put in line by a kind of Leibnizian god. The duo has a disturbing (turmoil) serenity; they seem to have been set up in this new monadology for an eternity. For me\, there is nothing to be called ‘minimal’ in their music\, in their choice of low and dangerously weak sounds. It would be nonsense to call this music ‘minimal’; on the contrary\, their way of making music refines our senses and gives precision to a double movement of internalization and openmindedness. So space is opened and landmarks disappear. \n  \nDAN CAPPECHI – percussion \nTIM ALBRO – guitar \nBorn in Worcester\, MA in 1980\, currently based in Philadelphia\, Tim Albro received a BA in English at Wesleyan University. Since arriving in Philadelphia from Wesleyan\, he has done ethnographic work on gospel music in West Philly\, composed music for a dance ensemble\, as well as participate in the vibrant improvised/creative music community growing in Philadelphia. This work as an improvising/creative musician includes performing on the 12-string electric guitar /w electronics\, on the prepared guitar/electronics/radio in the duo HZL\, and solo work with home built radio transmitter kits. Current research interests include: Sun Ra\, Paolo Frere\, and Elizabeth Cotten. \nBorn and raised in the Twin Cities of Minnesota (St. Paul and Mineapolis)\, Dan Capecchi moved to Philadelphia in the fall of 2002\, where he became increasingly interested and active in the world of in improvised music. Dan has been fortunate to be involved in long term projects of Shot x Shot\, Peter Robbins\, Jeff Baumeister\, and Toshi Makahara as well as short term engagements with Susie Ibarra and others. A percussionist\, composer\, and teacher\, he currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife and sons. \n  \nDAVE SMOLEN – electronics \nDave Smolen has gone from processed percussion to harsh noise electronics to non-drum machine rhythmic electronics\, which is where he’s presently at. He runs the Philadelphia electronic/noise/etc.. label\, Malleable Records; which has released groundbreaking music by CSection\, Mincemeat or Tenspeed\, SNOWSTORM and EMBARKER. His 2nd album is due for release this Winter. \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/nmperign/
LOCATION:Vox Populi\, 319 N 11th St\, 3rd Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:CHICAGO LUZERN EXCHANGE / DAN BLACKSBERG TRIO / BRACKETS & ARROWS
DESCRIPTION:CHICAGO LUZERN EXCHANGE\nJosh Berman cornet\nFrank Rosaly drums\nKeefe Jackson saxophone\nMarc Untern tuba\nChicago\, IL \nSo 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. Oh\, yes\, it’s a music that works\, is expressive\, and gives pleasure — which ever you prefer or all those things at once. Also\, it is both new and free – or perhaps that should be  and — in ways that touch upon the other good things mentioned above \nThe ensemble on Several Lights (cornetist Josh Berman\, tenor saxophonist Keefe Jackson\, tubaist Marc Unternährer and drummer Frank Rosaly) calls itself the Chicago-Luzern Exchange because Unternährer\, a native of the Swiss city of Luzern\, spent five months in Chicago in 2002 as part of a "sister cities" program. There\, Berman (a native Chicagoan)\, Jackson (originally from Arkansas)\, and Rosaly (from Arizona but a Chicagoan since 2001) were among the musicians with whom he found common cause. The group experienced an immediate chemistry during their first meeting. \nPeter Margasak writes about the CD Several Lights on Delmark Records in the Chicago Reader: So far Several Lights is holding up as one of this years finest jazz records: the players deliver feather-stroke free improvisation thats so deft and intuitive it feels almost composed\, casually combining the muted tones and understated gestures of 50s west-coast jazz with thoroughly contemporary rumbles\, snorts\, and whinnies. \nDAN BLACKSBERG TRIO\nDan Blacksberg trombne\nJon Barrios bass\nMike Szekely drums \nIn jazz\, improvisation is mostly framed by composition: the improviser spontaneously creates new music from within or in reference to a compositional framework. This framework might be a chord progression\, or a set of rhythms\, motifs\, gestures or any combination of the above. In this trio music\, this way of organizing sound is turned on its head since the basic sonic environment of this music is free improvisation. We do play compositions and they do still give us ideas to improvise from but here they are more like anchors or stopping points within the larger open improvisation. The foundation of the music is the musical histories of musicians themselves and their engagement with the demands of the moment\, not any kind of preexisting organization of sound. This way of playing music is not new. Jazz musicians and others from many styles of music that have improvisation have been exploring these kinds of possibilities for a long time. What this trio music does is give the developments made by these innovators a chance to be heard coming from the trombone as the leading force. This is a chance to push the capacities of the instrument into new territories and to look for new sonic ground to explore. \n-Dan Blacksberg. \nBRACKETS & ARROWS\nWilly Cliffton saxophone\nBrandon May  keys\nJosh Machiz bass\nAlex Maio drums\nPhiladelphia\, PA \nBrackets & Arrows is an improvisational quartet with strong leanings to experimental jazz & rock. Hailing from the depths of Ben Schachter’s jazz theory class\, part of the idea of the band is to make improvised music less about the individuals and more about the group dynamic. There is no bandleader\, no magic man on the mic telling people how its gonna be. Its extremely democratic; we try to cut down on and instead have a collective improvised. wherever it goes for better or worse.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chicago-luzern-exchange-dan-blacksberg-trio-brackets-arrows/
LOCATION:Vox Populi\, 319 N 11th St\, 3rd Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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