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7/10/2005
PLEASE NOTE NEW PLACE & TIME
sTRANGEmUSIC presents
ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
New Music Concerts
THE THREE GUNAS IN HISTORY (DAVID FIRST / TOM CHIU / WILLIAM HOOKER)
Desmond's
433 Park Ave. South
(29th & 30th)
New York City
8:30 PM
$10 at door
JULY 11th, 2005
The Three Gunas in History � David First (guitar/laptop audio & video), Tom Chiu (violin/electronics) and William Hooker (drums/spoken word) will perform on Monday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., at Desmond's, 433 Park Avenue South (29th & 30th Streets). Tickets are $10 at the door. More info at (212) 421-3274.
TGIH is a new project featuring David First (Notekillers) on guitar & laptop, legendary drummer/poet William Hooker (Moore/Ranaldo, Wm Parker, DJ Spooky), and violinist/madman Tom Chiu (Flux Quartet, Ornette Coleman). "Guna" is a Sanskrit word referring to one of three elemental "qualities or characteristics" of the phenomenological world. The three powerful instrumentalists in TGIH will attempt to represent, shake up & transcend the whole of this world in a special evening of intense, disorienting, swinging/pulsing, sub-atomic and beautiful drone noise & visuals.
It seems reasonable to say that David First has had a fairly eclectic musical career. At age 19 he played guitar with renowned jazz innovator/pianist Cecil Taylor in an ensemble that performed a legendary concert at Carnegie Hall He followed that with electronic music studies at Princeton University while at the same time leading a Mummer�s String Band in bicentennial parades. First has survived raucous, drunken bar bands and concert halls with classical music ensembles. As a composer he has created everything from finely crafted pop songs to long, severely minimalist soundscapes. He has been called "a fascinating artist with a singular technique" in The New York Times, and "a bizarre cross between Hendrix and La Monte Young" in The Village Voice. Recently, a 45rpm single - The Zipper - by First�s
punk-era rock band, The Notekillers, was cited by Sonic Youth�s Thurston Moore as one of the songs he played for the rest of the band when they were starting out. Moore recently called it a "mind-blowing instrumental single" in Mojo magazine. Now reunited, a recent Notekillers performance was called "so ungodly potent that we're beside ourselves at the chance to see them do it again!" in Time Out NY.
Tom Chiu is the founder of the FLUX Quartet, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. Educated at Juilliard and Yale, Tom Chiu has worked closely with distinguished composers and has pursued collaborations with such unconventional artists as balloon virtuoso Judy Dunaway, avant choreographer Eun-Me Ahn, and puppeteer Basil Twist. He has also worked closely with Ornette Coleman, with whom Mr. Chiu appeared in the 2000 New York Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival. His discography includes recordings for the Asphodel, Cambria, Koch, Mode, Sombient, and Tzadik labels. His own compositions have been performed in numerous countries, including Mongolia and Uzbekistan. He also performed, as a child, in the feature film The Man With One Red Shoe with Tom Hanks.
William Hooker has released over twenty critically acclaimed CDs with numerous record labels, including Knitting Factory, Victo, Silkheart, Homestead and Cadence. As a composer, he has received commissions from Meet the Composer, New York State Council on the Arts, Real Art Ways and others. Mr. Hooker has led many creative ensembles with outstanding musicians from highly diverse backgrounds, including Billy Bang,Thurston Moore, David Murray, David S. Ware, William Parker, DJ Spooky and Lee Renaldo. Mr. Hooker often reads his poetry within his music, with an original and dramatic delivery. He has performed at the Jimi Hendrix Tribute Tour, Lincoln Center, JVC Jazz Festival, Columbia University and many other stages, both here and abroad.
More iNFO at: www.strangemusic.com
posted by Coming Events
7/10/2005 11:59:00 AM
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