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Thursday, December 01, 2005
Experimental/Improvised New Music at Roulette: 12/5-12/11
ROULETTE
at Location One 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM
Admission $15 Location One, Harvestworks, DTW members, students, seniors $10
MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org www.roulette.org www.location1.org
*Monday, December 5th*
DAN SENN
Dan Senn is a composer of experimental classical music (electronic and acoustic,) a sculptor of new instruments for exhibition and performance, a video artist for installation and proscenium play, a ceramist and a documentary film artist. He performs and exhibits world-wide and creates ephermeral public art projects, which bring experimental work to alternative audiences. Senn came to contemporary music by way of the visual arts. Trained since childhood as a French horn player and vocalist, in 1972 he began studying ceramics and raku pottery, an ancient ceramic method that fundamentally shifted his aesthetic. In 1977 he began building sculptural instruments and soon after began developing computer software to emulate the raku process in musical compositions, which, like his instruments, exhibit the peculiar paradox of raku -- highly considerate, non-linear systems that exist, in part, to confound the will of the artist. He has toured Europe, New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada exhibiting and performing at festivals and experimental venues. In 1995 he was awarded the McKnight Composer-in-Residence Award for the State of Minnesota. In 1997 he was awarded the Artist Trust 10th Anniversary President's Award (Seattle) for his influence on the arts throughout the Pacific Northwest, and in 1998 he was awarded the first Artist-in-Residence for 1998 at the University of Washington at Tacoma and first prize at the Papier Bienale at the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren, Germany. In 2002 his documentary film, The Exquisite Risk of Civil War Brass, won at the da Vinci Film Festival. His scored music is published by Smith Publications, Sonic Arts Editions, and AM Percussion Publications. His recorded music is available from the NI Archive, Experimental Musical Instruments and Periplum Records. Most recently, Dan has been involved with his International Space Band Initiative and related public art projects in Portland, Prague and Kladno (Czech Republic.) ?Dan’s work can be viewed in detail at: www.newsense-intermedium.com.
*Tuesday, December 6th*
MARY HALVORSON AND JESSICA PAVONE
Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Jessica Pavone (viola) have been collaborating for over three years to create a unique body of duo music. The pair combines lush melodies with textural improvisation and jagged rhythms to create concise, enigmatic musical episodes. Their collaboration makes use of a variety of timbres, achieved through amplification and electronic effects as well as acoustic presentation. Pavone has studied improvisation with Leroy Jenkins, viola with Victoria Chiang and Midhat Serbagi, and is to be a composition student of Tania Leon this coming fall at Brooklyn College. Most recently, she has been touring Europe with The Anthony Braxton Sextet, and performing with Peter Evans's Imaginary Folk, Jason Cady and the Artificials, and Mix Tape. She has worked with composers and improvisers such as Butch Morris, Glen Branca, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Matthew Welch, Evan Hause, James Fei, Kevin O'Neil, Matt Bauder and Andrew D'Angelo. Her compositions are documented on Peacock Recordings (www.peacock-recordings.com/jessicapavone.htm.) Halvorson leads the rock band People with drummer Kevin Shea (their first CD was released this spring on I & Ear Records) and is a member of Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, touring the US and the world in support of the Melvins and Fantomas. She has performed with Anthony Braxton, Joe Morris, Jane Ira Bloom, Mike Pride's MP3, Jason Cady and the Artificials, Matthew Welch's Blarvuster, and many others. Halvorson and Pavone, each of whom contributed original compositions to the project, have developed a constantly expanding repertoire comprised of over 50 pieces. This concert celebrates the release of their first album on the Lucky Kitchen label.
TAYLOR HO BYNUM SEXTET PLUS
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet Plus: THB (cornet, compositions,) Matt Bauder (tenor sax, clarinet,) Mary Halvorson (electric guitar,) Evan O'Reilly (electric guitar,) Jessica Pavone (viola, electric bass,) Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello,) Tomas Fujiwara (drums.)
The THB Ensemble is a small ensemble committed to the further exploration of the extensions of composition and improvisation pioneered by masters like Ellington, Ives and members of the AACM. Led by cornettist/composer Bynum (best known for his work with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and the Fully Celebrated Orchestra,) the group features some of New York's most outstanding young musicians, all established as leaders and composers in their own right, with the skills to navigate through many styles and genres in the search for something else. Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet and various brass instruments, composer and bandleader. His projects cover a diverse range of artistic expression -- from ensembles in the jazz tradition, to work with DJs, contemporary classical composers and world music ensembles, to composing for film and theater, to collaborations with dancers and visual artists. He presently leads his Sextet and the nine-piece ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings, and works with many of the leading figures in creative music. Bynum's work with Anthony Braxton has spanned ten years and projects ranging from duo to orchestra, most recently touring Europe with Braxton's new Sextet and Trio, and co-conducting Braxton's European Creative Orchestra. Their CD "Duets (Wesleyan) 2002" has received wide critical acclaim. Bynum's next CD as a leader, "Other Stories (Three Suites,)" with SpiderMonkey Strings, will be released on 482 Music this fall. Check out www.taylorhobynum.com for more info.
*Wednesday, December 7th*
GUSTAVO MATAMOROS
Gustavo Matamoros presents a mini retrospective of his work, including selections from Music On A Budget, gated pieces, sound videos, and an excerpt from Amazonas, a piece for paper weather instruments, saw and text, in collaboration with guest artist Alison Knowles. Gustavo Matamoros’s intermedia output includes musical and sound-performance works, sound-objects, tracings and sound-portraits, sound-installations, sound-texts, sound-video, radiophonic and public artworks. Over his 20-some-year career, he has made work and friendships with numerous artists and musicians. Some recent ones include Alison Knowles, Russell Frehling, Malcolm Goldstein, Jacqueline Humbert, Sam Ashley, Shahreyar Ataie, David Manson, Charles Recher, Lou Mallozzi, Helena Thevenot, Dinorah Rodriguez, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Davey and Jan Williams. Gustavo’s projects include performances for solo handsaw and other gated instruments of his own design, as well as recent performances of his saw band, SEE. His activities have led to grants and commissions from Florida’s Art in State Buildings, Miami Performing Art Center, the Florida Consortium’s 2000 Visual and Media Arts Fellowship, and two of Venezuela’s national prizes in composition. Matamoros has been the artistic director of the Subtropics experimental music festival in Miami since 1989 and director of the interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop since 1996.
OKKYUNG LEE
Cellist Okkyung Lee uses her classical training as a springboard to incorporate jazz, sound art, traditional Korean music, noise and extended techniques in the creation of her own unique blend of music. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Derek Bailey, Jaap Blonk, Nels Cline, Anthony Coleman, Mark Dresser, Shelley Hirsch, Susie Ibarra, Andrew Lampert, Raz Mesinai, Min Xiao-Fen, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Jim O'Rourke, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Marina Rosenfeld, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Türköz and John Zorn to name a few. She is a member of TOT Trio with percussionist Tim Barnes and turntablist Toshio Kajiwara and of the improvisational duo, NoNo Twins, with dancer/choreographer Heather Kravas, and is involved in Vijay Iyer’s and Mike Ladd’s In What Language? and upcoming Still Life with Commentator projects and in Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber, among many other groups. Okkyung’s debut album, Nihm (TZA 7715), a compilation of her compositions on the Tzadik label, has generated critical acclaim in the States and in Europe. Later in 2005 and early 2006, her music will result in a solo cello album on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, a duo album with tape wizard Aki Onda on the Improvised Music from Japan label and a another duo with Christian Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series. She has appeared at the International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (Canada,) Off New York! Concert Series (Germany,) San Francisco Jazz Festival, Taktlos Festival (Zürich and Basel,) La Biennale di Venezia, and Time Based Arts Festival (Portland.)
*Thursday, December 8th*
MARTY EHRLICH'S DARK WOODS FIVE
Marty Ehrlich – MARTY EHRLICH’S DARK WOODS FIVE: Marty Ehrlich – clarinets, Mark Feldman – violin, Erik Friedlander – cello, Alan Jaffe – guitar, Mark Helias – bass. Marty Ehrlich continues his Dark Woods odyssey, with an expanded edition of his long-running ensemble. The live performances of this group have been called "an object lesson in the limitations of labels." Come in for the shade, stay for the fire.
Marty Ehrlich is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, critically acclaimed as both composer and player. Equally fluent on clarinet, saxophone and flutes, Ehrlich has been hailed as "one of the most formidable multi- instrumentalists since Eric Dolphy...the jazz dream musician" (The Village Voice.) The New York Times calls him "one of the premier melodicists of his generation," and The Nation, "one of his time's most original thinkers (with) a rare and wonderful talent, a now yearning, now biting attack and a stunningly voice-like expressiveness." Jazz Zeitung states that "If there is a believable poetic sensibility in jazz, you will find it with Marty Ehrlich." The Jazz Journalist Association honored him as Wind Player of the Year in 2001, and as Clarinetist of the year in 2003. Since moving to New York in 1978, Ehrlich has performed his compositions throughout America, Europe, and Canada with three ongoing ensembles. The Dark Woods Ensemble features Ehrlich's woodwinds with cello and bass. Its most recent release, Sojourn, received an award from Absolute Sound Magazine as one of the three best recordings of the year. Ehrlich has recorded 14 CDs with his ensembles, on the Palmetto, Enja, New World, Omnitone and Tzadik labels.
*Friday, December 9th*
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*Sunday, December 11th*
THE ECLIPSE QUARTET
The Eclipse Quartet, an LA-based string ensemble, made up of violinists Sarah Thornblade and Sara Parkins, violist Joanna Hood and cellist Maggie Parkins, will present two programs on Dec. 9 and 11. Friday’s concert will feature new pieces by Justin Haynes and by Tin Hat Trio’s Mark Orton and Carla Kihlstedt, as well as works by Zeena Parkins and Mark Feldman. Sunday’s program will premier new string quartets by Zeena Parkins and David Jaffe, in addition to works by Fred Frith and Gernot Wolfgang.
The mission of this dynamic group is to create a unique concert experience by combining their talents with other artists in a variety of media, including film, dance and spoken word. Formed in 2003, Eclipse has performed in a variety of settings and has actively sought composers’ newest works. They currently are completing their first CD of music by New York City composer and avant-garde electric harp improviser Zeena Parkins for the Tzadik label.?Eclipse continues to seek collaborations with other artists. In addition to working with dancers, Eclipse has commissioned original filmmakers to present their visual medium with preexisting compositions. Contributors include Seattle-based artists Stanford Lee Wilson and Mark O’Connel, and Los Angeles-based Susan Weber, Martin Garcia and graphic designer/videographer Sally Coates. Future projects include a collaboration with spoken-word artist Terri Philips and performances of string quartets in combination with electric guitar, marimba and quarter-tone flute.
*Saturday, December 10th*
AMY X NEUBURG
Since her NYC debut at Roulette in 2003, San Francisco-based "avant-cabaret" artist Amy X Neuburg has toured the U.S. and abroad performing her "one-woman musical hurricane" (Otago Times, NZ) of emotionally intense, tightly crafted songs and stories. This appearance will mark the New York debut of Amy's new cello trio (with cellists Jess Ivry, Elaine Kreston and Beth Vandervennet) as they perform selections from her in-progress song cycle, "The Secret Language of Subways," for voice, cellists, electronic percussion and electronic processing. Amy also will premiere several new solo works. The New York Press has described her as "an astonishing array of musical talents ... a phenomenal voice ... a master with electronics." Amy X Neuburg’s works for voice and live electronics are diversely influenced and sung in various styles -- from rock to bel canto to "world" -- over a nearly four-octave vocal range. In performance Amy accompanies herself with real-time looping and electronic drums, using the drum kit to trigger sounds, control looping functions, and change mixer settings. She has performed her solo work at venues and events throughout the U.S., including the Other Minds Festival (San Francisco); Roulette, Joe's Pub, and the Bang on a Can Marathon at Symphony Space, (New York); Seattle's Experience Music Project; and the San Jose Tech Museum.
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