tongiht, 9/24 @ CEC - THOMAS ANKERSMIT, plus //// thur, sept. 9/27 @ CoH - Jessica Pavone, plus
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september 24th (mon)
THOMAS ANKERSMIT
EMBARKER
GOODNIGHT STARS GOODNIGHT AIR
HERB CHAMBERS
@ Community Education Center
(CEC) [ website ]
3500 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA[ directions ]
8:00pm, $5-$10
solo
THOMAS ANKERSMIT
saxophone, serge modular synthesizer, computer
germany
Thomas Ankersmit (born 1979, Leiden, the Netherlands) is a musician
and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Initially an
improvising saxophonist, his activities expanded to include live
electronic music and installation pieces based on architectural
acoustics and infrasound. He has been performing solo and in
collaboration with other artists such as New York minimalist Phill
Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Gert-Jan Prins, Borbetomagus and
Alvin Lucier since 1998. Since 2003, Ankersmit most frequently
collaborates with Phill Niblock and Milan-based electroacoustic
improviser Giuseppe Ielasi.
EMBARKER
michael barker, electroincs
philadelphia
Michael Barker (b 1976) has attention deficit disorder. He even has
the doctor's note to prove it. Since 1998 mb has improvised as a
double bassist, with voice and laptop, using analog and homemade
electronics, while collecting found sound and video. After moving to
Philadelphia from Baltimore in 2002, Michael organized improvised
music shows at the short lived Table Space Gallery. He played in The
High Zero Festival in 2002 which "allegedly" ruined/changed his
(music) life. He has been a resident artist at the Experimental TV
Center in collaboration with RF Avatar (2005 & 06) and will be at
STEIM (NL)in early 2007. He has improvised with many players from
around the country, none of whom deserve name dropping in this short
bio. He currently plays in Sharks with wings, PIMA group, Wet Cement
and The George Steeltoe Ensemble.
GOODNIGHT STARS GOODNIGHT AIR
david kresge - electronics
HERB CHAMBERS
Evan Lipson - e. bass
Tyler Weaver - e. bass
Ricardo Lagomasino - drums
Dave Smolen - electronics, drum
Evan Lipson is a bassist/composer currently residing with three other
musicians in Jack Wright's Spring Garden Music house, located in West
Philadelphia. His principal teachers included both Michael Formanek &
Robert Kesselman (Phila. Orch). Other private teachers have included
Mark Dresser, Mark Helias, Ralph Alessi, and Brad Shepik, as well as
Robert Black (Bang On A Can) at the Festival Eleazar Carvalho in
Fortaleza, Brazil. He attended the Peabody Conservatory, as well as
Temple University. Evan works with several bands/ensembles/gangs
including: NORMAL LOVE, SATANIZED, DYNAMITE CLUB, Mike Pride's FROM
BACTERIA TO BOYS, and Gene Coleman's ENSEMBLE NOAMNESIA He has also
performed and/or recorded with artists such as: Charles Cohen, Maria
Chavez, Gene Coleman, Alvin Curran, Andrew D'Angelo, Stuart Dempster,
Dr. Dog, Andrew Drury, Helena Espvall, Bryan Eubanks, Peter Evans,
Cynthia Folio, Mike Gamble, Ben Gerstein, Devin Gray, Mary Halvorson,
Andy Hayleck, Katt Hernandez, Charlette Hug, Rick Iannacone, Michael
Johnson, Darius Jones, Matthias Kaul, Jesse Krakow, Andrew Lafkas,
Charlie Looker, Lukas Ligeti, John McLellan, Toshi Makihara, Mat
Maneri, Tatsuya Nakatani, Pauline Oliveros, Mike Pride, Gregory
Reynolds, Jane Riggler, Make A Rising, Jamie Saft, Christine Sehnaoui,
Alex Waterman, Veryan Weston, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, and Yoshida
Tatsuya (RUINS). Evan Lipson strongly values and enjoys the evolving
process of social collaboration/exchange in order to produce various
states of excitement, tension, confusion, and perceptual revelation."
Philadelphia-based drummer, Ricardo Lagomasino, has been playing music
since the age of ten. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance
from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Billy
Hart, Jamey Haddad, and Michael Rosen. While a student, he had the
opportunity to play in bands led by Joe Chambers, Roscoe Mitchell,
Wendell Logan, Marcus Belgrave, and soundpainter Walter Thompson.
Since graduating, he has worked with trumpeter Roger Prieto, and most
recently, Joe Lally of Fugazi. He can also be heard in other
Philadelphia-based groups such as Capillary Action, who tour
relentlessly to rave reviews and have one commercial release,
Fragments, the drums/electric saxophone duo Pads & Steel with
saxophonist David Fishkin, along with various pick-up groups around
the city. Ricardo Lagomasino has one self-released EP, Patience, a
compilation of live performances consisting of four original
compositions, and one original arrangement. The EP features two bands
that include pianist Sullivan Fortner, and saxophonist Arnold Lee. He
has plans to record and tour this year with Joe Lally, Capillary
Action, Pads & Steel, and under his own name, Ricardo Lagomasino.
Dave Smolen has been a local to Philly since summer of 2003. He grew
up playing drums for a solid 8 years and while doing so, played in the
heavy psych group, Fuzzbucket. At 17 he began using electronics for
live processing of the snare drum. After some serious shed time he
began playing out on processed snare drum when the Philly dam breakage
was underway in 2004. Shortly thereafter he moved to working w/ solely
electronics which he still does now. His current focus lies within the
realm of feedback processing, live rhythmic stranding and expanding
the sounds of a circuit bent chorus pedal via ring modulators, reverb,
and 16 bands of equalization. He is the organizer of the Technicolor
Hell compilation/ fest and runs the new visceral electronic label of
Philadelphia, Malleable. Smolen is also involved with the local
experimental music organization Bowerbird. He was invited to play the
internationally renowned High Zero Fest in Fall of 2006 and has
several recordings out on Deep Fried Tapes, Breathmint and Sprout.
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september 27th (thu)
JESSICA PAVONE
JEREMIAH CYMMERMAN
SCOFIELD / LEVIN / IANNACONE / COHEN
STEVE PARKER
@ Circle of Hope [ website ]
Broad and Washington Branch
1125 South Broad Street 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA [ directions ]
8:00pm, $5 - $10
solo
JESSICA PAVONE viola
nyc
New York native Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist and
composer based in Brooklyn who holds degrees in viola performance,
music education and composition. She's studied viola with tons of
classical teachers, improvisation with Leroy Jenkins and is
continuously learning by working within a community of creative
musicians in New York, most notably through her work with composer
Anthony Braxton. Most recently, she tours Europe and the United States
with The Anthony Braxton Sextet and Twelve+1tet and in a collaborative
duo with Mary Halvorson (guitar, viola, and voice). She currently
leads two ensembles; The Pavones and Quotidian and improvises in
groups led by William Parker,Taylor Ho Bynum, and Matana Roberts. She
plays bass guitar with; Minnows, Christy and Emily, and Jason Cady and
the Artificials. She has performed at a number of international music
festivals including, the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway, The Banlieues
Blues Festival in Paris, The Victoriaville Festival of New Music in
Canada, the Santa Annarresi Jazz Festival in Italy, All Tomorrows
Parties in England, Jazz em Augusto in Portugal, The Wels Unlimited
Festival in Austria, and at the Ciclo Jazz Foundation in Spain. As a
composer, she has received commissions to write chamber music for The
Eastern Winds and Till by Turning, and her pieces have been heard
throughout the northeast in venues such as the Kitchen and Issue
Project Room in New York and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut.
As an instrumentalist, she has interpreted new music by musicians such
as Glenn Branca, Butch Morris, Matthew Welch, James Fei, Matt Bauder,
David Grubbs, Loren Dempster, Aaron Siegel, and Andrew Raffo Dewar.
solo
JEREMIAH CYMMERMAN clarinet
nyc
Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer and clarinetist living in New York
City. The bulk of the music that he plays is improvised (i.e. not
written or composed prior to performance). He is very interested in
solo performance and extended technique, and as contrived as it
sounds, is interested in creating, or at least contributing to, a new
language for clarinet. He has performed with many incredible
musicians, some famous and some not so. Having self-released several
cdr's, he released his first cd as a leader, "Big Exploitation", in
2007 on the Solponticello record label of Athens, GA.His next cd,
"Silence & Solitude" will be available in the fall of 2007.
SCOFIELD / LEVIN / IANNACONE / COHEN
dan scofield - sax
elliot levin - sax
rick iannacone - e. guitar
charles cohen - buchla music easel
Dan Scofield, alto saxophone, is originally from Vermont, and has
lived in Philadelphia for seven years. He graduated from The
University of the Arts in 2004. He plays the saxophone in various
groups including Kuru Kuru Pa (formerly "Wolf vs."), Bobby Zankel's
Warriors of the Wonderful Sound , Sonic Liberation Front , Alban
Baily's "Inzinzac", and Dan Peterson's "Bottom Feeders". He is a
founding member of Shot × Shot, an avid follower of the Philadelphia
improvised-music scene, and has been teaching saxophone lessons
privately for four years.
Elliot Levin: Born and based in Phila., Pa. pursuing early studies
with Michael Guerra (legendary saxist/clarinetist of Phila. Orchestra
under Stokowski); and composer/flutist Claire Polin (collaborator with
flute innovater William Kincaid). Studied music and creative writing
at the U. of Oregon. Later studies with masters- pianist/improvisor/
composer Cecil Taylor; and later with saxophonist/improviser/composer
Odean Pope- led to long time relationships of performing and recording
with their ensembles. A member of many groups in Phila/NYC area over
the past 30 years (since the early '70's), he has continued to work
with his own ensembles as well including INTERPLAY Ensemble, NEW
GHOST, The PHILADELPHIA PHENOMENA to name a few...(collaborating with
artists such as Rick Iannacone, Ed Watkins, Ron Howerton, Keno
Speller, Marshall Allen, Tyrone Hill, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Calvin
Weston, and many others).
Based in Philadelphia, Charles Cohen, has been composing and
performing electronic music since 1971. He specializes in
collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects with theatre, dance, music,
and media artists, and is especially interested in live performance
and improvisation. His instrument is the Buchla Music Easel. It is an
extremely rare integrated analog performance instrument made by synth
pioneer Don Buchla. In regards to his work, he states, "Mood,
atmosphere, and landscape are what my sounds are about. Collaboration
and exploration are what my process is about. The intent is sharing
our favorite pastime with others.
STEVE PARKER
trombone
Philadelphia-based trombonist Steve Parker recently returned from
Germany where he worked as a Fulbright Scholar, collaborating with
Abbie Conant and Mike Svoboda. He has worked with Pierre Boulez and
Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Lucerne Festival, soloed at the
Music in Time at the Spoleto Festival, and recently played the North
American premiere of David Lang's MEN for solo trombone, ensemble and
video at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. His recent concerts
have included solo performances at Backfabrick in Berlin, Roulette in
New York, the Green Mill in Chicago and a residency in Charleston, SC
with cellist Jason Calloway.
Born in Philadelphia in 1984, composer and violinst Sheridan Seyfried
has received performances of his music in major venues throughout
North America, South America and Europe. His string quartet, Pro and
Contra, was awarded a 2001 ASCAP award. In 2002, he was named a
Presidential Scholar in the Arts and performed his own music at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Sheridan has been frequently
commissioned by orchestras and in 2004 his work Subtle Electric Fire
was read by the Minnesota Orchestra as part of their Composer
Institute and Reading Sessions. That same year the State College
Choral Society premiered his 80-minute work for chorus and string
quartet, Voices of the Holocaust. A 2006 Presser Music Award
recipient, he was also a composer-in-residence at the 2006 Music from
Angel Fire (NM) festival. Sheridan continues a long-standing
relationship with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra with a new
commission for bass trombone and orchestra to be premiered by soloist
Zachary Bond at Verizon Hall in 2008. Sheridan currently studies with
Richard Danielpour at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he has also
participated in master classes with composers including Aaron J.
Kernis, John Corigliano, and Lukas Foss.
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