9/27 @ CoH : JESSICA PAVONE, JEREMIAH CYMMERMAN, SCOFIELD / LEVIN / IANNACONE / COHEN, STEVE PARKER

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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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september 30th (sun)

KENDALL / EUBANKS
MONSTURO
AMNESA SPENTAS
PHIL SHELDON

@ Community Education Center
(CEC) [ website ]
3500 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA [ directions ]
8:00pm, $5-$10

KENDALL / EUBANKS
david kendall - computer
bryan eubanks - electronics
california / nyc

David Kendall is from Southern California. David Kendall began by
experimenting with multitrack audio and degraded sound sources in the
early nineties. David Kendall's practice explores the essential,
monadic aspects of music-making materials. Improvisation, found
electronics, amplification, the self-referential, recursion, and
resonance form the basis for much of David Kendall's music.
Collaboration has been a central focus of the live performance of
David Kendall. Groups include or have included the invisible Music
Production Ensemble, Improvisatyrs, Honeycomb Wheels, Others, The
Kentucky Knobs, and many others. Collaborators include or have
included Jeremy Drake, Jessica Catron, Sandor Finta, Doug Russell,
Andre Vida, Albert Ortega, Bob Bellerue, Bryan Eubanks, David
Rothbaum, Jonathan Zorn, Akihiro Shimizu and many others. David
Kendall has albums released, or in production, on the EMR, P-Tapes,
Bastardised, Alienation, Helicopter, and Anarchymoon labels. David
Kendall earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
www.davidkendall.net

Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977) is originally from the Pacific Northwest of
the US. He works with the Soprano Saxophone and an electronic
instrument incorporating open-circuits and samplers. He has presented
concerts across the US and Europe in real-time and improvised
settings. He has collaborated extensively with Joseph Foster, Andrew
Lafkas, Jean-Paul Jenkins, Leif Sundstrom (GOD), and Doug Theriault,
among others. His solo work is a process-oriented, static music and he
is also developing and presenting multi-channel sound installations
exploring these themes and materials. He has released recordings on
Rasbliutto Recordings, a label he co-founded in 2001, as well as Jyrk,
Creative Sources, EMR, and Little Enjoyer. He lives in Brooklyn, New
York.
MOSTURO
david rothbaum - analog modular synthesizer
california

David Rothbaum, originally a heavy metal electric bass player, now
performs on analog modular synthesizer. Current projects include
Monsturo (solo) and Dirty Modelz (with Albert Ortega). Since 2003 he
has run the record label emr-records which specializes in putting out
music he likes. www.davidrothbaum.com

AMESA SPENTAS
eli litwin - drums
ruston grosse - 7 string guitar
philadelphia

Ruston Grosse has been playing music using whatever he could for as
long as he can remember. His main focus is on the drums and guitar
although he plays on an interesting variety of instruments including
the bouzouki. Ruston is a member of SilVeth, Time is Like a Sword,
Bulgina, Schizoid: the Anachronism.

Eli Litwin was born in 1983 in Morristown , NJ . He began playing
drums at the age of 9 and started his first rock band in 6 th grade.
Through high school he continued to play in a variety of rock bands as
well as the high school jazz band. Eli chose to attend the Esther
Boyer College of Music at Temple University where he studied drum set
with Erik Johnson. Since graduating with his Bachelors of Music in
Jazz Performance, Eli has remained in Philadelphia to pursue music on
both the performing and teaching ends. Though his area of expertise is
largely in metal, Eli has significant experience playing in jazz, rock
& avant-garde idioms as well. He is currently a member of Knife the
Glitter, Normal Love and Time Is Like A Sword. In his own time, Eli
composes a variety of music on the computer, ranging from ambient and
experimental electronic music to "crazy metal MIDI 's."
solo
PHILL SHELDON
instruments

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