Friends,
We're pleased to announce our upcoming concert with Ron Heglin (trombone and voice) and Tom Djll (electronics), two unique artists who have been integral figures in the Bay Area experimental scene for decades. The concert will take place Sunday August 24 at 5pm. We ask for a donation of $30 to secure a seat, payable in advance of the concert via PayPal (to my email address) or Venmo (@harry-bernstein). These artists create a unique sound world that will be captivating in the intimacy of a house concert.
Tom and Ron have generously offered a free CD + digital download of their recently released recording, Duos for Voice and Runglers, to all who purchase a ticket to this performance.
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Their press packet describes the duo's unique artistry this way:
Ron Heglin is a trombonist and vocalist performing extended technique on the trombone and performing a spoken and sung fictional language as a vocalist. The vocalise are, in part, influenced by the microtonal and timbral richness of the trombone. Another influence is the study of North Indian classical music with Pandit Pra Nath and Ali Akbar Khan. Tom Djll concentrates on electronics which employ feedback to create human-like sounds and crude AI-driven events in real time. The aggregate sound-space that ensues has the air of an unfathomable hermetic ritual where meaning floats in the air, momentarily, before evaporating just on the limb of understanding. Djll and Heglin's work directly confronts the idea that meaning through communication is necessary or even possible.
Statement by Ron Heglin:
Language is all around us. Each language specializes in specific physiological sound production although all humans share similar speech/sound enabling physiology. The entire sound spectrum of spoken and sung language is thus accessible to whatever creative imagination a performer might pursue. Improvising in duo and in parallel with an electronic musician is a sharing of a broad range of pitch, timbre, articulation, and gesture, listening and not listening. We are always listening.
Recently, the poetry that swirls around chaotic processes has infiltrated my thoughts, given rise to new ideas and connectivities. The instruments I use, based around Rob Hordijk‘s rungler circuit, function via the double-well principle (sometimes called “strange attractors”); they settle into patterns that remain in place until a new condition, or stimulus, is introduced into the system. What I like to tell audiences is that, alongside the dynamics of random event generation (not well-received technoblather among non-techies), chaotic systems are always seeking stasis — or “peace,” if you will. Anyone can relate to this, lending my presentations a resonance which elevates a concert of abstract sound generation into an ecstatic immersion. I like to draw audiences into what I’m doing gradually and, in a manner of speaking, unfold an outward-facing synaesthesia of abstract sounds connected with speaking.
Let me know if you'd like to reserve a seat for this late afternoon concert.
Thanks......Harry
