Vortex/ Open Sound Friday!

[todd brunel]

This Friday, July 13, 2012

  ACOUSTIC meets ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC

  a special concert jointly sponsored by Vortex and Opensound
  Special guest: Matt Samolis, flute

  and:

  The know trio:
  Gary Fieldman, drumset/percussion
  Dan Shaud, french horn
  Ima Jonsdittir, violin

  Electro-Acoustic musicians:
  Max Lord, synth
  Andrea Pensado, laptop and more
  Michael Rosenstein, amplified objects
  Ken Ueno, extended throat techniques and microphone
  Lou Cohen, laptop/wiimote

  Sonic Sandbox:
  Forrest Larson, electronics
  Todd Brunel, clarinets
  David Brown, percussion/didgiridoo
  Tom Casale, double bass

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  Friday July 13, 2012

  Nave Gallery
  Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
  155 Powderhouse Blvd.,
  Somerville MA
   617 625 4823
  For directions and parking:
  http://www.navegallery.org/nave/directions.html


  Doors open at 7:30. / music at 8:00 p.m.
  $10 admission

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The Vortex Series for New and Improvised music presents musicians

of diverse backgrounds, whose disciplines span classical, post modern, jazz

and electro acoustic. We are very proud team up this month with composer

Lou Cohen and his Open Sound series.

Opensound is a monthly concert series that explores improvised and
experimental music, bringing artists from disparate backgrounds
together for unique events in Somerville MA. 
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  Some Bios

  Ken Ueno (born 1970) is an American composer. He studied at the United
  States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music
  with a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude, from Boston
  Unlversity with a M.M., fromYale School of Music with a M.M.A., and
  from Harvard University with a Ph.D. He has composed orchestral works,
  for jazz big band and woodwind quintet, and two dance pieces for the
  Boston Conservatory. He performed at the Flea, New York City. Ueno is a
  recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American
  Academy in Berlin. As a performer, Ueno is active as a throat-singing
  vocalist and performing with live electronics.

  Todd Brunel is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist and
  saxophonist, who performs extensively as a crossover classical and jazz
  musician. As a jazz/improvisational performer and composer, he produces
  The Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, a 2010-11 grant
  recipient from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Arts
  Council and the Somerville Arts Council. The Vortex Series has also
  been chosen as the jazz "pick of the week" in the Boston Phoenix and
  the Boston Globe.

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Todd Brunel
www.clarinetconspiracy.com