two shows of an improvised nature this week!

[Katie Down]

Dear friends,
please come to hear/see/taste/and perhaps even smell some wonderfully eclectic and vibrant
improvised music this week! One show tomorrow night (Tuesday) at Freddy's Bar and Backroom
and the other with members of Birdsongs of the Mezzazoic and Lyrebird at Douglass Street Music Collective.
Read below if it suits your fancy!
As always, thank you for your support of otherwise misunderstood art forms!

Katie

Music from NY Underground: Katie Down & Daniel Kelly's "DissentDecentDescent" / Michael Evans / Shelley Hirsch/

Tue 22 Nov. - 8:30 pm and 10PM

FREDDY'S BAR and BACKROOM

http://freddysbar.com/events/512/music-from-ny-underground/

Freddy’s is a bar with a backroom located at 627 5th Avenue in S. Park Slope
Brooklyn, between 17th and 18th Streets, one block away form the R-
train stop at Prospect Avenue.

10PM - Katie Down & Daniel Kelly’s DissentDecentDescent

Daniel Kelly (keyboard, voice, electronics) and Katie Down (flute, glass, voice, percussion) have been experimenting and improvising with sound together for over 10 years. Their vocabulary as a duo incorporates found and prerecorded sonic sources, multiple instruments and toys, text, movement, and film. Their latest endeavor has them creating 10 spontaneous improvised sound scores of varying lengths based on images of the following concepts: Dissent, Decent, and Descent.

On The Way Out is a monthly series that focuses on presenting
performances of creative music artists and is open to all forms of
experimental music including composed, improvised, free jazz,
contemporary classical, electro-acoustic and noise.
$10 suggested donation.

8:30pm
Michael Evans-drums/percussion & Shelley Hirsch-vocals

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/multi-instrumentalist/composer whose work investigates the collision of sound and theatrics, combining ordered systems with intuitive choices of sound making using found objects, homemade instruments, and various digital and analog electronics.  He has worked with a wide variety of artists including Gordon Beeferman, Martha Colburn, Fast Forward, Fulminate Trio, Susan Hefner, Gordon Monahan, Psychotic Quartet, LaDonna Smith, Talking Band, and Peter Zummo.

Shelley Hirsch is “an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist ” (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents… She has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Tony Buck, David Simons, Johannes, Connie and Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Denman Maroney, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Joe Williamson, etc. She can be heard on dozens of CDs including her just released CDs “The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch” (Tzadik) and “Duets” with gutarist Uchihashi Kasuhisa (Innocence Records), and on her solo CD “States” (Tellus); her storytelling CD “O Little Town of East New York” (Tzadik); “Haiku Lingo” (No Mans Land) last two co-composed with longtime collaborator keyboardist David Weinstein- and the LP “Singing” (Apollo).

Douglass Street Music Collective presents: Lyrebird and B.Mez

Friday, 25 Nov. - 8PM

Lyre Bird (8pm) & b.mez (9:30pm) - Double bill

8pm - LYRE BIRD - Katie Down - instruments and loops - Matt Darriau - instruments and loops - Daniel Kelly - keyboard, piano and.....loops - LYRE BIRD, aka Darriau/Down Duo, is a New York group exploring unique instruments of wind, water, metal and earth. Their acoustic instruments and live loops create intricate atmospheres of unusual texture and groove. The musicians are; multi reedist and player of various Balkan instruments, Matt Darriau (Klezmatics and Paradox Trio...) and Katie Down (the Ukuladies), flautist, theatrical sound designer and composer who has been playing homemade instruments and found objects since she was about three, including glass harmonica, steel cello, lithophone, toys and voice. They often feature a wildcard and this evening it will be the eclectic keyboardist Daniel Kelly. //// 9:30pm - b.mez is an improvisational loop and fx-based project featuring members of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic plus guests. - Michael Bierylo/cyber-guitar and laptop electronics - Ken Field/sax/flute/loops/electronics - Rick Scott/synthesizer/loops - Formed in 1980, post-punk, art-rock pioneers Birdsongs of the Mesozoic are known world-wide for their wide-ranging, innovative instrumental constructions. In contrast to the compositionally-based Birdsongs, b.mez functions as a nimble landing craft, emphasizing spontaneity and improvisational energy, while retaining the structured sensibility that guides the mother ship.

http://295douglass.org/?id=244

Directions

295 Douglass St. (b/w 3rd & 4th Aves.) in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
The DSMC is easily accessible by train, bus, car or foot.

Mass transit ideas

• M or R train to Union St. and walk 5 minutes.
• 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, LIRR, D, M, N, R to Atlantic/Pacific Station, and walk 10 minutes.
• B63 on 5th Ave. to Douglass St. (pdf)
• B37 to 3rd & Butler (pdf)

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mobile: (917) 518.1961
email: glassmu...@gmail.com
web: http://.www.katiedown.com
skype:katieukulady