02/07 @ 5:00pm - Alessandro Bosetti & Asimina Chremos + Bryan Eubanks, Birgit Ulher & Forbes Graham + Jack Wright
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Alessandro Bosetti – voice, electronics, compositions.
Asimina Chremos – dance
For the first time astonishing chicago dancer Chremos will be meeting Bosetti’s speech loop compositions. Based on speech rhythms and prosodic profiles those pieces develop over longer durations and feature extremely rhythmical although never regular structures. Materials are all derived from speech and prosody and from Bosetti’s unconventional writing. There is evidence that this is highly danceable irregular music. You cant count language on a regular beat, it flows, kicks and shakes in your head when you learn those tunes. Still, in the practice of this music the body has already started moving, restless, thoughtful, precise. An highly awaited meeting.
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Bryan Eubanks – electronics
Birgit Ulher – trumpet
Forbes Graham – trumpet, electronics
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Asimina Chremos – dance
Jack Wright – saxes
Artist bios:
Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and multidisciplinary artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Recent text sound projects include African Feedback (Errant Bodies press), the interactive speaking machine “MaskMirror” (STEIM, Kunstradio.at a.o. ) and his own ensemble Trophies with guitar player Kenta Nagai, vocalist Christian Kesten, and drummers Morten J.Olsen and Ches Smith. Alessandro Bosetti has been touring extensively in europe, USA and Asia and lives in Berlin (Germany).
Solo dancer Asimina Chremos has been described as “nearly ecstatic in her virtuosic athleticism” (Signal to Noise Magazine) and her improvisations as “relentlessly exciting to the eye” (Windy City Times). Her daily dance vlog, CircadianDancer, may be seen on YouTube. She also maintains duo projects microgig, with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and Echo Den, with vocalist Carol Genetti. http://www.asiminachremos.com/
After teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing, by the late 1970s Jack Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment, his art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical, with humor never far away. Today Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006), making new musical and human connections, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker, Axel Dorner, Michel Doneda, Andrea Neumann, Denman Maroney, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label), performed in over 20 countries, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US), as well as his own website. http://www.springgardenmusic.com/
Born 1961 in Nuremberg, Birgit Ulher studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has “established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond the open trumpet” (jazzdimensions.de). She performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from around the world. She has been organising the festival of improvised music Real Time Music Meeting for over ten years. http://www.birgit-ulher.de/
Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. he has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Steve lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, Jim Hobbs, The One Am Radio, and Luther Gray. His composition “Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence” was commissioned by the Greenwall Foundation and world premiered at the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet. Forbes has also written music for the new music/rock ensemble Normal Love. He has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero and The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music. His work incorporates many genres including drum n’bass, jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and hip-hop. http://www.polyrhythmatics.net/
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, Pasco, WA.) is focused on collaborative improvisation, solo musical projects, and sound installations. He has performed his work in live settings across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Originally a saxophonist, his work has expanded to include computer music and instruments of his own design that incorporate open-circuits, samplers, and other electronics. For the past few years he has been working closely with Andrew Lafkas in a variety of settings: realizing ensemble music, performance/installations, a trio with drummer Todd Capp, and an ongoing electro-acoustic duo. He became musically active in the late 90’s in Portland, Oregon as a performer and organizer and worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean-Paul Jenkins, Leif Sundstrom, Doug Theriault, GOD, Super Unity, and many others. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY.www.rasbliutto.net/bryaneubanks
