Andrew Neumann live electronics
Joe Morris electric guitar
“Duets for electric guitar and real time sampling”
Andrew Neumann is a Boston-based artist who works in a variety of Media, including sculpture, electronic/interactive music, and film and video installation. Neumann’s work deals with issues concerning the uses of technology, language, and transmission of power in both its various corporeal and elusive modes. These works, what he calls “Constructors,” re-contextualize the technologically derived icons and place them in a new environment that allows one to question their original use and see the possibilities of organizing these icons/objects, into a new language with a completely re-defined hierarchy.
Joe Morris has toured throughout the US., Canada, and Europe as a solo and as a leader of a trio with a quartet. Since 1993 he has recoreded and/or performed with (among others): Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Joe and Mat Maneri. He began playing acoustic bass in 2000 and has since performed with cellist Deniel Levin, Whit Dickey and recorded with pianist Steve Lantner. He has lectured and conducted workshops through the US and Europe.He is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory in the jazz and improvisation department. He was nomanated as the Best Guitarist of the year in 1998 and 2002 at the New York Jazz Awards.
Thomas Buckner, voice with Bruce Arnold, guitar
Will perform
Matthias Kaul, Silence is my Voice
Robert Ashley, Tract
Noah Creshevsky, Jubilate
Phill Niblock, A.Y.U.
“[Thomas] Buckner has made a name for himself working in the cracks where new music (Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier) meets creatively imrovised jazz (roscoe Mitchell). His rich baritone is a marvel…” - Time Out, January 1998
Recent performances include a duo concert with renowned pianist Cecil Taylor at the Festival of Music of Extended Duration in Prague (Czech Republic) and the world premiere of Roscoe Mitchell’s “Fallen Heroes” (performed with the S.E.M. Ensemble at Lincoln Center, New York City).
The Los Angeles Times has written “Bruce Arnold deserves credit for his effort to expand the potential of the jazz palette.” His unique Signature sound stems from his combination of jazz and classical methods, and he is on of the only guitarists currently working with SuperCollider (a computer program for live sound processing).