Presented by Erstwhile, Quakebasket and the Project Room
Featuring:
Margarida Garcia / Barry Weisblat
Keith Rowe solo
Greg Kelley / Jason Lescalleet
Keith Rowe / Sean Meehan / David Daniell
Dion Workman solo
ErstQuake 1 is the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of collaborative events between Erstwhile Records and Quakebasket, both based in and around NYC.
ErstQuake 1 showcases many of today’s most exciting young electroacoustic improvisers, featuring musicians from New York, Boston, the UK, Portugal and New Zealand.
The two night, eight set program features three world premieres, two duos involving UK guitar/electronics legend Keith Rowe, with NYC percussionists Tim Barnes and Sean Meehan, as well as the trio of Boston-based trumpeter Greg Kelley, Brooklyn-based laptopper David Daniell, and Meehan.
Also featured is the duo of Kelley and tape loops magician Jason Lescalleet (based in Maine), who released a superb record on Erstwhile, Forlorn Green; the duo of Barnes and Lescalleet, who will record a CD for Erstwhile soon after the festival; and the duo of Portuguese double bassist Margarida Garcia and NYC-based Barry Weisblat on homemade electronics, who have performed numerous times in France, Portugal and the US and who have an upcoming CD due out soon on Quakebasket.
The program is completed by two much-anticipated solo sets, one by New Zealand-born, NYC-based laptopper Dion Workman and one by Rowe.