Since 1998, John Ingle (San Francisco) and Dan Joseph (New York) have been developing a unique style of pattern-based improvisation and collaborative composition. With the unusual instrumentation of alto saxophone and hammer dulcimer, their music is built upon fixed modes and simple melodic patterns from which they develop and improvise their collaborative works. With a sound combining elements of minimalism, free jazz and Indian raga, they have developed a devoted following in the Bay Area where their collaboration began. They have appeared at New Langton Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Arts Center, Knitting Factory Los Angeles and other California venues. They have performed in New York on the Roulette series at Location One, the Bowery Poetry Club, and at ISSUE Project Room. Their CD Trancepatterns was recorded at Boomtown in Sausalito in 2000, and includes live concert recordings with guests India Cooke, violin, and Miya Masaoka, laser-koto. Available from the Deep Listening Catalog, iTunes and at emusic.
Duo (Ing) is a project of clarinetist/computer musician Matt Ingalls and saxophonist John Ingle. They are the founding members of San Francisco’s sfSoundGroup and have helped to produce over 50 concerts of new and experimental music in the S.F. Bay Area. About sfSoundGroup the San Francisco Classical Voice writes, “Among all the area’s new music ensembles, this group has evolved an aesthetic that most vividly brings to mind the Bay Area’s long history of experimentation and boundary-crossing.” They also have been referred to as the “headbangers of classical music…” by the same publication. Tonight’s concert at ISSUE Project Room features a combination of new electro-acoustic works for Duo (Ing) with special guests Bay Area impov electronics pioneer Tim Perkis and New York’s own Jane Rigler on flute and electronics. Expect a rare coexistence of New Complexity, electro-acousmatic, classic minimalism, improvisation, and “lower-case” (sic) music, including works by David Behrman, Ingle, Ingalls, and an arrangement of Phillip Glass’ “Two Pages” for saxophone and clarinet.
Duo (Ing)
Matt Ingalls - clarinets
John Ingle - saxophones
Tim Perkis - electronics
Jane Rigler - flute and electronics
Dan Joseph (b. 1966) is a free-lance composer based in New York City. As an artist who embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously in a variety of media and contexts, including instrumental chamber music, free improvisation, and various forms of electronica and sound art. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as an occasional soloist. He has collaborated with a variety of creative artists including Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, Loren Dempster, JD Parran, Pauline Oliveros, India Cooke, and William Winant. His work has been presented at Merkin Concert Hall, Roulette, Deep Listening Space, The Kitchen, and New Langton Arts among other venues. He has received commissions from several ensembles and performers, including Gamelan Son of Lion, the SF Sound Group, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Martelle and Matt Ingalls. His most recent CD Archaea (2006) is available from the Mutable Music label.
http://danjoseph.org/
John Ingles, saxophonist / composer / improviser, is originally from Memphis, TN and now resides and works in San Francisco. He is a founding member of the sfSound Group, collaborates with electronics innovator Laetitia Sonami, and is an active member or the San Francisco Bay Area improv scene. John’s solo saxophone music emphasizes multiphonics, vocal harmonics and subtle control of extended saxophone techniques, while his chamber music explores such musical parameters as spiral time, linear pulse, and non-linear harmony, and indulges in both simple resonance as well as complex timbre and auditory sleights-of-hand. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Fred Frith, Douglas Ewart, David Berhman, and Eliane Radique. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and received the New Lantgon Arts Bay Area Music Award. Recent concerts include a premier of his “mobiles#3.2-5.2″ at Merkin Hall in New York with sfSound, performances with Dan Joseph at ISSUE Project Room and Roulette, and a solo concert in São Paulo, Brazil.
http://www.sfsound.org/~john
Matt Ingalls is a clarinetist, composer, improviser, and computer musician from Oakland, California. He “is one of the most accomplished, most creative clarinetists on the bay area scene” [Doom - KZSU Stanford Radio]. Perhaps known more for his dynamic yet “composerly” free improvisations, he is equally active in more traditionally notated new music. In addition to being an award-winning, internationally recognized composer, Matt has premiered over 50 works by other composers, many of which are unaccompanied solo pieces written specifically for his unique sound and performance style. Just what is this unique sound? The sounds and textures he is able to produce on the clarinet are often brittlely “electronic,” but most striking about his performances is how he often structures rhythmic and formal elements in a way that clearly resembles computer music. Matt is the founder of the sfSound Group. He has also performed with Jack Wright, Toshi Makihara, Sean Meehan, Andrew Voigt, John Raskin, Marco Eneidi, and Chris Brown among many others. Some of Matt’s recent performances have included: The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Opus415 New Music Marathon, The Seattle Improvised Music Festival, The Monterey Rock and Art Festival, and The F.U.N. (Festival of Ugly New Music). http://www.sfsound.org
Tim Perkis has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting installation works and recording in North America, Europe and Japan. His work has largely been concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interaction. In addition, he is a well known performer in the world of improvised music, having performed on his electronic improvisation instruments with hundreds of artists and groups, including Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Yoshi Ichiraku, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith and John Zorn. Ongoing groups he has founded or played in include the League of Automatic Music Composers, the Hub, Rotodoti, the Natto Quartet, Fuzzybunny, All Tomorrow’s Zombies and Wobbly/Perkis/Antimatter. Recordings of his work are available on several labels: Artifact, Limited Sedition, 482, Lucky Garage, Praemedia, Rastascan and Tzadik (USA); EMANEM (UK); Sonore and Meniscus (France); Curva Minore and Snowdonia (Italy); XOR (Netherlands); Creative Sources (Portugal). He is also producer and director of a feature-length documentary on musicians and sound artists in the San Francisco Bay area called NOISY PEOPLE to be released in 2007.
http://www.perkis.com
Jane Rigler is a flutist, composer, improviser, teacher and producer. She is an active featured performer in contemporary, improvisation and experimental music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, presenting both acoustic and electroacoustic shows as a soloist as well as within ensembles. Her compositions have been reviewed as, “dazzling musical epics, the visual imagery came in waves of electrifying fantasy….” And “[she] artistically and effectively transcends traditional flute performance to tell a vivid musical story” (GBFA, The Gazette, Boston, 2005). Her collaborations with dancers, actors and video artists have also provided possibilities to further develop her work. She is currently Teaching Artist for the Lincoln Center Institute, St. Luke’s Orchestra and the Manhattan New Music Project. Besides performing and teaching, her interests stretch into producing concerts, organizing festivals and creating playing opportunities for other musicians and artists as well, such as the Relay ~ NYC! held in MoMA in 2005 and the Spontaneous Music Festival in 2006. Jane is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies: Brooklyn Arts Council 2006), Harvestworks (2004), Art Omi (2006) and Create @ iEar (2006).
http://www.janerigler.com