Newton armstrong, cor fuhler & nate wooley

Thu 11 May, 2006, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

Newton Armstrong is a composer and improviser working with electronic media. His work has encompassed performance, installation, instrument building and interaction design, and he has collaborated in various capacities with other musicians, writers, dancers, choreographers, and sound, film, video and installation artists. His main instrument is a self-built embedded Linux synthesizer named Mr. Feely.

Amsterdam-based Cor Fuhler works in the field of electronic and improvised music. Using the piano, Fuhler specializes in sustained sounds with use of various string stimulators: 12 ebows, rotating threads, spinning disks. Fuhler also manipulates sound from turntables, linguaphones, springs etc and filters them through an analogue synth: the EMS Synthi AKS, his main electronic instrument. He often builds his own instruments/installations/modifications such as the Keyolin: a violin with keys.

Nate Wooley grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption and in sound and relative absence of the same. Nate performs solo trumpet improvisations and with his strio Blue Collar, with Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani. He has also performed regularly with Anthony Braxton, Bhob Rainey, Alessandro Bosetti, Okkyung Lee and other improvisation luminaries.