Source of Yellow is always trying to get lost - whether by wandering directionless into planes of color and overwhelming light, seeking out the blackest brambled swamps, or burying themselves alive then frantically digging themselves out at the last conscious moment, gasping. This is our idea of fun. We are very excited and honored to be playing with Ms. Alcorn, who’s music is a foreign place inside us.
Saxes & Electronics: Nawi Avila (Odeen Pope Saxophone Orchestra, tHE hOLY cHILDHOOD, the Anawium)
Drums & Electronics: Nick Hasty (Shit Fed Iron Hero)
Bass & Electronics:Peter Kerlin (Christmas Decorations, Minetta, tHE hOLY cHILDHOOD)
http://myspace.com/sourceofyellow
Susan Alcorn is a composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation. She combines the techniques of country-western pedal steel with her own extended techniques to form a personal style influenced by free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, Indigenous traditions, and various folk musics of the world.
“From the relatively unadorned sound of pedal steel and amplifier, Susan Alcorn brings forth music that is as full of emotional honesty as it is of melodic and harmonic exploration and surprise. She possesses a virtuosic technique that is always at the service of the musical moment and its possibilities for expression and communication.”
- Kevin McNeil Brown, Dusted Feature
http://myspace.com/susanalcorn
Lone Wolf & Cub
Ryan Sawyer (drums), Suzanne Rogaleski, (trapeze)