Set One
w/
Betsey Biggs; composer, audiovisual
Artist and composer Betsey Biggs will present two works for video and improvised music: a solo audiovisual improvisation based on the idea of beginnings and endings, and The dark has its own light, a video score created for the BSC in 2005. This piece consists of a set of musical instructions for each of a series of twelve monochromatic images - points in time and space. As is always the case, the journey is the destination - both philosophically and musically. The BSC will then play a long set of electro-acoustic improvisations.
Set Two
The BSC
w/
Bhob Rainey; soprano saxophone, electronics, director
Greg Kelley; trumpet
James Coleman; theremin
Mike Bullock; bass
Liz Tonne; voice
Vic Rawlings; prepared amplified cello, surface electronics
Chris Cooper; prepared guitar, electronics
Howard Stelzer; tapes
Led by Bhob Rainey, one of the most celebrated improvisors working today, and comprised of the Boston area’s finest electroacoustic musicians, the BSC is a formidable ensemble, tackling sprawling improvisations as well as cryptic scores from composers like Christian Wolff, Cornelius Cardew, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Few improvising ensembles of this size )there are eight regular members of the BSC) have created such consistently compelling works, and this is partly due to the unique rehearsal techniques employed by the ensemble, to their sharp, dedicated musical sensibilities, and to many of the long-term musical relationships that have existed within the group (fans will recognize members of the unlikely improv supergroups nmperign and the undr quartet). The BSC has been a mainstay at New England Conservatory’s SICPP festival and has recorded an improvised release for Grob Records (_Good_, 2003), and two upcoming releases of avant garde works for Mode Records (Christian Wolff’s “Edges” and Cornelius Cardew’s “Treatise”).