Extreme Terrains by Suzanne Thorpe
Extreme Terrains is a multi-channel work that presents its audience with opportunities to listen to instinct and interact with the piece on a visceral level, asking listeners to trust what they feel as much as what they hear.
Featuring:
Alex Chechile on Higher Ground (Oscillators)
The body and the brain produce measurable information during the act of musical creation. Chechile uses this information is one part of a significantly connected recursive relationship between the musician and the music.
Joro Boro on the Horizon (Balkan Beats)
He plays and promotes Etnoteck (or EthnoMesh1) - the dirty and uninhibited side of globalization force-fed back into a party without borders, a three-day Gypsy wedding in a post-national state where noise, libido and extasy detonate the market mono-culture.
Jawwaad Taylor on the Midway (Trumpet/Words)
He combines his freestyle rapping skills with the sensibilities of Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton. A free-improvising trumpet player, Jawwaad has worked for several years to craft creative music that kept the authenticity of its sources and maintained the spontaneity of free improvisation.
Suzanne Thorpe on Low Valleys (Flute/Electronics)
Suzanne Thorpe is a musician, composer, educator and arts-activist who strives for instances of intimacy and understanding through a network of sonic signals. As an electro-acoustic flutist and sound artist, Thorpe works within the peripheral consciousness, exposing coexisting perspectives and concurrent realities via composition, performance and installation. Thorpe performs both acoustically and electronically, extending her instrument with an ever-evolving set-up of analogue and real-time software components. She plays on the tightrope of feedback systems and composes for multi-channel installations.
