Set One
w/
Wade Matthews; alto flute, bass clarinet, software synthesis
Nate Wooley; trumpet
Bryan Eubanks; live electronics
Andrew Lafkas; contrabass
Wade Matthews will be joined by trumpeter Nate Wooley, electronicist Bryan Eubanks and contrabassist Andrew Lafkas for an evening of free improvised music that explores the materiality of sound and silence. Their music is based on understanding of energy as a cumulative process rather than as a side effect of power, and their use of silence and reduced dynamic levels insures a degree of nuance and sonic permeability that favors active listening.
Set Two
w/
Nate Wooley; trumpet
Matt Bauder; reeds
Christopher Hoffman; cello
Loren Dempster; cello
Reuben Radding; bass
Mike Brown; bass
Andrew Drury; percussion
Aaron Siegel; percussion
Karen Waltuch; viola
Jessica Pavone; viola
Attack/Adorn/Decay, one of New York’s newest improvisational and new music ensembles expands to play a concert of Colorado composer Conrad Kehn’s music. The ensemble will be performing Conrad’s radical graphic notation score of “red wine and ash” and a new “color notation” piece called “distractions” composed especially for the ensemble. Conrad teaches composition and theory at the University of Denver and is known in the underground scene there as the leader of the uber-improv collection “Slow Children.”