03/06 @ 8:00pm - The Long and The Short of It: A Festival of Strings – Ne(x)tworks, Roger Kleier, Zeena Parkins & Jon Rose

A mini festival of strings in all sizes, shapes and uses curated by David Watson and Jon Rose.

Jon Rose – violin / Zeena Parkins – electric harp

Ne(x)tworks String Quartet. Cornelius Dufallo and Christopher Otto, violins; Kenji Bunch, viola; Yves Dharamraj, cello   (excerpts from Morton Feldman’s String Quartet no. 2)

Roger Kleier

Jon Rose “Fences”

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Zeena Parkins

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, improvisor, well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp she describes her harp as a “sound machine of limitless capacity”. Zeena’s unique vision is one that seeks to both meld and highlight opposites. She has broken musical boundaries to create a highly personal and stunning body of work. Or, to quote the WDC Period “Music that makes you hike up your britches and howl like a coyote”.

Ne(x)tworks String Quartet

Featuring Cornelius Dufallo and Christopher Otto, violins; Kenji Bunch, viola; Yves Dharamraj, cello, the string players of Ne(x)tworks come together to perform a 45 minute excerpt of Morton Feldman’s monumental String Quartet II, in preparation for their upcoming reading of the entire work on April 4 at ISSUE Project Room’s new space at 110 Livingston.

Jon Rose

Those involved in new and experimental music often come to the metaphor of fences and borders in describing their work. Violinist Jon Rose has grappled with these ideas conceptually and literally. His project The Great Fences uses the 3,500 Dingo Fence that stretches across Australia and turns it into music. In 2009 The Kronos String Quartet commissioned Rose for their own fence piece, based on the standard #5 wire outback fence.

It has been 10 years since pioneering violinist, improviser, composer and instrument building maverick Rose played in New York. Apart from the subtleties of barbed wire, there will be a celebration of many string types and lengths – from violin, to tenor violin, to cello, to double bass, to electric guitar, to koto – with some of the finest players around New York. www.jonroseweb.com

Roger Kleier

Roger Kleier is a composer, guitarist, and improviser whose compositional work involves the development of a broader vocabulary for the electric guitar through the use of extended techniques and digital sound manipulation. His three solo CDs are “KlangenBang”, released on the Rift label, “Deep Night, Deep Autumn” released by the Starkland label, and “The Night Has Many Hours” on the Innova label. He has formed a quartet called “El Pocho Loco” dedicated to guitar instrumentals that features keyboardist Annie Gosfield, bassist Trevor Dunn, and drummer Ches Smith.

Website:  www.rogerkleier.com

is a composer, guitarist, and improviser whose compositional work involves the development of a broader vocabulary for the electric guitar through the use of extended techniques and digital sound manipulation. His three solo CDs are “KlangenBang”, released on the Rift label, “Deep Night, Deep Autumn” released by the Starkland label, and “The Night Has Many Hours” on the Innova label. He has formed a quartet called “El Pocho Loco” dedicated to guitar instrumentals that features keyboardist Annie Gosfield, bassist Trevor Dunn, and drummer Ches Smith.

Website:  www.rogerkleier.com