03/07 @ 3:00pm - The Long and The Short of It – Hans Tammen, Kenta Nagai & Gowanus Bass Quartet

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

Hans Tamnen, Endangered Guitar

Kenta Nagai solo samisen

Gowanus Bass Quartet (Reuben Radding, Garth Stevenson, Sean Conly, and Stephan Crump)

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Hans Tamnen, Endangered Guitar

Kenta Nagai solo samisen

Gowanus Bass Quartet (Reuben Radding, Garth Stevenson, Sean Conly, and Stephan Crump)

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Hans Tammen

Hans Tammen creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He discovers hidden sound properties through means of his modified ENDANGERED GUITAR, interactive software programming, stereo and multichannel sound systems, and by working with the room itself. Signal To Noise called his works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.”

The Gowanus Bass Quartet

The Gowanus Bass Quartet is a unique grouping comprised of four improvising double bass players : Garth Stevenson, Reuben Radding, Rob Jost, and Stephan Crump. Their sounds, like their instruments, resemble a cluster of trees bending to the light

Kenta Nagai

Kenta Nagai is a sound and visual artist based in New York City. He works with acoustic and electronic sound, visual media and live performance. After completing undergraduate studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston (BA, 1996) Nagai moved to New York City. He began his NY career as a fretless guitarist playing on the streets, in subway stations and at clubs. His most recent compositional work, entitled Long, Long, Long, is an ensemble piece for traditional Asian instruments. It was presented at Roulette, in NYC, in October 2006. Nagai’s fretless guitar playing is featured on Eugene Chadborne’s album “Guitar Festival Summer 1999″  with Sonic Youth members Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo and Jim O’Rourke plus Joe Morris, Lauren Mazzacane Connors, David Watson and others. Nagai is also a featured performer on two recordings by the composer Laura Andel, “Somnambulist” (Red Toucan Records, May 2003, RT9322) and “In::tension:” (Rossbin Records, October 2005, RS022). As a performer on the shamisen, a traditional Japanese string instrument, Nagai has appeared in numerous concerts at venues including Sculpture Center in Long Island City and Carnegie Hall. From 1999 until 2002 Nagai was a composer in residence at The Cave Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.