07/16 @ 8:00pm - John Butcher + The Please

John Butcher’s work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and solo explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics. Originally a physicist, he left academia in 1982, and has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians, mostly involved with improvisation – including Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Gerry Hemmingway, Polwechsel, Gino Robair, Rhodri Davies, Orig Toshimaru Nakamura, Paul Lovens, Eddie Prevost, Phil Minton, Steve Beresford, Otomo Yoshihide and John Tilbury. His compositions include pieces for Polwechsel, Elision, Rova Saxophone Quartet and “somethingtobesaid” for the John Butcher Group.

Recent projects include “Thermal” with EX guitarist Andy Moor & Thomas Lehn and “The Contest of Pleasures” with Axel Dörner and Xavier Charles.

The Please

Brendan Murray is a composer from Boston, MA who uses digital processing and analog synthesis to create large-scale compositions based in drone, pulse and repetition.

Linda Aubry Bullock’s earliest memories include being fascinated with the sound of humming transformers, birds, and the drone of the distant television. After music composition studies at Berklee College of Music (MA) and Bennington College (MFA), she developed a career primarily in the visual arts: porcelain, painting, and murals. She now performs and composes electronic music and has played in many settings domestically and internationally. She makes sound via field recordings, electronics, and harp.

Michael T. Bullock is a composer, performer, visual artist, and writer living in Boston, MA, USA. His modes of work include electroacoustic composition, improvisation, drawing, and video. Bullock performs across the US and in Europe, collaborating with a huge range of artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Steve Roden, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley of nmperign, Mazen Kerbaj and Theodore Bikel. Bullock also performs with the BSC, an octet of Boston-based improvisers; as the trio MAWJA with Kerbaj and Vic Rawlings; and in the sound & light duo rise set twilight.

For Floating Points, The Please will simultaneously go back to basics and forge new territory for themselves.

The musicians will form a standard rock trio: Linda on guitar, Mike on bass, Brendan on drums. IPR’s multichannel hemispherical speaker array will be used to create an evolving atmosphere of sounds composed of field recordings and filtered samples of the constantly simmering groove created by the band. The band’s sound will be gradually displaced by that of the speaker array, until the band stops and begins a new, introspective segment to carry the performance to its conclusion.