Posts Tagged ‘bass’

Chicago Underground Duo

Sept8ChicagoUndergroundDuoThe Chicago Underground Duo formed in 1997 as an organic offshoot of the larger Chicago Underground Collective. The Duo consists of Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics, piano) and Chad Taylor (percussion, electronics, vibes, mbira, guitar). Both stalwarts of the Chicago Jazz scene, their performances are dually based on notated compositions composed by both artists and on pure improvisation.

Mazurek and Taylor have released five CDs together, their most recent release being Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey, 2010). They have toured extensively in the U.S, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Brazil and are considered to be the most musically adventurous performers of the Chicago Underground incarnations.


Joe McPhee Trio X + Trio Caveat

Sept7Triox3Trio X consists of three like-minded improvisers Joe McPhee (Saxophone/trumpet), Dominic Duval (Bass), and Jay Rosen (Drums). The band was founded after its premier at the 1988 Vision Jazz Festival. Sharing an affinity for popular jazz standards, the trio’s musical repertoire is on one hand influenced by the likes of Thelonius Monk, Ornette Coleman, and Freddie Hubbard, and the other refined by the avant-garde sensibilities of their contemporary musical practice.

The three members have performed with a variety of musicians, McPhee with Evan Parker and William Parker, Duval with Cecil Taylor, Mark Whitecage, and Steve Swell, and Rosen with Sonny Simmons, Anthony Braxton, and Charles Gayle. They have released a number of recordings on the CIMP and Cadence Jazz Records labels and continue to receive critical acclaim for their live concerts and festival appearances.

Trio Caveat consists of bassist James Ilgenfritz, saxophonist Jonathan Moritz, and guitarist Chris Welcome. A parlour jazz trio, they have perfomred throughout the U.S. in art galleries, cafes, concert halls, parlors, and basements. Initially formed as a trio with Moritz, Ilgenfritz, and drummer John McLellan, the group’s discreet dynamics and attention to unlikely sonorities facilitate the deepest possible listening experience.


Share – free audio & video jam – featured guests Jeff Carey & Myo

share_ipr_web10 What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Tonight’s featured guests are Jeff Carey & Myo. They will perform two mini-solo-sets as a part of their CD release tour.

Jeff Carey (b. 1972) is an electronic music composer and performer focussing on real-time multichannel electro-instrumental music. Since the early 90’s Carey has been working with electronic music in experimental, improvised and composed contexts, has performed and presented his music in clubs, art galleries, festivals, and squats in Europe, Scandinavia and the US, and has been involved in several critically acclaimed performance groups such as 87 Central (NoTV/Universal, Staalplaat, JDK Productions, ERS Records), Jeff Carey’s MoHa! (Rune Grammofon), Office-R(6) (Lampse, +3DB, Unsounds), SKIF++ (12k/LINE, Fridgesounds), Ultralyd w/ N-Ensemble (Rune Gramofon), Jeff Carey (Sonig), and N-Collective (X-OR).
http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org <http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org/>

“Jeff wrote a great piece for the Noiseroom, a 5.1 listening project. His piece uses the surround spatialization set up to the full extent and draws the listener into a fascinating world of microscopic yet blasting manipulation of sound. A master of granular synthesis, the idea of an intense listening space seemed to be just right for Jeff’s radical approach on sound.” — Jan St. Werner, ‘Noise Room’ Curator, Microstoria, Mouse on Mars

“The sounds produced are an extremist hybrid between free Improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz. [...] like a beautifully evil cartoon score – fractured and malevolent and funny, all at the same time.” — Byron Coley, The Wire Magazine, on Jeff Carey’s MoHa!

“Using devices such as joysticks to exacerbate the chance, improvised nature of this music, this is musique concrete that has torn away from its formal, academic origins. […] Deconstruction and reassembly in nasty extremis.” — David Stubbs, The Wire, on SKIF++’s CD ‘SK++[01,02,03,04,00]‘

Myo is the solo project of Cory O’Brien, a self taught hacker, computer musician and electro-acoustic improviser. Contact mics on polycarbonate sheets and feedback networks programmed in Max/MSP are the preferred tools. His music has been described by Vital Weekly as “louder, dirtier, gritty and angular, but still with ingredients of microsound”. Other projects and collaborations include Never Work (with Kenneth Yates of Harm Stryker, Insects with Tits), Makioki Sisters (with Jeff Surak / Violet) and Clouds-Out (with video artist Jesse Hartgraves). He currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
http://myosound.com/

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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – free audio & video jam

share_ipr_web10 What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

9pm, free —

Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – free audio & video jam – In the Munch Room @ The (OA) Can Factory

share_ipr_web10 What is Share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Share will take place in the Munch Room tonight. The Munch Room is located on the first floor of The (OA) Can Factory.

Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – free audio & video jam

share_ipr_web10 What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – free audio & video jam

share_ipr_web10

share_ipr_web10 What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – free open audio & video jam

share_ipr_web10 What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – all night free open audio & video jam – featured guest Carver Audin

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What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Tonight’s featured guest -

Carver Audain (b 1981) is a New York-based sound artist who has been creating music since 2001. Materially, he produces works using guitar, electronics, field recordings, organ, and other assorted sources. Strategically, he uses improvisational tactics to integrate a variety of pre-recorded and pre-arranged material with his live playing through the use of controlled feedback and situation-specific spontaneous composition. Sonically, he produces an array of textured sound fields with slow-shifting harmonies that both merge with and transform their physical surroundings.

http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=640

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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Artist-In-Residence: Matana Roberts, post-concert talk with Nate Chinen

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“Ms. Roberts isn’t just mildly curious to expand her medium: She seems driven to do it.” – NY Times
“Matana is definitely nondescriptive. She’s not a lady, she’s not a man; she’s just a being…” – Jazz Times
“Roberts is a deep traditionalist who looks beyond the rigid distinctions and definitions of musical style” – Chicago Defender
“…alto saxophonist and clarinetist Matana Roberts –add this name to the frustratingly short list of excellent, female reed players…” – All About Jazz
“…Roberts is a fluid, elegant player who rejects the star soloist approach of many a saxophonist….” – BBC Jazz
“The sound of Matana Roberts’ alto sax spans jazz her-story, from its roots in New Orleans, through the swinging ‘30s-40s, to the New Thing.” – All About Jazz
Matana ( mah-tah-nah)Roberts, is a dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser, who tries to expose in her music the mystical roots and spiritual traditions of American creative expression.
As a Chicago native she was fortunate enough to be surrounded by musicians who showed her by distinct example the importance of listening to one’s personal creative voice while at the same time using the profound and many layered traditions of jazz and improvised musics to act only as her creative guide, not as her creative definer. By using their mentorship, she has been able to craft a voice and creative focus that truly speaks to her own true artistic individuality. She feels strongly that her music should not only reflect the many colors and moods of universal human emotions, but that it should also testify, critique, document, and respond to the many socio-economic, historical, and cultural inequalities that exist not only in this country, but all over the world.
Matana, a 2006 Van Lier fellow, Brecht Forum fellow, and 2008 and 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts nominee, has appeared as a collaborator on recordings and performances in the U.S., Europe, and Canada with her own ensembles as well as with the collaborative jazz trio Sticks and Stones, Black Rock Coalition founder Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar, Reg E Gaines and Savion Glover’s homage project to the late John Coltrane, the Oliver Lake Big Band, and the Julius Hemphill Sextet and Merce Cunningham dance. She recently released a homage project to her hometown entitled The Chicago Project, on Barry Adamson’s Central Control International, produced by pianist extraordinaire Vijay Iyer, featuring friends and supporters of her Chicago development. She has also recorded as a side person on recordings with such iconic bands as Godspeed You Black Emperor, TV on the Radio, Guillermo Scott Herren’s Savath and Savalas, Silver Mt Zion, and sound artist Daniel Given’s Day Clear/Day dark. Matana is a member of the AACM– Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the BRC– Black Rock Coalition.
She has played alongside some of the most intriguing creative sound visionaries spanning across genres of this time period and currently resides in New York City

“Ms. Roberts isn’t just mildly curious to expand her medium: She seems driven to do it.” – NY Times

“Matana is definitely nondescriptive. She’s not a lady, she’s not a man; she’s just a being…” – Jazz Times

“Roberts is a deep traditionalist who looks beyond the rigid distinctions and definitions of musical style” – Chicago Defender

“…alto saxophonist and clarinetist Matana Roberts –add this name to the frustratingly short list of excellent, female reed players…” – All About Jazz

“…Roberts is a fluid, elegant player who rejects the star soloist approach of many a saxophonist….” – BBC Jazz

“The sound of Matana Roberts’ alto sax spans jazz her-story, from its roots in New Orleans, through the swinging ‘30s-40s, to the New Thing.” – All About Jazz

A CAN CAN FOR COIN COIN…

Rooted in her strong belief that sharing honest creativity is a catalyst for instant community, Matana Roberts and ISSUE Project Room will join together for A CAN CAN FOR COIN COIN, a concert and food drive for her last performance as Artist-in-Residence on December 9th. While developing her blood narrative COIN COIN, she has been trying to connect the work to the social activism inherent in sharing art, and the devotion to community activism prevalent throughout in her family tree. In honor of her ancestors, she is creating this community-focused food drive benefiting the Bread and Life Soup Kitchen, a healthy food initiative that brings both physical and mental nourishment to in-need areas around Brooklyn.

Matana Roberts (Reeds)

Amelia Hollander (Viola)
Jessica Pavone (Viola)
Daniel Levin (Cello)
Keith Witty (bass)
Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
Daniel Givens (projections)

The concert will be followed by a talk with Nate Chinen, a regular music contributor to the New York Times, JazzTimes and The Village Voice.

COIN COIN: In Essence, a Musical Monument to the Human Experience

Matana will premiere the last of three new COIN COIN pieces which focus on spacial and environmental interplay while excavating themes relating to her familial heritage and own personal history.

Matana cultivates an environment where every surface, from walls to floors, to furnishings to large instruments, serve as sonic reciprocators. Keeping visual aesthetics in mind just as much as the auditory experience, and having utilized raw space and various architectures before, Matana creates a comprehensive sensory experience for the audience, attempting to create an intimate “womb” feeling.

Her work during the Residency focuses on and attempts to deconstruct recent discoveries in her lineage and family histories. Researching back to the 1700’s, Matana explores themes of hardship and perseverance while trying to find and construct her own identity. Since beginning this project, she has found that her lineage includes Irish, Dutch, Danish, English, Scottish, African and others, imploring a critical look
at the title “African American”.

Since her youth, Matana was surrounded by musicians who showed by distinct example the importance of listening to one’s personal creative voice while at the same time using the profound and many layered traditions of jazz and improvised musics to act only as her creative guide, not as her creative definer. By using their mentorship, she has been able to craft a voice and creative focus that truly speaks to her own artistic individuality. She feels strongly that her music should not only reflect the many colors and moods of universal human emotions, but that it should also testify, critique, document, and respond to the many socio-economic, historical, and cultural inequalities that exist all over the world.

Matana, a 2006 Van Lier fellow, Brecht Forum fellow, and 2008 and 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts nominee, has appeared as a collaborator on recordings and performances in the U.S., Europe, and Canada with her own ensembles as well as with the collaborative jazz trio Sticks and Stones, Black Rock Coalition founder Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar, Reg E Gaines and Savion Glover’s homage project to the late John Coltrane, the Oliver Lake Big Band, and the Julius Hemphill Sextet and Merce Cunningham dance. She recently released a homage project to her hometown entitled The Chicago Project, on Barry Adamson’s Central Control International, produced by pianist extraordinaire Vijay Iyer, featuring friends and supporters of her Chicago development. She has also recorded as a side person on recordings with such iconic bands as Godspeed You Black Emperor, TV on the Radio, Guillermo Scott Herren’s Savath and Savalas, Silver Mt Zion, and sound artist Daniel Given’s Day Clear/Day dark.  Matana is a member of the AACM– Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the BRC– Black Rock Coalition.

To learn more about Matana’s vision for her residency, read her interview “In conversation with Matana Roberts, ISSUE’s Current Artist-In-Residence” with David Martinson or visit www.matanaroberts.com

ISSUE’s AIR program made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Jerome Foundation.

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Share – all night free open audio & video jam

share_ipr_web10 What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

No featured guest scheduled tonight

Share @ Issue Project Room

The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share

http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org


Share – collective showcase by the artists group, ‘ichiigai’ from Karlsruhe, Germany

share_ipr_web10 What is share?

SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Tonight’s presentation:

Come EARLY!!! to catch the very special presentations/showcases by the artists group, ‘ichiigai’ from Karlsruhe, Germany!

The concentrated presentations will be 1 hour total by 8 artists, starting at around 20:30.  Do not miss the occasion!
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About ichiigai

ichiigai is an independent label for sonic and visual art, run by artists in the vicinity of the State University for Arts and Design (HFG) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe,
Germany.
ichiigai means ‚not one‘ or !1.
ichiigai promotes the fusion of sound, music, video and art.
ichiigai is focused on a model of distributed creative action situated in modern networked
communities.
http://www.ichiigai.com

=====artists’ info======
See Share’s website for detailed information about all the artists: http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=602

(in the alphabetical order:)

capman
born 1982
Musician [Lo-fi Electro Psykedelic Punk FreeJazz Noiz]
AudioVisual Performer & Producer
studies MediaArt at University of Arts & Design Karlsruhe. Germany
works on improvisation, installation, spatial acoustics, moving pictures.

http://davidloscher.info

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co of bacosa
The music of BACOSA is located between minimal-electronica and Jazz-improvisation.
Acoustic sounds generate electronic sounds.
Frank Halbig
born 1970 in Munich / Germany.
Studied in the class for gold- and silversmith at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg; masterclass.
Studied media art at State University for Arts and Design (HfG) Karlsruhe.
Guest artist at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe since 2006.
Executive producer at the radioplay department (ars acustica) of the Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden since 2007.
Head of the Media art/sound department at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design since 2008.
http://www.frankhalbig.com
http://www.bacosa.de
http://www.sol-sol.de
http://www.antarktika.at

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dmda
DMDA, born 1978 in Cologne/Germany. Lives and works in Karlsruhe and Cologne. He is a musican, artist and performer who works alone as well as in severeal coorporations and projects with artists of different categories.
His perfomances are made up of electronic live sets, theatric, partially absurd stagings, audio-visual installations as well as instrumental
improvisations. His sound is covering a wide range in which the human voice, harmonic guitars, synthesizers are spread as well as distorted,
minimalistic beats, metal guitars and painfull noise.

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fff
run by Florian Meyer since 2004.
Born 1976 in Berlin / Germany.
Demand is the sound producing usage of music related objects and machines, which are not intended to produce sound by themselves.
Main fokus is the classical dj-setup, recently reduced to only the mixing-device and/or some cables.
Hereby the process for realization of music is subjekt to various conditions and hence to sudden change at any time. The result is a ruminant quest for spaces beyond melody and rhythm.
fff-performances therefore take place along the line between boring media-art and interesting music or the other way round.

Spin-off from iff
http://www.khm.de/~flw/feinmotorik
http://www.discogs.com/fff4-barkthatfishingmarble/release/1435065

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irel.ier
semi-algorythmic lifeperformances, DJing, DIY electronics, installation and multichannel compositions.
With sh, member of composting.

Releases:
lofi e.p. – tape release
earshot e.p. – net release
dub wrec sessions – net release

Further information:
http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/~lfuettere

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sh
Frank Bierlein
is a audio-visual artist who lives in Karlsruhe/Germany.
He is studing media art at the State University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. His work currently focuses on multichannel sound installations, experimental sound, electronic dance music and non-linear, interactive‚ game-engine based music and video works.
The artist‘s works have been exhibited at smc in Berlin (2008), Hörspieltage at ZKM Karlsruhe (2008) etc. He has performed with other ichiigai-artists in several locations around Germany including electronic church (Berlin), kuhle knut (Freiburg), art’s birthday »safe and sound« (Karlsruhe) and has produced sound and visuals for the project „lepidoptera“ in cooperation with dancers from „bewegungs-art“ in Freiburg.

Further information:
http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/~fbierlein/

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soundflorA
The artist SoundflorA is routed in traditional
singer-song writer music for voice and guitar. In 2007 she startet to use electronic devices like MIDI and drum-sampling and combined them with unusual analog instruments such as a paper-tape organ, bells and the use of found footage sound. So noise and music find a new synthesis on the border between alternativ soundtrack and radio play.
Last year SoundflorA finished the unpublished concept album „The duration of a soap bubble“
based on philosophical texts. It includes very different electro-acoustic tracks.
In general SoundflorA is a loop-based artist.
The newest project is called „I‘m a walkman band“ and more performance orientated.
For this kind of „retro-sampling“ she trys to use outmoded equipment with modern Dj-techniques and follows in the footsteps of artist like the japanese Aki Onda and his „Casette Memories“.

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tordebruit
Elmar Farchmin
Born 1980 East-Berlin
MediaArtStudent (HfG Karlsruhe, Germany)
Ichiigai-Member since 2004
Visual Arts – Animation, VJing.
Soundtrack, Musicvideo, Radioplay MaxMSP Programming, selfmade Interfaces.
SoundInstallations – Multichannel Evironment – up to 44 speakers, Mobile, Sculpture.
Performances – DJing, Cello, Voice, Dirty Electronics.
Several Bands/Projects – accoustic/electronic/lyrical.
He performed at different locations in german cities – Berlin, Hamburg, Munich…

Share @ Issue Project Room

The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!


Crackleknob (Mary Halvorson/Reuben Radding/Nate Wooley)

 

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Crackleknob:
Mary Halvorson-guitar
Reuben Radding-bass
Nate Wooley-trumpet
 
The mad, scrambling lifestyle of the improvising musician tends to produce fleeting musical relationships, ad hoc combinations which merely meet expectations, and then are seldom repeated. For four years, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley, and Mary Halvorson, have cultivated a musical and personal friendship that goes way beyond this business-as-usual approach to free music-making. Their sound is a collision of angular melodies, noise, minimalist textures, and jazz-based interplay which mysteriously becomes much more than a sum of these parts due to the group’s willingness to dig deep below the surface.  This performance at Issue Project Room celebrates their new, self-titled release on HatHut Records.

henry grimes and brandon ross present leo lindberg

LEO LINDBERG:
 
In 2OO3, when Leo Lindberg was a nine-year-old Swedish bass player, he wrote Henry Grimes a letter after reading in a jazz magazine that Henry had returned to the music world after many years away: 

Stockholm, Sweden
21.7.03
Hallo Henry!
My name is Leo Lindberg and I am 9 years old. I listen to jazz music all the time and plays double bass drums and trumpet. First time I heard you was on a record of my father ‘Complete Communion’ with Don Cherry. I thought you were fantastic specially the bow solos and your sound. Then I listened to McCoy Tyner’s ‘Reaching Fourth’ and Roy Haynes quartet with Roland Kirk. When I saw your picture in my father’s jazz magasin and read that you should start playin’ again I was very happy. I took the picture and had one T-shirt made as you see on this photo. Hope you feel good and starts playin again. You are my bass hero. Greetings from Leo
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And he included a photo of himself in the aforementioned T-shirt:

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This letter really meant the world to Henry:  to be so appreciated by a little fellow far away who hadn’t even been born when the records he named were made!  The following year we booked a concert for Henry in Stockholm, and we had Leo brought to the club, and the two played together between the sets and brought the house down and appeared on the front page of Sweden’s biggest newspaper the next morning.  And since then, whenever we’ve been in Scandinavian countries, we’ve taken Leo around on tour with us, and he’s sat in with several of Henry’s groups.  He’s now 15 and playing drums, Hammond B3, piano, keyboards, flute, alto saxophone, guitar, bass (still and always), etc.  

This is Leo Lindberg’s first trip to New York City, so please let’s welcome him, just as he welcomed Henry Grimes!  For a little child shall lead us… 

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Henry Grimes & Leo Lindberg, 2OO7, photo by Cornelia Mueller

HENRY GRIMES 

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Master jazz musician HENRY GRIMES (acoustic bass and violin, + spoken and written word) has played more than 3OO concerts in 23 countries (including many festivals) since May of ‘O3, when he made his astonishing return to the music world after 35 years away. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the Mastbaum School and Juilliard.  In the ‘5O’s and ‘6O’s, he came up in the music playing and touring with Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, “Bullmoose” Jackson, “Little” Willie John, and a number of other great R&B / soul musicians; but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with many great jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, and McCoy Tyner.   Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in Los Angeles at the end of the ‘6O’s with a broken bass he couldn’t pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world.  Many years passed, as he lived in his tiny rented room in an S.R.O. hotel in downtown Los Angeles, working as a manual laborer, custodian, and maintenance man, and writing many volumes of handwritten poetry.  He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2OO2 and was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry emerged from his room to begin playing concerts around Los Angeles, and shortly afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City in May, ‘O3 to play in the Vision Festival.  Since then, often working as a leader, he has played, toured, and / or recorded with many of today’s music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Douglas, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and Cecil Taylor.   In the past few years,Henry has held residencies at the University of Michigan Berklee School of Music, New England Conservatory, and other fine educational institutions, has given a number of workshops and master classes on major campuses, released several new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 7O, published the first volume of his poetry, “Signs Along the Road,” and has been creating illustrations to accompany his new CDs and publications.  He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation. He can be heard on more than 80 recordings on Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Records, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, Verve, and others. He now lives and teaches in New York City.  http://www.henrygrimes.commusicmargaret@earthlink.net.   brandon-ross-blazing-beauty    
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRANDON ROSS 

 

 

BRANDON ROSS is a guitarist / composer / singer / songwriter who has worked and/ or recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Arrested Development, Michelle Branch, Don Byron, Mino Cinelu, Bill Frisell, Craig Harris, Timothy Hill, Fred Hopkins, Leroy Jenkins, Jewel, Oliver Lake, Bill Laswell, Arto Lindsay, the Lounge Lizards, Myra Melford, Ron Miles, Butch Morris, Diedre Murray, Me’Shell N’degeocello, Joan Osborne, Zeena Parkins, Bobby Previte, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Sekou Sundiata, Henry Threadgill, Moreno Veloso, Tony Williams, Cassandra Wilson, and many others, crafting a personal approach to guitar and improvisation that has taken him all over the world.  Future-folk music” is his term for his family of sounds, at once pastoral, dissonant, intimate and subtly avant-garde.  He co-leads the avant power trio called Harriet Tubman, with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer JT Lewis; the trio is dedicated to musical revelation/ investigation in a pan-African vernacular of Now, exploring electronics and pan-tonality to sculpt a multidimensional, interactive, sonic language in a “classic” R&B/ Rock configuration of guitar, bass, and drums.  In Blazing Beauty, his acoustic-based quartet, Brandon Ross plays banjo, electric, acoustic and soprano guitars, cornet, acoustic bass guitar, and drum set, extending his expressive field into “folk”-oriented musics and compositional approaches while communicating his dedication to fresh musical experience.  Brandon Ross also composes music for his acoustic string duo For Living Lovers, with acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi.  And Brandon has scored music for the surviving reel of a 1922 Chinese silent film called “Lotus Blossom,” commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival, 2006, and has arranged and performed interpretations of the music of Rev. Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt for the New York Guitar Festival in 2004 and 2006.  Brandon Ross can be heard on the American Clave, Avant, Axiom, Black Saint, Blue Note, Cryptogramophone, Elektra, Intoxicate, Knit Works, New World, Sterling Circle, and W&W / JMT labels, among others.  http://www.myspace.com/brmusebkr1@optonline.net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Shahzad Ismaily

Shahzad Ismaily

Shahzad Ismaily was born to Pakistani immigrant parents and grew up in a wholly bicultural household. While he holds a masters degree in biochemistry from Arizona State University, he is a largely self-taught composer and musician, having mastered the electric and double bass, guitar, banjo, accordion, flute, drums, various percussion instruments and various analog synthesizers and drum machines. Ismaily has recorded or performed with an incredibly diverse assemblage of musicians, including Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Laura Veirs, Bonnie Prince Billy, Faun Fables, Secret Chiefs 3, John Zorn, Elysian Fields, Shelley Hirsch, Niobe, Will Oldham, Nels Cline, Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing), Graham Haynes, David Krakauer, Billy Martin (of Medeski Martin and Wood), Carla Kihlstedt’s Two Foot Yard, the Tin Hat Trio, Raz Mesinai and Burnt Sugar. He has also composed regularly for dance and theater, including for Min Tanaka, the Frankfurt Ballet and the East River Commedia. Recently he composed the score for the critically acclaimed movie Frozen River, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. He was also an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA in 2008. Currently based in New York , Ismaily has studied music extensively in Pakistan, India, Turkey, Mexico, Santiago, Japan, Indonesia, Morocco and Iceland.