Sunday, Sep 2nd, 2012 - Low End for the Bottom Line - All Bass Festival Benefit @Pyramid Atlantic
Join us for an evening of free jazz, non-idiomatic improv, and other music for acoustic and electric bass instruments.
Sean Ali and Pascal Niggenkemper (both prepared double bass)
PascAli is a contrabass duo featuring Sean Ali and Pascal Niggenkemper that is dedicated to exploring the terra incognita of music, sound and improvisation. The “prepared” bass is a central theme and method of PascAli’s music. Augmenting their instruments with kitchenware, aluminum cans, balloons, mallets, lampshades, and almost any other kind of found object imaginable, PascAli creates entire worlds and soundscapes out of the noises their basses produce in this altered state. This unique bass duo, unique even among the tiny world of bass duos, makes music that ranges from serene contemplation to manic frenzy, invoking the sounds of space and stillness on the one hand and visceral percussiveness on the other. Liberating the bass from its traditional role as an accompaniment instrument, PascAli brings the bass into the foreground with a tireless mission of discovering and unlocking new vistas of sonic and aural experience.
http://www.pascalniggenkemper.com/pascali.html
Gary Rouzer (solo prepared electric bass)
Luke Stewart (solo double bass)
Doug Kallmeyer (solo piccolo bass)
Daniel Barbiero (solo double bass)
Ted Zook and Doug Kallmeyer Duo (both NS basses)
Sunday Sep 2nd 2012 7 p.m.
$10
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
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http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/