Sunday May 3
Doors 630pm Music 7pm SHARP
$7
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
Free parking in gated lot out front
INFO: www.dc-soniccircuits.org
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-man) is a composer and clarinetist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was born May 4th, 1980 in log cabin in North Georgia. Since 2002 Cymerman has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts and has been honored to present his work in some of New York City’s most highly regarded venues for avant-garde and experimental music including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Anthology Film Archives, Washington Square Church, and The Tank, among many others. Described by Time Out New York as “one of downtown’s most inventive and resourceful composer-performers” Cymerman has performed with a broad range of contemporary artists including Otomo Yoshihide, Jandek, Ned Rothenberg, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Jessica Pavone, Toby Driver, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Sylvie Courvoisier, Trevor Dunn, Walter Thompson, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, and Matthew Welch, among many others.
With a foot deeply rooted in the avant-garde tradition of downtown New York and an interest in exploring new methods for clarinet performance, Cymerman has developed a highly personal language of extended clarinet techniques which are often augmented by a customized analog electronics set-up. After several self-released hand-made cdrs, in February 2007 Cymerman released his first album as a leader, “Big Exploitation”, a record that found him in the role of conductor of a 13 piece improvising big band. The album found its way to regular rotation on college and jazz radio stations nation-wide and according to Phillip Buchan of Flagpole Magazine “swings with a desperate-as-your-life abandon that makes it feel astonishingly sincere, a far cry from a postmodern grab bag.” In April 2008 the Tzadik label released his album “In Memory of the Labyrinth System”, a highly personal work featuring a series of compositions for solo clarinet and computer processing which Andy Hamilton of the Wire called “a wholly original and intriguing listen.”
Additionally Cymerman has been active as a writer, contributing articles to Tape-OP, a curator, programming NYC’s The Stone in November of 2007, and a sound engineer, recording for Jessica Pavone, Matthew Welch, Butch Morris, among many others.
http://www.jeremiahcymerman.com
http://www.myspace.com/jeremiahcymerman
Also appearing are Beans Cool (3 wacky fellows on wacky electronics) and Nine Strings+Pilesar collaboration (acoustic bass duo+drums etc).
