Friday September 25
Doors 7:00pm
Music 7:30pm SHARP
$15
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
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org
Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg duo
Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 30 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He performs primarily on the alto saxophone, clarinet , bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi - an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Sync’s Harbinger, Intervals, a double-cd of solo work, Live at Roulette with Evan Parker and Are You Be and The Fell Clutch on Rothenberg’s Animul label. Chamber music releases include Inner Diaspora and Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi.
While happy to operate in all manner of ad hoc situations, Evan Parker has formed a continued to allow him to grow musically (far too many to list here). He has also continued for over 25 years his association with the ‘Blue Note’ musicians, who left South Africa to escape apartheid and settle in London in the late 1960s. In spite of this major group activity, it is as the creator of a new solo saxophone language, extending the techniques and experiments started by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, but taking them away from the rhythmically jazz-related areas and into the realm of abstraction, that Evan Parker is perhaps most recognised. In particular, his use of circular breathing techniques to create extended, complex, overlapping, repetative and beautiful soundscapes is generally seen as the apex of saxophone virtuosity. In November 2001 Evan Parker started his own CD label: psi.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Parker
nedrothenberg.com
David Daniell
David Daniell is a composer and performer working in the intersections of acoustic and electronic instrumentation and of composition and improvisation. As a performer, Daniell utilizes acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitar along with a variety of electronics. He has worked for over a decade as a member of the improvising bluesdrone trio San Agustin, along with many other collaborators through the years, including Loren Connors, Rhys Chatham, Tim Barnes, Ateleia, Jeph Jerman, Thurston Moore, Sean Meehan, Tomas Korber, Greg Davis and Jonathan Kane, and currently works in back Tortoise. Daniell’s compositional work utilizes displaced and abstracted field recordings juxtaposed with manipulated acoustic instruments and sounds of purely electronic origin, with great attention to sonic detail and aural depth-of-field, as captured in two solo albums, 2002’s sem (Antiopic) and 2006’s Coastal (Xeric/Table of the Elements). Recent compositions have incorporated a variety of acoustic instruments in larger ensemble settings. One such work, Sunfish (for twelve to fifteen musicians), was performed at the Fugue State Festival in Chicago (June 2007) andX Avant Festival in Toronto (September 2007).
daviddaniell.com
Bicameral Mind
Bryce Eiman and Shaun Sandor formed Bicameral Mind in 2007 in North Carolina. Bryce brings much experience to this project as his career in tape treatments, electro-acoustics, ambient, and noise music spans over 20 years in a wide variety of projects. Shaun has been performing ambient and electro pieces since 2006 as Promute, using field recordings, homemade junk, home- made gadgets, and simple signal processors. We appropriately borrowed from Jaynes the idea of the left-brain and right-brain working together to form a single output. We will be featuring a piece that consists of feedback mixing through contact mics, light signal processing, acoustic instruments, homemade gadgets, tape treatment, and sampling.
myspace.com/bicamind
Janel & Anthony
Janel and Anthony are an experimental cello and guitar duo living in New York.Their intuitive compositions leave room for improvisation while staying grounded in their cumulative musical backgrounds. Combining their knowledge of rock, classical, surf, jazz, japanese traditional music and free improvisation the duo work together to create something beautiful every performance.
myspace.com/janelandanthony
Plus special guest ODAL!
Odal is Peter Zincken’s oldest moniker, and dates back from the mid eighties. While Peter frequently changed the name of his label over the past year (“Bloedvlag Produkt”, “New Noise” and more recently “Stront”) Odal is a constant. According to Peter himself Odal stands for “Overdikke Avondlul” - which roughly translated boils down to Supersized Evening Dick”. Odal means old-school harsh noise: full blast ahead and frontal nudity.
myspace.com/123odal
