UPCOMING SHOWS - Philadelphia and Providence http://www.alansondheim.org/vartrip023.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/announce1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/announce2.mp3 Monday, February 20 Azure Carter, Alan Sondheim With release of our new CD, LIMIT " Alan Sondheim/Azure Carter, Bad Jazz & Isolde Touch 20 February 20:00 - 23:00 DVAA 704 Catharine St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147 Fire Museum Presents: Alan Sondheim/Azure Carter Bad Jazz Isolde Touch Monday, February 20th 8:00 PM Da Vinci Art alliance 704 Catherine Street Philadelphia $7-10 sliding scale Alan Sondheim & Azure Carter (Providence): "Avatar Woman is fine example of the kind of subtle blends that can so easily happen in America, if only its citizenry cared about such things en masse. Come on, my fellow country men and women, let your Freak Flags fly again!" Mark Pinto/Disaster Amnesiac (edited down) Bad Jazz (San Francisco): Formed in late 2014, experimental improvisation trio, Bad Jazz, has been taking audiences on improvised auditory journeys that defy the normal explanations of musical theory. Their music is a stream of consciousness, ebbing and flowing from one texture to the next. Although the personnel of the group is variable, key members include Bryan Day, Tania Chen and Ben Salomon. The three met in San Francisco, California but come from a diverse geographic background. Tania is from London, England, Bryan hails from Omaha, Nebraska and Ben originates from Littleton, New Hampshire. Many of the noises emanating from the group come from hand made instruments designed and built by the performers. Other sounds are more traditional, such as piano, random percussion and analog synthesizers. No sound discrimination allowed, whether loud, soft, scratchy or melodic. The only rule is that there are no rules. This makes for new and fresh performances with performance. Bad Jazz's second release, Tincture, is available on Oakland's Friends and Relatives records. Isolde Touch (Philadelphia): The music Asha Sheshadri makes as Isolde Touch is boldly literal. Perhaps literal is inexact; concrete is closer, as her sounds have a clarity that ties them directly to their origins (a piano is exactly a piano). Conceptually she deals in abstraction, but sonically shes unafraid to let her sources shine through like light beams where they could easily be buried in fog This is organized music whose physical effects come with a creative agenda, even if that agenda can be interpreted in many ways. links at museumfire.com/events " ================================================== Thursday, February 23, AS220, Main Stage With Laurie Amat, Bad Jazz Azure Carter, Alan Sondheim With release of our new CD, LIMIT " DEEP SOUND: Bad Jazz (SF), Laurie Amat (PVD), Alan Sondheim and Limit-Azure Carter & Luke Damrosch (PVD) By Jacob Nathan on January 19, 2017 When: February 23, 2017 @ 9:00 pm February 24, 2017 @ 1:00 am Where: AS220 Main Stage 115 Empire St Providence, RI 02903 USA Cost: $6 DEEP SOUND-Pure Sound and Light features San Franciscos Bad Jazz (SF) Electro-acoustic improvisation trio and video in from San Francisco; Laurie Amat singing pure voice improvisation; and Alan Sondheim and Limit, with Azure Carter. Bad Jazz (Bryan Day/Tanya Chen/Ben Salomon) is an improvisational sound art trio based in San Francisco. Using invented instruments, electronic toys, percussion and piano they create roughly rendered sonic landscapes. https://badjazzmusic.bandcamp.com/ Laurie Amat (PVD) explores the vast possibilities of human sound, using the power of pure voice, breath and body to express visceral human emotion and story. She has performed and recorded in venues such as Museo di Santa Giulia (IT); Bergen Arkitekthgskole (NO); DeYoung Museum (SF); and the University of Chicagos Rockefeller Chapel. Her collaborators include the late computer music pioneer Max Mathews; The Residents; Shores of Latency-Emmanuel Reveneau (FR); and Timeghost-Adam Morosky (PVD) She is also an AS220 curating artist and the Artistic Director of the Providence Y2K International Live Looping Festival (PVD Loop). https://soundcloud.com/amatworks Alan Sondheim and Limit, with Azure Carter "Alan Sondheim is a polymath, a restless connecter, explorer of virtual realms, tinkerer in the currency of questions, ever curious about impossible articulations of the body, of bodies, of dust and stars. Or what had seemed impossible. Luke Damrosch, meanwhile, tracks the flickering web of Alans spells, catches their reflections, follows them through to their secret heartbeat. And Azure Carter? Azure assures him, ensures the voice within the music, soft anchor to a wild ear, filters the wind of vast expanses into a sigh, a melodic speaking, we are here, we were here, we may be somewhere else tomorrow." Jason Weiss (from Threnody) " _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
