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Instruments in Trees
Thursday, May 27
8:00 PM
$7-$15 sliding scale
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Instruments In Trees Cheryl E. Leonard plus Loren Chasse performing solo Thursday, May 27, 8 PM $7-15 Sliding Scale Admission
Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer, performer, and improviser of music and interdisciplinary works. Her ne w work, Instruments in Trees, is a semi-composed/semi-improvised work for arboreal materials and upside-down string quartet (two cellos, viola, and violin). Sticks, twigs, leaves, needles, pinecones, bark, and lichen are cultivated as sound sources in a performance that investigates cycles and processes inherent to trees. These materials are used raw, to prepare the strings, and in the creation/assemblage of new instruments such as the Long Twig, Driftwood Pipe Organ, Pine Cone Xylophone, Eucalyptus Curtains, and Autumn Bonsais. Throughout the work there is a special emphasis on exploring very quiet phenomena and the subtle intricacies of sounds not usually considered musical. Performers will include: Tim Blue - arboreal materials and violin; A.L. Dentel - arboreal materials and cello; Patty Liu -arboreal materials, violin and cello; Cheryl E. Leonard - arboreal materials and viola. For pictures and sounds from the tree instruments check out: http://www.allwaysnorth.com/IIT.html
Loren Chasse is a sound artist and educator living in San Francisco whose concern in both fields is with the individual experiences of the listener. As Director of Education for sound arts organization 23five Inc. and a teacher in the San Francisco public schools, Chasse has been developing curricula and teaching programs that introduce children to the means (conceptual, poetic, and technological) for actively and imaginatively listening--where sound may become a material for catalysing literary, social, scientific and artistic practices. In Chasse's recorded work, performances and installations, he begins with a treatment of a site and its inherent sounds as an instrument, using microphones as tools for composition. By engaging an entire performance space as a field, Chasse demonstrates the physicality of the gestures used to induce, record and recontextualize sound, often performing within intimate proximity to each listener�s ears. In addition to his solo work, Loren Chasse collaborates in the projects Coelacanth, Thuja, the Blithe Sons and the Child Readers, as well as with various artists on his own Jewelled Antler record label. Currently, he is editing a book regarding the history and practice of field recording in sound art.
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The LAB 2948 16th Street at Capp San Francisco 415-864-8855 www.thelab.org
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