Subject: Jack Write, Avant-garde Saxaphone, Aberdeen, Tues, Oct 23rd, 7pm, Donations and....more
From: bill thompson (innerd00r@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 10:56:47 EDT
Hi all...sorry for crossposts, but anyone near the
Aberdeen area might find these of interest:
Dear Friends,
Just a quick invitation to a very special event next
Tuesday at Peacock Visual Arts. We are very excited
to host Jack Write, well known saxophonist from the
States who has received fantastic reviews on both
sides of the pond. If you like free, adventurous
improv, DO NOT miss this gig as it's one to remember.
His full bio and reviews are posted below. Doors open
at 7pm, sound at 7:30, donations of 3 to 5 pounds
accepted at the door, no one turned away for lack of
funds. Support is likely but not confirmed----so
don't be late :)
and.....
Also a few, quick 'by the ways':
Don't miss these upcoming gigs as part of Sound:
Nov 9th:
Paella is a new music percussion ensemble combining
traditional percussion instruments with found objects.
The ensemble includes Patrick Keenan, Len Wiltshire,
and Kris Elliot, joined occasionally by Bill Thompson.
Performing works by John Cage, as well as premiering
works by David Revill, Brent Fariss, and Travis
Weller, the group seeks to explore the horizons of
experimental music opened by Cage and others.
(Paella has been generously supported by SOUND, The
Lemon Tree, and local community centers)
Friday 9 November 2007, 7.45pm
Picture Gallery, University of Aberdeen, Marischal
College, Broad Street, Aberdeen
Tickets: Admission free
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_09@7.45pm.htm
and:
Nov 28th:
RHODRI DAVIES & MARK WASTELL+ support
Rhodri Davies, amplified harp and electronics, and
Mark Wastell, amplified textures, are the core members
of Broken Consort. They have been performing together
in various groups since 1995. Through combining
acoustic and electronic instruments, they explore the
nature of space, silence, noise and electronic sound.
Wednesday 28 November 2007, 8pm
The Lemon Tree, 5 West North Street, Aberdeen
Tickets: £6
subject to booking fee
To book: 01224 642230 or www.lemontree.org
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_28@8pm.htm
and finally:
I'm hosting a new radio program The Fog, (named in
honour of the late Mark Lawton for his work as an
experimental artist and his contribution at SHMU)
dedicated to experimental music. The program is
hosted by Station House Media Unit (who on Oct. 20th
receive their FM license). The broadcasting area is
local to the North area of Aberdeen, but you'll be
able to hear it on line here:
http://www.shmu.org.uk/shmufm.m3u
I'll be featuring interviews and live sessions with
visiting artists that I host, as well as music by
artists who submit new works from around the world.
The first program runs Oct 21st and will feature
Mark's posthumous release The Fog in its entirety.
Upcoming programs feature David Revill and his work
with John Cage, and several other interviews and
sessions with visiting artists.
I accept submissions for anyone interested in getting
work on air. Send cds (clearly marked with artist's
name and email/website) and description to: Bill
Thompson, 34 Bridge St, 2nd Floor, Aberdeen,
AB116JN...Sorry can't return 'em, and please make sure
your package will fit through a mail slot. No
guarantees but I'll do my best to play as much as fits
the program, and each individual show. We're looking
for experimental music, sound art, improv, etc.
Here's the blurb:
The Fog
Dedicated to exploring the hazy realms of experimental
music, this 2
hour weekly program focuses on sound art and
experimental music from
the past, present, and near future. Interviews, live
studio sessions,
underground detritus, found recordings, live
electronics, field
recordings, and even an occasional blues track will
find themselves
blurred together by prof_lofi into a mixed bag of the
bizarre.
Sundays 10pm to Midnight. SHMUFM:
http://www.shmu.org.uk/shmufm.m3u
or in Aberdeen on 99.8 FM
Thanks again...hope to see you at the gigs, or sense
you listening over the wire(less),
Bill
......
jack wright
www.springgardenmusic.com
www.springgardenmusic.com/sounds.html
Over the past twenty-five years Jack Wright has been a
bold
saxophonist, as well as an influential musical
personality. Either on
tour or organizing the next one, he has played in
virtually every
venue available to experimental improvised music in
the US. He toured
in Europe extensively in the 1980's and began again on
a regular basis
in 2000; in Europe, he is mostly based in Paris.
In 1982 Wright began Spring Garden Music as a
vehicle for
organizing an improvisational music community, and as
a label on which
he and his partners record. As a musical explorer, his
music passes
through radical shifts of style and approach from one
year to the
next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own.
These days he is
playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every
possible
direction, sometimes barely recognizable as those
instruments. He
lives in Easton Pennsylvania, which enables him to
commute easily to
NYC and Phila.
"Raw, visceral, urgent, his music demands to be
heard." The Wire, Dec. 2006
The Washington Post says, "In the rarefied,
underground world of
experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack
Wright is king". And
a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of
his solo:
"Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he
transforms it with a
naiveté of another order. It grows into a sound river,
he is part of
the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous
whispers."
Jack has over sixty partners around the US and in
Europe with whom he
plays on his travels and records. Some of his recent
partners in
Europe have been: Michel Doneda, soprano sax; Agnes
Palier, vocalist;
Olivier Toutlemond, percussion; Fabrizio Spera, drums;
Alberto Braida,
piano; Sebastien Cirotteau, trumpet; Marlene Jobstl,
butoh dancer;
Pascal Battus, table guitar; Jean-Philippe Gross,
electronics; Sharif
Sehnaoui, guitar; Christine Sehnaoui, alto sax;
Stephane Rives,
soprano sax; Jean-luc Guionnet, alto sax; David
Chiesa, double bass;
Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of
Berlin; Le Quan
Ninh, percussion; Barre Philipps, double bass; Veryan
Weston, piano,
and Phil Durrant, English laptop musician.
His most recent tours have been with Fabrizio Spera
and Alberto Braida
in Italy (upcoming tour in Europe in fall 2007); with
Agnes Palier
and Olivier Toutlemond in France-Switzerland-Germany
(and a US tour in
spring 2007); a solo tour in Finland, Sweden, and
Norway; with Michael
Johnsen, electronicist, in France, Holland, Belgium,
etc., joined by
Sebastien Cirotteau; with Michel Doneda and NYC
percussionist Tatsuya
Nakatani (From Between Trio) in Japan, France, and the
US; with Wade
Matthews, bass cl, flute, electronics, in the US; with
Carol Genetti,
and Jon Mueller (NomTom trio), in the US; Nate Wooley,
trumpet, of NYC
in Europe; cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; Michael
Griener and
Sabine Vogel of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist;
Phil Durrant, in
the US; and with trumpet player Tom Djll from Oakland
and soprano sax
player Bhob Rainey on the West Coast.
He has recorded over 35 albums since 1982.
For a full bio, writings, sound files and list of
recordings visit his
website: www.springgardenmusic.com
feature article in Signal to Noise Magazine:
www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/04apr_text.html
2001 interview with John Berndt
www.redroom.org/documentation/wright.html and also
available in French
on here website, as published in Improjazz Jan/Feb.
2004)
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