Subject: Experimental Percussion Music , Paella, Friday Nov 9th, 7:30pm, Aberdeen
From: bill thompson (innerd00r@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 11:33:24 EST
Hi everyone,
Sorry for x-posts. For those in the Aberdeen area,
please feel welcome to attend a concert this Friday,
November 9th, featuring new percussion ensemble
Paella. Using found objects, electronics, graphic
scores, and traditional percussion equipment, they
will premiere three new works, two by Texas
experimental composers Brent Fariss and Travis Weller,
and one by composer David Revill, John Cage's
biographer.
Mr. Revill will be in attendance and be giving a talk
earlier that day at the University of Aberdeen (open
to all, see below). We will also be featuring a work
by John Cage, Child of Tree and Branches, that makes
use of only found plant materials. Definitely not a
night to be missed!
Doors at 7:15, music at 7:45 (sharp! so please be
early), and best of all, free.
For more information:
more info:
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_09@7.45pm.htm
Brent Fariss http://spectralhouse.com/brentfariss.htm
Travis Weller http://stableunstable.com/
David Revill (see below)
[For anyone interested, David Revill will be giving a
talk at noon on the same day at the University of
Aberdeen, McRobert Building, room 055.
Details here:
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_09@12pm.htm
]
Paella is gratefully supported by the sound festival,
the Lemon Tree, and the University of Aberdeen, as
well as by Rosemount Community Centre.
Paella is: Patrick Keenan, Len Wiltshire, and Kris
Elliot, joined occasionally by Bill Thompson.
Here's the blurb (see you all there!)
Bill
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.
Friday 9 November 2007, 7.45pm
Picture Gallery, Marischal College, University of
Aberdeen, Broad Street, Aberdeen
Tickets: Admission free
more info:
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_09@7.45pm.htm
David Revill Biography:
David Revill has worked in countries such as Austria,
Poland, Romania, Croatia, Canada, and particularly, in
recent years, France, Germany, and the U.S.A..
Residencies include McKnight Visiting Composer
(American Composers’ Forum, 1997) and Commissioned
Composer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in
1994 (the first non-American to hold the post).
The Austrian group Ticom presented showcases of his
work in the first “Begegnungen” festival in Innsbruck
(November 1999). His subsequent work with the ensemble
includes concerts in Croatia, including an appearance
in the Zagreb Biennale; a portrait concert in the
"Dialogues" festival in Edinburgh; and most recently,
the premiere of Double Vie at the ÖRF Landesstudio in
Innsbruck.
Revill has undertaken five residencies at Ateliers
UPIC, Paris. In 2006, he began work on an ambitious
software / composition project, Nichtzweiheit, in the
studio. He also worked at the
Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Freiburg, Germany,
several times.
Revill wrote The Roaring Silence, the authorised
biography of Cage, described by Library Journal as
"definitive". His involvement with Cage’s work,
besides The Roaring Silence, encompasses university
courses, radio and television programmes,
publications, C.D.s, and performances (including the
world premiere of Muoyce 2, and the U.K. premiere of
One4 for solo drummer). He also has presented - as
percussionist, speaker, and electronic performer -
first performances of work by numerous other
composers; throughout summer 2000, removing his
contemporary music hat for the first time in many
years, he drummed for Grant Hart (ex-Hüsker Dü).
He will tour extensively in the Eastern United States
next spring.
................
On another note, please keep your calendars free for:
The Burning Harpsichord #4 featuring Mark Wastell and
Rhodri Davies, with support (quite likely Paella!
featuring a new work by Bill Thompson) and others.
Wednesday 28th November, £6
Doors 7pm / Onstage 8pm
Mark Wastell (tam tam, indian harmonium)
Mark Wastell has been active in contemporary music
since 1995, making his initial concerts with the trio
IST (with Simon H. Fell and Rhodri Davies) and Chris
Burn’s Ensemble. He is currently a member of a number
of leading ensembles including The Sealed Knot (with
Rhodri Davies and Burkhard Beins) and +minus (with
Graham Halliwell and Bernhard Günter). Mark has
contributed to the free improvisation scene in Britian
through his perfomances, record shop sound 323, and
his publishing activity. He is constantly exploring
new territory with his music.
Rhodri Davies (Harp)
Rhodri Davies is a harpist who confronts traditional
concepts of the harp through his use of preparations,
detuned, bowed and e-bowed strings. Much of Davies’
work explores the contradictory and complimentary flux
between composition and improvisation. He plays with
many groups that reflect this interest, notably, IST
(with Mark Wastell and Simon Fell) and Assumed
Possibilities (with Chris Burn, Phil Durrant and Mark
Wastell). Influenced by live electronics and
music-concrete he is particularly interested in
exploring noise, silence, texture and abstract sound
on his acoustic instrument.
www.rhodridavies.co.uk
Details:
http://www.lemontree.org/music-harpsichord-wastell-davies.html
Also,
Check out the new experimental radio program on
SHMUFM, The Fog:
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
www.billthompson.org
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"The more you think about things the weirder they seem." -Calvin
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