[Attackpanther] Snowball tour Feb. 12 Safe T Gallery

[Jackwri444 at aol.com]

Tuesday Feb. 12   at   8pm
 Safe T Gallery 
111 Front St.  Gallery 214    $10
_www.safetgallery.com_ (http://www.safetgallery.com)  
 
 

ANDREA NEUMANN inner  klavier, mixing board, from Berlin
STEPHANE RIVES soprano saxophone,  from Paris
JACK WRIGHT  alto and soprano saxophone, from Easton PA
 
and guests:
 
ANDREW DRURY, percussion, from Brooklyn
WADE MATTHEWS, flute, electronics, from Madrid Spain
GREGORY REYNOLDS, alto sax, from Brooklyn
 
This is one of a series of concerts in the Great  Snowball Tour, from Feb. 
9-25, which features Andrea Neumann and Stéphane Rives  in fourteen performances 
from DC in the south to Dartmouth College in the North.  Andrea will be 
playing eleven, Stéphane ten, and Jack, the coordinator and  logistics organizer, 
will be playing them all. 
 
The purpose of the tour is to introduce East Coast  audiences to these 
outstanding European players, and to introduce Andrea  and Stéphane to a large 
variety of improvisers in the regions where they  will be playing. As the snowball 
rolls around the east coast it picks up players  who then melt off and new 
additions are joined. Besides Jack Wright, there are  at least twelve American 
musicians involved in the project: Mike Bullock,  bass, Troy NY; Seth Cluett, 
voice and electronics; Andrew Dewar, saxophone,  Middletown CT; Andrew Drury, 
percussion, NY; Tucker Dulin, tbn, electronics, NY;  Bryan Eubanks, electronics, 
NY; Andy Hayleck, electronics, saw, Baltimore;  Bonnie Jones, electronics, 
Baltimore; Paul Neidhardt, percussion, Baltimore; Vic  Rawlings, cello and 
electronics, Boston; Reuben Radding, double bass, Brooklyn;  and Gregory Reynolds, 
alto sax, NY
 
In order, these concerts are: Baltimore, Washington DC,  NYC, Brooklyn, 
Wesleyan University (Middletown CT), Boston, Hampshire College  (Amherst, MA), Troy 
NY, Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), Princeton, NJ,  Philadelphia, Easton PA, 
Kutztown PA, and NYC (twice)
 
Full schedule at _http://www.springgardenmusic.com/tour-concert.html_ 
(http://www.springgardenmusic.com/tour-concert.html)  
 
Please tell others--this is not a highly publicized  event.

Andrea Neumann: Born 1968 in Freiburg, grew up in  Hamburg. Since 1996 
primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of  experimental and new 
music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound  possibilities, she 
has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and  metal frame. With 
the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds  (sometimes to 
make parts of the sound audible which are inaudible without  amplification), she 
has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and  ways of preparing 
the dismantled instrument. Because the original inside piano  is very heavy, a 
piano builder (Bernd Bittmann, Berlin) constructed a new and  lighter one for 
her. She has worked intensively in the crossover area between  composition 
and improvisation, and in the field between electronic and handmade  sounds, 
with Berlin musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner,  Robin 
Hayward and Burkhard Beins. 

Stephane Rives: “The  mechanism of the saxophone permits a concrete-acoustic 
approach to the  instrument. The possiblilities of acting directly on the pads 
and the  flexibility of the reed offer subtle means of altering the sonic 
wave generated  by breath. Once one adopts a way of thinking based on the sort of 
filtering any  electronic musician does, one’s attention is drawn to the tiny 
micro-events that  are barely audible in a traditional approach. The sonic 
planes twist and  acoustic distortion emerges, revealing the subtle grains and 
textures lying  “inside” the acoustic sound. New materials arise as though 
they had always been  right there, hidden behind the immediately perceptible. In 
order to gain control  of them, one reduces any idea of willful intervention 
to an absolute minimum,  leaving only the flow of air through the metal cone, 
an action that is discrete  in certain parameters.
My playing is not about arriving at something;  instead, it is an instant 
that answers to that logic. My musical reflection  focuses on questions of 
praxis. I am not driven by musical intention in the  strict sense of the term, but 
the experience of sound I propose represents a  means of “exciting” the 
listener, a way of questioning, of shaking up his  feeling of psycological security 
and transforming his relationship to  listening.”
_http://www.myspace.com/stephanerives_ (http://www.myspace.com/stephanerives) 
_http://stephanerives.net/_ (http://stephanerives.net/) 

Jack Wright began playing  saxophone in 1952, stopped after ten years to 
pursue an academic life, and began  again in 1979, touring the US and Europe since 
1983. He was originally focused  on free jazz and now largely uses the 
instrument simply to play with sound. In  1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a 
vehicle for organizing an improvisational  music community, and is still active 
in encouraging the improvised music scene  in Phila. He currently plays with 
about fifty partners in Europe and  the US, bringing European musicians to the 
US for collaborations with Americans.  These days he is playing mostly alto and 
soprano saxophones, and as a  musical explorer his music ranges widely in 
vocabulary, depending on the  situation and partners. He lives in Easton, which 
enables him to commute  easily to NYC and Phila. He has released 35 recordings, 
samples of which are  available at his website:  
(http://www.springgardenmusic.com/) w_ww.springgardenmusic.com_ (http://www.springgardenmusic.com/)   





**************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.     
(http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025
48)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://rasbliutto.net/pipermail/attackpanther_rasbliutto.net/attachments/20080208/142cb5b3/attachment.htm