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Don McGreevy's TEMPORAL NATURE of STABILITY by the SULPHURIC SYMPHONY
The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, West 5, and independent donors through GoFundMe.com present:
Don McGreevy's TEMPORAL NATUTRE OF STABILITY by the SULPHURIC SYMPHONY
The TEMPORAL NATURE of STABILITY is a post-minimalist symphonic piece composed for electric guitars and basses, acoustic upright basses, trombones, bass clarinet, organs, and percussion. Similar to Don's previous "symphonettes", TNOS is an experiment. Aside from intended tonalities and melodies, its results remain largely indeterminate. It is intended to impress upon listeners an awareness of our synthetic biologic imprint for succeeding generations.
The Chernobyl disaster, like all byproducts of industrial economies, technological advancements, and unbridled profiteering, does not loom large enough on our minds, but still wavers somewhere in our collective unconscious. This basic uncertainty is suggested by removing the meter from the music and using modified guitars, a familiar tool made unfamiliar using an alternate tuning. TNOS is here to serve as a mnemonic of imprudent solutions, rather than those that arise from a more thorough understanding of potential consequences.
TNOS is slow, brooding, and delicately heavy, reflecting the insidious contamination of the city of Pripyat while its citizens slept unaware and unwarned. The lack of tempo and oddly resounding guitars depict the weary, inexperienced nature of the Chernobyl plant's engineers. This music is all encompassing and emotive and unconventionally intertwines minimalism and pop melodies.
After an opening set by electronic music artist Timm Mason, smaller ensembles of the Sulphuric Symphony will perform two short pieces also composed by Don. These will focus primarily on the guitarists.
DON McGREEVY is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, and composer who lives in Seattle, Washington. He works extensively in many disciplines, including post-, orchestral-, psychedelic-, avant-, progressive-rock, traditional blues, and modern composition. Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, he studied piano and singing as a youngster. His father, Don, Sr., taught him drums and exposed him to performances as early as 4 years old. He is a founding member and composer for Genius Award nominees, the Master Musicians of Bukkake. Don also works as electric bassist with Doom/Drone pioneers, Earth. He has worked as touring drummer for Kinski and has appeared on recordings playing guitar. Alongside Milky Burgess, Don co-founded the Yada Yada Blues band who perform anachronistic interpretations of 60s and 70s Mississippi blues music. He has worked with Eyvind Kang, Wayne Horvitz, Trey Spruance, Randall Dunn, Danny Barnes, Bobby Previte, Wolves in the Throne Room, Stephen O'Malley, and many more. Don has been composing guitar symphonies with traditional acoustic accompaniment since the late 90s.
The SULPHIRIC SYMPHONY is a musical ensemble designed to play new and unusual musics from local composers seeking to break the norms of conventional "band" or "symphonic" idioms. It is a proud collective of musicians from just about every walk of life and genre imaginable found in Seattle. We have players from all types of rock bands, masters in jazz and blues, experimental music madmen, inter-disciplinary composers, and luminaries from our very own Seattle Symphony.
The ARTISTS involved this iteration are:
Wayne Horvitz
Eric Eagle
Geoff Harper
Milky Burgess
Timm Mason
Andy Coe
Bill Herzog
James Davis
David Golightly
Chris Martin
Kimberly Morrison
Ben Jenkins
Beth Fleenor
Brad Mowen
Dave Abramson
Naomi Siegel
Nelson Bell
Clif Swiggett
Abbey Blackwell
Keith Lowe
Nils Petersen
Matt Weiner
Tristan Gianola
Christain Pincock.
The Sulphuric Symphony will also play 2 smaller pieces using smaller configurations of the ensemble.
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LocationYoungstown Cultural Arts Center Theatre (View)
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106
United States
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