Saturday Nov 30, 2019 8:30 PM - Saturday Nov 30, 2019 11:49 PM | $11.00 - $20.00 |
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Radu Malfatti/ Erika Bell/ Laura Steenberge/ Ang Wilson
Radu Malfatti/ Ang Wilson/ Laura Steenberge - world premiere trio improvisation on bass harmonica, modular synth and viola de gamba
Erika Bell - gyrations: cool, red, grey (world premiere)
Ang Wilson/ Laura Steenberge - two solos (setting the tone)
Saturday November 30, 2019 Edgar Gallery 1923 S. Santa Fe Ave. Suite 300 Los Angeles, California 90021
This concert is part of a two-night event featuring Malfatti. Night one features a bass harmonica solo by Malfatti and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi performing Malfatti's "benkyou," a composition written for him. https://www.facebook.com/events/404192933612045/ These concerts are brought to you by Black Editions, Last Visible Dog and The Unwrinkled Ear.
Radu Malfatti is one of the most thoughtful musicians to have emerged from the first days of improvised music. He cut his teeth in the early 70s playing with Paul Lovens, Peter Kowald, Irène Schweizer, Misha Mengelberg, Derek Bailey and every pioneer in the field. He spent significant time in London collaborating with all the South African expats, especially Louis Moholo-Moholo and the Brotherhood of Breath. His music slowly changed into a deeply focussed attention to sound in both its physical properties and its environmental context. If Pauline Oliveros inaugaurated Deep Listening, it can be said that he started Deep Performing. Since 1981 he has been intensively involved in composing and in 1994 joined the recently-formed composer group Wandelweiser. How he describes himself: 16th december 1943 born in innsbruck 1965-70 looked for the Academy of Music Graz studied with eje thelin spoke with sonny rollins drank coffee with luigi nono likes to play tennis with doris read a lot, forgot everything
Erika Bell is an LA-based composer whose works range from technological exploitation to mystical calmative. Tonight's performance will be its premiere. Her work comes from a place of intuition, preference, and the personal, with an emphasis on exploring the timbre of sonic realms. "In my work I explore how to accentuate what is naturally inherent to the sonic world of a material or space, experimenting with different ways to access what it may have to offer." Her work is lightly focused on textural construction, irregular ensemble groupings, and a structure-based approach.
Laura Steenberge's current interests are background music, repetition, nonsense, soft chords and scratchy chords, tubes, bards, paper, chant, melodic borrowing, birds, orality vs. literacy, bells. She plays viola da gamba, contrabass, piano, guitar, harmonica, voice, invented instruments, some trumpet and fipple flute. She is interested in how nonsense relates to the boundaries of knowledge, and is influenced by folk music, psycholinguistics, acoustics and medieval Byzantine chant.
Angela Frances Wilson is a Los Angeles born composer, with a practice built at the intersection of healing, art, and improvisational music. Using modern digital and analog mediums, they investigate modes of perception, and the impact of hybrid space. Ang is releasing & performing accessible music in the U.S., France, and Indonesia, both as an improviser, and under the moniker Teasips. As Electric Sound Bath, Brian Griffith & Ang offer sonic aid through monthly sound bath residencies at the SIlverlake JCC, Hyperslow, and Kinship Yoga.
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LocationEdgar Gallery (View)
1923 S. Santa Fe. Ave. Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90021
United States
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