Opensound, a monthly concert series of improvised and experimental music
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Friday Sept 21:
Keith Rowe, guitar, electronics
with: Dave Gross and Grizzler
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Friday & Saturday, Sept 21 & 22
Third Life Studios 33 Union Square Somerville, MA (Almost at the heart of Union Square, on the segment of Somerville Ave. coming into Union Square from Porter Square)
For directions and parking: http://www.thirdlifestudio.com/directions.html
Doors open at 7:30. / music at 8:00 p.m. $8 admission (each night)
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Opensound is a monthly concert series that explores improvised and experimental music, bringing artists from disparate backgrounds together for unique events in Somerville MA. The process of improvisation combines the distinctive voices of its individual performers. The music that results is often surprising, unconventional and dynamic. It s not uncommon to hear music made of electronic crackles, noisy multi-phonics, gurgling, hissing, quiet vocalized gibberish, atonal noodling, bowed metal, blowing sounds, post-everything harmony, and a thousand shades of hullabaloo.
You may also see video and dance cohabitating with buzzes, clicks, drones, wooshes, and bleeps in a bizarre galaxy of pitch and spectra!
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Some Bios
Keith Rowe (born 16 March 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s (though in 2004 he quit that group for the second time) and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums. After years of obscurity, Rowe has achieved a level of relative notoriety, and since the late 1990s has kept up a busy recording and touring schedule. He is seen as a godfather of EAI (electroacoustic improvisation), with many of his recent recordings having been released by Erstwhile Records.
Rowe began his career playing jazz in the early 1960s—notably with Mike Westbrook and Lou Gare. His early influences were guitarists like Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian and Barney Kessel. Eventually, however, Rowe grew tired of what he considered the form's limitations. Rowe began experimenting, slowly and gradually. An important step was a New Year's resolution to stop tuning his guitar—much to Westbrook's displeasure. Rowe gradually expanded into free jazz and free improvisation, eventually abandoning conventional guitar technique.
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Called "One of Boston's steadfast explorers," by the Boston Globe,saxophonist David Gross has been performing for more than a decade. Among a slew of others whose names are perhaps not as recognizable, Mr.Gross has performed with Phil Minton, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, John Olson, Gino Robair, Martin Tetreault, Tom Carter, Glenn Spearman, Raphe Malik and many members of the Boston free-improv scene including Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Laurence Cook. Currently, Gross is transforming the saxophone into exactly what it is: a metal tube with keys, mouthpiece, and a reed. Reviews of his recordings have been as varied as "The range of textured noise that he cajoles from his instrument is impressive" to "lengthy episodes of fingernails ripping at a blackboard" and recently "the intimacy with which he approaches the saxophone, each screw in each latch, every fiber in the reed, every pad or valve, and all the negative space in between, is simply astounding". Joe Burgio is mostly a movement improviser, and sometimes dances too. He is (in)famous for cornucopcious collaborations, his most recent with Lou Cohen. This summer, he danced with Zoedance, toured with the Egg Sucking Dogs, and joined the dadallamas. No stranger to pomo-tonality, he often screeches, drones, and blips, both while performing movement and in private life.
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Upcoming 2012 Concerts
October 13: The BSC November 10: Moogist, The Mimi Rabson Trio, 2lous December 15: Bolt, Grau Garden, Band/Flower, Andrew Neumann
