OPENSOUND: improvised and experimental music

Opensound, a monthly concert series of improvised and experimental music

Next Concert: Saturday, April 21, 2012
________________________________________
Grizzler,  big band of experimental improv!   

Set 1
For Grizzler, by Jack Callahan
Wave functions 1,  by Forbes Graham
The Order of Things, by gdg   

Set 2
Selections from Scream, by Cornelius Cardew

Set 3
free improvisations by Grizzler

Gizzler is any or all of: Dave Gross, saxophone, LPs, Steve Norton,reeds, Forbes Graham, trumpet, Michael Rosenstein, electronics, LouBunk, assorted paraphernalia, Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin, DavidMichael Curry, strings and electronics, Jack Callahan, percussion, VicRawlings, cello/curcits, Jules Vasylenko, winds, Lou Cohen, wiimote,laptop, Angela Sawyer, gadgets, electronics, Jed Speare, laptop/fieldrecordings, Joshua Jefferson, reeds, Matt Samolis, flute, FlandrewFleisenberg, percussion, Poly Hanson, percussion
________________________________
   Saturday, April 21, 2012
   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
______________________________________
Opensound is a monthly concert series that explores improvised andexperimental music, bringing artists from disparate backgroundstogether for unique events in Somerville MA. The process ofimprovisation combines the distinctive voices of its individualperformers. The music that results is often surprising, unconventionaland dynamic. It s not uncommon to hear music made of electroniccrackles, noisy multi-phonics, gurgling, hissing, quietvocalized 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!
__________________________________________
Program Notes and Bios

   Grizzler is a large improvising band organized around a diverse group   of Boston's best musicians. Individually and in other groups, these   musicians have developed their own strategies for music making. In   Grizzler, we each try to stay true to our own individual voices while   creating a collective, spontaneous composition.

   Forbes Graham is a trumpet player, composer, and electronic musician   currently based in the Boston area. He grew up in Silver Spring, MD   studying and performing jazz, classical, and concert band music. As a   teenager he discovered heavy metal and hardcore punk, genres which   influence his pursuit of extreme sound to this day. His music is also   influenced by numerology, poetry, cinema, marching bands, and the 80s   in general (the era in which he grew up). He has performed at Festival   of New Trumpet, Vision Festival, High Zero, amongst others.

   Jack Callahan, Amherst resident, solo percussionist and booker of   countless basement shows. His music aims to create a total sonic   takeover of the space, always by employing silence to gather souls   towards a complete ecstatic takeover. (or, sometimes by). Sometimes you   will ask, "is this record still playing"? Yes it is still playing.

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". Gross has performed throughout the US and Europe including   at festivals as diverse as The KNOB (Wichita, KS), Big Sur Festival of   Experimental Music (CA), High Zero (Baltimore, MD), Improvised and   Otherwise (NYC), The No Idea Fest (Austin, TX) and Autumn Uprising   (Boston, MA) which he created in 1997. His most recent disk ,   'untitled(or not yet)' (1pt8 seconds) a studio recording with James   Coleman(theremin), Mike Bullock (contrabass) and Steve Roden   (electronics) was just released. Future releases include a live   re-issue of his band FETISH, with bassist Mike Bullock and   percussionsit Tatsuya Nakatani (Weirdo Records) as well as his second   solo disk 'this is the grizzle' (1pt8 seconds).