Creative music ensemble Gestaltish, will be featured as part of the Community Music Center's Shenson Faculty Concert Series
The evening will feature a "menu" of Gestaltish favorite games and structures for initiating improvisation as well as a longer form improvisation in the second half. Gestaltish is a Bay Area ensemble that explores improvised music in both playful and methodical ways with a surprising array of results. Performers
Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jacob Peck (guitar) and
Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) have diverse musical backgrounds and met while working with Fred Frith in the Mills College Improvisation ensemble. Since 2012, they have been shaping and exploring sounds to create evocative yet open-ended musical experiences. Using game structures as temporal architectures in which to play, Gestaltish deeply listen to each other and their surroundings, encapsulating sonic moments and reinvigorating the notion of free improvisation with unexpected instrumentation and intuitions. The audience will have the opportunity to determine the program by choosing from a “menu” of improvisation approaches this evening and all are encouraged to attend the free improvisation workshop with the ensemble the night before.
Read an interview with CMC’s
Rachel Condry to get a window into this evening’s performance and “trans-idiomatic” improvisation!
http://sfcmc.org/interview-with-cmc-clarinet-faculty-and-gestaltish-ensemble-member-rachel-condry/
Special thanks to the Shenson Foundation for making this concert free to the public.
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Cost: FREE