Santomieri-Farhadian Duo CD Release Concert for RedBlue, with Gusty Winds May Exist
Santomeri-Farhadian Duo is an avant-garde chamber music group, whose structured and free improvisations for violin and guitar draw from the vocabulary of Contemporary Classical Music, with influences from their collective backgrounds in rock, classical, and Middle Eastern musics.
http://about.me/theafarhadian
Dean Santomieri (USA), guitarist and spoken word artist, composes using resonator guitars in non-standard tunings. He is active in the SanFrancisco Bay Area free improvisation music scene and has been associated with the groups, Donkey Boy, Malcolm Mooney and the 10th Planet, The Cornelius Cardew Choir, and Ghost in the House. His CD, "Facebook, the Opera," for three singers and piano, was released in 2013.
http://www.deansantomieri.com
Thea Farhadian (USA/Berlin), violinist/composer, comes from the background of new contemporary music and has worked with a number of multi-disciplinary projects including composing music for video. Her solo work with the violin and interactive electronics integrates extended techniques with tonal structures and sound-based material. She has performed with Amy X Neuburg, Korhan Erel, Gerhard Uebele, Daniel Schorno, Daphna Naphtali, and S.F. Sound. http://www.theafarhadian.com/
http://www.blackcopper.com
Gusty Winds May Exist:
(
Nancy Beckman, shakuhachi;
Tom Bickley, recorders and electronics) was formed at the 1999 Deep Listening Retreat led by Pauline Oliveros. Their initial focus on sonic connections between shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and recorder has expanded to include compositional play with elements of ritual practice and electronic sound.
https://soundcloud.com/tom-bickley/sets/gusty-winds-may-exist-ambience
Nancy Beckman received her license to teach shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) from Myoan-ji temple in Kyoto. She combines her love of the unexpected and light-hearted social activism in site-specfic events called "Ear to the Earth." She is a member of the ensembles Cardew Choir, Gusty Winds May Exist, Dream Down Duvet (with Viv Corringham) and the Sisters of the Sound Continuum.
http://about.me/nancybeckman
Tom Bickley enjoys listening to the world soundscape. He composes electro-acoustic music, plays and teaches recorder, performs with Gusty Winds May Exist, Dream Down Duvet and Three Trapped Tigers (with recorder player David Barnett), co-founded and directs the Cornelius Cardew Choir, and is on the Library Faculty at CSU East Bay, and the music faculty of the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training. He studied recorder with Scott Reiss, plainchant with Ruth Steiner, and Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros.
http://about.me/tombickley