8:00 pm Brown/Soo-yeon
Chris Brown - electronics, Soo-yeon Lyuh - haegeum
9:00 pm Kyle Motl - double bass
Kyle Motl is a bassist, composer, and improviser dedicated to the performance of creative music. Kyle regularly gives solo concerts and seeks to expand the vast timbral resources of the contrabass. This work explores aspects of chaos and complexity while developing a form of solo polyphony through manipulation of sonic spectra.
Kyle’s diverse interests have led to the formation of a number of ensembles across the field of creative and improvised music, including Sibarg Ensemble (improvisation at the intersection of jazz and classical Iranian music), Peter Kuhn Trio, Abbey Rader Trio and Quartet, and the Kyle Motl Trio with Tobin Chodos and Kjell Nordeson. He maintains regular duo projects with Drew Ceccato, TJ Borden, and Tommy Babin. Kyle has performed and recorded alongside artists including Anthony Davis, Kidd Jordan, Mary Halvorson, Roscoe Mitchell, Mark Dresser, and Wadada Leo Smith, among others.
Invested in the music of living composers, Kyle has premiered solo works written for him by composers including Caroline Louise Miller, Tobin Chodos, and Federico Bonacossa, and has performed, recorded, and toured with various contemporary music ensembles.
Kyle holds a BM from Florida Atlantic University and an MM from Florida International University. He holds a DMA from UC San Diego, where he studied bass with Mark Dresser and composition with Anthony Davis.
“…a wide range of wonderful protean delights that promise to change us by revealing things we could have never imagined.” - Rick Joines, Freejazzblog
Chris Brown, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. Collaboration and improvisation are consistent themes in his work, along with the invention and performance of new electronic instruments and software. He is a founding member of The HUB, the pioneering network music ensemble, and has composed many interactive works for the percussionist William Winant (Iconicities, New World Records.) His trio with Winant and saxophonist Frank Gratkowski were featured on the 2009 Donaueschingen Musiktage. His most recent music explores microtonal tunings, including 6Primes, for piano in 13-limit just intonation, Arcade for string quartet, and Ragamala Chiaroscuro, for wind trio. Recordings are available on New World, Tzadik, Pogus, Intakt, Rastascan, Ecstatic Peace, Red Toucan, SIRR, Leo, and Artifact labels. He is currently a Professor of Music at Mills College and Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM). http://cbmuse.com
Soo Yeon Lyuh is a master of the haegeum, a two-stringed Korean bowed instrument. She possesses not only flawless technique and a full command of the haegeum’s traditional repertoire, but is also widely recognized for promoting the creation of new pieces for haegeum. For twelve years, Lyuh was a member of South Korea’s National Gugak Center, the foremost institution for the preservation of Korean traditional music. Since then, Lyuh has endeavored to weave authentic styles into new musical domains, relocating to the Bay Area and drawing inspiration from its dynamic improvised music scene. Her contributions have sparked the creation of new repertoire for haegeum—the lifeblood of any instrument. She has premiered dozens of new works and recently made her debut as a composer with the Kronos Quartet.
Cost: $8-15 sliding