Outsound Presents8pm
Duo PantoMorf (improvised electronics from Sweden)
9pm
Crepuscule Trio (LA)
Ken Kawamura, Anthony Shadduck, Alan Cook
duo pantoMorf plays electronic free improv on Nordmodular G2. That is, we perform improvised electronic music as musicians, NOT looking like we check our email on stage. Our main rule is: if we take our hands away, the instruments go quiet. We use no fancy sensors or esoteric gestural controllers, but very basic stuff that we know well how to play. But we develop new ways of playing them, and - most important - new ways of mapping them to sound, using carefully designed sound engines that allows fingertip control, while retaining a vast sonic potential. Every sound relates to and comes directly from a physical gesture by the player, which makes a huge difference for the audience. There are no ongoing pre-programmed processes, and all is free improvisation, mostly non-beat based. If there is a beat, it is played by us. The main question is: How can we explore and control complex electronic sound spaces in improvisation, retaining the millisecond interaction that is taken for granted in acoustic improvisation, but has somehow got lost in electronic music.
CREPUSCLE TRIO:
"A solid working unit for many years but operating under the radar of the mainstream jazz world in the Southern California area, the Crepuscule Trio represents the most fundamental and vital aspects and values of what came to be termed �free jazz� music-making. Consisting of three outstanding musicians, saxophonist Ken Kawamura, bassist Anthony Shadduck, and drummer Alan Cook, the trio mines the tradition of the music they know intimately while blasting it open into the realm of spacious and multidirectional musical possibility. Loose, intense, subtle, and swinging, the Crepuscule Trio reminds one that free improvisation stemming from the jazz tradition is a fully relevant form of musical expression." - Alex Cline
Alan Cook brings a dynamic and multifaceted perspective to the creative exploration of the percussive arts. His 25 years of diverse musical experience includes performing and composing with a Nigerian talking drum ensemble, a Scottish pipe band, an organ trio, as well as solo accompaniment for modern dance and performance art. He has performed with musicians such as Dave Holland, Albert Mangelsdorf, Bobby Bradford, Fred Katz, Lee Konitz, Don Thompson, Ralph Alessi, Scott Colley, among many others.
Saxophone player and composer Ken Kawamura has a varied musical background that includes writing and performing with indie/punk bands, straight ahead jazz groups, avant-garde/free jazz ensembles, and 19 piece big bands. His work includes feature film soundtrack scoring and other solo experimental projects. He has performed and recorded with world-class musicians such as Paul Carman, Bobby Bradford, Joel Hamilton, Joey Sellers, Gary Fukushima, William Jeffrey, and Evan Stone in Los Angeles.
Anthony Shadduck is a contrabassist who has received his Masters of Music in Jazz Studies and Performance from California State University Long Beach. Working in both the standard and free improvised jazz idioms, he has performed and recorded with such Los Angeles-based musicians as Lynn Johnston, Chris Schlarb, The Create! Collective, Joe Biaza, Emily Hay, Ron Stout, Ches Smith, and Nels Cline.
Cost: $6-10