Outsound Presents8pm Amar Chaudhary - solo electronics/found objects/sounds
9pm Horn Trio with
Darren Johnston, Matt Nelson, &
Cory Wright
Amar Chaudhary is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, and artist, and a developer of advanced software for creativity. Amar remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance. He is also interested in the use of folk instruments and toy instruments in electro-acoustic music. He currently composes and performs in the group Reconnaissance Fly.
more information can be found at his web site:
http://amarchaudhary.com/
“Johnston explores the limits of his instrument with a hankering for originality…running away and never looking back.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Ontario-born trumpeter Darren Johnston has built a web of alliances, from avant-guard excursions with the likes of the ROVA saxophone quartet, Myra Melford, and Ben Goldberg, to straight-ahead jazz outings with the likes of bassist Marcus Shelby. He was recently listed by Downbeat Magazine as one of “25 Trumpeters of the Future.”
Cory Wright grew up in L.A., lived in NYC and now operates in the bay area.
Education: Topanga Elementary, Samohi, ISOMATA, Oberlin College, USC (M.M.)
Cost: $6-10