Turquoise Yantra Grotto Presents
Virtual Assembly
solos & trio
Bob Marsh cello, Eli Wallace piano,
Jim Ryan flute
Virtual Assembly is a chamber trio that doesn’t know what it’s going to play before it plays. But when it plays, the problem of all the capacities and ideas it has within turns into live music. Before that the music is not actual, it’s virtual. It is concentrated in the assembly like the dream of a butterfly in the cocoon. “The reality of the virtual consists of the differential elements and relations along with the singular points which correspond to them. The reality of the virtual is structure.” Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition.
Bob Marsh is a seasoned improviser originating from Detroit via Chicago. Since his arrival on the west coast, he has been involved in many projects as multi-instrumentalist and composer with both his own creations and in collaboration with many musicians on the experimental scene. One of the most enduring of these is his Emergency String X-tet, focusing on textures and microtonics.
Eli Wallace is a pianist and composer. He obtained a Masters in Music from The New England Conservatory, after completing a Bachelor’s of Music at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., graduating Summa Cum Laude. He was awarded the Fred Herbolzheimer, Jr. scholarship in Jazz Studies, and received row.
Jim Ryan’s musical odyssey began with Steve Lacy’s weekly open improv sessions in Paris during the early 1970’s. During the late 90’s he created the Forward Energy band which continues to perform in the Bay Area.
Cost: $10-15 sliding scale
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