Daniel Riera’s Future Primitive Ensemble: Multidisciplinary Space Jazz
Flutist, controllerist, and sound designer Daniel Riera presents a new experience merging the improvisatory freedom of jazz with the expansive sonic landscape of electronic music. Using electrified woodwind and percussion instruments, synthesizers, projections, and dance, the Future Primitive Ensemble creates a dialogue about the relationship between human and machine, modern science and ancient wisdom.
FEATURING:
Daniel Riera – electronic wind instrument, modular synthesizer, vocals
Adam Coopersmith – electro-acoustic percussion
TBA – dance
TBA – projection art
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Daniel Riera is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from San Francisco. He was educated at SF School of the Arts and Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is most well known as the flutist, EWI player, and musical director for Soltron, a Latin-alternative dance band from San Francisco’s Mission District. Riera also leads his own quintet playing his original jazz-influenced compositions, as well as performing with the Kev Choice Ensemble and rapper Watsky.