Three Trapped Tigers is an ensemble of recorder players focused on
performance of new music. The core members are David Barnett and Tom
Bickley. Influences on them include trecento Italian music, the Ars
Subtilior, Asian musics, Oliveros, Cage, Stockhausen, and Coltrane. The
ACME performance features works by Hirose, Bickley, early music and
improvisations. Both David and Tom will be faculty at the "The Compleat
Recorder Player" 2004 San Francisco Early Music Society Recorder
Workshop, Dominican University, San Rafael, California July 18 -
Saturday, July 24 2004.
Vorticella is the improvising quartet of Brenda Hutchinson (acoustically processed vocals), Krystyna Bobrowski (natural and household phenomena),
Karen Stackpole (gongs and excotic percussion) and Erin Espeland (cello). Their music starts with small percussive and supernatural vocal sounds from odd sources (kitchen equipment, kelp stalks, long tubes to be sung through) that combine into sparse but intricate polyrhythmic cells combined with evolving sustained tones that evoke the imagined songs of the strange, beautiful microzooids after which the quartet is named.
Cost: Free, donations go to the performers