The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and
Outsound Presents: 1st Set: "Streifenjunko" Duo from Norway, Eivind Nordset Lønning trumpet, Espen Reinertsen on tenor saxophone/flute -- http://www.myspace.com/streifenjunko -- "Streifenjunko" makes vigorous music with the rare instrumentation of tenor saxophone and trumpet. Espen Reinertsen and Eivind Lønning apply uncommon instrumental techniques to project a spacious sound with nothing else around. Streifenjunko has collaborated with a lot of exciting musicians, like Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshi Nakamura, Christian Wallumrød, Sidsel Endresen and video artist Kjell Bjørgeengen. The quartet Akiyama/Taxt/Lønning/Reinertsen recently released the album "Varianter av døde trær" on Sofa, and Streifenjunko now presents their debut album "No Longer Burning" on the same label. Streifenjunko has over the last couple of years toured Asia, Africa and Europe, and festival performances includes Fri Resonans and Phonofestivalen in Norway, On the Edge of Wrong Festival in South Africa and Moers Festival in Germany.
. . . 2nd Set: "RTD3" Ron Heglin trombone, Tom Nunn electro acoustic percussion, Doug Carroll cello. . . This Bay Area trio is dedicated to improvisation. Drawing on influences in Classical and Jazz domains, their sound is unique and imaginative. Their sonic landscapes propel the listener into a world that is enigmatic, fanciful, and chimeric
. . . 3rd Set "Sabbaticus Rex" features the founder of "Edmund Welles" (perhaps THE bass clarinet quartet which plays 'heavy chamber music'). But here, Mr. Boots plays shakuhachi and does throat singing while 'Gongwoman', Karen Stackpole, creates shimmering, sometimes overwhelming layers of sound. Sabbaticus Rex is an ensemble rooted in the supremacy of sound over music, the triumph of tone over time and thought. The process begins by the gathering together of a handful of the planet's most haunting and beautiful acoustic instruments and methods: overtone gongs, shakuhachi (bamboo Zen flutes), Taimu (bass) shakuhachi, throat-singing.
Through spontaneous, sustained sound structuring, these sources combine to form a resonant, expansive and raw environment. It becomes the sonic equivalent of the dimly lit interior of a salt crystal cave, traversing the razor's edge between ecosystem and egosystem. Sounds are played, emitted, adapted, nurtured and combined.
The Duo, through its previous explorations of sound, has made inventions or refinements within a bass clarinet quartet; gong, cymbal and drum systems, and the use of circular breathing in woodwind performance.
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