Bloom Project
Piano & saxophone "comprovisations"
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Thollem McDonas, piano
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Rent Romus, saxophone
The Bloom Project perform three- to fifteen-minute "comprovisations," each with their own particular flavor and expression. The combination is unique: both virtuosi in their respective upbringings, and both with tremendous experience as improvisers.
Bloom Project is a spirited and colossal collaboration between international touring pianist
Thollem McDonas, multi-saxophonist producer
Rent Romus.
Bloom Project features free improvisations as well as interpretations of numerous textual and graphical scores. The music is an organic construction and expression of combining disparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of refreshing immediacy, intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness. Guest recording and performing musicians have include instrument builder Steven Baker, drummer and found-object player Jon Brumit, trumpet and electronics artists Liz Albee, and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani.
Cost: $12/8
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Pauline Oliveros, Susie Ibarra and Thollem McDonas at The Stone, NY, NY Aug. 21, 2012
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on