a section of Michael Shannon's "Matrix" as completed by Tanith Lanzillotta
Tabloid format (11" by 17") posters for the April 4th concert in PDF format:
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CONCERT:
Friday April 4th, 2008 8:00 PM
$5 - $15 sliding scale
Chapel Performance Space
at Good Shepherd Center
50th & Sunnyside, in Wallingford
On April 4th, we will perform the following pieces:
Mike Shannon "Matrix"
Toshi Ichiyanagi "Sapporo"
Bob Cobbing "Chamber Music"
Cornelius Cardew "Treatise"
Robin Mortimore "Very Circular Pieces"
Clifford Burke "Upside Down & Backwards"
Michael Parsons "Piece for 1 or More Guitars"
David Toop "Lizard Music"
Formed in August 2006 to perform a student composition by Sune Smedeby, Eye Music focuses on playing graphic scores. Graphics scores are written music compositions that rely on visual information other than standard notation to convey musical ideas. Often times these scores are beautiful to look at as well as intriguing to play. In addition to graphic scores, Eye Music has also played text scores which consist of verbal instructions for music making. In all cases, the scores used by the ensemble allow for certain amount of openness in interpretation. These are musical pieces selected for the possibilities they inspire. They often require improvisation on the part of each performer as much can be interpreted differently each time a piece is played. However, they maintain a sense of form in one or more areas making the pieces a group activity in reaching a common goal.
Members of the ensemble for this performance are:Taina Karr oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn. Taina has taught, recorded, and performed as a freelance musician in the Seattle area for many years with groups including the Garrett Fisher Ensemble, Seattle Experimental Opera, Seattle Creative Orchestra, and Orchestra Seattle. Last July, she went on tour with the Garrett Fisher Ensemble. More recently, she toured with Eyvind Kang performing his music as a member of a chamber orchestra in Milan and Barcelona.
Robert j Kirkpatrick is a self-taught performer of the wire strung harp which he plays with various preparations and electronics.
Dave Knott: (Animist Orchestra, Greasy, No Clocks No Clues, Anomalous Records Thursday Nights above the Artificial Limb Company, Messenger Girls Trio, Ready Made Ensemble, Metaphonic Orchestra, inscrutable-d). Solo and group electro and/or acoustic improvisation & composition using natural & artificial materials, original as well as traditional stringed instruments. With particular interests in timbre, listening practice, the tension between utility and aesthetics of music & the forms exposed through exercises in instability.
Eric Lanzillotta is a non-musician who plays objects, analog electronics and, for this concert, prepared acoustic guitar and prepared zither.
Carl Lierman is a Seattle based visual artist and sound composer currently obsessed by analog electronics and organic instruments. His work has been heard in Iancu Dumitrescu's 1st Annual Computer Music Festival in Bucharest, the Center on Contemporary Art's "People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too", and more recently in performance with the Animist Ochestra and Keith Rowe.
Rob Millis is a member of Climax Golden Twins and has created music for film, dance, theatre, radio, art galleries and museums.
Dean Moore is a versatile percussionist who performs with many ensembles and also as a solo performer. Over the past two years he has specialized in playing gongs and other resonate metals. Dean has been working with Garrett Fisher and the Fisher Ensemble since 2005. He has performed with The Aono Jikken Ensemble. Starting with their piece 'Eclipse', and most recently part of a live foley team performing an original foley sound score for Guy Maddinís latest silent film 'Brand Upon The Brain'. Dean has performed and composed music for local dance companies and was also a founding member of Circus Contraption.
Michael Shannon-composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, recording artist, and founding member of Seattle’s’ multi-media Aono Jikken Ensemble, member of the Animist Orchestra.
David Stanford: First instrument was saxophone. Began theory lessons, piano lessons, and self-instruction on guitar several years later. Graduated Cornish College of the Arts (B.M., 2000). Has played with Gamelan Pacifica, Seattle City Gamelan, animist orchestra, and has collaborated with a number of different choreographers and video artists. Current focus is on playing natural objects, amplification/electronics, and (when access permits) prepared piano.
Esther Sugai is a flutist and composer. She performs with the Aono Jikken Ensemble and will perform in the upcoming opera Psyche with the Garrett Fisher Ensemble. Her compositions have been presented at CoCA, New Music Across America, Barge Music (New York City), Marzena and Soundwork Northwest, and she has performed at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Seattle Festival of Improvised Music, Bumbershoot, Seattle Asian Art Museum, and throughout the U.S.