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to concert schedule Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ Vox Populi Gallery: Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, $7, 8pm. (map) Lucre - Chris Cogburn, Bryan Eubanks, Vic Rawlings (Austin, New York, Boston) percussion, electronics, cello and circuits Ian M. Fraser and Reed Rosenberg (Philadelphia / New York) laptops Tim Albro guitar, electronics A night of new collaborations brings the first ever Lucre tour, the first ever Fraser/Rosenberg concert, and the first Tim Albro solo performance. . . in quite a while. Lucre is the new collaborative entity of three of our favorite American improvisers (in alphabetical order) : Chris Cogburn, Bryan Eubanks, and Vic Rawlings. Cogburn is known for his deft touch on percussion, bringing a sensual and physical hand to his extended techniques, coaxing tones, swells, screeches, and scrapes from what otherwise looks like normal drums. Eubanks brings an equally sensual hand to his chosen axe: open-circuits, electronics, hacked pedals, and the like. His thick and noisy drones present deceptively shimmering surfaces over tough and heavy bodies of colliding tones, seducing and repelling in equal measure. It's almost too easy to position Vic Rawlings as the glue and/or middle-man, but that belies his position as irritant too. Using deep cello tones and feedback along with bursts of home-made electronics played through an array of speakers positioned on the floor, Rawlings can blend in or leap out, moving from simpatico to anti-patico in the blink of an eye. (For more on his setup, you must watch the- yes, you heard correctly- evening news report on his duo with Tim Feeney, below.) Together, expect this trio of experienced improvisers to embrace intention and chance in equal measure. The duo of Ian M. Fraser and Reed Evan Rosenberg promises heavy laptop DESTRUCTION. All those geeky hours spent coding, programming, error-hunting, and tweaking eventually lead to some actual MUSIC, and the boys have been cooking up some heavy, heavy jams in their living-room sessions. Expect to be dazzled. Opening the show is longtime Philly favorite Tim Albro, veteran of HZL, Benito Cereno, the rock band Sympathizers, duos with Dans Capecchi and Blacksberg and sundry more. Solo, he does whatever he damn well pleases, but as often as not that juxtaposes quiet and sometimes loud electronics with spare, surprising guitar playing, generating tension from unexpected placement and delicious anticipation. Or he might play acoustic guitar and cell phones. Lucre (jump to bio)    http://www.rasbliutto.net/lucre/main.html Ian M. Fraser and Reed Evan Rosenberg (jump to bio)   http://ianmfraser.wordpress.com/ http://www.myspace.com/reedevanrosenberg Tim Albro (jump to bio)  http://www.myspace.com/timalbro Biographies: Working with exposed circuits, extended amplified cello, low-fi modular synthesis, and stripped down percussion, Lucre, the trio of Chris Cogburn (Austin, TX), Bryan Eubanks (Brooklyn, NY), and Vic Rawlings (Boston, MA), come together for the first time to develop their music for ten days in the Northeast. Long standing duo work exist between all three and the idea for a trio came about during a gathering of musicians in Seattle during August of 2009. Chris Cogburn is an active percussionist, performer, educator and organizer, currently living in Austin, Texas. Current projects include Cogburn's inter-media group For Forms with poets Joshua Beckman and Jen Bervin; a trio collaboration with avant-vocalist Liz Tonne and Baltimore electronic musician Bonnie Jones; and a trio with visual artist Antonio Dominguez and guitarist Fernando Vigueras; both from Mexico City. Beginning in the summer of 2003, Cogburn has hosted an annual festival of improvised music - the No Idea Festival - showcasing a handful of Texas' premiere creative musicians in collaboration with improvisers from around the world. Bryan Eubanks is focused on collaborative improvisation, solo musical projects, and sound installations. He has performed his work in live settings across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Originally a saxophonist, his work has expanded to include computer music and instruments of his own design that incorporate open-circuits, samplers, and other electronics. For the past few years he has been working closely with Andrew Lafkas in a variety of settings: realizing ensemble music, performance/installations, a trio with drummer Todd Capp, and an ongoing electro-acoustic duo. He became musically active in the late 90's in Portland, Oregon as a performer and organizer and worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean-Paul Jenkins, Leif Sundstrom, Doug Theriault, GOD, Super Unity, and many others. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. Vic Rawlings (amplifier/prepared cello, speaker elements/exposed circuitry) employs a still and unstable sound language that traverses from the visceral excess of the Laurence Cook Disaster Unit to the extreme austerity of undr quartet. He has designed and built 2 separate instruments to realize this aesthetic, including extensive and invasive cello preparations- some that are directly based on obscure baroque instrumentation. The amplified cello is used as a resonant wooden microphone. He also continually develops an electronic instrument from the exposed circuit boards of sound processors, effectively producing an analog synthesizer with a highly unstable interface. This electronic instrument is realized by a flexible array of exposed speaker elements, chosen for their unpredictable and idiosyncratic acoustic qualities. Ian M. Fraser (b.1980) is a musician based in Philadelphia, PA. He uses field recordings, electro-acoustic devices, and computer processing to compose his work. Strong attention is paid to the volume, duration, timbre, and spatialization. As an improvisor he plays semi-regularly with Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler; and not-so-regularly with Reed Rosenberg, Chandan Narayan, and Matt Mitchell. He has played in a large ensemble with Pauline Oliveros, once with Phil Niblock (on guitar) and on multiple occasions with the electro-acoustic quintet Benito Cereno (with Tim Albro, Jesse Kudler, Chandan Narayan, and Dustin Hurt). Reed Evan Rosenberg is a musician and multimedia artist based in New York City. Since 2007 he has explored the possibilities of the computer as instrument by crafting volatile digital feedback based programs and playing them in both improvised and composed contexts. Born in Worcester, MA in 1980, currently based in Philadelphia, Tim Albro received a BA in English at Wesleyan University. Since Wesleyan, he has done ethnographic work on gospel music in West Philadelphia, composed music for a dance ensemble, as well as participate in the vibrant improvised/creative music community growing in Philadelphia. This work as an improvising/creative musician includes performing on the 12-string electric guitar /w electronics, on the prepared guitar/electronics/radio in the duo HZL, and recent solo work with home built radio transmitters. Current research interests include: the life of milarepa, green anarchism, and good advice. |