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Bassist John Eckhardt presents his solo work Xylobiont and a new duo project with trumpeter Peter Evans. Among biologists, the term "Xylobiont" means "living with / by / through wood" and hints at the organic qualities of this music, which is informed by his encounters with the music of Feldman, Ligeti or Xenakis, and his own improvisational work. Peter Evans also presents his own innovative solo trumpet work.

xylobiont: bäck (PSI rec.) by john eckhardt

xylobiont: noo bag (PSI rec.) by john eckhardt

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Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics) Matt Bauder (sax, electronics) Peter Evans (trumpet, amplifier) Nate Wooley (trumpet, amplifier)

After several performances as an amplified ensemble, the intense and uncompromising quartet of woodwind players Jeremiah Cymerman & Matt Bauder and trumpeters Nate Wooley & Peter Evans will convene at Roulette for two days of rehearsing & workshopping, leading up to a performance on August 9th.

Support for this program provided by the Jerome Foundation.

 

 

 

 

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$10 Members/Students/Seniors

The Peter Evans Quintet has existed in various incarnations since the fall of 2009. The group is centered around the integration of heavily notated and completely improvised materials with live electronics. Drawing from his experiences with Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and concerts in NYC with Sam Pluta and Nathan Davis, Evans seeks to use the quintet format (piano, bass, drums, trumpet and live processing) as a place to synthesize almost every element of his musical interest into an organic whole. The group released its first album, "Ghosts" on More is More Records in March 2011, which features music commissioned in part by the Donaueschingen Musiktage ans SWR.

The Peter Evans Quintet, following on the the release of "Ghosts" earlier this year, debuts a set of newly composed music commissioned by the Jerome Foundation. The groups's mission is to synthesize all manner of notation and improvisation in both acoustic and electronic realms into a saturated and super-detailed whole.

Peter Evans- trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Carlos Homs-piano
Tom Blancarte-bass
Jim Black-drums
Sam Pluta- laptop

Photo of Peter Evnas Quintet courtesy of Peter Gannushkin

Marty Ehrlich's 4Alto(s) with Michael Attias, Marty Ehrlich, Andy Laster, and Ned Rothenberg.

Photo of Marty Ehrlich by Scott Friedlander

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Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte) has been playing together since 2005. From the beginning of the formation of the duo, they have been constantly working to push their own boundries of density and speed of interaction while freely improvising. They have performed extensively in New York City and the U.S., and have toured several times in Europe, performing at festivals such at Žedno uho 9 in Zagreb and at the Ring Ring Festival in Belgrade . Since their formation the duo has performed both as a self-contained unit and as a part of larger groups, including performances with Nate Wooley, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink and Lisle Ellis. Their first (self-titled) CD was released in 2008 on Creative Sources.

Keeping in the spirit of density of information, Peter and Tom formed the Sparks Orchestra in late 2008. Using graphic scores that utilize the unique Sparks vocabulary, the Sparks Orchestra is a larger realization of hyperactive duo. A smaller ensemble played one performance in 2008; this is the first performance of the full group.

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Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte) has been playing together since 2005. From the beginning of the formation of the duo, they have been constantly working to push their own boundries of density and speed of interaction while freely improvising. Tonight they will be performing compositions by Evans and Blancarte
Sparks have performed extensively in New York City and the U.S., and have toured several times in Europe, performing at festivals such at Žedno uho 9 in Zagreb and at the Ring Ring Festival in Belgrade . Since their formation the duo has performed both as a self-contained unit and as a part of larger groups, including performances with Nate Wooley, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink and Lisle Ellis. Their first (self-titled) CD was released in 2008 on Creative Sources.

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Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte) has been playing together since 2005. From the beginning of the formation of the duo, they have been constantly working to push their own boundries of density and speed of interaction while freely improvising. Tonight they are joined by Sam Pluta, Nathan Davis, Adam Linson on electronics (Adam will be processing via the internet) and Kevin Shea on drums.

Sparks have performed extensively in New York City and the U.S., and have toured several times in Europe, performing at festivals such at Žedno uho 9 in Zagreb and at the Ring Ring Festival in Belgrade . Since their formation the duo has performed both as a self-contained unit and as a part of larger groups, including performances with Nate Wooley, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink and Lisle Ellis. Their first (self-titled) CD was released in 2008 on Creative Sources.

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"Urs Leimgruber's mastery of the saxophone is so protean you could easily be fooled into thinking you are listening to a whole range of other instruments. He produces drum beats, the sound of guitars or the echoing resonnance of gongs at will. His playing seems almost de-instrumentalized, free of any implicit meaning and, despite its complexity, almost unexpectedly stark. Sound in its purest state. The ten pieces here sound like a manifesto set to music, an audible thumprint, a soundcard with a unique code that only responds to the personal breath of the artist." Bert Noglik, CD Blue Log Leipzig.

For Tonight's Roulette concert, saxophonist Urs Leimgruber teams up with local trumpeter Peter Evans and cellist Okkung Lee for an evening of free improvised music.

Urs Leimgruber (saxophones), born in Lucerne, Switzerland, is a key member of the European scene of contemporary improvised music. He specializes in solo concerts and performs regularly with the Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Barre Phillips Trio and with Quartet Noir (with Marilyn Crispell, Joelle Léandre, Fritz Hauser) in Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, and Cuba. His countless collaborations have resulted in successful concerts and recordings with Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Lauren Newton, Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Günter Christmann, Sunny Murray, Thomas Lehn, Günter Müller and many others. He has also been engaged for New Music projects with Ensemble SIX, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet and the ARTE Saxophone Quartet. During the 1970s, he was the co-founder of the Electric jazz and free-music group, OM.

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Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte) has been playing together since
2005. From the beginning of the formation of the duo, they have been
constantly working to push their own boundries of density and speed of
interaction while freely improvising. They have performed extensively
in New York City and the U.S., and have toured several times in
Europe, performing at festivals such at Žedno uho 9 in Zagreb and at
the Ring Ring Festival in Belgrade . Since their formation the duo has
performed both as a self-contained unit and as a part of larger
groups, including performances with Nate Wooley, Peter Brotzmann, Han
Bennink and Lisle Ellis. Their first (self-titled) CD was released in
2008 on Creative Sources.

Keeping in the spirit of density of information, Peter and Tom formed
the Sparks Orchestra in late 2008. Using graphic scores that utilize
the unique Sparks vocabulary, the Sparks Orchestra is a larger
realization of hyperactive duo. A smaller ensemble played one
performance in 2008; this is the first performance of the full group.

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Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. As a performer, Evans has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of improvisers; each band explores a specific concept or style as much as possible. Current bands include the Peter Evans Quartet (with Brandon Seabrook, Tom Blancarte, & Kevin Shea), Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive free-improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), the free-jazz quintet Carnivalskin (with Klaus Kugel and Bruce Eisenbeil), the Language Of with Charles Evans, duos with trumpeter Nate Wooley and saxophonist Dave Reminick, the New York Trumpet Ensemble, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance. In New York, Peter also performs contemporary notated music with groups such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Contiuum, and Ensemble 21. He has continued to perform on piccolo trumpet in Baroque settings, performing Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 at the Bargemusic series, and in Bach's Mass in B Minor at St Peter's Church. Other collaborators have included: Mary Halvorson, Dave Taylor, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Taylor Ho Bynum, Perry Robinson, Jim Black, Evan Parker, Ned Rothenberg, Mark Gould, Jack Wright, Luka Ivanovic, Brian Chase, and Alan Kay. Recent travels have brought Peter to venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the UK, and Southeast Asia. Recordings include "More is More", a solo trumpet album on psi, the self-titled first album of the Peter Evans Quartet (on firehouse12), and Shamokin!, the second album by MOPDTK, on HotCup Records.

Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father, and after studying he moved to Colorado where he studied more with Ron Miles, Art Lande, Fred Hess, and improvisation master Jack Wright. His tenure with Jack began to break Nate out of self-imposed molds and into the sound world that he has embraced as his own. Nate currently resides in Jersey City, NJ and performs solo trumpet improvisations as well as with his trio Blue Collar with Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani. He has also performed regularly with Anthony Braxton, Bhob Rainey, Alessandro Bosetti, Fritz Welch, Herb Robertson, Kevin Norton, Tony Malaby, Randy Peterson, Scott Rosenberg, Matt Moran, Chris Speed, Andrew D'Angelo, Tim Barnes, Okkyung Lee, Assif Tsahar, and other improvisation luminaries.

M.V. Carbon plays cello through an array of electronics and combines it with light sensitive oscillations and pulsations. She uses analog synthesizers to create base drone tracks that are layered to form intonations that evoke meditative tendencies. Analog reel-to-reel tape machines are used to pick up the natural delay of each particular room space that she performs in. She carries the listener through different realms of consciousness by using variations in repetition and subtle changes in frequency.

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Steve Beresford (Wellington, Shropshire, 1950) is a composer, musician and arranger, a veteran of countless bands from the Slits to the Melody Four. He has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over thirty years working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Han Bennink. For the past decade he has concentrated most of his compositional efforts on tracks for independent British film and television. Strange sambas, jittery jazz, melancholy moods and more from one of the most consistently imaginative and creative musicians in Europe. During the 1970s, Beresford was a co-founder and co-editor of the magazine Musics, which dealt mainly with free improvisation, whilst during the early 1980s he helped to set up the somewhat glossier publication Collusion, which had a wider musical remit, covering fields such as rap, heavy metal, classical music, film music, pop music as well as the avant-garde and free improvisation. Along with David Toop, Beresford was also a prime mover of the London Musicians Collective.

A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, korean traditional music, noise with extended techniques and create her unique blend of music. Since moving to new york in 2000, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as laurie anderson, derek bailey, steve beresford, carla bozulich, nels cline, chris corsano, sylvie courvoisier, mark dresser, fred frith, shelley hirsch, john hollenbeck, susie ibarra, lindha kallerdahl, eyvind kang, miya masaoka, raz mesinai, min xiao-fen, thurston moore, lawrence D. "butch" morris, larry ochs, jim o'rourke, beth orton, zeena parkins, marc ribot, marina rosenfeld, saadet türköz and john zorn to name a few.

in addition to frequent solo performances and leading her own ensembles, she frequently collaborates with the following ensembles: Still Life with Commentator with pianist/composer vijay iyer, poet/hip hop artist mike ladd; duo with tunrtablist/video artist christian marclay: billy martin's IOOI with ikue mori and dj olive, and artist guy richards smit's rock band Maxi Geil! and Playcolt. Okkyung has released the following albums under her name: her debut album, Nihm on Tzadik; a duo recording with christian marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series; 30-minute companion cd of her own compositions in collaboration with artist colin stinson for his art book Dust to Dust, and a solo cello album I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said... to be releassed on thurston moore's Ecstatic Peace labe in 2007.

Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. As a performer, Evans has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of improvisers; each band explores a specific concept or style as much as possible. Current bands include the Peter Evans Quartet (with Brandon Seabrook, Tom Blancarte, & Kevin Shea), Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive free-improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), the free-jazz quintet Carnivalskin (with Klaus Kugel and Bruce Eisenbeil), the Language Of with Charles Evans, duos with trumpeter Nate Wooley and saxophonist Dave Reminick, the New York Trumpet Ensemble, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance. In New York, Peter also performs contemporary notated music with groups such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Contiuum, and Ensemble 21. He has continued to perform on piccolo trumpet in Baroque settings, performing Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 at the Bargemusic series, and in Bach's Mass in B Minor at St Peter's Church. Other collaborators have included: Mary Halvorson, Dave Taylor, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Taylor Ho Bynum, Perry Robinson, Jim Black, Evan Parker, Ned Rothenberg, Mark Gould, Jack Wright, Luka Ivanovic, Brian Chase, and Alan Kay. Recent travels have brought Peter to venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the UK, and Southeast Asia. Recordings include "More is More", a solo trumpet album on psi, the self-titled first album of the Peter Evans Quartet (on firehouse12), and Shamokin!, the second album by MOPDTK, on HotCup Records.

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Peter Evans presents his improvisations for solo trumpet. , Violist Glenda Goodman will perform works for solo viola. Also, Victrolophone (Glenda's and Peter Evans's duo,) will be performing ghostly, sentimental versions of old songs they've learned from Johnny Cash records, mix-tapes and cloudy memories. Peter Evans Peter Evans is a trumpeter, improvisor, and composer living in New York City. Born in 1981, Peter grew up near Boston, and moved to New York after graduating Oberlin Conservatory with a B.M. in classical trumpet performance.

While at Oberlin, Peter was able to collaborate and perform with many musicians, including James Dillon, George Lewis, Francis Marie-Uitti, and Ursula Oppens. In New York, Peter works primarily in the fields of improvised and creative music, jazz, and contemporary classical music. He co-leads the New York Trumpet Ensemble with Mark Gould, plays in the improvisation groups Imaginary Folk & Effects on Man and Animals, and leads a maximalist jazz quartet with Mary Halvorson, Moppa Elliott and Kevin Shea. Other collaborators have included Guillermo Brown, Perry Robinson, Taylor Ho Bynum, Brian Chase, Stefan Tcherepnin, David Taylor, Marcus Rojas, Butch Morris, and Dave Douglas.

Recent projects have included American premieres of music by Brian Ferneyhough, the premiere of Composition 103 for 7 trumpets by Anthony Braxton, the 10th Annual Vision Festival, several performances at the 3rd Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music, a collaboration with Zach Hill (drummer for Hella), and performances with Moppa Eliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People do the Killing. Peter also plays with contemporary music groups Alarm Will Sound, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble 21. While in NYC, Peter has presented his music in many venues, including dancespace at St. Mark's church, Northsix, Tonic, and the Stone. Glenda Goodman Violist Glenda Goodman will perform works for solo viola by Salvatore Sciarrino and Giacinto Scelsi. The ethereal, shimmering, almost meditative nature of these pieces has made it some of Glenda's favorite music for a long time. These pieces push the sonic expectations of the traditionally middle-ranged, mellow-voiced instrument, creating fleetingly beautiful soundscapes that are devilishly difficult to execute but highly stimulating to hear.

Glenda Goodman has a multi-faceted track record as a violist. The creation and performance of new music is her top priority, and to this end she has collaborated frequently with composers to generate new works for viola, and regularly performs as an improviser. Recent projects include performing in the opening Summergarden 2005 concert at the Museum of Modern Art, in which she "played brilliantly," according to the New York Times. Glenda also is collaborating with video artist/composer team King/Diaz de Leon, in the creation of two videos, performs in Walter Thompson's Soundpainting Orchestra, and plays Persian music with Iranian musician Hafez Nazeri. Glenda enjoys traditional classical music as well, and performed with the Mosaic Trio at Miller Theater, Weill Recital and Alice Tully Halls during in 2005. Goodman recently was awarded a Jacob Javits Fellowship to pursue her graduate studies in viola performance at The Juillard School.