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SUITE

Transformation Suite is an ordered set of instrumental pieces for String
Quartet, Keyboards, Laptop and Transsoprano:

1.True Road
2 Jive Moon
3. Wild Red Morning Glory
4. Sentient Program

Joanna Frankel - violin
Erin Wight - viola
Victoria Bass - cello

Live taping for Roulette TV

Phoebe Legere is a composer, lyricist, and transmedia artist. She graduated from Vassar College, was the resident composer for the Wooster Group, studied with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, was signed to Sony Records, opened for David Bowie on his National Tour, received a NYSCA grant, wrote the book, music and lyrics for seven musicals, has sung with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, collaborated with the Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter Thompson, Don Cherry, Brian Eno, Bo Bo Shaw, Ikue Morie, Nana Vascolenos, Jack Smith,
Joakim Lartey, Jim Staley, Morgan Powell, Eric Mandat and Leo Abrahams, has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts and Charlie Rose, is in the Nickelodeon series,"The Naked Brothers Band," and is head writer and host for Roulette TV, a show about experimental art and music. She is writing and scoring the music for "Sex, Death and Ukuleles, a futuristic musical that will open March 6th at the Theater for the New City. She records for Einstein Records and Mercury Records.

Inspired by an IBM software that moves information across business processes and facilitates cross organizational collaboration, Legere's newest work, Suite, will cycle through compositional strategies, from Serialism to Jazz to Romanticism to to Improvisation. Legere will sing from her autobiography and conduct a string ensemble from piano, laptop and accordion.

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Scot Hornick: bass; Joakim: percussion, drums & samples; Phoebe Legere: piano, accordion, spoons, native flute, buffalo drum, sneakers & visuals

BROTHER AFRICA and SISTER AMERICA meet a FINE WHITE MAN

Phoebe Legere's new band, Sisters and Brothers, takes ancient chants and then goes way outside, incorporating West African shamanic drumming and many exotic percussion instruments from Africa and Native America with invented instruments (Phoebe's Rap Shoes and The Atonal Paintbrush) and the Spoons, a classic French Canadian Instrument. For tonight's show, they present Brother Africa and Sister America meet a Fine While Man, an evening-length piece in which Phoebe and Joakim perform environmentally, combining marching, dancing and trance music with video projections of paintings and animation, texts and gestures and dances reminiscent of indigenous honey bees and other pollinators"¦

Joakim graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Biology. He then returned to his native Ghana, where he is known as a Drum Master.

Scot Hornick has a Masters Degree in Jazz from NYU and currently leads the Bass Ensemble at NYU. Following his love of all music, Scot has performed everything from jazz (traditional, big band, standards, modern, improv based), to heavy metal, country, classical, rockabilly, theater and Latin, to blues and swing, and with singer/songwriters of all types. Currently you can see and hear Scot performing with the Mike MacAllister Trio, The Semi-Finalists, Dave Gross Band, Dennis Gruenling and Jump Time, Gina Fox Band and Gina Sicilia Band as well as in many other groups as a freelance bassist.

Phoebe Legere is a composer of Native American and French Canadian descent. She currently is studying composition at Juilliard. An influential member of New York City's downtown performance scene in the 1980s and 90s, during the past decade Legere has increasingly focused her energy on interdisciplinary new media, ranging from virtual musical theater to experimental forms. A dynamic performer on piano, accordion and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range and free-for-all approach to mixing jazz, cabaret, and rock, Legere initially earned renown as a songwriter with hundreds of songs in all genres, and was signed to Epic/Sony Records. Demonstrating Legere's mastery of diverse contemporary musical forms, she had eight weeks of sold out shows at The Ballroom in 1993, where she performed original songs and blues, French Chansons and Native American chants "¦ and then opened up for David Bowie on a national tour. She has performed at the Chicago Cultural Center, Carnegie Hall, the China Club, Aspen Opera House, Freddy's Supper Club, The Hong Kong Jazz Club, Philadelphia Art Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Opera House, Symphony Space and the Nairobi Casino in Africa.

Recently, Legere has been Artist in Residence at the School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA department and at the University of Victoria Graduate School of Engineering and Music. She presented her Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for music and art improvisation, in a lecture/performance at IRCAM's Resonances Aux Festival in 2004 and at STEIM electronic music foundation in 2006. She has built a second pair of her Rap Shoes for Dan Dubno at CBS News. He demonstrated the shoes at Adidas Salomon in May 2006.

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New York based composer/pianist Shoko Nagai's grant commissioned project "EPHEMERAL" explores the essence of Japanese traditional music, such as Gagaku (the oldest classical music in Japan) and the sound of Nohgaku (abstract theater) with the elements of the contemporary western music, experimental electronic music and improvisations. Her compositions with its use of multiple textures and the open sense of time evokes another realm of time and place. She will be joined by Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi, clarinet, bass clarinet), Jennifer Choi (violin), Reuben Radding (bass) and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics).

Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai moved to New York City in 1999 and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Buch Morris,Tom Rainy, Cuong Vu, Ikue Mori, Roy Champbell, Satoshi Takeishi, Trevor Dunn, Matana Roberts, Daniel Carter to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at the BlueNote, Tonic, The stone, Location One,Vision Festival as well as at other top New York clubs and concert. Nagai released her first CD "Two levels Crossing" in 2000, 2nd CD "VORTEX" in 2002, 3rd. CD "Vsoon" in 2003. Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998) in Germany (Moers Jazz Festival 2006), Japan, Switzerland, Israel and United States. In 2005, she received a grant from Philadelphia Music Project 2005 Grant for a project in which seven jazz artists compose and premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots, and formed a new project "Ephemeral" with Ned Rothenberg (Shakuhachi, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Jennifer Choi (Violin), Stomu Takeishi (E.Bass), Satoshi Takeishi( Japanese percussion, electronics). Her most recent project is"Vortex" which is a free improvisation duo with Satoshi Takeishi on electronics. They scored music for a full feature Japanese film called"Star Fish Hotel" (directed by John Williams) which is to be released in 2007 world wide.

http://www22.ocn.ne.jp/~hot-jazz

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The sneakers of Samothrace: Critical Ecology Concerto in V Minor, a work of electric video sneakers, probes, data, pigment and MIDI-accordion/ Legere transgresses the boundaries of art and science, uttering a "demonic feminist sob of greed for the wanton capitalism and patriarchal narcissism now leading the people of the world toward inevitable collective eco-suicide". With real-time proceeded video shot on location in critically endangered environments.

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Macbeth II (1888) will be the place to begin for this spectacular assemblage of improvising soundists: Phoebe Legere, vocalist, poet, pianist, accordionist, and much more; Ikue Mori, spatial illusionist and electronic percussionist; Chicago Rambler Steve Butters on percussion, vibes and the pan; and the trombonist of many mutes and instigator of this event, Jim Staley.

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Phoebe Legere, pianistpoet, accordionactivist, composersinger, performs excerpts from her Sci-Fi opera Planet Boob; the first in a three part Boobian Cycle. This trans-genre electronic soundscape spectacle was inspired by U.F.O. sightings in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey.

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"Singing the Praise of the Phrase A whole evening of duet improvisations for voice, trombone and extenuaions. "

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A newly inspired collaboration by three wildly obsessive improvisors.

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"Wearing a costume constructed from the pages of New York City's leading newspapers, Phoebe Legere will improvise on Themes from her autobiography "Shame, Depravity and Lesbianism in the Twilight of a Dying Civilization". Mixed media: Steinway, sampler, cello, midi accordion, guitar etc. Polyglot singing, science, movement, live painting, Pasamaquoddy Indian medicine songs, jazz, screaming, blood, pigment, poetry and bone paste."