September 29th
@ Terrace, 62 Washington St. Princeton NJ; 9 PM. FREE!
Keir Neuringer:
Keir Neuringer is a musician, artist and writer critical of the destructive behavior of the dominant culture. Raised In New York, he moved to Europe in 1999 and spent ten years in Poland and the Netherlands, cultivating a personal and intensely physical approach to solo saxophone performance, creating a body of cross-perceptual and multi-disciplinary works, and curating a highly regarded concert series of experimental music. He lives in New York.
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MEJA meets Kenta Nagai:
Jeff Arnal (acoustic percussion)
Approaching their instruments with extended techniques and unorthodox sound generating methods, this duo investigates the fluidity of rhythm and pulse with floating structures inspired by many musical and sound traditions including: the blues, electronic, improvisational / free jazz, percussion music of the world, noise and time travel.
"Eschewing bombast and grandstanding, percussionist Michael Evans and Jeff Arnal are sympathetically matched in their sensibilities, creating settings that are not lacking for traditional melodics and harmonics because they fully understand the musical reach of their drums. [...] Two drummers create one full and balanced meal.”
- David Greenberger, Signal To Noise
Kenta Nagai (fretless guitar, shamisen)
Kenta Nagai is an audio-visual artist and performer, originally from Niigata Japan. His keen sense of physicality is reflected in his current exploration of the physical properties of sound and its impact on human emotion and the body. This interest has led to numerous collaborations with dancers throughout his career as an improvisor and performer in New York City and abroad. Nagai has appeared in numerous concerts at venues including Carnegie Hall, Roulette, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center Out Door Stage, Rubin Museum, Hershhorn Museum at Smithonian Institute, Sculpture Center and Japan Society.
Sounds & Links:
meja: www.generaterecords.net/MEJA.htm
Michael Evans: www.michaelevanssounds.com
Jeff Arnal: www.generaterecords.net/JeffArnal.htm
Kenta Nagai: www.myspace.com/kentanagai
Raymond Weitekamp:
Altitude Sickness (Raymond Weitekamp) performs n-dimensional matrix mash-ups using self-assembled Monome tupperware. Sampling the spectrum from Wu-Tang to William S. Burroughs, eclecticism ensues. Whilst chopping and looping on the fly, he explores motion-controlled FX and unique live processing techniques. Lost in a maze of puzzling permutations, he plays faze-funk, sync-song and skip-hop. Altitude Sickness hosts a weekly show on WPRB 103.3 FM, and is currently a member of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra.
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