wed may 5 8:30pm terrace club 62 washington rd princeton nj free
vSoon (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai) explores the possibility of sound sculpting through 20th century music, free improvisation and real-time audio processing. By extracting, magnifying and modifying the past musical event, they make "passing of time" a visual experience.
Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai has been evolving as a professional musician for twelve years. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999 she moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Tom Rainy, Roy Champbell, Sam Newsome, Greg Tardy, Lukas Ligeti, Daniel Carter. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at the BlueNote, Knitting factory, Tonic as well as at other top New York clubs. Nagai released her first CD "Two levels Crossing" in 2000, 2nd CD "VORTEX" in 2002 which sky productions records. Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998), Switzerland and Israel. Her most recent project is "vSoon" which is a free improvisation duo with electronics.
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was "Macumbia" with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to the U.S. in Miami where he began work as an arranger. In 1987 he produced "Morning Ride" for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
Dan Trueman plays and composes for a variety of violins, including the 6-string electric violin, the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, and the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array (BoSSA: an instrument of his own design and construction). His electronic improvisation ensemble "interface" (with Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn) has performed widely; their first CD, "./swank," was released by c74 Records in early 2001, and this past December they released a DVD of improvisations and dance pieces—"Recording Field, H"—with guest Pauline Oliveros, on the Deep Listening label. His duo "Trollstilt" (with guitarist Monica Mugan) released its first CD of original tunes in 2000, inspired by his activities as a traditional Hardanger fiddler, and has performed widely at both contemporary music festivals (such as the Bang-on-a-Can Marathon) and folk music festivals (in Norway and the US). As a composer of concert music, Dan recently completed commissions from the American Composers Forum (Hardanger fiddle and orchestra), the Society for New Music (electronic chamber ensemble), and the Tarab Cello Ensemble (8 cellos). He teaches composition and electronic music at Princeton University.
music.princeton.edu/~dan
trollstilt.org
interfaceimprov.net
Percussionist Jon Mueller has worked within a variety of genres with the likes of Pele, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Asmus Tietchens, Achim Wollscheid, Aranos, Jason Kahn, Matt Turner, Hal Rammel and others. His approach to drums and percussion has been described by All Music Guide's Francois Couture as, "ranges from fire music madness to extremely delicate textures that have little to do with conventional drumming." His recordings are available worldwide and he has toured throughout the U.S. and Japan. www.croutonmusic.com
Saxophonist Bhob Rainey has collaborated with Gunter Mueller, Lionel Marchetti, Kevin Drumm, Ralf Wehowsky, Jerome Noetinger, and Jason Lescalleet, to name a few. With trumpeter Greg Kelley, he is the cofounder of the unlikely improv supergroup, nmperign, and is also the founder and director of the premier electroacoustic ensemble, the BSC. bhobrainey.net
Jim Schoenecker (synthesizer) has released electronic music under the name pressboard for a variety of labels including Zod, Antiopic, and Stassisfield. He has performed in the U.S. and Japan, and is 1/2 of the Topscore label which releases electronic and experimental music and video.
David Chiesa was born on March 8, 1970 in Maubeuge, France. Self-taught, his first musical experiences were as an electric bass player with various rock bands. Since 1994 he has dedicated himself entirely to improvisation. He works across many forms of media and within many different performance contexts. David is a member of the artists network LA FLIBUSTE, based in Toulouse, engaged in reflection on improvised practices, as well as production and broadcast. He also works with the association LE CLOU, based in the Dordogne, organizing the annual "Temporary Acts" improvisation meeting. He plays and records in the regular groups BOOMERANG, L.I.D, ETHOS, En 3 D, NODAL and LAPS.
Mike Bullock plays contrabass. The sounds are by turns chilling and raw, wrenched from the wood; vaporous remnants barely differentiated from silence; and warm orange tones like embers glowing under gentle breath. Everything is permeated by a precarious, nerve-wracking sense of timing. The bass becomes a wooden room creaking under its own weight. Bullock plays acoustic bass feedback like another instrument, modulating it with tone generators and tuning forks.
In his solo work, Bullock dissects assumptions about solo performance and what is expected of a soloist by the audience and by the soloist himself. He has been known to tune up at the end of sets, to hide, to eat, or to lie down while playing.
Bullock plays actively on the Boston improvised music scene. His regular groups include his duo with cellist Vic Rawlings, The BSC, and The Please. He has toured extensively as a soloist, frequently traveling with trumpeter Greg Kelley. His recordings appear on such diverse labels as Crank Satori, Grob, Intransitive, CIMP, Emanem, Rounder and Naxos. In 2002 he founded Chloë, a label dedicated to experimental music.
[About Initial:] "In his manner of approaching the instrument, Mike Bullock makes it sound like an electronic device: play with the feedback, the saturation and the resonance of space. In the second part he takes the bass with full hand to make it sound violently or listen to it whistle and squeak delicately." Metamkine
"Bullock entices microscopic bits of food into his vicinity by waving his bow, creating a puddle overflowing with fluttering multiphonic discontinuities and small, hard growths of string irritation." Alessandro Moreschi III, Bananafish
"Mike Bullock's bass playing sounds like a house of electrical transformers on fire." James Coleman
"His solo album [Initial] is the research of interaction between acoustic instrument and acoustic space inside buildings… you'd better keep your attention on and listen with great care." Dmitry Vasilyev