nb.: a later than usual start time
following paul lansky's birthday concert at taplin auditorium [8pm]
Percussionist-composer Matt Weston has performed throughout the US and in
Europe. He has studied and/or collaborated with Arthur Brooks, Bill
Dixon, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves, and Jack Wright, among
others. Past performances include appearances at the Vision Festival, the
Three Days In October festival (commemorating the 30th anniversary of the
October Revolution in Jazz), and the Autumn Uprising festival. His unique
approach to percussion and electronics has earned him critical praise in
such magazines as Cadence, Signal To Noise, and Bananafish for his debut
solo release Vacuums. In addition to his solo work, he is a member of Barn Owl with guitarist Chris Cooper and bassist Andy Crespo. They have collaborated with Le Quan
Ninh and Jack Wright, and recently released "My Very First Barn Owl EP" on
the Crank Satori label. www.mattweston.com
"Weston's drumming is filled with subtleties. He uses a light touch to convey muted sensitivity by deftly massaging the skins and rims. His playing has a stark reality to it, a feeling of nomadic wandering without hope of reaching nirvana. When his playing becomes brusque...the aggressiveness is overt to the point of being disconcertingly intense. Weston puts a unique spin on the drum solo and creates tones of atypical sonority. He is a sound explorer on an apparent endless quest for purity." Frank Rubolino, Cadence magazine
Bio 1970-
Aimee Norwich has been an artist her entirety; transferring sounds into the material plane via electric bass guitar on her own and in various bands, of millenniums past.She has played venues nationally and is scheduling her first solo tour. She has worn many hats; this is her newest live outfit. She uses piccolo bass, various FX pedals, homemade electronic instruments and loop stations to interpret her original recorded works and her jazz arrangements. www.aimeenorwich.com
CD Release Information:
Aimee Norwich's latest CD Tenderly is freshly available at www.sweettearecords.com. It consists of instrumental arrangements of jazz classics as well as her originals. Her sound, created with bass harmonics, chorus pedals, home-made electronic sound devices and large horn ensembles spans a multitude of genres used primarily as spring boards for a unique self expression.
Damon Holzborn is an improviser and composer who works primarily with electronics. In performance, he makes the recognizable unrecognizable, subjecting sound sources such as guitar and field recordings to manipulation through custom-programmed interfaces, traditional effects and interactive processes. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective and co-creator of zucasa.com, recently named one of the top 25 essential online music resources by The Wire. Holzborn holds a degree in music from UCSD, where he studied improvisation with George Lewis, guitar with Celin Romero, and composition with Frederic Rzewski, Brian Ferneyhough, Will Ogden and Rand Steiger.
Holzborn has presented his work in the US, Mexico and Japan, performing as a solo artist and with several ensembles, including Donkey (a decade-long collaboration with musician/filmmaker Hans Fjellestad), Quibble, and Titicacaman (with Nathan Hubbard and Marcelo Radulovich). He has performed and/or recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Lê Quan Ninh, Eugene Chadbourne, Matt Ingalls, Andrea Polli, DJ Marcus B, Scott Looney, Jason Robinson, Anthony Burr, Marcos Fernandes, Marcelo Radulovich, Scott Walton, Mike Keneally, Ellen Weller, Kristy Cheadle, Alan Lechusza, Nathan Hubbard, Robert Montoya, Joscha Oetz, Mike Khoury, Blaise Siwula, Nortec Collective, Jonathan Glasier and The San Diego Art Ensemble. Holzborn also regularly creates music for dance, often collaborating with innovative dance collective Lower Left, producing both custom compositions and improvised performances.
