Friday August 22, 7pm: A Convocation of Improvisers:
New York Musicians Ayumi Ishito
https://www.ayumiishito.com/, Eric Plaks
https://ericplaks.bandcamp.com/, Aron Namenwirth
https://namenwirth.bandcamp.com/, Paul Austerlitz
https://www.paulausterlitz.org/About.shtml and Jeremy Slater
https://www.jeremyslater.net/video.html join local musicians for a series of improvised compositions. Expect deeply moving, contemplative music spiked with dynamic changes and extended improvisations. They will be joined by Julian Gerstin
https://vtjazz.org/julian-gerstin/, Ben James, Bonnie Kane https://www.youtube.com/user/bonniekane, and members of 118's Anarchoharmonia
After graduating from Berklee, Ayumi Ishito, saxophonist, has been playing with many different groups. One of her recent projects Open Question received 4 stars review in DownBeat magazine in 2022. Also her other project The Spacemen was selected for the Best Jazz of 2021 in Bandcamp.
Eric Plaks, pianist, has lived his entire adult life in Harlem, where he has split his time between teaching music in the New York City public school system and his own performing and recording projects. Eric can be heard live regularly throughout the NYC area, including in his monthly engagement at The Shrine in Harlem, where he directs one of the city's top innovative large ensembles, the 14-member Shrine Big Band. Eric's discography to date includes two discs on Cadence/CIMP, Live at Bronx Community College (2013, recorded in 2009), and The Eric Plaks Five (2015, recorded in 2008). He has also self-produced four albums: The Witch Man (2003), Rooftop Reveries (2004), Eric Plaks with Strings (2007), and The Shrine Big Band - Swamp Music (2012). Eric's entire discography is available at www.klompfoot.com.
Aron Namenwirth is a guitarist based in Brooklyn. Groups include a quartet with Eric Plaks, Sean Conly, and John Panikkar They have a recent release called Hurricane out on Culture of Waste Records. He is also playing with a trio that includes Zach Swanson on bass and Joe Hertenstein on drums. They have a new album out on gaucimusic and are joined by Daniel Carter called Where Truth Lies.
Saturday August 23 7pm: The Turbulence Orchestra plays “The Storms of Jupiter” an Extraplanetary Pastoral Symphony. The Turbulence Orchestra returns to Brattleboro. Dave Peck (PEK) conducts a large ensemble improvisation of unrivaled sonorous intensity. PEK is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone. While there, PEK found that Boston had a thriving improvisation scene, and it was here that he developed his mature pure improvisation language. PEK will be joined on stage by up to 25 musicians under his conduction.
Jeremy Slater
JEREMY D. SLATER is an intermedia artist and composer working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. He was born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live performed video that is ambient and sometimes interactive/reactive. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create compositions with guitar, objects, ambient noise, environmental sound, and other instruments. Video work includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He's curated numerous performance events and gallery shows in New York including “A Sound Show” at Front Room Gallery, the sound/video performance series “kere.u” and “FLOW”, “Sun Khronos” at Millennium Film Workshop, and “Video as an Instrument” at The Tank and Supreme Trading Gallery, and "sonic front", a series exploring electroacoustic improvisation, electronic music, and sound art. Jeremy D. Slater is also known as ( ) and is a member of music projects Plan 23, The Principle String Quartet, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, EMP, and tū. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center and HERE with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan. www.jeremyslater.net
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