Sat October 17, 2015
Barre Phillips-Jacques Demierre-Urs Leimgruber Trio and Dapplegray
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at Mills College - Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall
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The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2015-2016
Barre Phillips-Jacques Demierre-Urs Leimgruber Trio and Dapplegray
Saturday, October 17, 2015
8:00 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
The trio of Barre Phillips (string bass), Jacques Demierre (piano) and Urs Leimbruger (saxophone) share an evening of improvised music with Dapplegray (Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Tara Sreekrishnan, piano; Jeanie-Aprille Tang, electronics).
Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/906044289485733/
For detailed information, please visit the Music Now webpage:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
$15 general. $10 seniors and students,
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
-----------------------
“Listening“
80 years Barre Phillips / 15 years Trio Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips
Urs Leimgruber: saxophone
Jacques Demierre: piano
Barre Phillips: double bass
The choices Leimgruber, Demierre and Phillips make are everywhere unexpected and unexplained, but fit together as aural expression in the ambiguous area between imagination (a belief without experience to support it) and logic (a belief supported by experience). The materials they use may not be new, but they are reconsidered, recombined, reorganized in surprising ways. At its core, this is music of subtlety, understatement, nuance, concision. One of the trio’s choices seems to be to pay special attention to dynamics, so that the physical activity of producing a sound on one’s instrument may become the music it self–barely audible, but alive if attention is paid to it. In place of the typical melodic vocabulary, they speak in rattles, smears, broken notes, breath noises, pops, bites, growls, whistles, harmonics, isolated pitches, and extended (post-Webern) intervals. They erase lines, compress gestures, condense movement. A wonderful moment for a new aural adventure. Art Lange.
DAPPLEGRAY
dap-ple-gray (d p l-gr )
adj. gray with an ill-defined mottling of a darker shade
Tara Sreekrishnan: piano
Nava Dunkelman: percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang: electroacoustic
Dapplegray is Tara Sreekrishnan, Nava Dunkelman, and Jeanie Aprille Tang, an electroacoustic trio based in the Bay Area, focused in structured and free improvisation as well as film scoring. The three met in the Music Improvisation Ensemble at Mills College in 2011, studying under Rachel Condry and Fred Frith. They have collaborated with Pauchi Sasaki, Fred Frith, John Zorn, and William Winant among others. Their work has been featured in a wide variety of settings including independent film, music festivals, and performances across the Bay Area. Dapplegray explores the conversion of polar opposite sounds, unfolding stories, dreams, impressions, and delusions. They focus on the urgency of silence and chaos overcoming one another and create a musical space that shifts between dreaming and waking life.
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
Biographies:
For many years Urs Leimgruber has worked in the fields of Contemporary Improvisation, Jazz and New Music. For decades he has enriched and expanded the saxophone sound with new playing techniques. In solo concerts and with many different acclaimed groups he has toured in Europe, Canada, the United States and Cuba. Among his many concerts and recordings are those with Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Fritz Hauser, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Dorothea Schürch, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn, Günter Müller, and many others. Together with Jacques Demierre he leads the group 6ix. In the seventies, he was cofounder of the Electricjazz-Freemusic group OM. His music is to be found on CD on HatArt, Unit, FOR 4 EARS Victo and LEO.
Jacques Demierre is a pianist, performer and composer. His musical and sound work develops in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, and sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.
He collaborates with many improvising musicians–Okkyung Lee, Thomas Lehn, Martial Solal, Radu Malfatti, Joëlle Léandre, Axel Dörner, Fritz Hauser, Sainkho Namtchylak, Urs Blöchlinger, Irene Schweizer, Hans Koch, Isabelle Duthoit, Brandon Labelle, Jason Kahn, Butch Morris, Carlos Zingaro, Gunter Müller, Jaap Blonk, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli, Sylvie Courvoisier, Hann Bennink, Rhodri Davis, Martin Schütz, Paul Lovens, Dorothea Schürch, Phil Minton, and others. He regularly plays solo piano concerts, and works with Vincent Barras in the field of performance and language art.
Barre Phillips is simply the most fantastic bass player I’ve ever heard. He has a technique of a great classical musician and the feeling of a Mingus. As much a composer as a performer, Barre works in the areas of film, ballet, and theater. He has written music for numerous feature films–Robert Kramer, Jacques Rivette, William Friedkin, Marcel Camus and composed scores for ballet for Carolyn Carlson and the Paris Opera. At the same time he has continued his experiences in the jazz and contemporary improvised music scene. Barre has recorded over 175 records, 30 under his own name. His experience spans a wide range of musical styles, from Coleman Hawkins to Derek Bailey. His work in the 70‘s with John Surman and Stu Martin,“The Trio,“ became a model in itself, and influenced many younger musicians. He is in constant demand throughout Europe, North America and Japan as a soloist and teacher. Besides many other musicians he has collaborated with: Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, George Russel, Lee Konitz, Ralph Towner, Charlie Mariano, Michel Portal, Albert Mangelsdorf, Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Guiffre, Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Bernstein, Terje Rypdal, Benny Golson, Pierre Favre, Cecil Taylor, Barry Guy, and many others.
Tara Sreekrishnan is a Bay Area-based pianist whose interests include performance and improvisation. She has studied piano with Belle Bullwinkle, Amonte Parsons, John Syzygy and Debbie Poryes and organ with Dr. Sandra Soderlund. Tara is an active member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California and she performs regularly in numerous venues around the Bay Area. She graduated from Mills College where she won the Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize.
https://tarasreekrishnan.wordpress.com
Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein. Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others. Nava has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
https://www.navadunkelman.com
Jeanie Aprille Tang is sound and light sculpture artist and electroacoustic composer. Her palette is a moving array of timbres with saturated transitions of stark polarities. With a background in behavioral science and electroacoustic synthesis, her sound is shaped by the notion of cross-modal synesthetic abstraction with the urgency of tension and release through spatial manipulation. Born in Hong Kong, Tang gravitates to rhythms of construction sites, roaming traffic, inaudible conversations, and airplanes. Upon her studies at Mills College in Music Composition with focus in Audio Engineering and Media Technology, studying under Maggi Payne and Fred Frith, Tang has been an active audio engineer, sound designer, composer, and performer. Her instruments and installations explore the relationship between resonance and luminance, utilizing electric circuits, triggered by deliberate pulsating fragments of light through glass. Her work has been presented as artist-in-residence at SoART Millstättersee, Carinthia, Austria in 2013, and Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland in 2014. She has performed and collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Ikue Mori among others at The Stone, as well as at The Wooster Group’s The Performing Garage in New York City.
https://www.ammaateria.com
website
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
audio
https://soundcloud.com/dapplegray/sets/dapplegray-2015/s-hdF9s
video
Berkeley Arts Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch
show less
Barre Phillips-Jacques Demierre-Urs Leimgruber Trio and Dapplegray
Saturday, October 17, 2015
8:00 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
The trio of Barre Phillips (string bass), Jacques Demierre (piano) and Urs Leimbruger (saxophone) share an evening of improvised music with Dapplegray (Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Tara Sreekrishnan, piano; Jeanie-Aprille Tang, electronics).
Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/906044289485733/
For detailed information, please visit the Music Now webpage:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
$15 general. $10 seniors and students,
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
-----------------------
“Listening“
80 years Barre Phillips / 15 years Trio Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips
Urs Leimgruber: saxophone
Jacques Demierre: piano
Barre Phillips: double bass
The choices Leimgruber, Demierre and Phillips make are everywhere unexpected and unexplained, but fit together as aural expression in the ambiguous area between imagination (a belief without experience to support it) and logic (a belief supported by experience). The materials they use may not be new, but they are reconsidered, recombined, reorganized in surprising ways. At its core, this is music of subtlety, understatement, nuance, concision. One of the trio’s choices seems to be to pay special attention to dynamics, so that the physical activity of producing a sound on one’s instrument may become the music it self–barely audible, but alive if attention is paid to it. In place of the typical melodic vocabulary, they speak in rattles, smears, broken notes, breath noises, pops, bites, growls, whistles, harmonics, isolated pitches, and extended (post-Webern) intervals. They erase lines, compress gestures, condense movement. A wonderful moment for a new aural adventure. Art Lange.
DAPPLEGRAY
dap-ple-gray (d p l-gr )
adj. gray with an ill-defined mottling of a darker shade
Tara Sreekrishnan: piano
Nava Dunkelman: percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang: electroacoustic
Dapplegray is Tara Sreekrishnan, Nava Dunkelman, and Jeanie Aprille Tang, an electroacoustic trio based in the Bay Area, focused in structured and free improvisation as well as film scoring. The three met in the Music Improvisation Ensemble at Mills College in 2011, studying under Rachel Condry and Fred Frith. They have collaborated with Pauchi Sasaki, Fred Frith, John Zorn, and William Winant among others. Their work has been featured in a wide variety of settings including independent film, music festivals, and performances across the Bay Area. Dapplegray explores the conversion of polar opposite sounds, unfolding stories, dreams, impressions, and delusions. They focus on the urgency of silence and chaos overcoming one another and create a musical space that shifts between dreaming and waking life.
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
Biographies:
For many years Urs Leimgruber has worked in the fields of Contemporary Improvisation, Jazz and New Music. For decades he has enriched and expanded the saxophone sound with new playing techniques. In solo concerts and with many different acclaimed groups he has toured in Europe, Canada, the United States and Cuba. Among his many concerts and recordings are those with Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Fritz Hauser, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Dorothea Schürch, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn, Günter Müller, and many others. Together with Jacques Demierre he leads the group 6ix. In the seventies, he was cofounder of the Electricjazz-Freemusic group OM. His music is to be found on CD on HatArt, Unit, FOR 4 EARS Victo and LEO.
Jacques Demierre is a pianist, performer and composer. His musical and sound work develops in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, and sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.
He collaborates with many improvising musicians–Okkyung Lee, Thomas Lehn, Martial Solal, Radu Malfatti, Joëlle Léandre, Axel Dörner, Fritz Hauser, Sainkho Namtchylak, Urs Blöchlinger, Irene Schweizer, Hans Koch, Isabelle Duthoit, Brandon Labelle, Jason Kahn, Butch Morris, Carlos Zingaro, Gunter Müller, Jaap Blonk, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli, Sylvie Courvoisier, Hann Bennink, Rhodri Davis, Martin Schütz, Paul Lovens, Dorothea Schürch, Phil Minton, and others. He regularly plays solo piano concerts, and works with Vincent Barras in the field of performance and language art.
Barre Phillips is simply the most fantastic bass player I’ve ever heard. He has a technique of a great classical musician and the feeling of a Mingus. As much a composer as a performer, Barre works in the areas of film, ballet, and theater. He has written music for numerous feature films–Robert Kramer, Jacques Rivette, William Friedkin, Marcel Camus and composed scores for ballet for Carolyn Carlson and the Paris Opera. At the same time he has continued his experiences in the jazz and contemporary improvised music scene. Barre has recorded over 175 records, 30 under his own name. His experience spans a wide range of musical styles, from Coleman Hawkins to Derek Bailey. His work in the 70‘s with John Surman and Stu Martin,“The Trio,“ became a model in itself, and influenced many younger musicians. He is in constant demand throughout Europe, North America and Japan as a soloist and teacher. Besides many other musicians he has collaborated with: Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, George Russel, Lee Konitz, Ralph Towner, Charlie Mariano, Michel Portal, Albert Mangelsdorf, Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Guiffre, Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Bernstein, Terje Rypdal, Benny Golson, Pierre Favre, Cecil Taylor, Barry Guy, and many others.
Tara Sreekrishnan is a Bay Area-based pianist whose interests include performance and improvisation. She has studied piano with Belle Bullwinkle, Amonte Parsons, John Syzygy and Debbie Poryes and organ with Dr. Sandra Soderlund. Tara is an active member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California and she performs regularly in numerous venues around the Bay Area. She graduated from Mills College where she won the Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize.
https://tarasreekrishnan.wordpress.com
Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein. Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others. Nava has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
https://www.navadunkelman.com
Jeanie Aprille Tang is sound and light sculpture artist and electroacoustic composer. Her palette is a moving array of timbres with saturated transitions of stark polarities. With a background in behavioral science and electroacoustic synthesis, her sound is shaped by the notion of cross-modal synesthetic abstraction with the urgency of tension and release through spatial manipulation. Born in Hong Kong, Tang gravitates to rhythms of construction sites, roaming traffic, inaudible conversations, and airplanes. Upon her studies at Mills College in Music Composition with focus in Audio Engineering and Media Technology, studying under Maggi Payne and Fred Frith, Tang has been an active audio engineer, sound designer, composer, and performer. Her instruments and installations explore the relationship between resonance and luminance, utilizing electric circuits, triggered by deliberate pulsating fragments of light through glass. Her work has been presented as artist-in-residence at SoART Millstättersee, Carinthia, Austria in 2013, and Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland in 2014. She has performed and collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Ikue Mori among others at The Stone, as well as at The Wooster Group’s The Performing Garage in New York City.
https://www.ammaateria.com
website
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
audio
https://soundcloud.com/dapplegray/sets/dapplegray-2015/s-hdF9s
video
Berkeley Arts Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch
The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2015-2016
Barre Phillips-Jacques Demierre-Urs Leimgruber Trio and Dapplegray
Saturday, October 17, 2015
8:00 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
The trio of Barre Phillips (string bass), Jacques Demierre (piano) and Urs Leimbruger (saxophone) share an evening of improvised music with Dapplegray (Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Tara Sreekrishnan, piano; Jeanie-Aprille Tang, electronics).
Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/906044289485733/
For detailed information, please visit the Music Now webpage:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
$15 general. $10 seniors and students,
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
-----------------------
“Listening“
80 years Barre Phillips / 15 years Trio Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips
Urs Leimgruber: saxophone
Jacques Demierre: piano
Barre Phillips: double bass
The choices Leimgruber, Demierre and Phillips make are everywhere unexpected and unexplained, but fit together as aural expression in the ambiguous area between imagination (a belief without experience to support it) and logic (a belief supported by experience). The materials they use may not be new, but they are reconsidered, recombined, reorganized in surprising ways. At its core, this is music of subtlety, understatement, nuance, concision. One of the trio’s choices seems to be to pay special attention to dynamics, so that the physical activity of producing a sound on one’s instrument may become the music it self–barely audible, but alive if attention is paid to it. In place of the typical melodic vocabulary, they speak in rattles, smears, broken notes, breath noises, pops, bites, growls, whistles, harmonics, isolated pitches, and extended (post-Webern) intervals. They erase lines, compress gestures, condense movement. A wonderful moment for a new aural adventure. Art Lange.
DAPPLEGRAY
dap-ple-gray (d p l-gr )
adj. gray with an ill-defined mottling of a darker shade
Tara Sreekrishnan: piano
Nava Dunkelman: percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang: electroacoustic
Dapplegray is Tara Sreekrishnan, Nava Dunkelman, and Jeanie Aprille Tang, an electroacoustic trio based in the Bay Area, focused in structured and free improvisation as well as film scoring. The three met in the Music Improvisation Ensemble at Mills College in 2011, studying under Rachel Condry and Fred Frith. They have collaborated with Pauchi Sasaki, Fred Frith, John Zorn, and William Winant among others. Their work has been featured in a wide variety of settings including independent film, music festivals, and performances across the Bay Area. Dapplegray explores the conversion of polar opposite sounds, unfolding stories, dreams, impressions, and delusions. They focus on the urgency of silence and chaos overcoming one another and create a musical space that shifts between dreaming and waking life.
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
Biographies:
For many years Urs Leimgruber has worked in the fields of Contemporary Improvisation, Jazz and New Music. For decades he has enriched and expanded the saxophone sound with new playing techniques. In solo concerts and with many different acclaimed groups he has toured in Europe, Canada, the United States and Cuba. Among his many concerts and recordings are those with Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Fritz Hauser, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Dorothea Schürch, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn, Günter Müller, and many others. Together with Jacques Demierre he leads the group 6ix. In the seventies, he was cofounder of the Electricjazz-Freemusic group OM. His music is to be found on CD on HatArt, Unit, FOR 4 EARS Victo and LEO.
Jacques Demierre is a pianist, performer and composer. His musical and sound work develops in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, and sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.
He collaborates with many improvising musicians–Okkyung Lee, Thomas Lehn, Martial Solal, Radu Malfatti, Joëlle Léandre, Axel Dörner, Fritz Hauser, Sainkho Namtchylak, Urs Blöchlinger, Irene Schweizer, Hans Koch, Isabelle Duthoit, Brandon Labelle, Jason Kahn, Butch Morris, Carlos Zingaro, Gunter Müller, Jaap Blonk, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli, Sylvie Courvoisier, Hann Bennink, Rhodri Davis, Martin Schütz, Paul Lovens, Dorothea Schürch, Phil Minton, and others. He regularly plays solo piano concerts, and works with Vincent Barras in the field of performance and language art.
Barre Phillips is simply the most fantastic bass player I’ve ever heard. He has a technique of a great classical musician and the feeling of a Mingus. As much a composer as a performer, Barre works in the areas of film, ballet, and theater. He has written music for numerous feature films–Robert Kramer, Jacques Rivette, William Friedkin, Marcel Camus and composed scores for ballet for Carolyn Carlson and the Paris Opera. At the same time he has continued his experiences in the jazz and contemporary improvised music scene. Barre has recorded over 175 records, 30 under his own name. His experience spans a wide range of musical styles, from Coleman Hawkins to Derek Bailey. His work in the 70‘s with John Surman and Stu Martin,“The Trio,“ became a model in itself, and influenced many younger musicians. He is in constant demand throughout Europe, North America and Japan as a soloist and teacher. Besides many other musicians he has collaborated with: Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, George Russel, Lee Konitz, Ralph Towner, Charlie Mariano, Michel Portal, Albert Mangelsdorf, Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Guiffre, Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Bernstein, Terje Rypdal, Benny Golson, Pierre Favre, Cecil Taylor, Barry Guy, and many others.
Tara Sreekrishnan is a Bay Area-based pianist whose interests include performance and improvisation. She has studied piano with Belle Bullwinkle, Amonte Parsons, John Syzygy and Debbie Poryes and organ with Dr. Sandra Soderlund. Tara is an active member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California and she performs regularly in numerous venues around the Bay Area. She graduated from Mills College where she won the Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize.
https://tarasreekrishnan.wordpress.com
Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein. Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others. Nava has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
https://www.navadunkelman.com
Jeanie Aprille Tang is sound and light sculpture artist and electroacoustic composer. Her palette is a moving array of timbres with saturated transitions of stark polarities. With a background in behavioral science and electroacoustic synthesis, her sound is shaped by the notion of cross-modal synesthetic abstraction with the urgency of tension and release through spatial manipulation. Born in Hong Kong, Tang gravitates to rhythms of construction sites, roaming traffic, inaudible conversations, and airplanes. Upon her studies at Mills College in Music Composition with focus in Audio Engineering and Media Technology, studying under Maggi Payne and Fred Frith, Tang has been an active audio engineer, sound designer, composer, and performer. Her instruments and installations explore the relationship between resonance and luminance, utilizing electric circuits, triggered by deliberate pulsating fragments of light through glass. Her work has been presented as artist-in-residence at SoART Millstättersee, Carinthia, Austria in 2013, and Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland in 2014. She has performed and collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Ikue Mori among others at The Stone, as well as at The Wooster Group’s The Performing Garage in New York City.
https://www.ammaateria.com
website
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
audio
https://soundcloud.com/dapplegray/sets/dapplegray-2015/s-hdF9s
video
Berkeley Arts Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch
read more
Barre Phillips-Jacques Demierre-Urs Leimgruber Trio and Dapplegray
Saturday, October 17, 2015
8:00 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
The trio of Barre Phillips (string bass), Jacques Demierre (piano) and Urs Leimbruger (saxophone) share an evening of improvised music with Dapplegray (Nava Dunkelman, percussion; Tara Sreekrishnan, piano; Jeanie-Aprille Tang, electronics).
Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/906044289485733/
For detailed information, please visit the Music Now webpage:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
$15 general. $10 seniors and students,
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
-----------------------
“Listening“
80 years Barre Phillips / 15 years Trio Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips
Urs Leimgruber: saxophone
Jacques Demierre: piano
Barre Phillips: double bass
The choices Leimgruber, Demierre and Phillips make are everywhere unexpected and unexplained, but fit together as aural expression in the ambiguous area between imagination (a belief without experience to support it) and logic (a belief supported by experience). The materials they use may not be new, but they are reconsidered, recombined, reorganized in surprising ways. At its core, this is music of subtlety, understatement, nuance, concision. One of the trio’s choices seems to be to pay special attention to dynamics, so that the physical activity of producing a sound on one’s instrument may become the music it self–barely audible, but alive if attention is paid to it. In place of the typical melodic vocabulary, they speak in rattles, smears, broken notes, breath noises, pops, bites, growls, whistles, harmonics, isolated pitches, and extended (post-Webern) intervals. They erase lines, compress gestures, condense movement. A wonderful moment for a new aural adventure. Art Lange.
DAPPLEGRAY
dap-ple-gray (d p l-gr )
adj. gray with an ill-defined mottling of a darker shade
Tara Sreekrishnan: piano
Nava Dunkelman: percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang: electroacoustic
Dapplegray is Tara Sreekrishnan, Nava Dunkelman, and Jeanie Aprille Tang, an electroacoustic trio based in the Bay Area, focused in structured and free improvisation as well as film scoring. The three met in the Music Improvisation Ensemble at Mills College in 2011, studying under Rachel Condry and Fred Frith. They have collaborated with Pauchi Sasaki, Fred Frith, John Zorn, and William Winant among others. Their work has been featured in a wide variety of settings including independent film, music festivals, and performances across the Bay Area. Dapplegray explores the conversion of polar opposite sounds, unfolding stories, dreams, impressions, and delusions. They focus on the urgency of silence and chaos overcoming one another and create a musical space that shifts between dreaming and waking life.
http://dapplegray3.tumblr.com/
Biographies:
For many years Urs Leimgruber has worked in the fields of Contemporary Improvisation, Jazz and New Music. For decades he has enriched and expanded the saxophone sound with new playing techniques. In solo concerts and with many different acclaimed groups he has toured in Europe, Canada, the United States and Cuba. Among his many concerts and recordings are those with Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Fritz Hauser, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Dorothea Schürch, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn, Günter Müller, and many others. Together with Jacques Demierre he leads the group 6ix. In the seventies, he was cofounder of the Electricjazz-Freemusic group OM. His music is to be found on CD on HatArt, Unit, FOR 4 EARS Victo and LEO.
Jacques Demierre is a pianist, performer and composer. His musical and sound work develops in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, and sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.
He collaborates with many improvising musicians–Okkyung Lee, Thomas Lehn, Martial Solal, Radu Malfatti, Joëlle Léandre, Axel Dörner, Fritz Hauser, Sainkho Namtchylak, Urs Blöchlinger, Irene Schweizer, Hans Koch, Isabelle Duthoit, Brandon Labelle, Jason Kahn, Butch Morris, Carlos Zingaro, Gunter Müller, Jaap Blonk, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli, Sylvie Courvoisier, Hann Bennink, Rhodri Davis, Martin Schütz, Paul Lovens, Dorothea Schürch, Phil Minton, and others. He regularly plays solo piano concerts, and works with Vincent Barras in the field of performance and language art.
Barre Phillips is simply the most fantastic bass player I’ve ever heard. He has a technique of a great classical musician and the feeling of a Mingus. As much a composer as a performer, Barre works in the areas of film, ballet, and theater. He has written music for numerous feature films–Robert Kramer, Jacques Rivette, William Friedkin, Marcel Camus and composed scores for ballet for Carolyn Carlson and the Paris Opera. At the same time he has continued his experiences in the jazz and contemporary improvised music scene. Barre has recorded over 175 records, 30 under his own name. His experience spans a wide range of musical styles, from Coleman Hawkins to Derek Bailey. His work in the 70‘s with John Surman and Stu Martin,“The Trio,“ became a model in itself, and influenced many younger musicians. He is in constant demand throughout Europe, North America and Japan as a soloist and teacher. Besides many other musicians he has collaborated with: Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, George Russel, Lee Konitz, Ralph Towner, Charlie Mariano, Michel Portal, Albert Mangelsdorf, Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Guiffre, Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Bernstein, Terje Rypdal, Benny Golson, Pierre Favre, Cecil Taylor, Barry Guy, and many others.
Tara Sreekrishnan is a Bay Area-based pianist whose interests include performance and improvisation. She has studied piano with Belle Bullwinkle, Amonte Parsons, John Syzygy and Debbie Poryes and organ with Dr. Sandra Soderlund. Tara is an active member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California and she performs regularly in numerous venues around the Bay Area. She graduated from Mills College where she won the Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize.
https://tarasreekrishnan.wordpress.com
Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein. Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others. Nava has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
https://www.navadunkelman.com
Jeanie Aprille Tang is sound and light sculpture artist and electroacoustic composer. Her palette is a moving array of timbres with saturated transitions of stark polarities. With a background in behavioral science and electroacoustic synthesis, her sound is shaped by the notion of cross-modal synesthetic abstraction with the urgency of tension and release through spatial manipulation. Born in Hong Kong, Tang gravitates to rhythms of construction sites, roaming traffic, inaudible conversations, and airplanes. Upon her studies at Mills College in Music Composition with focus in Audio Engineering and Media Technology, studying under Maggi Payne and Fred Frith, Tang has been an active audio engineer, sound designer, composer, and performer. Her instruments and installations explore the relationship between resonance and luminance, utilizing electric circuits, triggered by deliberate pulsating fragments of light through glass. Her work has been presented as artist-in-residence at SoART Millstättersee, Carinthia, Austria in 2013, and Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland in 2014. She has performed and collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Ikue Mori among others at The Stone, as well as at The Wooster Group’s The Performing Garage in New York City.
https://www.ammaateria.com
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https://soundcloud.com/dapplegray/sets/dapplegray-2015/s-hdF9s
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Berkeley Arts Festival
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Mills College - Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613
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