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"The Tabadol Project | Remixed"
Charlotte Hug, Leandro Barzabal, Alexander Wing, Gene Coleman, Jane Rigler, Evan Lipson, Carlos Santiago
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Event Date: Saturday, July 22, 2006
Location: Slought Foundation
Sound Field @ Slought Series
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Gene Coleman
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Please join us on Saturday, July 22, 2006 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for “The Tabadol Project | Remixed,” the next installment of the Sound Field @ Slought series. This concert of experimental improvised music will feature performances by Charlotte Hug (viola-Switzerland), Leandro Barzabal (inventions and objects-Argentina), Alexander Wing (Oud-Chicago, USA), Gene Coleman (bass clarinet-Philadelphia, USA), Jane Rigler (flute-New York, USA), Evan Lipson (bass-Philadelphia, USA), and Carlos Santiago (violin-Philadelphia, USA). This program introduces the Tabadol Project and will consist of various combinations of the aforementioned musicians.
TABADOL is an Arabic word meaning “exchange.” The Tabadol Project was originally scheduled for July 2006; due to violence in the region, and as a gesture of solidarity with our musician friends in Lebanon, the “The Tabadol Project | Remixed” will take place on Saturday, July 22nd while the larger project of which it is a part has been rescheduled for September-October 2006. The Tabadol Project will bring together Lebanese musicians and artists Raed Yassin, Christine Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj and Ziad El Ahmadie with US composer and musician Gene Coleman, and will feature over 25 US musicians and artists in a series of workshops, symposia, and concerts that explore our “globalized” society through experimental music, dance and video. The Tabadol Project engages issues including globalization as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon; new relationships between traditional and experimental concepts and practices in music and art; entrepreneurship and the arts in the 21st century; interdisciplinary artistic practice in Lebanon and the US, and it's growing importance for young artists. Successive iterations of the project will also take place in Chicago, New York, Baltimore and Washington DC.
Major funding for the Tabadol Project is provided by The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Charlotte Hug (born 1965) musician, composer , visual artist t, lives in Zurich and London. She studied music and viola with Henrik Crafoord at the SMPV Berne and Paul Silverthorne in London, and received a training in "scenic design" at the University of Art and Design Zurich. In addition to performing solo at international music festivals and in theatres and museums (at the Tage für Neue Musik in Zurich, the 10th LMC Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Feuer und Flamme Festival for Music in the Theatre at Kampnagel in Hamburg and the Festival internacional de creation en tiempo real at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid), Hug also collaborates with other artists. Charlotte Hug is a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra. She collaborates with other composers as well as with the Swiss Centre for Computer Musik and improvises, both freely and conceptually, with such performers as John Butcher, John Edwards, Phil Minton, Maggie Nicols, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Phil Wachsmann. Her domain encompasses the most diverse fields, including composition, improvisation, electro-acoustics, performance, music for film and musical theatre as well as in visual art and sound installations. http://www.charlottehug.ch/
Leandro Barzabal - Argentina - b. 1981 - Formerly a guitar player, he studied this instrument for several years and generated a synthesis of his style by reducing the instrument to minimalist guitar constructions, while exploring the basic elements of the guitar as an object. Recently, he started to set aside conventional instruments, exploring self made sound objects. His use of object compositions with trash and unconventional electronics lead the way to his free style of sound production. His current projects are noise-free improv, visteclaro: performace-free improv, and improvised drone metal. He has collaborated with musicians such as Pablo Reche, Leonel Kaplan, Hector Fiore, Lasse Marhaug, the Golden Serenades, Cornucopia, Xavier Charles, Jean Pallandre and dancer Nicole Bindler.
Alex Wing is a guitarist, bassist, oudist, composer and creative musician who lives and works in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. He teaches at the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute and co-hosts the Sunday Jam Sessions at Cafe Mestizo in Pilsen with David Boykin, Nicole Mitchell and Jayve Montgomery. Groups and individuals with whom he plays in Chicago include: David Boykin Expanse, Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, Microcosmic Sound Orchestra, Bill Mackay, The University of Chicago's Middle East Music Ensemble (Issa Boulos, director) and his quartet, 8th Day Adventists, with Ben Boye, Jayve Montgomery and Joel Wanek. New York: Grumpy Trio, with Darius Jones and Chris Forbes, Dave Ross, and his band HongKongathon.
Jane Rigler, flutist, composer, improviser, educator and producer of events is an active featured performer in contemporary, improvisation and experimental music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, presenting both acoustic and electro acoustic shows as a soloist as well as within ensembles. Expanding upon her classical background (B.M., Northwestern University), she gained her M.M. and Ph.D. (UC San Diego) resulting in her book The Vocalization of the Flute which demonstrates a variety of imaginative ways the voice and flute interact based upon non-western traditions, Western 20th-21st Century works and her own compositions. Jane has given master-classes, seminars, workshops and taught at a variety of universities, conservatories, conventions and performing art schools throughout the U.S., South America and Europe.
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and artistic director. He has created over 40 works for various instrumentation, often-using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Radical use of the instrument's sound producing possibilities makes Coleman, both as a composer and as a performer, a musician who seeks a greater synthesis between what is called sound (or noise) and what is called music. Since 2001 his work has focused on globalization and music's relationship with architecture and video.
Gene Coleman is also known for his work as a curator and artistic director of new music programs and festivals. He founded the new and experimental music festival "Sound Field" in Chicago in 2000 and is the artistic director. He was artistic director and guest composer for “Transonic”, an innovative festival about globalization and new music at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin in 2003 and 2004. In 1997 he organized a festival in Chicago of music by the German composer Helmut Lachenmann in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. Gene Coleman is the artistic director of "Ensemble Noamnesia", a new music group he founded in 1987. Under his direction, the group has worked with many well known composers, including Salvatore Sciarrino, George Crumb, Chao-Ming Tung, Luc Ferrari, Helmut Lachenmann, Roscoe Mitchell, Vinko Globokar, Yuji Takahashi, Otomo Yoshihide, Malcolm Goldstein, Burkhard Stangl, Karlheinz Essl, Gulliermo Gregorio, Gerhard Staebler, Kunsu Shim, Mathias Spahlinger and many others. http://www.soundfield.org/genecoleman.html
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This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of Sound Field NFP, The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
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