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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11277/
Please join us at Slought Foundation on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 from 8:00-10:00pm for an evening of live concerts with Joe McPhee and Dominic Duval, preceded by Shelley Burgon and Trevor Dunn.
Joe McPhee will perform alto/tenor saxophone and pocket trumpet, and Dominic Duval will perform on Hutchins bass. Shelley Burgon will perform on pedal harp, and Trevor Dunn will perform contrabass.
A rare doubler - equally at ease on brass and woodwind - Joe McPhee (b.
1939) was first heard on Clifford Thorton's 'Freedom and Unity' (Third World, 1967). Founding the CjR recording label in 1969 with artist Craig Johnson, McPhee (as a leader) recorded 'Underground Railroad', 'Trinity', and 'Nation Time'. By 1974, Swiss entrepreneur Werner X. Uehlinger, so engaged by McPhee's underground recordings, started Hat Hut records to release his work, eventually releasing the seminal 'Tenor' solo concert in 1976. Following early collaborations with Pauline Oliveros, McPhee's interests in extended technique and electronics were influenced by the theories of "deep listening." Re-emerging in the 1990s, McPhee has attracted wider attention from the North American creative jazz community, recording prodigiously on recording labels such as CIMP, Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo, as well as beginning a fruitful relationship with Chicago reedman Ken Vandermark. Most recently, he has recorded with the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Trio X, DJ Spooky, Oliveros' Deep Listening Band, and Mats Gustafsson's The Thing.
Few musicians are more dedicated to the principles of free improvisation than bassist Dominic Duval. He has a prodigious technique; Duval plays the bass like an elongated guitar, with fast lines and textures. Rather than provide a low-pitched harmonic/rhythmic foundation, Duval more often than not plays like a horn player, interacting freely with other members of the ensemble. Best know for his extensive work with Cecil Taylor, Duval has also recorded with Trio X, Marshall Allen, Mark Whitecage, Frank Lowe, and John Oswald.
Shelley Burgon (pedal harp) received her MFA from Mills College where she studied and performed with with Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, Maggie Payne, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, William Winant, and Jean Jerome. Shelley has developed a unique solo project processing her harp
using the computer software Supercollider. Exploiting the wide dynamic and harmonic range of her instrument, her digital processing comes to life in quadrophonic spatialization. She recently performed solo at Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Space in Kingston, NY. Since relocating to New York in 2002, Shelley has performed with John Zorn (Music for films by Joseph Cornell),a quartet with Chris Speed, Ikue Mori and Skuli Sverrisson, Tin Hat Trio, Marina Rosenfeld and Raz Mesanai. In November 2003 she was a part of the Ravished Limbs Improvised Music Festival where she shared the stage with Jim Black and Okkyung Lee. Shelley has recorded and performed with the projects such as Eyvind Kang's early music project of Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier, a quintet interpreting the American Jazz Songbook with saxophonist Jackson Moore and trumpeter Nate Wooley, and in a large ensemble of downtown New York musicians led by drummer Kenny Wolleson with music by various living composers and conduction by Butch Morris.
Trevor Dunn (contrabass) is best known for his involvement in avant-rock bands Mr. Bungle and Fantomas. He has performed/recorded with John Zorn's Electric Masada, David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness, Susie Ibarra, Marc Ribot, Ben Goldberg, John Schott and Jenny Scheinman. He can be heard on over forty recordings including his own Trio-Convulsant's "Sister Phanom Owl
Fish" (Ipecac Recordings). The trio completed a six week tour opening for
The Melvins in the Fall of 2004. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center to write a solo bass piece for Jon Deak. Mr. Deak Performed "Depaysemant" for prepared bass later that year at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center.
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