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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11338/
Please join us on Monday, September 18, 2006 from 7-9pm at Slought Foundation for an evening of new and experimental music and the first event of the Sound Field 2006 festival. This concert will feature performances by Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitar and electronics; Japan), Helena Espvall (cello; Sweden/Philadelphia), Christine Sehnaoui (alto saxophone; banon/France), and Gene Coleman (bass clarinet; Philadelphia). Whether this is your first visit to a Sound Field @ Slought event, or you have attended events in this series in the past, please consider bringing a friend to this performance and introducing yourself to us.
Kazuhisa Uchihashi is a guitarist and composer from Japan. He currently lives in Vienna. He is well know in the area of improvised music for his collaborations with Elliot Sharp, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Ned Rothenberg, Shelly Hirsch, Peter Kowald, Hans Reichel and many others. He was part of the seminal Japanese noise band Ground Zero with Otomo Yoshihide, as well as his own jazz-noise-rock group Altered States. He has released dozens of recordings on many labels and is the director of the Experimental music festival “FBI” in Osaka. As both a musician and an organizer, Uchihashi has worked to build networks of free improvisation communities inside and outside Japan. and has contributed sound tracks to a number of films. His projects span a variety of artistic genres, including film; his interest in developing creative vocal music led Uchihashi to organize the project KAM-PAS-NEL-LA with vocalist Haco, drummer Samm Bennett and electric harp player Zeena Parkins for the first Music Merge Festival in Tokyo and festival Beyond Innocence '96, both held in October '96. For more information: http://homepage.mac.com/innocentrecords/
Helena Espvall played electric guitar in northern Sweden as a bored teenager, before transitioning to cello. She has played in rock bands, as part of a silent movie orchestra, and in an Arabian ensemble; she was inspired to play free improvised music by a Eugene Chadbourne performance and subsequently moved to the US in 2000. She currently plays in the Philadelphia New Dance and Music Ensemble, tours with folk psych band Espers and sings Bossa Nova. Helena has performed several times at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, twice at the High Zero Festival of improvised music in Baltimore, MD, at the Improvised and Otherwise Festival in Brooklyn, NY, at Big Sur experimental festival in California and Terrastock 2006 in Providence, RI among others. She has collaborated with a series of musicians and composers including Lukas Ligeti, Eugene Chadbourne, and Pauline Oliveros.
Christine Sehnaoui lives in France and is of Lebanese origins. Since 1997 Senhaoui has studied improvised music and sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She began playing with orchestras including MOTORCHESTRA and was an IVRAIE resident at Instants Chavirés in Montreuil. Her musical collaborators include Stéphane Rives, Quentin Dubost, Agnčs Palier, Sebastien Bouhana, and Mazen Kerbaj. For the past few years, she has been working with the field of dance (Butoh and contemporary dance) and has conducted ongoing research on musical pedagogy through concerts for children and interventions in schools. Since 2001, she has contributed to develop improvisation in her country of origins, Lebanon, where she co-organizes Irtijal, an annual festival of improvised music in Lebanon.
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
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Sound Field NFP
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