SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2008
11-12: Steve Lehman (NYC)
9:30-10:30 DC Improvisers Collective (DC)
($10, doors at 8pm, show at 9:30, 18+)
11-12: Steve Lehman (NYC)
9:30-10:30 DC Improvisers Collective (DC)
($10, doors at 8pm, show at 9:30, 18+)
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
12:30-1:30: Jaimie Branch/Marc Riordan (Chicago)
11:30-12:10: Blaise Siwula/David Wilson/Toshi Makihara (NYC/VA/PA)
10:30-11:10: Elliott Sharp (NYC)
9:30-10:10: Thus (Baltimore)
8:30-9:10: Nate Scheible & Matt Wascovich (Cleveland)
($15, doors at 8pm, show at 8:30, 18+)
*set times are approximate
12:30-1:30: Jaimie Branch/Marc Riordan (Chicago)
11:30-12:10: Blaise Siwula/David Wilson/Toshi Makihara (NYC/VA/PA)
10:30-11:10: Elliott Sharp (NYC)
9:30-10:10: Thus (Baltimore)
8:30-9:10: Nate Scheible & Matt Wascovich (Cleveland)
($15, doors at 8pm, show at 8:30, 18+)
*set times are approximate
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2008
12:30-1:30: Marshall Allen & Elliott Levin (Philly)
11:30-12:10: Sabir Mateen & Michiko (NYC)
10:30-11:10: Matthias Muller/Christian Marien (Germany)
9:30-10:10: Uri Caine (NYC)
8:30-9:10: PRV Trio (DC)
($15, doors at 8pm, show at 8:30, 18+)
*set times are approximate
12:30-1:30: Marshall Allen & Elliott Levin (Philly)
11:30-12:10: Sabir Mateen & Michiko (NYC)
10:30-11:10: Matthias Muller/Christian Marien (Germany)
9:30-10:10: Uri Caine (NYC)
8:30-9:10: PRV Trio (DC)
($15, doors at 8pm, show at 8:30, 18+)
*set times are approximate
Friday, March 28
11:30-12:10pm
Blaise Siwula (saxophones, clarinets) has been active in New York's Downtown experimental music scene for the past two decedes. Siwula has been honored to work with musicians and composers such as Cecil Taylor, Tan Dun, William Parker, Joseph Daly, Donald Miller, Peter Kowald, John Fischer, Vincent Chancey, Newman Taylor Baker, John Voigt, Matthew Paris, Adam Lane and Joseph Scianni as a performer and co-composer. As an improvising musician he has found the line between composer and performer to be gray at best. Although Siwula is primarily an alto saxophonist, he also plays a number of woodwinds, percussion and string instruments at varying degrees of competency per composition requirements, and recently began including computer altered sound files in performances for compositional purposes.
David Wilson (bass saxophone) has been performing Improvised and Contemporary Classical music since the late 1970's in venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian, the L. A. County Art Museum, Philadelphia's Painted Bride Art Center and Wet Spot, and Charlottesville's Tea Bazarre and Pud House. He currently plays sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophones and conducts a Youth Saxophone Orchestra for the Youth Orchestra of Charlottesville-Albemarle.
Toshi Makihara (drums) studied drums, percussion and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the United States in the late 1970's he has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies internationally. Makihara has provided original music to Arden Theater Company, Diversions Dance Company (Wales), Pennsylvania Ballet, ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company among others, and has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists, filmmakers and performance artists widely.
Related Links:
http://home.earthlink.net/~bbrjsiwula/
http://www.toshimakihara.com