This concert is one of the Acoustic Frontiers Series at Spectrum, curated by Michael Lytle, Denman Maroney and Robert Dick. It is the aim of the series to present the best new music improvisers performing with natural, unamplified acoustic sonorities.
released August 19, 2015
Michael Lytle – Bass Clarinet
Anthony Coleman – Piano
Stephen Flinn – Percussion
Jason Kao Hwang – Violin and Viola
Mary Mackenzie – Mezzo Soprano
Eyal Maoz – Acoustic Guitar
This recording was made at Spectrum Performance Space, 121 Ludlow St., Manhattan, New York, October 2, 2015, by Michael Lytle. The recording was mixed at West Rupert, VT in Elewhale Studios North, also by Michael Lytle.
For a complete video of this concert see:
youtu.be/WCFS3zKelec
MICHAEL LYTLE (aka elewhale), MA, University of Iowa, has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garette List, David Moss, John Zorn, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Eyal Maoz, Mari Kimura, Robert Dick, Denman Maroney, Kathleen Supove, Weasel Walter and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated Iowa Ear Music of 1976. In solo and projects with Karl Berger and Hans Burgener a member of Nick Didkovsky's band "Dr. Nerve" and a co-founder with Didkovsky & Hemingway of "Swim This", he has played in festivals and venues all over the world. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented the set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the “most radical of his generation” by Joachim Berendt.
www.elewhale.net
ANTHONY COLEMAN, composer-keyboardist, has been one of the leading proponents in improvised and free music in downtown New York since the late 70s and has performed and recorded throughout the world. His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: Sephardic Tinge, Morenica, and Our Beautiful Garden Is Open (Tzadik) and has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. His Selfhaters Orchestra has issued two CDs: Selfhaters and The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same (Tzadik).
STEPHEN FLINN, percussionist, is a postmodern improviser, composer and performer. He has performed throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States with many notable improvisers. For the last ten years, he has been active mostly in Europe, performing and recording with Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, Zev, Phil Minton, and the London-based trio Watt, which features Ian Smith and Hannah Marshall. Stephen works with unusual sound sources, including self made instruments and found objects. In addition, he uses drums and percussion to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic with an emphasis on social skills to intellectually and physically challenged teens and adults in New York City.
JASON KAO HWANG (composer, violin/ viola) has created works ranging from jazz, classical, “new” and world music. Stories Before Within (2008, Innova) featuring his jazz quartet EDGE, was chosen as one of the Top Ten CDs of 2008 by Coda Magazine. Mr. Hwang’s chamber opera, The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown (New World Records), presented by the Asia Society in 2001, was named one of the “Top Ten Opera Recordings of 2005” by Opera News. Commitment, The Complete Recordings, 1981-1983, from a collective quartet that was Mr. Hwang’s first band, was voted as “2010 Reissued Recording of the Year” by All About Jazz/ New York. His octet Burning Bridge, commissioned by Chamber Music America/ New Jazz Works, recently premiered at the Chicago World Music Festival. Mr. Hwang has also received support from US Artists International, the American Music Center, Meet the Composer/New Residencies, the National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and others. Spontaneous River, Mr. Hwang’s orchestra of string improvisers, performed in Vision Festival XIV and will release the recording of Symphony of Souls in early 2011. As violinist, Mr. Hwang has worked with Reggie Workman, William Parker, Anthony Braxton, Vladamir Tarasov, Henry Threadgill and many others.
www.jasonkaohwang.com
MARY MACKENZIE - A passionate performer of contemporary vocal music, Ms. Mackenzie has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, John Harbison, Richard Danielpour, and James Primosch; and works closely with young composers to develop and premiere new works for voice. As a chamber musician she has appeared with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, Collage New Music, the Continuum Ensemble, Ekmeles, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, The Juilliard School’s AXIOM Ensemble and New Juilliard Ensemble, Le Train Bleu, the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Talea Ensemble. Ms. Mackenzie is also active as a recitalist is a founding member of SongFusion, an art song ensemble based in New York City.
www.mary-mackenzie.com
EYAL MAOZ, Guitarist and composer, leads a number of original music ensembles including Edom, Dimyon, and Crazy Slavic Band. He is a member of John Zorn’s Abraxas, and a guest guitarist at Cobra. He co-leads 9 Volts (with Rick Parker on Trombone, featuring Tim Berne as a special guest), Hypercolor (with Lukas Ligeti and James Ilgenfritz), the Maoz-Sirkis Duet, electronic music trio with Guy Barash and trumpeter Frank London, and collaborates with the renowned poets Ronny Someck (Israel) and Jake Marmer (USA). Eyal’s ensembles have performed at major music festivals such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, NYC Winter JazzFest, Tzadik Radical Jewish Music Festival, Ephemerals Festival, Beijing, China, Lancaster Jazz Festival, UK, Erlangen Festival, Germany, and many more.
www.eyalmaozmusic.com
