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Opensound, a monthly concert series of improvised and experimental music Next Concert: Friday, July 13, 2012 __________________________________________________________________ ACOUSTIC meets ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC a special concert jointly sponsered by Vortex and Opensound Special guest: Matt Samolis, flute and: The know trio: Gary Fieldman, drumset/percussion Dan Shaud, french horn Ima Jonsdittir, violin Electro-Acoustic musicians: Max Lord, synth Andrea Pensado, laptop and more Michael Rosenstein, amplified objects Ken Ueno, extended throat techniques and microphone Lou Cohen, laptop/wiimote Sonic Sandbox: Forrest Larson, electronics Todd Brunel, clarinets David Brown, percussion/didgiridoo Tom Casale, double bass ______________________________________________ Friday July 13, 2012 Nave Gallery Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church 155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville MA 617 625 4823 For directions and parking: http://www.navegallery.org/nave/directions.html Doors open at 7:30. / music at 8:00 p.m. $10 admission ________________________________________________________ Opensound is a monthly concert series that explores improvised and experimental music, bringing artists from disparate backgrounds together for unique events in Somerville MA. The process of improvisation combines the distinctive voices of its individual performers. The music that results is often surprising, unconventional and dynamic. It s not uncommon to hear music made of electronic crackles, noisy multi-phonics, gurgling, hissing, quiet vocalized gibberish, atonal noodling, bowed metal, blowing sounds, post-everything harmony, and a thousand shades of hullabaloo. You may also see video and dance cohabitating with buzzes, clicks, drones, wooshes, and bleeps in a bizarre galaxy of pitch and spectra! __________________________________________________________________ Some Bios Ken Ueno (born 1970) is an American composer. He studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude, from Boston Unlversity with a M.M., fromYale School of Music with a M.M.A., and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. He has composed orchestral works, for jazz big band and woodwind quintet, and two dance pieces for the Boston Conservatory. He performed at the Flea, New York City. Ueno is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. As a performer, Ueno is active as a throat-singing vocalist and performing with live electronics. Todd Brunel is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist and saxophonist, who performs extensively as a crossover classical and jazz musician. As a jazz/improvisational performer and composer, he produces The Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, a 2010-11 grant recipient from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Arts Council and the Somerville Arts Council. The Vortex Series has also been chosen as the jazz "pick of the week" in the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe. More information available on the web: www.opensound.org Like us on Facebook Links: 2. http://www.opensound.org 3. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Sound/185922407834 Sent to dome@jolc.net — [4]why did I get this? [5]unsubscribe from this list | [6]update subscription preferences Opensound · Union Square · Somerville, MA 02143 Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?aid=0e7c38695db2efa51cf4cc6e5&afl=1 Links: 4. http://opensound.us4.list-manage.com/about?u=0e7c38695db2efa51cf4cc6e5&id=f5def255a1&e=&c=45c70280a0 5. http://opensound.us4.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=0e7c38695db2efa51cf4cc6e5&id=f5def255a1&e=&c=45c70280a0 6. http://opensound.us4.list-manage.com/profile?u=0e7c38695db2efa51cf4cc6e5&id=f5def255a1&e=