Neil Haverstick + Umbrella Pine at Lilypad

A special contemporary evening of Experimental & New Music with alternative tunings (microtonal) & guitar-sax improvisations adventurous unique and stellar

From Denver, Colorado
NEIL HAVERSTICK
Composer, Author and Custom Guitars of alternative tunings: 19, 31, 34, 36-tone, including fretless, beyond western music’s 12-tone way.
PLUS
Boston’s Umbrella Pine
Magdalena Abrego and Allison Burik
Exploring possibilities within improvisation and composition with a unique instrumentation including guitar, saxophone, clarinet, vocals and electronics

“Haverstick nor Catler is just dabbling; they put microtones to more savvy uses than a lot of classical composers.” Village Voice...

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A special contemporary evening of Experimental & New Music with alternative tunings (microtonal) & guitar-sax improvisations adventurous unique and stellar

From Denver, Colorado
NEIL HAVERSTICK
Composer, Author and Custom Guitars of alternative tunings: 19, 31, 34, 36-tone, including fretless, beyond western music’s 12-tone way.
PLUS
Boston’s Umbrella Pine
Magdalena Abrego and Allison Burik
Exploring possibilities within improvisation and composition with a unique instrumentation including guitar, saxophone, clarinet, vocals and electronics

“Haverstick nor Catler is just dabbling; they put microtones to more savvy uses than a lot of classical composers.” Village Voice
“…musician, critics and listeners see Haverstick as either a masterful contributor of new music or an abrasive and irritating noise that won’t go away.” Westword
"Formidable fretboard chops and an affinity for the blues." – International Musician
“Bold and daring, Haverstick ventures into distant aural galaxies” Guitar Player
Tuning theory is vast and ancient, and its study and application has opened many areas of exploration for creative musicians. Haverstick has found a new freedom as a player and composer, because he has access to more subtle intervals and the new scales and chords which come from them. Neil is also being recognized for his Oud (i.e. Lute) playing, not to mention Flamenco and Banjo.
In his own words: “(Also) playing Fretless Guitar presents many challenges, but allows me to find new horizons as a composer, including many subtle microtonal shades of colour, unavailable on a tempered instrument. The harmonic series is not an invention of humans, its part of the universal structure”.
https://youtu.be/IIPsHq2nI0o.

https://umbrellapine.bandcamp.com/album/seven

Magdalena Abrego is also the founder of Input/Output, a magazine that strives to showcase female and non-binary artists.

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