Fire Museum Presents :
Chris Pitsiokos Quartet
Bhob Rainey/Michael Szekely duo
Monday, March 28th 8:00 PM
Pageant : Soloveev
607 Bainbridge Street
Philadelphia
$7-10 sliding scale
Chris Pitsiokos Quartet (NYC):
Chris Pitsiokos is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. His music combines the intensity and immediacy of no wave and noise with the lyricism and forward propulsion of jazz and the abstract detail of contemporary classical composers Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, and Helmut Lachenmann. Recent/current collaborators include Lydia Lunch, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Kevin Shea, Brian Chase, Henry Kaiser, Mick Barr, Marc Edwards, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Seabrook Tim Dahl, Philip White and Weasel Walter. Chris has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and the US. In addition to performing and composing music, Chris runs his own record label, Eleatic records, curates the Gadfly Series at New York venue Spectrum, and programs a radio show at WKCR-FM. For this tour, he will be with his Quartet featuring Kevin Shea, of Storm N' Stress (amongst COUNTLESS other bands) on drums, Max Johnson on bass, and Jamie Branch on trumpet. ...
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Fire Museum Presents :
Chris Pitsiokos Quartet
Bhob Rainey/Michael Szekely duo
Monday, March 28th 8:00 PM
Pageant : Soloveev
607 Bainbridge Street
Philadelphia
$7-10 sliding scale
Chris Pitsiokos Quartet (NYC):
Chris Pitsiokos is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. His music combines the intensity and immediacy of no wave and noise with the lyricism and forward propulsion of jazz and the abstract detail of contemporary classical composers Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, and Helmut Lachenmann. Recent/current collaborators include Lydia Lunch, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Kevin Shea, Brian Chase, Henry Kaiser, Mick Barr, Marc Edwards, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Seabrook Tim Dahl, Philip White and Weasel Walter. Chris has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and the US. In addition to performing and composing music, Chris runs his own record label, Eleatic records, curates the Gadfly Series at New York venue Spectrum, and programs a radio show at WKCR-FM. For this tour, he will be with his Quartet featuring Kevin Shea, of Storm N' Stress (amongst COUNTLESS other bands) on drums, Max Johnson on bass, and Jamie Branch on trumpet.
Bhob Rainey/Michael Szekely duo (Philadelphia):
Bhob Rainey is an award-winning composer / performer, saxophonist, and sound designer. In 1998, with trumpeter Greg Kelley, he founded the duo Nmperign, which quickly became a model for a new phase of non-idiomatic improvisation often referred to as "lowercase" or "EAI" (Electroacoustic Improvisation). In 2000 he founded The BSC, an improvising large ensemble, in which he developed techniques for an improvisational discipline that were eventually outlined in his 2011 publication, Manual. Throughout the late 1990's and early 2000's he performed globally and collaborated with numerous improvisers of both the (then) current and previous generations, including Axel Dorner, Andrea Neumann, Gunter Muller, Michel Doneda, Le Quan Ninh, and many others.
By the mid-2000's, while continuing to work in the realm of improvisation, Rainey began to produce electronic and algorithmic works. He spent five years collaborating with German composer Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) on the 2007 release, I don't think I can see you tonight, which, along with Nmperign and Jason Lescalleet's Love Me Two Times (2006), established him as a formidable electronic composer who synthesizes streams of Musique Concrete, computer music, and improvisation.
Throughout his career, Rainey has sought out cross-discipline collaborations, working with dancers, filmmakers, and theater companies. From 2012-2014 he worked with theater company New Paradise Labs to create The Adults, which premiered at the 2014 Philadelphia Fringe Festival to much acclaim. He created the soundtrack to Leah Ross's 2013 film, Levitate, which premiered that year at the Rooftop Film Festival in New York City, and he performed live in Jungwoong Kim's and Marion Ramirez's site-specific dance work, Capsized, at the National Asian American Theater Festival in Philadelphia in 2014. To date, Rainey has over 30 releases as a leader or co-leader.
Michael Szekely studied jazz as an undergraduate at the Hartt School of Music (Hartford) led by the late saxophonist Jackie McLean. In 1996, he studied percussion with drum master Milford Graves at Bennington College. Since 1993, Michael has co-led various projects with New York-based saxophonist Allen Livermore, resulting in two recordings: Feet Music's "Assertions & sketches" (Chroma Independent Media, 1995) and the ALMS Trioa's "Advocates" (Eighth Nerve Records, 2005). Michael is also a member of various groups contributing to the burgeoning improvisational music scene in Philadelphia, including Equis Equis Equis, Trio Rhizome, Double-clutch, and the Dan Blacksberg Trio, as well as playing in the Courtney Parker Quartet, a vocal-led ensemble spanning the range of jazz, pop, and folk styles. He has also collaborated on projects and concerts with Anthony Braxton, Stephen Haynes, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Toshi Makihara. Michael received his doctorate from Temple University in 2004 and continues to teach and write on philosophy, especially aesthetics and the philosophy of music.
"Sax and drums duo. Now sounds, with a swing." - Bhob Rainey
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