Marshall Allen meets Sonic Sphere + Keir Neuringer at Fire Museum at Highwire Gallery

Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen is recognized all over the world as the premier avant-garde saxophonist, appearing in solo concert in London in 1995, duet with Terry Adams in 1997 in Canada, and featured in articles in "JazzTimes" (12/02), "Signal to Noise" Magazine, and innumerable other music magazines and radio and TV interviews. He is frequently called upon to give master classes, lectures, and demonstrations of Sun Ra's musical precepts, and he Keeps himself accessible to all who have an interest in Sun Ra's legacy.

The Sun Ra Arkestra leader returns with SONIC SPHERE, the instant composition unit of Sonic Liberation Front. SLF's Kevin Diehl first performed with Marshall Allen in the Tyrone Hill Quintet. Since then, Marshall has performed with both Sonic Liberation Front and Sonic Sphere. Sonic Sphere guitar alchemist d. Hotep is a standing member of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Sonic Sphere performs instant compositions using visualization & conduction memes to map the intuitive journey. Their music dynamically explores the expansive spaces between the notes, textures & juxtapositions. ...

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Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen is recognized all over the world as the premier avant-garde saxophonist, appearing in solo concert in London in 1995, duet with Terry Adams in 1997 in Canada, and featured in articles in "JazzTimes" (12/02), "Signal to Noise" Magazine, and innumerable other music magazines and radio and TV interviews. He is frequently called upon to give master classes, lectures, and demonstrations of Sun Ra's musical precepts, and he Keeps himself accessible to all who have an interest in Sun Ra's legacy.

The Sun Ra Arkestra leader returns with SONIC SPHERE, the instant composition unit of Sonic Liberation Front. SLF's Kevin Diehl first performed with Marshall Allen in the Tyrone Hill Quintet. Since then, Marshall has performed with both Sonic Liberation Front and Sonic Sphere. Sonic Sphere guitar alchemist d. Hotep is a standing member of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Sonic Sphere performs instant compositions using visualization & conduction memes to map the intuitive journey. Their music dynamically explores the expansive spaces between the notes, textures & juxtapositions.

Keir Neuringer (Philadelphia):

Keir Neuringer composes and improvises acoustic and electronic music, writes socio-political performance texts and essays, and creates interdisciplinary artworks, all with the aim of bringing audiences into a state of emotional and intellectual curiosity that meets the conditions for meaningful dialogue with, and transformation of, the culture at large. He has cultivated a personal and intensely physical approach to solo saxophone improvisation, plays analogue electronics and Farfisa organ, and sings and narrates text. Among his collaborators are musicians, composers, ensembles, theater makers and choreographers in Europe and North America. He has been an active participant in the experimental music scenes in Krakow, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Upstate New York. He travels widely to present his work, and currently lives in Philadelphia.

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