Fire Museum Presents:
Walter Wright/Emilie Mouchous
Jack Wright/Zachary Darrup
Loren Groenendaal
Unguent
intermission sounds by DJ Robo Rob
Friday, December 5th 8:00 PM
Pageant : Soloveev Gallery
607 Bainbridge St
Philadelphia, PA
$8-$10 sliding scale
Walter Wright (Lowell, MA):
Walter Wright is an improviser on electronics of his fabrication. He is also a interdisciplinary artist, and community arts advocate. Educated as an architect, he has graduate degrees in engineering and interdisciplinary art. He is a co-founder of 119 Gallery in Lowell MA where he produces new music and performance events. One of these is XFest, an annual festival for improvised sound, video and movement. He teaches new media at UMass Lowell. He is a member of Apocalypso, bodydrama, Los Condenados, Loup-Garou, and One-Armed Mist....
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Fire Museum Presents:
Walter Wright/Emilie Mouchous
Jack Wright/Zachary Darrup
Loren Groenendaal
Unguent
intermission sounds by DJ Robo Rob
Friday, December 5th 8:00 PM
Pageant : Soloveev Gallery
607 Bainbridge St
Philadelphia, PA
$8-$10 sliding scale
Walter Wright (Lowell, MA):
Walter Wright is an improviser on electronics of his fabrication. He is also a interdisciplinary artist, and community arts advocate. Educated as an architect, he has graduate degrees in engineering and interdisciplinary art. He is a co-founder of 119 Gallery in Lowell MA where he produces new music and performance events. One of these is XFest, an annual festival for improvised sound, video and movement. He teaches new media at UMass Lowell. He is a member of Apocalypso, bodydrama, Los Condenados, Loup-Garou, and One-Armed Mist.
Emilie Mouchous (Montreal):
Emilie Mouchous is a sound artist who builds her own electronics. She explores this field through radiophonic pieces and installations, performances, series of electronic objects, free improvisation and web art. She's presenting special programming at CKUT Radio in Montreal since 2008. She has presented her works in contexts such as Bent Festival NY, Radia LX festival de arte rร dio (Lisbon, Portugal), Transmodern Festival (Baltimore), Mutek (Montreal), Le Placard headphones festival, the SoundFjord Gallery (London, UK), CKUT Radio (Montreal) and Radio Libertaire (Paris). As a duo with Andrea-Jane Cornell, she created four albums and four radiophonic pieces exploring the intimate relationships between radio transmissions, landscapes and travels. These pieces have been presented by Deep Wireless (NAISA, Toronto), Radius (Range : Local, Distant, Fringe series, Chicago), BEAM Festival (London, UK), 24gauche series (Montreal).
Jack Wright (Easton, PA):
Described twenty years ago as an "undergrounder by design," Jack Wright has been a saxophone improviser traveling through the US and Europe since the early 80s in search of interesting partners and playing situations. Now at 72 he is still the "Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation," as guitarist Davey Williams called him. His range is from fiery, breathless free jazz to quiet, breath-filled, and often animalistic sounds. A reviewer for the Washington Post said, "In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king".
Zachary Darrup (Philadelphia):
Zachary Darrup is an improvising guitarist currently living in Philadelphia. During his early teenage years in the dismal coal region of Pennsylvania a strange boy appeared like an angel, carrying a large cd booklet of wild musics of all sorts. This chance meeting at a pizza shop, plus tumultuous relationships with his home turf, school teachers, and other agents of law and rule enforcement led Zach to drop out and skip town, devoting himself to following music wherever it would take him--somewhere else.
Zach's techniques are informed by the musical possibilities of film language, jovial mockery and mimicry of plants, animals, and audience members, thoughtful room listening, word play, book club, culinary experiments and colors. He's been playing with Jack Wright (saxophones), and James Wadsworth Strong (his own invented instruments). He has also been collaborating with Emma Wiggans (NYC) on a variety of levels including text, sound, scent, and light, love and sex, and also with Samuel Leonard Valenti (PHL) - starring in his acclaimed/celebrated motion picture The Haunted Torso.
Loren Groenendaal:
Loren Groenendaal is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer for Vervet Dance, a Philadelphia-based contemporary dance company. She earned an MFA in Choreography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a BA in dance and visual arts from Oberlin College. Her work has been performed in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and presented by various organizations including the the Abington Art Center, the CEC including the New Edge Mix, Cultivate, Green Space Blooms, Inhale, Philly Fringe Festival, the North Carolina Dance Alliance, and the StudioSeries at Studio 34.
Unguent (Philadelphia) :
Straight slimer style in the summer. Transcendental, inward blooming electronics. Sonic clairvoyance for the twisted mind. Lance of Social Junk, Mirror Men, etc.
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