We've got a special show for you on Monday. Takagi Masakatsu on tour from Japan, is playing at SIL2K at I-Spy. The Stranger compares his music to Oval and Brian Eno. And other artists from all over the States are opening and closing the show: Nudge (PDX), Tucker Dulin (CA), Michael Bullock (MA), Dave Gross (MA) and Jason Glover (Seattle).
Recommended by the Seattle Weekly (pg. 81) and the Stranger (pg. 73):
http://www.thestranger.com/current/up_coming.html
10/29/2001 Monday 9:00 pm
SIL2K @ I-Spy
1921 5th Ave, SEATTLE, WA
SIL2K & WAKE UP present
9:30 Tucker Dulin (CA) & Michael Bullock (MA)
10:15 Dave Gross (MA) & Jason Glover
11:00 Takagi Masakatsu (Japan)
11:45 Nudge (PDX)
Takagi Masakatsu (Japan) - Hope and empathy. Kyoto-based sound and vision artist, Takagi Masakatsu, finds his work infused with these themes. Takagi¹s message resonates strongly at the best of times. At the worst... his music is a comfort and a reminder of the bigger picture of which we are all a small part.
Takagi¹s debut release is Pia, on New York¹s Carpark label (home to releases from Marumari, Jake Mandell, So Takahashi and kid606) and includes a multimedia disc to accompany the music, interweaving snatched moments of docu-sonics: children talking and playing, people walking through the streets, nature interacting with our constructed cities. This is true musique concrète: sound and video that Takagi, an accomplished artist in several fields, has traveled the world to record.
Wot no tunes? Just think of it as a different sort of song - warmly atmospheric, unique found sounds arranged with Takagi¹s synaesthetic feel. Engaging with it will not go unrewarded.
Takagi was born and still resides in Kyoto, Japan, where he lives among the many ancient temples and gardens: Takagi¹s grandfather is a monk at one of these temples. Such influences are apparent in Pia, where there is a simultaneous air of peacefulness and unrest.
After producing video works for the Japanese multimedia group, Silicom (
http://homepage.mac.com/silicom), Takagi¹s video pieces have shown in art galleries throughout Japan. Starting in October, Takagi will bring his work to Europe and North America, touring with his laptop and DV camera.
In addition to Pia, Takagi will release an album on Germany¹s Karaoke Kalk label in 2002.
For more info: www.carparkrecords.com/takagi.html
Nudge (PDX) - This CD, Trick Doubt from Nudge is 3 years of shifting players and an ever-thickening cocoon of working methods being molded by an unerring sense of melody and drift belonging to Brian Foote. Stark, pleading interplay gives way to vast magnetic indulgence and back again. Addled programming meets human granular drumming and a strange new crunk is glimpsed, a party where tuning and time both get sprung. Brian and cohorts Mat Morgan (Fontanelle, CNS Engineering), Honey Owens (TraLaLa, Jackie-O Motherfucker), Elton Lawson (Metatron), Andy Brown (Fontanelle, Southerning), and Paul Dickow (Fontanelle, Strategy) have managed to swindle emotions from unsuspecting machines. Now the machines are looking to ease the pain.
Dave Gross (MA): Labeled as "One of Boston's steadfast explorers," by Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe, saxophonist and clarinetist David Gross discovered the world of improvised music while studying with Yusef Lateef at Hampshire College. He has performed with Le Quan Ninh, Eddie Prevost, Bob Marsch, Martin Tetrault,
Glenn Spearman, Raphe Malik and many members of the Boston free-improv scene including Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Laurence Cook. Currently, Gross is transforming the saxophone into exactly what it is: a metal tube with keys, mouthpiece, and a reed. Reviews of his recordings, on his own Tautology label, with ensembles EED and FETISH, have ranged from "The range of textured noise that he cajoles from his instrument is impressive" to "lengthy episodes of fingernails ripping at a blackboard."
Jason Glover is just really curious about what kind of angels or demons can be conjured up through sound. He was in a group called astronomeous with Chris Rice and Ian Nagoski for about a year in Newark, Delaware. Jason eventually got the hell out of Delaware, while Chris and Ian went on to publish Halana magazine. Relocating to Seattle in 1996, Jason met up with a self-employed seamstress, Lisa Defrance, and a nomadic painter, Seymour King, where they began to play Tripod music. They have since presented Tripod music throughout the country. Whether with in or out of Tripod, Jason is dedicated to accessing the unknown and the vulnerable, and surprising himself and anyone willing to listen, to sound without parameters, usually through some sort of plugged in device, but also an impressive assortment of third world trinkets, western classical instruments, or maybe just the objects and the resonances provided by the room.
Tucker Dulin has performed all over the country in many contexts including the Boston Philharmonic, SONOR, Klaresque Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, Mass Eye and Ear, and the Masashi Harada Ensemble. He is currently working on a DMA in contemporary music at UC, San Diego, with Bertram Turetzky, George Lewis, and Charles Curtis. He specializes in post-war solo and chamber repertoire for the trombone. He has played with Bhob Rainey, Eddie Prevost, Steve Drury, Greg Kelley, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Benjamin, Zander, James Coleman, and Randy Brecker. His trio, IIBasspit, with Seth Cluett and Mike Bullock, has performed throughout the US.
Free improviser Michael Bullock has played bass in 8 countries, on a dozen records, and in a variety of bands, touring extensively both solo and as part of various ensembles. He has also played with well-known improvisers such as Eddie Provost, Ló Quan Ninh, and Peter Kowald, in addition to working with numerous members of Boston's improvised music community. Two of his current obsessions include IIbasSpit, an electro-acoustic trio with Tucker Dulin (trombone) and Seth Cluett (bass, voice) which is planning a CD release this year; and an ongoing curiosity with acoustic feedback. Bullock has released recordings on such diverse labels as Emanem, Rounder, and Naxos. His first release as a leader, [there the eye goes not;] (Tautology 006), featuring rising stars Bhob Rainey, BrendaHopkins Miranda, and Tatsuya Nakatani was released in 1999. Of the disk, Derek Taylor of Cadence magazine said: "The real joy of this quartet is their shared origin which is translated into a confidence of purpose. . .[Bullock] and his peers are excellent examples of improvisers who are constantly and uncompromisingly exploring the unmapped nooks and crannies of audible sound."
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