go see this show...we did a show with takagi and the other tompab, carpark,
audiodregs ppl last night, and i was blown away by takagi's set...the music
itself was beautiful, fragile and otherworldy...the video was perhaps the
best stuff that i have ever seen, one word...incredible.
so most def check this show out, or you'll miss out on something great.
Greg Malcolm
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>From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
>To: "idm" <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: [idm] Takagi Masakatsu & The Nudge @ SIL2K, Mon 10/29
>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:29:19 -0700
>
>STRATEGIC IMPROV LABS (SIL2K) and WAKE-UP present
>
>Takagi Masakatsu (Japan)
>The Nudge (PDX)
>Tucker Dulin (CA) & Michael Bullock (MA)
>Dave Gross (MA) & Jason Glover
>
>Monday October 29, 2001
>@ I-Spy -1921 5th Ave, SEATTLE, WA
>
>SIL2K presents a full night of music from all over the world. Takagi
>Masakatsu will perform at I-Spy on Monday October 29th along with fellow
>touring groups Timeblind and The Nudge. Opening the show is Seattle Jason
>Glover (of Tripod) in a duet with Dave Gross and the duo Tucker Dulin and
>Michael Bullock.
>
>Hope and empathy. Kyoto-based sound and vision artist, Takagi Masakatsu,
>finds his work infused with these themes. Takagi?s 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.
>
>Takagi?s debut release is Pia, on New York?s 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 concr?te: 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 Takagi?s synthetic 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: Takagi?s 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), Takagi?s 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 Germany?s Karaoke Kalk
>label in 2002.
>For more info: www.carparkrecords.com/takagi.html
>
>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, L? 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, Brenda Hopkins 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."
>
>____________________________________________________________________________
>SIL2K (Strategic Improv Labs) is a weekly experimental music and
>performance
>night at I-Spy in Seattle, featuring Seattle's best and newest underground
>music, dance, video, film and spoken word. More information about SIL2K
>and
>its members and activities can be found on the web at http://www.sil2k.org.
>
>
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