Big announcement
Wilhelm Matthies‘ album release date @EndTitles: 5th of July.
Stay tuned!
While we are waiting…
for his release @ EndTitles, Wilhelm Matthies plays the newest version of mosesa, 6C, live.
The Oak Creek Ensemble, performed live with guest conductors in the Formations Series at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (5-21-15). Mark Mantel percussion, Jay Molerskov electric guitar with effects, Jason Wietlispach, bass guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet, and Hal Rammel sound palette.
Wilhelm and Mark, Photo by Gina Litherland
Free improvising
“Unrehearsed MKE” @ the Jazz Estate in Milwaukee, a few day ago, Wilhelm Matthies with Rob Lundberg.
Photos by Linda Binder and August J. Ray
Phyllis Chen performed Silvia Corda’s work for Toy Piano
Look what Silvia just found (NYTimes.com):
Phyllis Chen performs with Toy Pianos and Music Boxes
There were no dancers in tutus on Wednesday evening, though, when the pianist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Phyllis Chen presented the world premiere of “Lighting the Dark,” a work for music boxes, clavichord, toy pianos, accordion and electronics at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, which had commissioned the work. Her handmade music boxes did contain spinning figurines. But though these dolls, built by the dancer and puppeteer Jordan Morley, were small, they were also unapologetically sturdy. Dressed in brightly hued fabrics from folk traditions around the world, they represented women as mothers, farmers and teachers.
“Lighting the Dark” was the highlight of an hourlong one-woman show, which also featured works by John Dowland, Silvia Corda and Alvin Lucier. By turns poignant, humorous and virtuosic, Ms. Chen’s performance offered a slyly subversive take on issues relating to femininity, technology and power.
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For the beautiful, otherworldly “Tre Ritratti del Tempo,” by Ms. Corda, an Italian pianist-composer, Ms. Chen sat — or rather knelt — in front of a red toy grand piano with a brown toy upright placed piggyback on top. With one hand she manipulated the strings of a toy dulcimer by her side, drawing from it eerie and exotic sounds.
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Read the whole story here (NYTimes.com)
EndTitles meets Arovane: Ein Tag mit Uwe Zahn
UPDATE: Weiterer Artikel auf deutsch -> How to survive three days with Arovane?
An einem sonnigen Tag besuchte ich Uwe Zahn aka Arovane in seinem Studio in Zossen bei Berlin. Wie tranken Kaffee, hörten viel Musik und unterhielten uns.
ET: Mit dem Album Lilies aus dem Jahr 2001 hast Du dich als Arovane von der Szene verabschiedet. Goodbye forever schien damals allgegenwärtig. Was hat dich dazu bewegt, sich für die langjährige Pause und vor allem für das Comeback zu entscheiden?