We would like to welcome you to the seventh in a series of intimate house concerts hosted by Bill Thompson, Brent Fariss, and Clark Crawford. In this particular series we will be following a standard format of one installation followed by two solo performances. The solo performances will be performed from the loft above and out of sight of the audience seated below. We have always struggled with the all too common phenomenon of audience members looking at what is being performed at the expense of listening to what is being performed. Through this series we are hoping to refocus our energies back into the act of listening as a primary vehicle of experiencing our surroundings.

Tonight’s concert celebrates Bill Thompson’s 33 rd birthday!

Please stick around for an after-party featuring DJ Ottohive, dj angel reyezzz, and more!!!

mu - Bill Thompson

mu was created last year as an installation. it involved designing several
tracks of sine wave bass tones that were, for the most part, below the pitch
threshold of human hearing. the sine waves were designed to randomly rise
and fall in frequency and were played by three cd players set at random.
the players were connected to speakers aimed at the underside of a prepared
grand piano. as the frequency of various bass tones crossed and resonated
with the strings of the piano, sympathetic vibrations would occur causing
the piano to play arcs of sound rolling up and down the prepared strings.
the title mu is a japanese zen term roughly translated to 'nothingness' or
'emptiness'. it does not translate well since it implies that any
linguistic expression limits its true meaning. it was chosen as the title
for that reason, in that any other title for the installation seemed to
color/limit the experience of the piece.

Two Pieces for Saxophone - Carl Smith

1. Badger in the Bag: a duel for Tenor Sax and Prerecording - James Alexander / Carl Smith
“you don't necessarily have to play in time to play in time."

2. Elements (for Carl Smith) - Bill Thompson

Carl Smith is an improviser and composer and, as an instrumentalist, performs exclusively on tenor saxophone. Carl has studied privately with Alex Coke, Frank Gratkowski, Jack Wright, Tina Marsh, Sabir Mateen, Assif Tsahar, Rob Brown and Lou Grassi and as played with Charles Gayle, Peter Kowald, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Wadada Leo Smith and Gunda Gottschalk, among others. Carl is also organizer of the ECFA trio, which is the main vehicle for Carl's musical ideas (please see http://www.ecfamusic.com for more info.). The last year has seen Carl perform and record in a wind quintet with Faruq Z. Bey in Detroit, Michigan, and play at the 416-2002 Creative Music Festival in Toronto, Canada.

Backwards from Gardel - Nathan Wood (Ottohive)

After realizing that his dreams of rockstardom just weren't going to happen, a love of Michael Jackson andJourney ultimately led to his unraveling, a void that could only be filled by a pair of headphones, Fruity Loops and Sound Forge. Contact Nathan (aka Ottohive)

Presented by:

ThomFariCraw:
modern music initiative

Dedicated to the creation and presentation of the highest caliber of modern experimental music

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