Telemetry Streaming Concert with The Daxophone Consort, Chris Dammann, Rachel Gibson, El sol de Jefferson
The UVa Department of Music and The Bridge PAI present the first ever streaming Telemetry event featuring performances from The Daxophone Consort, Chris Dammann, Rachel Bigson, Omar Fraire & Matias Vilaplana.
Music begins at 7:30pm streaming from https://www.twitch.tv/thebridgepai
About the performers:
The Daxophone Consort - Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, and Ron Shalom comprise the U.S.'s only extant daxophone consort. The daxophone is a thin wooden strip played with a bow, which was created by the German improviser/inventor Hans Reichel in 1987. The instrument’s sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles and delicate whistles to wild screams. The trio develops realizations of historical experimental music, commissions new work, and generates new pieces. Collaborators have included the instrument inventor and composer Ellen Fullman, music theorist Mack Hagood, composer Alvin Lucier, and experimental vocalists Judith Berkson and Shelley Hirsch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWsfyMUwq5o
Chris Dammann is a composer, bassist, and improviser. Raised in Virginia, he moved to Chicago to be a part of Chicago’s jazz and creative music scene and earn a BM in Double Bass performance at Northwestern’s conservatory, performing in Northwestern’s orchestra while also leading a monthly gig at Fred Anderson’s Velvet Lounge until he passed in 2010. He has performed at WXPN’s World Cafe, Chicago’s Millennium Park Downtown Sound Series, The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, PRI’s Live Wire and SXSW.
Chris’ main composition/performance project Restroy’s last self-titled release charted in the top 30 of the National JazzWeek radio charts and received positive press from The Chicago Reader, Classicalite.com, JazzWeekly.com, WNYC’s New sounds podcast, Newcity Music, and midwestaxn.com. Chris has recently composed music for five short films. He has also scored the award-winning short film, Stones for Thunder.
https://www.christopherdammann.com/
Rachel Gibson is a percussionist and music technologist from Tower City, Pennsylvania. She is currently attending the University of Virginia to pursue a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Computer Technologies. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Percussion Performance and Technology in Music and Related Arts (TIMARA).
https://www.rachelkgibson.net/
El sol de Jefferson - Omare Fraire and Matias Vilaplana
Omar Fraire
Human as an artist, inventor, magician, curator, teacher. After having deserted from two composition universities in México, he specializes in Sonology (Koninklijk Conservatorium - Holland) and holds a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art as auditor (Aguascalientes). His work is inserted into reality by transducing it and functions as an act of resistance. Enjoys collaborative work and his energies oscillate across fields of knowledge. Creator of Punto Ciego Festival and artist of the Guggenheim Aguascalientes, is mostly self-taught although he holds an M.A. at Wesleyan and currently studies a Ph. D at UVA.
Matias Vilaplana's creative practices involve recording/mixing, music composition, musical interaction design in virtual reality, ensemble improvisation with live audio processing and drawing.
We will also be showing video pieces from Prof. James Scheuren
James Lam Scheuren is an artist and educator who teaches at the University of Virginia.
https://jamesscheuren.com/
The Telemetry Series, supported by UVA Arts and the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts is always free and open to the public.
This monthly music series occurs in partnership with The Bridge, and features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. They push boundaries of musicianship by offering a unique laboratory to engage new methods of composition and instrumentation. Unlike anything else in the city, Charlottesville artists and audiences connect with new concepts and are continuously inspired towards ingenuity through unique sound experiences.This monthly music series occurs in partnership with The Bridge, and features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. They push boundaries of musicianship by offering a unique laboratory to engage new methods of composition and instrumentation. Unlike anything else in the city, Charlottesville artists and audiences connect with new concepts and are continuously inspired towards ingenuity through unique sound experiences.
All events are subject to change.
Please call 434.924.3052 for more information.
The Bridge PAI
Phone: 434-984-5669
Email: info@thebridgepai.org
Website: thebridgepai.org
The Bridge is located at 209 Monticello Road, Charlottesville, VA
Supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts