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SUMMARY:OPENSOUND: improvised and experimental music 
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: OPENSOUND: improvised and experimental music =0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441590997=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2012-04-21=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2012-04-21=0D=0A=0D=0AGrizzler,  big band of experimental improv!=0D=0A==0D=0A=Set 1=0D=0A=For Grizzler, by Jack Callahan=0D=0A=Wave functions 1,  by Forbes Graham=0D=0A=The Order of Things, by gdg=0D=0A==0D=0A=Set 2=0D=0A=Selections from Scream, by Cornelius Cardew=0D=0A==0D=0A=Set 3=0D=0A=Free improvisations by Grizzler=0D=0A=Gizzler is any or all of: Dave Gross, saxophone, LPs, Steve Norton,=0D=0A=reeds, Forbes Graham, trumpet, Michael Rosenstein, electronics, Lou=0D=0A=Bunk, assorted paraphernalia, Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin, David=0D=0A=Michael Curry, strings and electronics, Jack Callahan, percussion, Vic=0D=0A=Rawlings, cello/curcits, Jules Vasylenko, winds, Lou Cohen, wiimote,=0D=0A=laptop, Angela Sawyer, gadgets, electronics, Jed Speare, laptop/field=0D=0A=recordings, Joshua Jefferson, reeds, Matt Samolis, flute, Flandrew=0D=0A=Fleisenberg, percussion, Poly Hanson, percussion=0D=0A=__________________________________________=0D=0A==0D=0A=Program Notes and Bios=0D=0A==0D=0A=Grizzler is a large improvising band organized around a diverse group=0D=0A=of Boston's best musicians. Individually and in other groups, these=0D=0A=musicians have developed their own strategies for music making. In=0D=0A=Grizzler, we each try to stay true to our own individual voices while=0D=0A=creating a collective, spontaneous composition.=0D=0A==0D=0A=Forbes Graham is a trumpet player, composer, and electronic musician=0D=0A=currently based in the Boston area. He grew up in Silver Spring, MD=0D=0A=studying and performing jazz, classical, and concert band music. As a=0D=0A=teenager he discovered heavy metal and hardcore punk, genres which=0D=0A=influence his pursuit of extreme sound to this day. His music is also=0D=0A=influenced by numerology, poetry, cinema, marching bands, and the 80s=0D=0A=in general (the era in which he grew up). He has performed at Festival=0D=0A=of New Trumpet, Vision Festival, High Zero, amongst others.=0D=0A==0D=0A=Jack Callahan, Amherst resident, solo percussionist and booker of=0D=0A=countless basement shows. His music aims to create a total sonic=0D=0A=takeover of the space, always by employing silence to gather souls=0D=0A=towards a complete ecstatic takeover. (or, sometimes by). Sometimes you=0D=0A=will ask, 'is this record still playing'? Yes it is still playing.=0D=0A==0D=0A=Called 'One of Boston's steadfast explorers,' by the Boston Globe,=0D=0A=saxophonist David Gross has been performing for more than a decade.=0D=0A=Among a slew of others whose names are perhaps not as recognizable,=0D=0A=Mr.Gross has performed with Phil Minton, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden,=0D=0A=John Olson, Gino Robair, Martin Tetreault, Tom Carter, Glenn Spearman,=0D=0A=Raphe Malik and many members of the Boston free-improv scene including=0D=0A=Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Laurence Cook. Currently, Gross is=0D=0A=transforming the saxophone into exactly what it is: a metal tube with=0D=0A=keys, mouthpiece, and a reed. Reviews of his recordings have been as=0D=0A=varied as 'The range of textured noise that he cajoles from his=0D=0A=instrument is impressive' to 'lengthy episodes of fingernails ripping=0D=0A=at a blackboard' and recently 'the intimacy with which he approaches=0D=0A=the saxophone, each screw in each latch, every fiber in the reed, every=0D=0A=pad or valve, and all the negative space in between, is simply=0D=0A=astounding'. Gross has performed throughout the US and Europe including=0D=0A=at festivals as diverse as The KNOB (Wichita, KS), Big Sur Festival of=0D=0A=Experimental Music (CA), High Zero (Baltimore, MD), Improvised and=0D=0A=Otherwise (NYC), The No Idea Fest (Austin, TX) and Autumn Uprising=0D=0A=(Boston, MA) which he created in 1997. His most recent disk ,=0D=0A='untitled(or not yet)' (1pt8 seconds) a studio recording with James=0D=0A=Coleman(theremin), Mike Bullock (contrabass) and Steve Roden=0D=0A=(electronics) was just released. Future releases include a live=0D=0A=re-issue of his band FETISH, with bassist Mike Bullock and=0D=0A=percussionsit Tatsuya Nakatani (Weirdo Records) as well as his second=0D=0A=solo disk 'this is the grizzle' (1pt8 seconds).=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:Doors 7:30 pm =0D=0A=Music  8:00 pm
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