11-1:30pm
$10
saturday morning
open drawing studio
with live model
drop-in studio, no need to pre-register
8pm
$15 suggested donation
Boundary-free, horizon-expanding, genre-bending, transcendent, soulful, mind-opening, kickass, exquisitely gorgeous instrumental solo acoustic guitar. Michael Gulezian (gu-LAY-ze-in) continues to amaze fellow musicians as well as audiences new to the art of instrumental solo acoustic guitar. He is one of the most highly regarded instrumental acoustic artists of our time. While it is visually breathtaking to watch him perform, a Michael Gulezian concert is more than a display of cutting-edge virtuosity – it is the communion of a master musician engaged with his audience in the mystery of self-revelation, creating music of atmospheric power, ecstatic joy, and haunting beauty.
The reviews speak volumes: “unbelievable … incredible … music from another planet” (Jazziz Magazine); “Gulezian’s place [is] among the great acoustic guitar innovators of the 20th Century” (Music Web Express); “for all his virtuosic ferocity, Michael never loses sight of the melody, or the drama of his compositions. And he can still play sweetly. At this stage in his career, Gulezian doesn’t need to prove he can play, he just needs more people to hear his expansive and original sound" (Acoustic Guitar Magazine).
With his two most recent CDs charting nationally at radio, Michael quickly found himself performing live to an audience of millions on NPR radio shows West Coast Live, Echoes, and World Café. For all the airplay, accolades, and critical acclaim, Michael remains most touched and humbled by the words of his late friend and colleague Michael Hedges, who called Gulezian “a great guitarist. My kindred spirit.”
If you enjoy the artistry of musicians such as Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges – guitarists who amaze us with what ten fingers and one guitar can do – then you will love Michael Gulezian. Find out why Garrison Keillor said, “If I could play guitar the way Michael Gulezian does, I would just sit in front of a mirror and watch myself do it.”
acoustic rock
8pm
$5 suggested donation
the fire alliance presents an acoustic showcase, with:
oftenairborne
lifejacket
postbox collection
... and friends
join us for a night of acoustic rock and songwriting
free-rolling improv
8pm
$7 suggested donation
influences include kieji haino, fushitsusha, last exit, and others
8pm
$12 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music presents:
-Jean-Luc Guionnet - sax, David Chiesa - bass (France)
opening:
-Eric Zinman – euphonium, Glynnis Lomon – cello (USA)
JEAN-LUC GUIONNET – SAX
French saxophonist and sound sculptor Jean-Luc Guionnet (1966) has studied plastic arts and electro acoustics with Christine Groult, Michel Zbar and Iannis Xénakis. He played with Eric La Casa, Eric Cordier, Pascal Battus, Edward Perraud, Frédéric Blondy, Sophie Agnel, André Almuro and Olivier Benoit and in the bands Schams, Synapses, Calx, Phéromones and Hubbub. He is also a jazz saxophonist who has recorded with a number of free improvisers: Erres (Shambala, 1999), with the group Schams (Eric Cordier on hurdy-gurdy, Eric Bruelebois on drums); Improvisation vol 1 (La Belle Du Quai, 1999), credited to Calx, a duo of drummer Edward Perraud and Guionnet; Return Of The New Thing (Leo, 2002), documenting a 2000 live performance by a quartet with Dan Warburton (piano), Francois Fuchs (double bass) and Edward Perraud (drums); Heur (2002), a collaboration with drummer Edward Perraud; etc.
Perhaps the most ambitious collaboration is Synapses I & IV (Selektion, 1999), a collaboration with hurdy-gurdy player Eric Cordier which was later continued on Synapses, Synapses IV and Synapses V (Selektion, 2004). The musicians connect the strings of a double-bass, a cello and a guitar to a set of string instruments ("acoustic and electric guitars, detuned piano, spinett-vina, hurdy-gurdy and cello"), percussion instruments and metal resonnators in such a way that plucking one string causes a chain reaction of sounds.
But he is also an avantgarde composer at the border between musique concrete and new age music. Axene (Ground Force, 2000) collects three works for electronics and natural sounds composed between 1989 and 1996: Ivraie/Baragnes, Axene, Ressac/Ressac.
www.scaruffi.com/avant/guionnet.html
DAVID CHIESA - BASS
Self-taught, he begins the music in diverse rock bands as electric bass player. Turned since 1997 to the improvisation, he directs his work on the relation in the other artistic practices such as the dance (with Fine Kwiatkowski, Valerie Metivier, Veronique Albert, Yukiko Nakamura), the poetry (with Ly Thanh Tien), the experimental movie ( with Xavier Querel, Christophe Auger, Etienne Caire, Gaelle Rouard)... Interested in the reality as the material of play, he's brought to meet the collective Ouie/Dire (Marc Pichelin, Jean Pallandre, Laurent Sassi, Xavier Charles, Isabelle Duthoit, Kristoff Guez) with whom he develops links between the "musical" improvisation and the phonography. As improviser, he participated in numerous meetings and multiplies collaborations on the long term with musicians such as Jean Luc Guionnet, Frederic Blondy, Michel Doneda, Isabelle Duthoit... He played in Europe, in the United States, in the Lebanon... He is member co-founder of the association Le Clou based in the Dordogne engaged in the though and the distribution of the practices of the improvisation.
david.chiesa.free.fr/
www.groundfault.net/gf005.htm
www.abruitsecret.com/english/jlg_(eng).htm
11-1:30pm
$10
saturday morning
open drawing studio
with live model
drop-in studio, no need to pre-register
artists' reception may 27, 4-7pm
Maxwell Abeles
Michael Degutis
Kai-Patrick
O'Leary
Luke O'Sullivan
Mixed Media: Printmaking, Video, and Installation
PRODUCER* Alan Nidle/Maxwell Abeles