AUDREY CHEN is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization… Continue reading Beam splitter = Audrey Chen + Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø
Tag: Trombone
In Memoriam: Lou Cohen & John Cage
Variations III, another of John Cage’s brainchilds, was dedicated to the late Lou Cohen who arranged performances of Cage’s Variations pieces for a number of years. The score consists 42 transparencies with a circle on each, dropped on a sheet of paper. The result derives the number of actions and the number of variables that… Continue reading In Memoriam: Lou Cohen & John Cage
The H-O-T Series of Philadelphia: March 2015
The H-O-T Series of Philadelphia is a monthly series curated by dance artist Loren Groenendaal and experimental percussionist flandrew fleisenberg that features improvisational dance, music, and other experimental performance from local and touring artists. For March, the series included six movements: Movement I Megan Stern, dance and movement flandrew fleisenberg, the unique percussionist and sound… Continue reading The H-O-T Series of Philadelphia: March 2015
Solarists: Haitian Rail
Avant-garde super-group Haitian Rail released Solarists, their second full-length album, on New Atlantis Reocrds. Solarists brashly charts the common spaces between creative noise rock and the jazz avant-garde, while shattering the restrictive barriers between them. Formerly dubbed Ricart/Millevoi Quartet, the new lineup features: Nick Millevoi, Guitar Edward Ricart, Bass Dan Blacksberg, Trombone and Kevin Shea,… Continue reading Solarists: Haitian Rail
Fire Museum Presents: Nick Millevoi’s Bug Out! Quintet
The Nick Millevoi of Many Arms, Deveykus, The Archer Spade Music Series and many more musical projects debuted his latest and greatest brainchild: The Nick Millevoi Bug Out! Quintet. Explorers of free improv jazz, the Quintet is: Nick Millevoi, guitar Dan Blacksberg, trombone Julius Masri, circuit bent electronics Pete McRae, bass Ricardo Lagomasino, drum
Invocation
Philadelphia trombonist and composer Dan Blacksberg is rapidly establishing himself as one of the city’s premiere musicians, renowned as one of the leading trombonists in the world of klezmer. Dan is making a name for himself across many genres in Philadelphia and beyond. For his opening performance for Bop Kaballah at The Little Shul, he… Continue reading Invocation
When The Trombone Speaks: Dan Blacksberg (the sequel)
“A virtuosic technician with abundant creativity and a drive to engage disparate and unlikely scenarios….” All About Jazz New York The following YouTube playlist includes Dan’s solo performances
When The Trombone Speaks: Dan Blacksberg
Local legend Dan Blacksberg is rapidly emerging as a new leading voice on the trombone. With musical activity that spans avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, improvised music and klezmer, Dan brings a burly, rough-edged sound intended to push at the technical and textural extremes of his instrument. Based in Philadelphia, Dan leads a variety of groups, such… Continue reading When The Trombone Speaks: Dan Blacksberg
Curt Oren
drove all the way from Iowa City to West Philly & played a set of his baritone saxophone music accompanied by circular breathing. The result was an unbroken stream of pounding rhythms and fluid melodies. Oren’s music is available on Bandcamp.
Trio = Erik Ruin + Archer Spade(Nick Millevoi & Dan Blacksberg)
Archer Spade and Erik Ruin weaved sight and sound in a collective improvisation using Electric and Acoustic guitar, trombone, and tapes; providing the soundtrack for layered images of disaster – both elemental forces gone awry, and societal breakdown- that splintered and shook into abstract form and color as Ruin manipulated piles of paper cuts and… Continue reading Trio = Erik Ruin + Archer Spade(Nick Millevoi & Dan Blacksberg)