ISP Performer Archive of Events
Caroline Chaparro & Suniti Dernovsek- movement, Andrew Jones- upright bass, Juniana Lanning- live sampling
Rich Halley (sax), Tim DuRoche (drums), and Carson Halley (drums) explore the the improvisational possibilities of a tenor saxophone/two drummer trio.
Rich Halley is a saxophonist and composer based in Portland, Oregon. He is known for his asymmetric and rhythmic compositions and his fiery playing. Rich has released 21 critically acclaimed recordings as a leader and has recorded over one hundred original compositions. His new album “The Literature” is by the Rich Halley 3 and features Canadian bassist Clyde Reed and his son, drummer Carson Halley. As All About Jazz describes it: “The music’s appeal is its unusual and engaging mixture of structure and freedom – sometimes very wild freedom.” DownBeat said “Oregon-based saxophonist Rich Halley has been turning out smart, brawny music for a couple of decades.”
uneasy trio is comprised of Annie Gilbert (voice, trombone), Justin Smith (viola, bass, electronics), and Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice). Together they improvise and explore their unique timbral grouping. They play with their improvisations in amplified multiplicities, and various resonant spaces. uneasy trio is based in Portland, OR.
Saxophonist and Composer Ian Christensen is equally at home in the worlds of jazz, rock, and improvised Music. Inspired by the works of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Albert Ayler, Claude Debussy, and Elliot Smith, Ian strives to cultivate a new and honest approach, anchored by a strong melodic sensibility and a passion for the unknown. Ian has studied music in New York City, at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, under the likes of Reggie Workman, Jane Ira Bloom, Andrew Cyrille, Tony Malaby, and Bill McHenry, and in Portland, OR under David Valdez, Renato Caranto, Tim Bryson, Ben Medler, Michelle Medler, Thara Memory, Randy Porter and Alan Jones. Ian has had the honor of playing with such luminaries as Mel Brown, Ron Steen, Terrell Stafford, Red Holloway, John Stowell, Javon Jackson, Dave Glasser, and many others. In March of 2010, Ian was invited to play at the Bern Internation Jazz Festival in Bern, Switzerland, with a group from the New School. Ian also remains an active composer, having written extensively for small and large groups.
Kickstand Comedy presents a unique collaboration of improvised music and improv comedy.
Lee Elderton (sax), Grant Pierce (drums), Maxx Katz (flute),
Amy Conway, Myla Johnson, Michael Knackstedt, Kara Moore, Dylan Rieff, Lauren Sinner, Michael Zimmer (comedy improv)
Leyla Daze is a nonbinary neuroqueer who goes by they/them/princeXx. Their work imagines a utopic future called Next Place, where all humans bask in harmony with the oneness of immediate experience. Through cavelike trance music and iterative video installation, Leyla creates sensory portals which dunk participants in the slime of the present moment. Each song is a spell, weaving dance-banger drums, participatory chanting, mystical costume and movement to guide us toward an alien dimension of connectedness. Leyla’s show is like Laurie Anderson through the looking glass, roaming in twisted lands to find seeds of truth.
http://instagram.com/leyladaze
Hang out in the courtyard, grab a beer and listen to Gina Altamura and Akila Fields
An Apple for my Teacher
Dana Reason – composer, sounds, keys
Ensemble
Alissa DeRubeis – Synth
Mark Dresser – bass
Mike Gamble – guitar/electronics
Melody Owen- Second Life/Visuals
John Savage – woodwinds
Justin Peake- drums, cymbals
Holland Andrews- Voice, pedals
Helen Gillet- Cello
My last visit with Pauline Oliveros (1938-2016) was in December of 2013. We were in the basement of Roulette, in Brooklyn, New York, and I was interviewing her.
Oliveros had and continues to have a profound influence on my work. From my mid-teens into adulthood, I followed her music and ideas, and traced her courage. As a graduate student at Mills College, I studied composition with her. Oliveros’ Deep Listening label published my first solo recording, “Primal Identity”.
In the early 2000s, I had the incredible honor of touring alongside her and Philip Gelb on shakuhachi as the Space Between Trio. The trio had several remarkable performances featuring guests such as: Mark Dresser, who is performing tonight, Barre Philips, Joelle Leandre, India Cooke, Jon Raskin and Matthew Sperry.
As a pioneering voice in experimental and electronic music, Oliveros proposed expansive and profound rethinkings of sonic futures. Futures that decolonized sound-music-listening practices, centralizing the right to music make as a community-based practice. A practice that not only honors the human experience of sounding and sensing, but situates listening as a socially engaged and profound aesthetic act. Oliveros’ year long Deep Listening Certificate training furthered this practice. It was a honor to take this training alongside Dr. Catherine Lee, who is also performing on tonight’s concert.
Tonight reflects and manifests the sonic lessons I learned from my teacher, Pauline, and also serves as a tribute to her great creative spirit, generative artistic practice, and collective service to humanity. Dare to listen, deeply.
– Dana Reason
On perpetual tour since March 2008, movement and stasis are both at the center of C.J. Boyd’s music. His non-stop travels between North America and Europe have been propelled by vans, cars, trains, buses, planes, and boats, but most of all a commitment to ceaseless discovery and re-invention. His oceanic sounds provide a home for the homeless and journeys to the homebound.
Matt Carlson is an electronic music composer and performer from Portland, Oregon. He works with analog modular synthesis, voice, computer control, field recordings, and time delay effects to construct dense clouds of surrealistic electroacoustic sound phenomena. He also performs with bass clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff as Thrill Jockey recording artists Golden Retriever.
