Thurs 10.24 Portland Arts Collective Company Night $15 8pm 

Company Nights at Portland Arts Collective

Based loosely on Derek Bailey’s  free improvisation group Company, whereby musicians and artists, poets, dancers, et al, who may not normally have the chance to work together, can come together for a night, or even a “Company Week,” or mini festival of improvisation.

We aim to have a rotating cast of local musicians for our house band.

Next, we include an artist, or group of artists from out of town, and we mingle, with the hope of informing one another, about our differing perspectives, experiences and abilities, in the moment of spontaneous acts of creation.

Aurora Josephson

Aurora Josephson is a musician and visual artist who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Building on the foundation of operatic training and a BA and an MFA in Music Performance from Mills College, she has forged a bold vocal style that is uniquely her own. To unleash the limitless range of sonic possibilities in the voice, Josephson employs a variety of extended and unconventional techniques drawn from the worlds of contemporary composition, improvisation, and rock. She has performed and recorded with Alvin Curran, Gianni Gebbia, Henry Kaiser, Joelle Leandre and William Winant, and musical groups Big City Orchestrae, Flying Luttenbachers, Orchestri di Pazzi,, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, T.D. Skatchitband and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.