Trombone (and all that implies and more) with electronic percussion (and all that promises delivered) by two incredible improvisers with a long history together. Since the early 1980's, the duo has performed and recorded with Bill Frisell, Zeena Parkins, Chris Cochrane, Richard Teitelbaum, Tenko and Davey Williams and many more.

Friday April 15
Alcides Lanza w/ Meg Sheppard

Trilogy is an evening of music theatre for actress-singer, electronic sounds and electronic extensions, with digital synthesizers and lighting effects. An autobiographical cycle of songs evoking the composer's youth, growing political awareness and mature reflections, the piece makes extensive use of multi-lingual texts. This song cycle represents ongoing research by the composer in the area of new approaches in writing for voice and electronic media. Presented by Roulette in association with EMF.
http://www.emf.org

Playing in duo since 2000, their recent Mulhouse Festival concert was introduced with "It is so beautiful that one cannot speak about it." Nevertheless, Dana H. Geary, a paleobiologist at their Madison show wrote "In the first piece I heard a tropical jungle. Then it went back to the carboniferous, with giant insects and dark forests. And then it was a beautiful rendition of the cambrian explosion". Improvisations for saxophone and drums/electronics - "abstract, even subliminal" - One Final Note.
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk
http://www.gerryhemingway.com

Voice and cello. Language and singing reconfigured alongside traditional Korean music and shameless noise. One of the great imaginations, multimedia artists and storytellers of her generation with a fearless string player of dazzling technique who has sought out collaborators like Christian Marclay, Jim O'Rourke and Marc Ribot.

Wednesday April 20
Joan La Barbara
"Atmospheres"

One of the pioneers of extended voice (she could have patented her multiphonics, circular singing, ululation, and glottal clicks). Myriad colors, textured sonic atmospheres, spinning shapes and sound paintings. Her past associations include Bruce Nauman, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Morton Subotnick, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Cage.

Two Projects with Live Electronics: The collaborative duo with Kato Hideki employs analog devices in various unstable configurations, also coupling them to the room through microphonic feedback and acoustic interference at low frequencies. Proun Space, a work for two violins (Maja Cerar & Jessica Pavone) and live electronics (oscillators and spring reverb), limits both the acoustic and electronic instruments to a limited palette of pure tones and noise.