experimental music PAELLA percussion group

[prof_lofi]

Hi everyone,

Please feel welcome to attend a concert featuring new percussion ensemble Paella. They use found objects, electronics, graphic scores, and full kits. They will be featuring three new works, two by Texas experimental composers Brent Fariss and Travis Weller, and one by David Revill, John Cage's biographer and composer. We will also be featuring a work by John Cage himself, using only found plant material. Definitely not a night t be missed! Doors at 7:15, music at 7:45 (sharp! so please be early), and best of all, free.

[For anyone interested, David Revill will be giving a talk at noon on the same day at the University of Aberdeen, McRobert Building, room 055.

Details here: http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_09@12pm.htm ]

Paella is gratefully supported by the sound festival, the Lemon Tree, and the University of Aberdeen, as well as by Rosemount Community Centre.

Here's the blurb (see you all there!)

Bill

Paella is a new music percussion ensemble combining traditional percussion instruments with found objects. The ensemble includes Patrick Keenan, Len Wiltshire, and Kris Elliot, joined occasionally by Bill Thompson. Performing works by John Cage, as well as premiering works by David Revill, Brent Fariss, and Travis Weller, the group seeks to explore the horizons of experimental music opened by Cage and others.

Friday 9 November 2007, 7.45pm

Picture Gallery, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, Broad Street, Aberdeen

Tickets: Admission free

more info: http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_09@7.45pm.htm

[Balvack]

Sound Found Sound

Cheers Bill - another really interesting event in the great Sound festival.

Like Fred Frith said, we're really lucky to have this festival in our home town - I hope folk are appreciating it.

Sounds like a good one tonight, and I'm intrigued by the "using only found plant material". Should we bring our own grass whistles for an audience participation encore ? o_O