[GIG] Burning Harpsichord #4: Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies @ The Lemon Tree

[prof_lofi]

Hi Everyone,

Please feel very welcome to attend the next Burning Harpsichord event

(#4 ) featuring London artists Mark Wastell and Rhodri Davies, with

support from the recently formed percussion group Paella (who just

premiered three new works last week, and my unveil yet another one

by myself at this event!)

As usual, it's at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen, Doors 7pm / Onstage

8pm 6. For more information visit the Lemon Tree website here

http://www.lemontree.org/music-harpsichord-wastell-davies.html

as well as the links below. This is the last BH of the year, and the

last sund gig as well, so please join us as we turn the corner on our

first year.

See you then,

Bill

Paella

Paella is a new music percussion ensemble combining traditional

percussion instruments

with found objects and electronics. The

ensemble includes Patrick Keenan, Len Wiltshire, and Kris Elliot,

joined occasionally by Bill Thompson. Performing works by John

Cage, David Revill, Brent Fariss, Travis Weller, and Bill Thompson,

the group seeks to explore the horizons of experimental music

opened by Cage and others.

Mark Wastell (tam tam, Indian harmonium)

Mark Wastell has been active in contemporary music

since 1995, making his initial concerts with the trio

IST (with Simon H. Fell and Rhodri Davies) and Chris

Burn's Ensemble. He is currently a member of a number

of leading ensembles including The Sealed Knot (with

Rhodri Davies and Burkhard Beins) and +minus (with

Graham Halliwell and Bernhard Gnter). Mark has

contributed to the free improvisation scene in Britian

through his perfomances, record shop sound 323, and

his publishing activity. He is constantly exploring

new territory with

his music.

Rhodri Davies (Harp)

Rhodri Davies is a harpist who confronts traditional

concepts of the harp through his use of preparations,

detuned, bowed and e-bowed strings. Much of Davies'

work explores the contradictory and complimentary flux

between composition and improvisation. He plays with

many groups that reflect this interest, notably, IST

(with Mark Wastell and Simon Fell) and Assumed

Possibilities (with Chris Burn, Phil Durrant and Mark

Wastell). Influenced by live electronics and

music-concrete he is particularly interested in

exploring noise, silence, texture and abstract sound

on his acoustic instrument.

www.rhodridavies.co.uk

Details:

http://www.lemontree.org/music-harpsichord-wastell-davies.html

http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/site/diary2007/11_28@8pm.htm

Also,

Check out the new experimental radio program on

SHMUFM, The Fog:

The Fog

Dedicated to exploring the hazy realms of experimental

music, this 2

hour weekly program focuses on sound art and

experimental music from

the past, present, and near future. Interviews, live

studio sessions,

underground detritus, found recordings, live

electronics, field

recordings, and even an occasional blues track will

find themselves

blurred together by prof_lofi into a mixed bag of the

bizarre.

Sundays 10pm to Midnight. SHMUFM:

http://www.shmu.org.uk/shmufm.m3u

or in Aberdeen on 99.8 FM

http://billthompson.org/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soundasart/

'...of memory and dreams.' out now on http://seventhings.co.uk

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