Thollem McDonas and The Sisters Three, Sept. 22nd

 

This time, we welcome Thollem McDonas and The Sisters Three. Doors open at 7:00 pm for this 7:30 pm performance. Tickets are $10.

Thollem’s solo piano work is a constant flow full of nuances and collisions of his studies of 350 years of keyboard musics and those found in the ever-changing environments along his perpetual travels. “Thollem McDonas does what few can: He combines extreme imagination with terrific post-classical chops and an ability to communicate through melody. A fresh, disciplined avant-pianist with an attractively extreme viewpoint.” (Greg Burk – LA Weekly)

“An intense and virtuosic keyboard improviser” (TimeOut, NY), Thollem ”inhabits a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and formally. A true original.” (Terry Riley)

“The Sisters Three are: my brothers, my sisters, my challengers, my keepers, my fellow mossy stones, my companions in chaos.” – Huckleberry Grimm

The Sisters Three (Brothers Grimm + db pedersen), ‘so wither’d and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth,’ – on this autumnal equinox performance – invite you to both celebrate Summer’s end and to encourage the return of Fall. Bring elements of Autumn, memoirs of Fall. By time The Sisters Three convene this September 22nd, the current embers of Madison’s cicada choir will be totally absent as will all the anxious energy spun by Summer’s zeal. Provided silent sanctuary, The Sisters Three will pay special homage to those courageous leaves which cast off chlorophyll pretensions and reveal the wide spectrum of their honest selves.

More:
thollem.com/solo
GrimmusiK.com

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The Laubrock/Rainey Duo

 

This Surrounded By Reality concert features an evening of contemporary jazz brought to you by Tom Rainey and Ingrid Laubrock who make up this drum and saxophone duo. Join us at Audio for the Arts, (7 S Blair Street, Madison, WI) on June 3rd, 2014 at 8:00pm to be a part of this Duo’s only performance in Wisconsin this year!

Ingrid won the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004,was nominated for the BBC Jazz Award for ‘Rising Star’ in 2005 for her soprano and tenor saxophone performances.

“Tom Rainey is a player who swerves between avant-garde notions and a mainstream sensibility and when he plays the smell of invention is in the air”
Joseph Woodard, L.A Times

Tickets are just $10 at the door and are limited to 35.
This concert will be recorded for later broadcast.

For more info on Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, please visit http://ingridlaubrock.com/ and http://ingridlaubrock.com/tom-rainey-drums.html

To RSVP visit https://www.facebook.com/events/504545513002192/

The Jeff Herriott/Trevor Saint duo

Due to an injury to one of the performers, this show has been canceled.

Trevor Saint is a dynamic percussionist and improviser specializing in the glockenspiel; he performs on a rare instrument with an extended range of pitches. Now based in Brooklyn, the Wisconsin native returns to Madison for an evening of music with old friends and collaborators. The Jeff Herriott/Trevor Saint duo combines Trevor’s love of the glockenspiel (and other resonant metals) with Jeff Herriott’s ability to electronically alter reality at the edge of perception. They create soundscapes that shift slowly from one texture to another, often improvising within fixed structures. The Lawton Hall/Trevor Saint duo will be exploring new sonic worlds as a duo, with Trevor’s clear, shimmering bells contrasting Lawton’s mechanical sounds created with computer-controlled slide projectors. This performance will dig deeper into the elusive idea of “nostalgia”, which Hall also explored in the installation Cyclic Histories (for M.L.) and the album Spirits of the Age, two works (in two very different media) created specifically for the Sensorium gallery in Milwaukee.

http://trevorsaint.net/ts/media.html

Hobby Horse – Sunday, January 13 – Audio for the Arts – 8pm

Hobby Horse

Dan Kinzelman: Sax/Clarinets/Voice/Flutes

Joe Rehmer: Bass/Keyboards/Voice/Percussion

Stefano Tamborrino: Drums/Percussion/Melodica/Voice

Alternating between hypnotic and mysterious vamps and moments of explosive dynamism, the music of Hobby Horse combines elements drawn from free jazz, ambient music, rock and electronic music. The widely varying experiences of the three members enrich a music which evades genre limitations while nonetheless maintaining a strong connection to their jazz roots.

Hobby Horse first performed in 2008 as a traditional sax trio, but their more recent efforts have seen a tendency to explore the sonic limits of the trio by using non-traditional instruments such as tin whistle, recorder, glockenspiel, melodica and choral arrangements. This adds an almost orchestral dimension to the repertoire which places original tunes written for the band alongside tunes by Tom Waits, Robert Wyatt and Thelonius Monk.

Doors 7:30   Show 8pm

@ Audio for the Arts

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Tres Hongos @ Audio for the Arts, Thursday, January 3, 8pm

Tres Hongos is a trio comprised of Bay Area trumpeter Jacob Wick (White Rocket, HighLife), pianist Marc Riordan (Wishgift, Old Idea) and percussionist Frank Rosaly (Fast Citizens, Mandarin Movie, Rolldown), both from Chicago. The trio explores long and short form improvisation that draws influences from a wide range of sound and music traditions, from the improvised to the strictly composed. Their improvised performances are characterized by sudden, playful shifts between static harmonies and tones, modular melodies, pointillistic interplay and dense, percussive assaults. Tres Hongos is three modern musicians in suits.