ADAM RUDOPLH'S GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA
FIRST L.A. APPEARANCE IN FOUR YEARS!
Unique in the realm of approaches to improvisational conducting, Go: Organic Orchestra utilizes a composed non-linear score consisting of sound and motion elements. These include tone rows, synthetic scales, melodies, linguistic shapes, intervallic patterns, textural gestures, modes, ragas, maqams, and plainchant. The score serves to provide material for both the improvisations and the orchestrations. Motion and forms and are generated through the application of the composer's rhythm concept Cyclic Verticalism whereby polymeters are combined with additive rhythm cycles.
In concert, the composer conducts the musicians in a spontaneous way by using a variety of hand signals to cue and orchestrate the score and direct the improvisations. He seeks to generate unusual relationships of sound against sound, form against form, and rhythm against rhythm in a non-linear, ever shifting kaleidoscope of music images: weaving an audio syncretic music fabric.
The music is organic in the sense that the compositions and conducting serve as inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves in the moment by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice. Through listening and imagination the conductor and performers inspire one another to create emotional colorations of sound.
Rather than the score being a set of instructions of what, how and when to play, the non-linear semiotic (symbols) of the written music are an invitation to discover the potentialities of what can happen when transformed into syntax as expressed through the hands and breath of a group of virtuosic, imaginative, and soulful improvisers.
Performing artists:
BENNIE MAUPIN: bass clarinet, alto flute, bamboo flutes
PABLO CALOGERO: bass clarinet, bass flute, Tibetan trumpet
GUSTAVO BULGACH: clarinet, bamboo flute
MATT ZEBLEY: alto clarinet, bamboo flute
TRACY WANNOME: bass clarinet, bamboo flute
ELLEN BURR: c flute, alto flute, piccolo, bamboo flute,
EMILY HAY: c flute, alto flute, piccolo, bamboo flute
FAWNTICE McCAIN: c flute, alto flute, piccolo, bamboo flutes, suling, ocarina
MYKA MILLER: oboe, english horn
RANDY GLOSS: riq, frame drums, conga, batajon, gongs, tuned gongs, bells, percussion
MUNYUNGO JACKSON: congas, udu, cajon, marimbula, surdos, talking drum, percussion
MILES SHREWSBERY: tabla, frame drum, udu, shakers. percussion
ANDRES RENTERIA: bata, cajon, bowls, shakers, percussion
ANDREW GRUESHOW: achimevu, sogo, talking drum, berimbau, percussion
TJ TROY: tabla, frame drum, dumbek, percussion
ADAM YASMIN: cajon, percussion
BILL CASALE: acoustic bass
NICK ROSEN: acoustic bass
LAURA STEENBERGE: acoustic bass
TYLANA RENGA: violin
PALOMA UDOVIC: violin
MIGUEL ATWOOD FERGUSON: viola
KAREN ELAINE:–viola
CASSIA STREB: viola
APRIL GUTHRIE: cello
PETER JACOBSON: cello
FEDERICO RAMOS: guitar
REBEKAH RAFF: harp
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2009
8PM
ELECTRIC LODGE, VENICE, CA
1416 Electric Ave.
(1 BLOCK EAST OF ABBOT KINNEY SOUTH OF CALIFORNIA)
PLEASE PARK IN FREE ON SITE LOT
DIRECTIONS 310.306.1854
Admission $25; $15 students w/ID
(Advance tickets recommended; Purchase here)
