$15 Cover @ the Door / Start 9:30pm / Doors 9:15pm / Seated Show
The first meeting of an improvising quartet featuring an international group of stellar improvisers. Brooklyn-based saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock is among the leading lights of her generation, leading several acclaimed ensembles that explore terrain from intimate chamber music to gnarly, grooving large ensemble works, and collaborating with some of the most exciting improvisers and instrumentalists working today. Electronic musician Tim Perkis, who recently relocated to Sweden from the San Francisco Bay Area where he was a pillar of the experimental and improvised music community for decades, is a pioneer of live interactive electronics, and a recent awardee of the Giga-Hertz Prize for lifetime achievement in electronic music with his networked computer music ensemble, The Hub.
Bay Area bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and drummer Jason Levis are duo B., an improvising and composing ensemble formed nearly twenty years ago, that has developed and refined a singular approach to improvisation and composition through cross-disciplinary projects with film, collaborations with improvising instrumentalists at home and abroad, and immersion in the improvised-composed musical worlds of masters Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill, and others. "The duo sounds like they have been working together for a long time, they are consistently connected, sounding like they are telling a story together as one force of nature. There is a strong, spirited dialogue going on here." —Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
Ingrid Laubrock, saxophones (NYC)
Tim Perkis, electronics (Sweden/SF Bay Area)
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass (SF Bay Area)
Jason Levis, drums (SF Bay Area)