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Pre-Show Piano SalonWhen: April 15 [Sun] 5:30-6:30pm*
Brooklyn is my home now, but I was born in Wisconsin (1975) and spent my childhood there. I still identify with its wild and pastoral landscapes, and progressive rural cultures. I learned my first song on the piano, “Boogie Woogie”, from my aunt and grandmother at age 7 and started the process of integrating instrumental and composed music into my exploration of sound. Through composition and performance I seek an epistemology in music practice which might inform new and meaningful life experiences. I’m currently developing an improvisatory solo piano repertoire that explores imbalanced harmonic structures inspired by Alexander Scriabin and Vijay Iyer. When not at the piano, I compose for all sound-producing things from ice cream trucks, to hundred meter piano wires, to snoring grandparents, and everything in between exploring politics, metaphor, narrative, and perception of space through sound. My work has been performed and exhibited internationally, and I have worked with composers such as Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier; film makers Pierre Huyghe, and Jane & Louise Wilson; choreographer Mollie O’Brien; and media artists Aaron Davidson & Melissa Dubbin, and Woody Vasulka. I have received grants from Meet the Composer, NYSCA Independent Media Artist award, NYFA Special Opportunity Stipend; and I received my MA in experimental music composition from Wesleyan University, CT, in 2001. www.Onsgard.net About Shawn's Music Bearings - solo piano My current work with piano develops a language of Scriabin-esque harmonic and improvisational vocabularies in an avant jazz idiom inspired by Vijay Iyer and Anthony Braxton. Departing from ‘major’ / ’minor’ harmonic designs, I’ve constructed my own set of oppositional ‘opening’ and ‘closing’ paradigms to describe the particular asymmetries these compositions explore. This work has an affinity for grotesque or awkward beauty, and vivid dissonance. I bring to it my personal ethos, love of people and nature, and joy of playing Download Shawn's Ringtones for your phone! 335Taaffe.mp3 E9.mp3 FGA-7b5.mp3 phaseG.mp3  Bill Wolter: Bill Wolter is a guitarist, composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His compositions hover around experimental rock, jazz, noise, and new music. Bill is a multi-instrumentalist focused on electric guitar. He studied composition with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, and Alvin Curran at Mills College, and other musicians at the University of New Mexico such as “The Herminator”, Richard Hermann, Steve Block, and Chris Shultis. He plays guitar in Bay Area bands Slydini, Inner Ear Brigade, Tribalgenes, and as a hired gun in other ensembles and bands. Bill also creates audio/visual live performance instruments, working in a mixture of intermedia, performance art, theatre, and installation. He frequently works with Oakland multimedia group Double Vision in performing art events. About Bill's Music Secret Rubbing A life transforming sonic experience for all who dare to witness it! Guitarist and composer Bill Wolter’s new chamber work "Secret Rubbing" for woodwinds and brass commissioned especially for this Double Vision performance. Based on "The Secret" mystical phenomenon sweeping the planet and other mystical traditions such as the Kabbalah, this furtive performance promises to be a life transforming experience for all who dare to witness it. Performance movement aspects include a big emerald tablet rising out of the floor and a loincloth clad person doing rubbings of "The Secret" on papyrus. (Disclaimer: Movement performance not guaranteed. See Craigslist ad for half-naked person needed for emerald rubbing: exhibitionists encouraged.) “Secret Rubbing” will be performed by renowned San Francisco musicians John Ingle – Saxophones; Eric Hoagland – Saxophones; Jen Baker – Trombone; and Matt Ingalls - Clarinet. |
