Concert: avant jazz
8:30 – 11:30pm
$10 donation
psi with CHRIS FORSYTH
-KNOW TRIO
-ROBERT RIVERA - SOLO CELLO
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psi
Chris Forsyth – guitar
Jaime Fennelly – electronics
Fritz Welch – drums, amplified percussion
initiatiating commands of implanted & caustic noise:
Levitation caused by hidden impulses manifests itself musically
by allowing time to coexist with limitless space. Clamorous clusters
unimpaired by everpresent allergic reactions interbreed to eventually
self-distruct within natural silences.
psi is a Brooklyn, NY based electro-acoustic trio featuring Jaime
Fennelly(electronics), Chris Forsyth (electric guitar), and Fritz Welch
(drums and amplified percussion). The diverse artistic backgrounds of the
members of the group (in sound-installation, music with dance, free
improvisation, etc.) have contributed to a unique ensemble sound focusing on
dispersal of time, magnified textures, and an ambiguity of originating
source sounds as compositional elements. Spontaneity serves as a crucial
catalyst for the sounds created collectively, and these individual sounds
are free to exist in and of themselves, without dependency on answers or
reactions by the other players. The time-based arrangement and co-existence
of such independent statements creates the dynamic of the music. Freedom of
individual expression combined with subservience to a group identity is the
ultimate manifestation of psi.
BIOS:
Jaime Fennelly is an electronicist, double-bassist and improviser/composer
living in Brooklyn, NY. Recently, he has been working with the collective
electro-acoustic trio, psi, (with drummer/visual artist Fritz Welch and el.
guitarist Chris Forsyth). Since 2001, Jaime has also been collaborating
with choreographer/dancer Miguel Gutierrez on several different projects
including Sabotage (their improvised duo collaboration), enter the seen, and
I succumb, the culmination of a year’s research into the pleasurable
delicacy and reckless economy of group improvisation, which will be shown at
DTW in NYC in May of 2003. Since moving back to New York two years ago,
Jaime has established a presence in both the downtown music & dance scenes.
From 2000-2002, Jaime was a member of Andrew D¹Angelo¹s quartet SQUAWNK as
well as their electronic/acoustic duo, which released Terpsichorea #2/Duets
on Falçata-Galia Recordings. Some of his other previous, current and future
collaborators include Amy Denio, David Dorfman, Nicolas Field, Hilmar
Jensson, Serhat Koksal, Chris Peck, Martin Sonderkamp, Skuli Sverrisson,
Alex Waterman, and transatlantic postal collaborations with Richy Midnight .
Jaime was the recipient of a 2002 Artist Exploration Fund from Arts
International that he used while attending a residency at STEIM (Studio for
Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam this past January.
Chris Forsyth is a Brooklyn, NY based electric guitarist engaged in
exploring the possibilities of improvisation in music. He has been working
in New York City and performing throughout the United States and Europe with
multiple ensembles since 1996, including a performance at the 2001
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, two appearances at the Big Sur (CA)
Experimental Music Festival (1999 & 2001), and Improvised & Otherwise
Festival (2002). His ongoing, long-term projects include the groups ALL
TIME PRESENT, W.O.O. REVELATOR, duo collaboration with pianist/acoustic
guitarist ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE, the FOCUS QUINTET, and the electro-acoustic
ensemble psi. Recordings of these groups have been released on the Pax
Recordings, Evolving Ear, Sweetstuff Media, and Bottomfeeder labels, and
received radio play and press acclaim worldwide. Past and future
collaborators include, Jeff Arnal, Tony Bevan, Daniel Carter, Loren
Mazzacane Connors, Dan Dechellis, Jaime Fennelly, Greg Kelley, Annette
Krebs, Bhob Rainey, Rev.99, Gary Smith, Assif Tsahar, Fritz Welch, and Jack
Wright. Forsyth has also performed as a solo curated by Derek Bailey at
Tonic in NYC. He was the curator of the Bunker Annex Series of improvised
and experimental music at the Knitting Factory in New York City, and is a
co-organizer of the Improvised & Otherwise Festival of Sound and Form, an
annual four-day music, dance, and video event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Drummer/percussionist and visual artist Fritz Welch lives and sustains his
practice in Brooklyn NY. Musically he employs a wide range of traditional
drumming devices while also developing a vocabulary derived from home-made
and “junk” instruments. He has created site specific installations w/ sonic
components at various exhibition spaces in NYC, New Orleans LA, Chicago IL,
Vienna AU, Glasgow and Belfast UK and Prague and Tabor CZ. He is or has
been a member of Wi77!n6, Reel-Speed-Artist, Bushwick Trio, Irritating
HorseEye, Poppycorn and Dioclese, psi and the live video group Naval Cassidy
and the Hands of Orlak. He has played in a variety of improvised contexts
with Jesse Dulman, John Seden, Chris Peck, George Cremacshi, Daniel Carter,
Eric Boros, Josh Stevenson, Amy Denio and Alex Waterman among others. He
organizes concerts and festivals including humansacrifice presents @
MomentaArts 2000 and 2002 Brooklyn Free Music Festival.
KNOW TRIO
Dan Shaud – French horn
Gary Fieldman – percussion
Ima Jonsdottir – violin
“third stream, free, absurdist…”
ROBERT RIVERA - solo cello
Production: rob chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com