Tuesday April 29 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
PROGRAM
A Grammar of Motives in Three Sets
"Grammar of Motives 1" - This experimental, audience-led conduction for solo percussion by Music Research Strategies involves the use of graphic score game pieces by a Conduction Ensemble that informs the narrative of the musical performance for solo percussion.
"Grammar of Motives 2" - This section is a on Open Call for audience members to participate in interpreting the game pieces, or graphic score.
34Z is an Improvising, high octane trio featuring - Thomas Stanley/Pat Cain/Music Research Strategies
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Grammar of Motives is an exciting, forward-thinking, participatory conduction system using unique game pieces in a graphic score wielded by audience members for interpretation by Creative Improvising percussionists and other musicians. The Grammar of Motives tour is currently underway in the Northeast April and May, with additional dates in Austin, San Francisco and Krakow, Poland later this year.
34Z is a new Improvising trio of old accomplices. This formation is one to honor the life, legacy and research methods of Ethnomusicologist Zora Neale Hurston with dynamic, critical and semi-amplified Creative Music.
BIOS
A self-styled strategist, Music Research Strategies offers your community an interculturally-situated, anti-ethnographic research methods and methodologies using technologies of Performing Political Education, Conviviality and Improvisation.
Film trailer - ww.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHLh_3AS0c
Mini-Doc - https://vimeo.com/788976401
Albums - sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/white-people-killed-them; sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-access-black-axes; sigerecords.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-postures
Dr. Thomas "Bushmeat" Stanley’s electroBush, improvised electronic sound art and words designed to emancipate the listener from archaic and destructive tendencies and beliefs.
p cain - Pat Cain’s electronics are one-half of the DC experimental hip hop duo, model home. With Nappy Nappa (voice), they take a freewheeling and improvisational approach that forms a sonic journal, unfiltered and immediate. Cain’s solo excursions are also available on their Bandcamp page.
https://modelhomedc.bandcamp.com/