[NewMusicEvents] Ostitis Mediya at 1510, Thursday

[Robair, Gino]

from Charity Chan:
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The second evening of the Ostitis Mediya Tour of the Pacific 
Northwest (The Three Pipes: Noah Phillips, Jordan Glenn, Charity Chan 
w/ guest Scott Thomson of AIM Toronto)


There will be a concert taking place at 1510 8th Street this Thursday 
(Dec. 7th) at 8:00pm. Tix are $5-10 sliding scale. 

An evening of improvised and contemporary new music, featuring:

Scott Thomson (guest artist from AIM Toronto)
Jordan Glenn
Noah Phillips
Charity Chan
Gino Robair
Damon Smith
Corey Wright
Aram Shelton
Andy Strain


Charity Chan:
While Charity's creative work concentrates itself in the area of 
contemporary improvisation (extended piano), she has also worked and 
studied extensively in the classical and contemporary classical idioms.
Having earned a Bachelor of Music degree (piano) from McGill 
University (Montreal, QC), she is currently working on a Master of 
Fine Arts from Mills College in contemporary improvisation.  There, 
her primary instructors are Fred Frith and Joelle Leandre.  At 
McGill, she worked primarily with Lori Freedman, Tom Plaunt, and Sara 
Laimon.  Prior to that, she studied with Jesse Stewart, Heather 
Toews, and the Penderecki String Quartet. She has also participated 
in workshops/masterclasses with: Jean Derome, Malcolm Goldstein, The 
Sun Ra Arkestra, Joe McPhee, and John Heward.
She has performed in Canada (Montreal, Toronto, and Guelph), and in 
California (USA).  Charity has performed/played with: Kris Covlin, 
Remy Belanger de Beauport, Gordon Allen, Scott Thompson,  Philemon 
Girouard, Sam Shalabi, and John Heward.  As well, she was the 
organizer for the inaugural "Free Improvisation Series" at McGill 
University (2005-06) and her constructed interdisciplinary 
improvisation "The Global Warming Project" (created in collaboration 
with Kris Covlin), will be performed in Montreal in 2007.   As a 
member of the trio Fenaison (Charity Chan, Remy Belanger de Beauport, 
Kris Covlin), she is an Ambiance Magnetiques recording artist and is 
also the recipient of a Canada Council Grant.
Charity's live performances focus on the evocation of alternative 
timbres from the piano and the combination of these sounds with more 
traditional performance techniques. Her improvisations are also 
informed by the immediacy of physical gesture in live performance.
Her academic research currently focuses on physical gesture, 
embodiment, and cultural memory in improvisation.  The majority of 
her research approaches music from a socio-cultural perspective.  
Charity is a member of the International Society of Improvising 
Musicians and the American Musicological Society.  Her academic work 
has been presented at the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium (University 
of Guelph) and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Dec. 2006).

Trombonist Scott Thomson is a key member of a new generation of 
improvising musicians living and working in Toronto.  He is a self-
taught instrumentalist with a broad, colourful tone and a vast 
instrumental vocabulary that is indebted to, among other sources, the 
great Ellingtonian trombonists, American avant-traditionalist Roswell 
Rudd, classic European free improvising trombonists like Paul 
Rutherford and G?nter Christmann, and wind traditions from around the 
world.  In tune with these complementary legacies, Scott?s music is 
both traditional and forward-looking, and his commitment to 
collaboration and improvisation impels him to seek new contexts in 
which and new people with whom to make music.

Though he plays in several working ensembles which delve into jazz-
based composition (Ken Aldcroft Convergence Ensemble, Geordie Haley 
Trio), collective improvisation (JOUST with John Oswald, Ronda 
Rindone?s Quorum, The Open with Kyle Brenders, Lori Freedman/Scott 
Thomson, PST with Nilan Perera & Joe Sorbara, The Woodchopper?s 
Association), and pop and rock (Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People, 
Silent Five), Scott makes ad hoc improvising ensembles a priority.  
For this reason, he has taken advantage of the opportunity to play 
with many exceptional musicians locally, nationally, and 
internationally.

Most memorably, Scott performed at the 2005 Guelph Jazz Festival with 
the marvelous octogenarian saxophonist, Marshall Allen, a fifty-year 
member and current leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra.  During a 
summer 2006 tour of Britain, Scott worked extensively with 
percussionist Eddie Pr?vost, a founding member of the seminal 
improvising ensemble AMM.  He was also invited to perform with the 
London Improvisers Orchestra, which is convened by Steve Beresford 
and features the leading lights of British improvised music, 
including Evan Parker, John Butcher, Lol Coxhill, Paul Rutherford, 
and Phillip Wachsmann.  Furthermore, he performed in Yorkshire with 
electronics wizard Matt Wand (Stock, Hausen & Walkman) and with 
drummer Paul Hession and bassoonist Mick Beck (collaborators with, 
among many others, Tom ?Squarepusher? Jenkinson).

Scott is a founding board member with the Association of Improvising 
Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto) and through the ongoing Interface 
Series ? in which renowned visiting improvisers work with Toronto 
musicians during a three-night concert program ? he has the chance to 
meet and work with numerous world-class musicians:  New York 
saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee, Montr?al saxophonist and 
flutist Jean Derome, Amsterdam bassist Wilbert de Joode, K?ln 
clarinetist and saxophonist Frank Gratkowski, Vancouver drummer Dylan 
Van der Schyff, and many more.

As part of his organizing activities with AIMToronto, Scott conceived 
and programmed the hugely successful MUSIC(in)GALLERIES event in 
Toronto, which took place on a Saturday afternoon in July 2006.  
Fifteen Queen Street West art galleries hosted live, overlapping sets 
by small groups comprised of thirty-two AIMToronto musicians.  This 
generated a festive, gallery-crawl environment that provided a focal 
point for the burgeoning scene of creative improvising musicians in 
Toronto.  Local creative-music impresario and bon vivant, Ron Gaskin, 
gave the event ?fifteen stars out of five ? magnificent!?

Scott is fascinated by all facets of artistic communication, and has 
often worked with film-makers and dancers.  In particular, he has 
worked extensively with choreographer Julie Lebel's Ensemble 
Ind?pendant, and has made music for Lebel's ?Cette Violente 
Franchise? in performance throughout Ontario and Qu?bec.  The 
Ensemble's 2003 residency in the remote mining town of Fermont won 
the ROSEQ ?New Publics? award for Arts and Community development in 
Eastern Qu?bec.

Hand-in-hand with his work as a performer and organizer, Scott also 
writes about creative improvised music in popular and scholarly 
contexts.  He teaches and does research at the University of Guelph 
and Trent University, Peterborough, and has presented his research at 
the 2006 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, and at the 2006 National 
Graduate Conference in Ethnomusicology at the University of 
Cambridge, UK.


Noah Phillips:

?...[Noah Phillips] fashions moody thoughtful music that delivers 
unexpected warmth and familiarity...? --Rex Butters (All About Jazz 
Los Angeles)

Noah Phillips began playing guitar during his teenage years in Los 
Angeles.  During that period, his musical influences ranged from the 
music of the Hawaiian Islands, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, JimiHendrix 
and other popular guitar players from the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s.

He attended the University of Southern California, where he studied 
jazz guitar performance.  The most influential of his teachers at 
UCSC being Joe Diorio.  After graduation, Phillips became involved 
with the new and improvised music community of Los Angeles.  Since 
moving to Oakland, Phillips has started to experiment with and 
perform using prepared electric and acoustic guitar, analog 
electronics, Congolese Drumming, no-input feedback loops, and meager 
song writing.  Noah Phillips is currently studying guitar, 
composition, and electronic music with Fred Frith in pursuit of a MFA 
at Mills College.

He has toured throughout the United States, Amsterdam, the UK, and 
Iceland.  His playing has been described as eclectic, moody, and 
creative.  He has several recordings available with various 
ensembles.  Notable performances have been given with: Harris 
Eisenstadt, Jeremy Drake, Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Vinny Golia, G.E. 
Stinson, J.D. Paron, Nathan Hubbard, Kris Tiner, Sara Schoenbeck, 
Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, Phillip Greenlief, Tony Malaby, Jeff 
Kaiser, Damon Smith, Tim Perkis, Jessica Catron, Gust Burns, Dan 
Clucas, Rich West, and Cory Wright.


Jordan Glenn:
Inspired by the popular music of the 1990's Jordan Glenn began 
playing drums at age 12.   During his formative artistic years Glenn 
began to explore the genres of jazz, various African percussion 
vocabularies, Indian Classical Music, North American Rock, and the 
composed music of the 20th century.   Jordan holds a Bachelor of 
Music Degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon.  He as 
since taught and performed professionally in a variety of settings, 
including straight ahead jazz big bands/small groups, punk and rock 
bands, cartoon and circus groups, symphony orchestras, a traditional 
Irish group, and a Tex/Mex polka band that took him to Singapore, twice!

Glenn has performed or recored with Maria Schnieder,  John Zorn, 
Giancarlo Guerrero, and Conrad Herwigis.  He is currently attending 
Mills College where he is studying with Fred Frith and William Winant 
in pursuit of a Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Literature 
(Improvisation).
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