[NewMusicEvents] Sunday March 11: Frederic Blondy, Le Quan Ninh, sfSound

[matt]

sfSound Presents:

	Le Quan Ninh, Frederic Blondy, and sfSoundGroup

Sunday, March 11, 2007
8pm ( daylight savings time! )
San Francisco Community Music Center
544 Capp ( btwn 20th and 21st Streets )
$10

Visiting the Bay Area from France, percussionist Le Quan Ninh and
pianist Frederic Blondy perform a set of contemporary improvised
music.  sfSoundGroup opens with a set of improvisational
compositions, including 2 compositions by Wadada Leo Smith.

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European Avant-garde free improvisers Frederic Blondy and Le Quan
Ninh, both living in France, have worked together for 7 years. They
have developed intimate and wild relationship between piano and
percussion. Extending their own contact with the instruments and then
extending the possibilities of language, sound, and expression, they
work out a sound universe of an extreme richness. Going from the
extreme smoothness to the crude energy, the tension and musical flow,
open out in a true sound development with electronic, spectral and
concrete consonances. Their collaboration led to the realization of
a splendid recording published on Potlach, which received very
enthusiastic reviews in Europe as in North America.

"Percussionist and pianist mesh beautifully here ! Together they
weave a very satisfying pointillistic web that, in its early stages,
brings to mind Boulez's piano sonatas and Structures. As you are
engulfed by this music, you're sure to say (at least seven times)
"How the hell did they do that?" The results range from anxious
burbles and jangles to something that sounds like a softly singing
ensemble of sirens and baby whales. Best of all is the tender,
Feldmanesque final track, with its lingering single tones, ominous
growls and questioning, two-tone bell chords. Gorgeous."
walterhorn - Bagatellen

http://lequanninh.net
http://fredericblondy.net

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Special guests Aaron Bennett, Tom Dambly, Matthew Goodheart, Jason
Levis, and Hillary Overberg join sfSoundGroup in an opening set with
an improvisation, a new graphic score by Matt Ingalls, and Wadada Leo
Smith compositions, "Emmeya" and "Tawhid".

	Kyle Bruckmann, oboe
	Matt Ingalls clarinet/bass clarinet
	John Ingle, alto saxophone and direction
	Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
	Matthew Goodheart, piano
	Jason Levis, percussion
	Tom Dambly, trumpet
	Hillary Overberg, violin
	Monica Scott, cello
	George Cremaschi, bass

This performance is a partial preview of the upcoming sfSoundSeries
concert on Monday, March 19th @ ODC Theater.

http://sfSound.org