Thursday, October 12
Convivium 33 Gallery, 1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland
Doors at 7:30, music at 8:00
$15 suggested donation, no one will be turned away for lack of funds
The trombone trio of Jeb Bishop, Matthias M. and Matthias M. plays music that moves between sculptural noise drones, walls-of-Jericho-collapsing fanfares, and delicate textures of air and sound. The acoustic properties of the trombone and the physical resources of the players are pushed to their limits and beyond; the ancient sliding tube is put through the bone mill ... pulverized, sublimated, and receiving the breath of new life.
The group has two CDs out, on the labels Not Two (Poland) and Jazzwerkstatt (Germany), and has done two tours of Europe, in 2019 and 2022, including a number of festival performances.
Jeb Bishop is considered one of the preeminent trombonists in improvisational music. He has played in Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, and the Globe Unity Orchestra. The
Chicago Sun-Times has called him “one of the best-kept secrets in American jazz.” Originally from North Carolina, he lived and worked in Chicago for over twenty years, resided in Boston from 2016 to 2022, and has recently returned to Chicago, where he is involved in several projects and groups.
Matthias M. has lived in Berlin since 2004 and has since performed with a variety of outstanding international improvisers. He is a member of the “Splitter Orchester,” a 24-piece ensemble of the Berlin echtzeit music scene and played for many years in the German-French Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Albert Mangelsdorff. Concert tours and festivals have taken him to Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and various European countries. With his own projects, he has released more than 50 CDs, among others on his own label MaMüMusic.
Matthias M. lives in Cologne. He received the WDR Jazz Award 2021 in the category Improvisation. His large ensemble Bonecrusher – 10 Trombones & Percussion, which also includes M, was nominated for the short list of the German Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik [German Record Critics’ Award] for 2022. In his solo projects and Trio T.ON, he uses a wide variety of playing setups: feeds of speech and soundscapes into and on the trombone, spatial expansion using external bells, interactive computer graphics as synaesthetic perception, or simply the pure, naked trombone.
https://jebbishop.bandcamp.com/album/konzert-f-r-hannes
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Sandy Ewen is a sound artist, visual artist and architect who has recently relocated to NYC from Houston, TX. Ewen’s audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques, improvisation, graphic scores and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements – railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool and other items become an arsenal of abstraction. Ewen has worked extensively with film makers, dancers, poets and musicians to create films, audio recording, sound interventions and performance art. Ewen’s musical collaborations include trio Etched in the Eye, duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs, the trio Garden medium, and ongoing collaborations with percussionist Weasel Walter and bassist Damon Smith. For nearly ten years, Ewen has been the leader of an all-female large ensemble. The ensemble conceptualizes and performs sound and performance art, utilizing graphic and text based scores and improvisational constraints. The ensemble performed with an amplified bathtub at Diverse Works in 2016, and performed a suite of installation-specific compositions for Francis Alÿs’ Fabiola Project at the Menil. Sandy has spent much of 2017 touring, performing solo sets and in collaboration with Steve Jansen (tapes and electronics) and Maria Chavez (turntables) around Europe. In years past, Ewen has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch and many others, and has performed and recorded with Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser and more. In 2014 she performed at San Francisco’s 13th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin’s annual No Idea Festival.
https://sandyewen.bandcamp.com/.../a-railroad-spike-forms...