Such and Such Productions and the Cornelia Street Cafe present
Big Bang- a new music series of multi-field, collaborative works in progress at the Cornelia Street Cafe every third Monday of the month!
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and W. 4th)
(212) 989-9319
Doors open at 8:30. $10 cover plus a one-drink (or equivalent) minimum.
Big Bang, the latest new and all-inclusive music and mixed media series at the downtown hub of artistic exploration, The Cornelia Street Cafe, beginning Monday, October 17th, 2005 and every third Monday of the month thereafter.
Big Bang is a creative collision of musicians with artists in spoken word, dance, visual art, video art, email spammers, theatre, etc. presenting new ideas in collaboration and works in progress. The evenings will include two featured groups followed by a brief talk back with the audience after each set. Every evening will end with a jam session in which we fish names out of a hat (including names of audience members) that will go for about 10 minutes.
Artists and their collaborators this Fall include:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17th - 8:30
8:30 - Groundbreaking flutist, Robert Dick working with the words and text of two different poets including Bruce Lawder's “The Sound" which was premiered by Robert at Dartmouth last January, and with the anonymous random word texts that spammers send blocks of in an effort to get through spam filters
9:30 - Improv-goddess Kali. Z. Fasteau creates wild and pan-cultural jazz. This internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and composer performs on soprano saxophone, voice, nai flutes, piano, drums, sanza, and mizmar, along with master drummer Ron McBee on djembe, berimbau and African percussion, the incredible Michael Ray on trumpet and voice, and wise wordsmith Carletta Joy Walker. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21st - 8:30
8:30 - Composer/violinist, Jason Kao Hwang and Sang Won Park(kayagum, ajang, voice) now working as a duo, have collaborated for over fifteen years in The Far East Side Band. Their cross-cultural improvisations continue to evolve.
9:30 -Strike Anywhere Ensemble, led by actor Leese Walker, developing signature sets of short performance pieces where they use structures from Jazz and popular forms as the parameters within which to improvise. Working title is “3D Jazz". Set “melodies" are composed which might be text, dance, music or some combo and then ordered in song form. Different disciplines play the different musical roles one would find in a band. So the dancer could play the bass function and the actors might function like the horn section.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19 - 8:30
8:30 - Cornetist, Taylor Ho Bynum, and dancer, Rachel Bernsen working on a performance duo, trying to move away from the traditional confines of dance/music collaboration and [move] towards creating a shared interdisciplinary improvisational language.
9:20 - Saxophonist and Lyriconist, Jorrit Dijkstra working with sculptor and painter Marieken Cochius whose art works will be on display downstairs specifically for ther performance/collaboration.
10:10 - Guitarist Rolf Sturm presents his project “456" performing with silent film and video. Rolf is joined by Bohdan Hilash: bass clarinet, Rob Henke: trumpet, Jody Espina: sax, Alan Brady: clarinet, Jim Whitney: bass
“Big Bang" promises to be a fun, educational and yes even nutritional series of discovery, open dialogue, and creative exploration between many different art forms. Come join us!
Big Bang- a new music series of multi-field, collaborative works in progress at the Cornelia Street Cafe every third Monday of the month!
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and W. 4th)
(212) 989-9319
Doors open at 8:30. $10 cover plus a one-drink (or equivalent) minimum.
Big Bang, the latest new and all-inclusive music and mixed media series at the downtown hub of artistic exploration, The Cornelia Street Cafe, beginning Monday, October 17th, 2005 and every third Monday of the month thereafter.
Big Bang is a creative collision of musicians with artists in spoken word, dance, visual art, video art, email spammers, theatre, etc. presenting new ideas in collaboration and works in progress. The evenings will include two featured groups followed by a brief talk back with the audience after each set. Every evening will end with a jam session in which we fish names out of a hat (including names of audience members) that will go for about 10 minutes.
Artists and their collaborators this Fall include:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17th - 8:30
8:30 - Groundbreaking flutist, Robert Dick working with the words and text of two different poets including Bruce Lawder's “The Sound" which was premiered by Robert at Dartmouth last January, and with the anonymous random word texts that spammers send blocks of in an effort to get through spam filters
9:30 - Improv-goddess Kali. Z. Fasteau creates wild and pan-cultural jazz. This internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and composer performs on soprano saxophone, voice, nai flutes, piano, drums, sanza, and mizmar, along with master drummer Ron McBee on djembe, berimbau and African percussion, the incredible Michael Ray on trumpet and voice, and wise wordsmith Carletta Joy Walker. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21st - 8:30
8:30 - Composer/violinist, Jason Kao Hwang and Sang Won Park(kayagum, ajang, voice) now working as a duo, have collaborated for over fifteen years in The Far East Side Band. Their cross-cultural improvisations continue to evolve.
9:30 -Strike Anywhere Ensemble, led by actor Leese Walker, developing signature sets of short performance pieces where they use structures from Jazz and popular forms as the parameters within which to improvise. Working title is “3D Jazz". Set “melodies" are composed which might be text, dance, music or some combo and then ordered in song form. Different disciplines play the different musical roles one would find in a band. So the dancer could play the bass function and the actors might function like the horn section.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19 - 8:30
8:30 - Cornetist, Taylor Ho Bynum, and dancer, Rachel Bernsen working on a performance duo, trying to move away from the traditional confines of dance/music collaboration and [move] towards creating a shared interdisciplinary improvisational language.
9:20 - Saxophonist and Lyriconist, Jorrit Dijkstra working with sculptor and painter Marieken Cochius whose art works will be on display downstairs specifically for ther performance/collaboration.
10:10 - Guitarist Rolf Sturm presents his project “456" performing with silent film and video. Rolf is joined by Bohdan Hilash: bass clarinet, Rob Henke: trumpet, Jody Espina: sax, Alan Brady: clarinet, Jim Whitney: bass
“Big Bang" promises to be a fun, educational and yes even nutritional series of discovery, open dialogue, and creative exploration between many different art forms. Come join us!
For more information contact All About Jazz.
