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Robinwood Concert House keeps it Innovative and Experimental
Listen Up Toledo | 03/08/2011 7:00 am
Gabe Beam's Robinwood Concert House is an underground gem here in Toledo that likely too few know about. Or, maybe its best that way. Regardless, one thing is for sure, Beam is bringing in unpresedented regional and national talent in the world of musical innovation and experimentation. This week's show is no exception. Enjoy as Forced Collapse (Liz Allbee & Chris Riggs) + Bob Drake & Ryan Jewell tantalize your ears and blow your mind on Thursday, March 10 from 9 p.m. to midnight in Beam's historic Old West End home, dubbed the Robinwood Concert House, located at 2564 Robinwood Ave. Enjoy.
Info about the performances, courteosey of the Robinwood Concert House:
Forced Collapse is the New American Improvisation/Post-Lachenm, an
Extended Technique Laboratory/Michigan Electronic Noise Made Real
Through Acoustic Instruments Trumpet and Guitar duo of Liz Allbee and
Christopher Riggs.
Liz
Allbee is a voracious musician whose work spans many genres,
encompassing new music, improvisation, electronic composition, Asian
folk and pop, noise, minimalist, free jazz and experimental rock. She
plays in the pop band Neung Phak, in the experimental Neanderthal
troubaduo Marauder and Alibi, and in the Jon Raskin Quartet, and has
performed and recorded with a wide array of musicians. www.lizallbee.net/
Christopher Riggs is a guitarist, composer, and improviser from Farmington, MI. He studied classical guitar performance and music composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH and is currently pursuing an MA in music composition at Wesleyan University under Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier. Christopher's work deals with the development of very specific extended techniques on the FX pedal-less electric guitar. Equally influenced by the sound of homemade analog electronics and the intentionality of new complexity academic composition, this sonic vocabulary is filtered through a system that explores the intersections of composition, chance, improvisation, and instrumental practice. Christopher is the former operator of the now defunct Holy Cheever Church Records. All solo recordings and scores will be available for free download on this site. http://christophertriggs.c
Bob Drake : modular synthesizer
Bob Drake is an electronic musician based out of Cleveland, Ohio. Sometimes performing under the moniker Fluxmonkey, After completing an 5-year apprenticeship as a violin maker, he’s focused on original electroacoustic instruments, installations, and modular synthesis.
Drake has also has been active in setting up workshops in Cleveland. His instruments vary from a homemade mounted steel cylinder covered with tunable strings to found industrial objects to an elaborate array of strange synthesizer modules. Bob’s music is very manual, always working sounds and timbal nuances, his performance is a both sonically engaging as well as visually stimulating. www.myspace.com/mon
Ryan Jewell was born in a small Appalachian river town in southern Ohio in an environment set between the rundown post-industrial factories and train yards and the natural beauty of the forested foothills on the Ohio River. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting environments has profoundly affected his aesthetic.
He studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger.
Ryan regularly works as a solo performer in the arenas of very quiet free improv and very loud harsh noise, and is often called to play drums for established free jazz musicians, experimental rock bands, and iconoclastic songwriters. His solo playing encompasses the worlds of free-jazz, electroacoustic composition and far-out noise from a drum kit, an oscillator and a selection of bowed and wind instruments and accessories. In addition to being a perpetual traveler of the US, he also toured extensively in Europe. He was invited to perform at such respected international festivals as the SOWIESO 1 festival in Paris, the Kraak Festival in Brussels, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and SXSW in Austin.
He has collaborated with C. Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Christine Sehnaoui, Larry Marotta, Mike Shiflet, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Tom Abbs, David Boykin, Douglas Ewart (AACM), Graveyards, Envenomist, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Psychedelic Horseshit and Pink Reason...
http://toledobellows.wordp
Christopher Riggs is a guitarist, composer, and improviser from Farmington, MI. He studied classical guitar performance and music composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH and is currently pursuing an MA in music composition at Wesleyan University under Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier. Christopher's work deals with the development of very specific extended techniques on the FX pedal-less electric guitar. Equally influenced by the sound of homemade analog electronics and the intentionality of new complexity academic composition, this sonic vocabulary is filtered through a system that explores the intersections of composition, chance, improvisation, and instrumental practice. Christopher is the former operator of the now defunct Holy Cheever Church Records. All solo recordings and scores will be available for free download on this site. http://christophertriggs.c
Bob Drake : modular synthesizer
Bob Drake is an electronic musician based out of Cleveland, Ohio. Sometimes performing under the moniker Fluxmonkey, After completing an 5-year apprenticeship as a violin maker, he’s focused on original electroacoustic instruments, installations, and modular synthesis.
Drake has also has been active in setting up workshops in Cleveland. His instruments vary from a homemade mounted steel cylinder covered with tunable strings to found industrial objects to an elaborate array of strange synthesizer modules. Bob’s music is very manual, always working sounds and timbal nuances, his performance is a both sonically engaging as well as visually stimulating. www.myspace.com/mon
Ryan Jewell was born in a small Appalachian river town in southern Ohio in an environment set between the rundown post-industrial factories and train yards and the natural beauty of the forested foothills on the Ohio River. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting environments has profoundly affected his aesthetic.
He studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger.
Ryan regularly works as a solo performer in the arenas of very quiet free improv and very loud harsh noise, and is often called to play drums for established free jazz musicians, experimental rock bands, and iconoclastic songwriters. His solo playing encompasses the worlds of free-jazz, electroacoustic composition and far-out noise from a drum kit, an oscillator and a selection of bowed and wind instruments and accessories. In addition to being a perpetual traveler of the US, he also toured extensively in Europe. He was invited to perform at such respected international festivals as the SOWIESO 1 festival in Paris, the Kraak Festival in Brussels, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and SXSW in Austin.
He has collaborated with C. Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Christine Sehnaoui, Larry Marotta, Mike Shiflet, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Tom Abbs, David Boykin, Douglas Ewart (AACM), Graveyards, Envenomist, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Psychedelic Horseshit and Pink Reason...
http://toledobellows.wordp
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