Percussionist
Tim Feeney (Boston) joins locals
Matt Ingalls (extended clarinet) and
Ken Ueno (extended voice) in dynamic sonic improvisations.
And a rare solo multimedia performance by Henry Kuntz!!!
Kuntz performs "Placeless Timeless", a mixed media show utilizing hundreds of slide images taken over 30 years from places around the world that suggest a mythical and archetypical life-cycle construct that has at its center humans’ timeless quest to interact, relate with, and comprehend our place in the universe. Kuntz also provides an improvised instrumental counterpoint using a range of instruments – some small percussion, Mexican Indian violin, flute, Moroccan rhaita, saxophone, and voice.
Henry Kuntz has been intimately involved in free jazz and free improvisation for more than 30 years. From 1973 to 1979, he was editor and publisher of the internationally – acclaimed newsletter – review BELLS. He first recorded on tenor saxophone in 1977 on Henry Kaiser’s Ice Death. He has played musette and various flutes since 1981, miniature violins since 1983, gamelan and xylophones since 1988, and rhaita since1999. On Humming Bird Records, he has released 2 LPs, 16 cassettes, and 6 CDs of solo, group, and multi-tracked free improvisations.
With Brian Godchaux and John Kuntz, in 1986, he formed the "avant-shamanic trance jazz" group, Opeye, which now also includes Ben and Esten Lindgren. He has traveled extensively (over 20 years) to Mexico, Central and South America, Asia, and Indonesia recording, studying, and drawing upon aspects of music, ritual, dance, and performance -- from which 5 ethnographic cassettes have also been produced.
Tim Feeney joins
Ken Ueno/
Matt Ingalls Duo
Tim Feeney seeks to explore and examine the timbral possibilities inherent
in everyday found and built objects. He treats his percussion setup as a
friction instrument, using bows, scrapers, and rosined drumheads to capture
and amplify frequencies that go unheard when an object is struck with a
traditional mallet. He supplements this acoustic console with an electronic
instrument, arranged from mixers, contact microphones, and effects pedals,
that synthesizes and alters the spectral characteristics of low-fidelity tones,
feedback, and noise.
The duo of
Ken Ueno (vocals) and
Matt Ingalls (clarinet) bring
together an arsenal of extended techniques for an experience that
defies classical expectations of sounds that can be made on voice and
clarinet. Ueno sings overtones, multi-band multiphonics, sub-tones,
and throat sings. Ingalls' clarinet technique includes
circular-breathing, multiphonics, and various breath effects, as well
as an unique hybrid-timbre polyphonic effect. Their performances often
contrast different instrumental techniques while juxtaposing an
acoustic, and mobile, sensibility that focuses on the individual,
versus an amplified, and stationary, sensibility that evokes an
architectural sense of space.
Cost: $10