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X AVANT Festival: Buke & Gass + Lori Freedman + Mantra Percussion at The Music Gallery

Toronto Event Date: Sat, October 22, 2011

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X AVANT Festival: Buke & Gass + Lori Freedman + Mantra Percussion

X AVANT New Music Festival VI — “Tales of Two Cities”
Saturday October 22

MANTRA performs TIMBER by MICHAEL GORDON
BUKE & GASS
LORI FREEDMAN

A night of musical hardwood with a percussion premiere for blocks of wood + the Brooklyn homemade instrument duo + fiery improv for woodwinds

Location: The Music Gallery
Doors 7pm, concert 8pm

Tickets $25 advance at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketweb.ca
At the door: $30 regular, $15 member

Admission included in $85 All-Access Festival Pass

8:00PM — LORI FREEDMAN: “THIS TIME”
Solo improvisations for woodwinds

“This Time” is a set of musical ideas discovered in the moment of expressing them. Confounded and obsessed by the nature of time and its omnipotent control of designing sound routes, Montréal’s Lori Freedman invites the listener to enter into a state of instability with music flowing imperceptibly between tenses: now and then, then and now… this time. Improvisations hovering between times now past is a perpetual culmination, an ongoing history of Freedman’s own musical activities and the confluence of them.

The earliest years of Lori’s career overlapped with her music studies at university, carving out already her route of “betweens”: performing in symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo recitals; improvising for dance classes and film scores; collaborating with young composers writing music specifically for her; writing music herself for other creative players with whom she had formed several groups. To date she has appeared on more than 45 CD recordings, more than 57 composers have written music for her and she has written 37 solo and ensemble pieces. And she is a recipient of the prestigious Freddie Stone Award “for excellence and leadership in contemporary music and jazz.”

9:00PM — BUKE & GASS
Buke & Gass is more than just a band name, it also refers to two brand new musical inventions: the “Buke” (baritone ukulele) and “Gass” (guitar-bass), built by the musicians themselves. One of Artistic Director Jonathan Bunce’s favourite musical discoveries of 2010, Buke & Gass are also more than just an instrumental novelty: the Brooklyn-based duo of Arone Dyer (buke, voice, percussion) and Aron Sanchez (gass, drums, voice) offer perfectly warped pop song structures in the vein of Deerhoof and Sonic Youth. Dyer’s outstanding voice soars above a surprisingly rich instrumental mix of acoustic-electric tension and folk-punk energy.

The past year has seen B&G’s profile expand remarkably. Following the release of their full-length record, Riposte, on Brassland Records, they’ve been featured in the New York Times and The Village Voice, included in NPR’s top 50 albums of 2010, and appeared at the Bang On A Can Marathon and the Ecstatic Music Festival in NYC; Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN; and The National-curated Cross-Linx Festival in the Netherlands. This exclusive appearance at X Avant follows up well-received tours with Owen Pallett and Tune-Yards.

10:00PM — MANTRA performs TIMBER by MICHAEL GORDON
Michael Gordon’s Timber is an hour-long tour de force. Scored for six graduated wooden Simantras — percussion instruments devised by French composer Iannis Xenakis — the work brings the physicality, endurance and technique of percussion performance to a new level. In this new work premiered by New York percussion sextet Mantra, Gordon shapes the music in both polyrhythmic and dynamic waves of textures — often each players’ hands are in separate rhythmic ‘worlds’, each traversing a different dynamic contour from loud to soft to loud, similar in some respects to his solo for percussion, XY.

Much of Gordon’s music demonstrates a deep exploration into the extreme possibilities and stunning nature of rhythm, as well as the enriching, yet disturbing, multidimensionality of polyrhythmic layers — what has been termed in his music to be, “glorious confusion.” Many of his works, including Trance, Gotham, Decasia, and his most recent orchestral work, Dystopia, point to Gordon’s interest in complex rhythmic and textural territory. Gordon’s percussion sextet takes these elements and explores the extreme possibilities of rhythm and texture to a beautifully intense degree. The new work is indeed a unique and exciting addition to the world of percussion.



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