January 2010
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Cuong Vu - January 31st, 2010
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Most people who are familiar with my musical work, don’t realize that classical music (particularly contemporary classical) has had a gigantic impact and influence on how I think about improvisation as well as in my writing. Most of my stuff sounds like some kind of mix of jazz and rock. While the trappings/trimmings are from the rock music vocabulary and the...
Neil Welch - January 24th, 2010
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Presenting a set of acoustic solo saxophone improvisation
Some time ago I began working on solo saxophone material, born partly from a desire to better understand my instrument, but also in an effort to think more clearly about my own use of sonic space as an individualist. As primarily an avant gardist in scope and style, learning to clearly and consistently control my...
Evan Parker (saxophone), Monkey’s...
FIRST SESSION THIS SUNDAY! - January 17th, 2010
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The long-awaited Racer Sessions for New, Experimental Music will be launched with its first installment this Sunday at 8pm.
A little about what to expect…
Before setting the weekly curator rotation in motion, we decided it would be a good idea to kick things off with a good, old-fashioned free jam session to give everyone a chance to meet and play with each other....
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We collectively organize weekly sessions for new, experimental music. The purpose is to give musicians of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to interact and inspire each other, while establishing a community-accessible home for our music, which would otherwise only exist in classrooms, basements, outer space etc. Every Sunday, at Cafe Racer, the curator of the week will debut a piece of new...