July 2010
4 posts
Shmootzi the Clod - August 1st, 2010
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“Shmootzi the Clod—born Drew Keriakedes—looks like a gutter dandy from the fun part of hell: thin as a bone, sharp as a blade, and with more than a little crazy in his eyes. Shmootzi can swallow a dagger and pound a nail into his nose, but his great gift is music. He writes lewd ditties (“I’ve got a red-hot pussy for sale”) and mournful ballads...
Clarke Reid - July 25th, 2010
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Beauty in Simplicity
Whenever I sit down at a piano to play by myself just for fun, I find myself drawn to simple, beautiful melodies and harmonies over and over again. While I listen to and like a lot of different styles of music, the music that I continue to return to is characterized by beautiful simplicity. Simplicity can sometimes be bland and uncreative. But at its...
Neil Welch - July 18th, 2010
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Hello all,
This week I am presenting a chamber piece scored for six musicians entitled Sleeper. It is orchestrated to move between sections of written and freely improvised music, at times occurring simultaneously, though the piece is largely through- composed in scope. The instruments played include soprano, alto and tenor saxophones (played in rotation by two...
Jacob Zimmerman - July 11th, 2010
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The Zooid Concept: Strategies for Creating Autonomy Within Group Improvisation Curated by Jacob Zimmerman (http://jacobrexzimmerman.com/)
“Zooid: A cell that is able to move independently of the larger organism to which it belongs.”
The focus of this session will be to apply some of the technical and compositional concepts I have been developing in my solo saxophone...