Tonight's NAKANAKA presents: Breathing Over Time and Space has been cancelled due to the snow... We will be doing the show at a later date.
Improvisations by Robert Dick, Sara Schoenbeck and Kaoru Watanabe. Flutes of many types, taiko and bassoon fuse cultures and epochs.
NakaNaka celebrates it's first year of incredible performances and events, by such artists as KODO, On Ensemble, Ned Rothenberg, Miles Okazaki, Masuo Yoshiaki, Adam Rudolph and more. For this special event, curator Kaoru Watanabe has invited the acclaimed flute innovator Robert Dick and the extraordinary bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck for a gorgeous mélange of eastern and western instruments.
9 to 11 pm
$10 in advance
$12 at the door
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212-777-1157
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ROBERT DICK - soprano, alto, bass flutes, piccolo
www.robertdick.com
With equally deep roots in classical music old and new and in free improvisation and new jazz, Robert Dick has established himself as an artist who has not only mastered, but redefined the flute. Known worldwide for creating revolutionary visions of the flute's musical role, listening to Robert Dick play solo has been likened to the experience of hearing a full orchestra. His performances typically include flute (with his invention, the Glissando Headjoint®)piccolo, alto flute, and bass flutes in C and F. On special occasions, he'll bring out the giant, stand-up contrabass flute.
Dick lives in New York City and is on the faculty of New York University. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.M. in composition from the Yale School of Music.
As a composer in the classical world, Robert Dick is one of only two Americans ever to be awarded both Composers Fellowships (twice) and a Solo Recitalist Grant by the N.E.A. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and commissions from the Jerome Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the city of Zurich, the Philharmonie in Cologne and many more.
As an improvisor, Dick has performed and recorded with New Winds, Tambastics, Oscura Luminosa, the Soldier String Quartet, the A.D.D. Trio, Paul Giger and Satoshi Takeishi, Jaron Lanier, Randy Raine-Reush and Barry Guy, Mari Kimura, Steve Gorn and many more of Europe and America's finest improvisors. Over three decades of collaboration, musicians he has worked with include Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Georg Gräwe, Evan Parker, Malcolm Goldstein, Shelley Hirsch, Jöelle Leandre and John Zorn.
SARA SCHOENBECK - bassoon
www.myspace.com/saraschoenbeck
Sara Schoenbeck is a bassoonist who dedicates herself to expanding the sound and role of the bassoon in the worlds of contemporary notated and improvised music. The Wire places her in the “tiny club of bassoon pioneers” at work in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her “riveting, mixing textural experiments with a big, confident sound.” From being a member of creative music ensembles, like Wayne Horvitz’s Gravitas Quartet, Anthony Braxton’s 12+1tet and Vinny Golia’s Large Ensemble to backing Mos Def in Dakah hip hop orchestra and backing Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder in the Mancini Orchestra, Sara continues to defy categorization as an artist. She has also also shared the stage in improvised music performances with Yusef Lateef, Fred Frith, John Butcher, Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, Wadada Leo Smith and Nels Cline among many others. A recent transplant from Los Angeles, she spent a portion of her time there recording and also as adjunct faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Feature films she has worked on include the Matrix Trilogy, Spanglish and Dahmer. She performs regularly at jazz festivals and venues throughout North America and Europe, notably the Du Maurier Jazz Festival in Vancouver, B.C., the Improvised Music Fest in Antwerp, Belgium and the Berlin Jazz Festival. Sara has received grants from Meet the Composer and the Durfee foundation for outreach work and composition.
Nakanaka presents: an evening of experimental music
feat: WATER BRAIN
Fumio Tashiro, a.k.a. “Bomb Sun” plays electric upright bass and creates original musical compositions. He has 15 years experience writing, touring, and performing music. As a student of the upright bass, Bomb Sun studied under his mentor Milt Hinton, and so, has a solid background in jazz and experimental improvisation. His newest compositions blend this background with a digital approach producing a unique and broad spectrum of sound. He is originally from Japan and currently resides in Brooklyn.
Michael Wilson is an emergent experimental improviser. He uses a sampler and a combination of small acoustic instruments and vocal patterns to create unique fields of sound. He is originally from Los Angeles and currently resides in Brooklyn.
