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SYNERGY:
Sight
and Sound
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At
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery 212-614-0505
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Thursday, January 26, 2006, 10:00
PM
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$12.00
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Synergy: Sight and Sound, a high-energy free-style Jazz
band, the innovative collaboration between sculptor/designer Amir Bey and
musician/composer Saco Yasuma, begins a series of concerts at Bowery Poetry
Club on Thursday, January 26, 2006,
at 10 PM. This series
follows a festive performance at Bowery Poetry Club that was held on October
14, 2005. The band, featuring Yasuma on reeds and percussion,
Sabir Mateen, reeds and flutes, Ras Moshe, reeds and flutes, Jackson Krall,
Drums, and Francois Grillot on Bass, wear mixed media masks and silkscreen
prints on nylon costumes designed by Bey. Bey's set
design combines long sheets of silkscreen prints
on nylon, and suspended mobile-like percussive instruments that are
fabricated from canvas, aluminum screen mesh, and acrylic. These
instruments are formed into shapes such as clouds, swinging
anthropomorphic figures, music notes, and masks with bells attached
to them. Yasuma's original compositions range from her forceful
"The Roar of Wood", to the contemplative "Peace Dance", and
"Rain". Yasuma is at home playing percussive
instruments or her bamboo saxophone as she is with her main axe, the alto
saxophone. Synergy's concept
is based on weaving the visual and audio arts; the sounds and
movements of the musicians are visually enhanced, and the audio
potentials for sculpture are explored. There are moments
when the band plays the instruments from the on-stage installation, twirling,
swinging, and dancing with them.
Profiles of the SYNERGY
Artists
Mixed media sculptor
and curator Amir
Bey has worked with musicians and performers since
the 1970s, including set designs and costumes for Idris Ackamoor and Rodessa
Jones of Cultural Odyssey, Maria Mitchell of Black Pearl Dance Company,
and Lorna Littleway, who have incorporated his art in their
productions. Bey is based in New York,
where he has organized exhibitions since 1989; he has also exhibited
internationally, including Turkey,
Japan, Spain,
Italy, Martinique, and Germany.
Recently, his "Procession of Folk #3", a series of 12 faceted glass
windows, was permanently installed by the MTA at the Mount
Eden station on the #4 line in the Bronx.
Alto
saxophonist, composer and band leader Saco Yasuma has written
many styles of music since she was the age of ten. She intensely began
composing for various ensembles since 2001 in NYC, including the annual Billy
Parker concert at Rockland College.
Recent work with musicians such as Ras Moshe, Roy Campbell, Billy
Bang, Luther Thomas and Sabir Mateen has motivated her to new
approaches for writing free improvisational music.
The
iconoclastic and masterful multi-instrumentalist, Sabir Mateen, who plays "action music", has been
called a "gentle giant" who can "display controlled intensity
without falling into undisciplined methodology" (Cook, Collins). His
current ensembles such as Juxtapositions, M.A.S.K., Shapes, Textures &
Sound Ensemble, and Movement Of The Future Ark, and his
other projects are leading influences on the
international avant-garde scene.
Ros Moshe, a
third generation reed player who, although trained in earlier forms of
"Jazz", says his preferred mode of improvisation is in the later or
"free" developments of the music. He has led The Music Now
Unit since 1999 and played with many original artists such as Billy
Bang, William Parker, William Hooker, and Kali Z. Fasteau. He is a firm
believer in the positive effects of the new music for social and personal
change.
Jackson Krall, a
drummer who is noted for his sensitive accompaniment as well as his
precise playing, has been performing with Cecil Taylor since the mid
1990s. Krall has been working with many of the "cutting
edge" musicians of this time; of him bassist William Parker has said,
"His multi-leveled drumming has propelled many bands in the New
York music scene..." Other artists he
recorded or performed with are Rob Brown,
