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Fri.-Sat. May 22-23 8pm
ROVA Saxophone Quartet (San Francisco, Germany, Switzerland)
Rovaté 2009: Fissures, Futures
Jewish Community & Cultural Center, 3200 California Street
$25 Reserved Seating, $20 in advance. Series Discounts Available.
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BOX-OFFICE: 800-838-3006
Presented by ROVA: Arts.
An ambitious improvisational music project sees ROVA joined by a team of composer-musicians and Berlin media artist Lillevan that will use digital animation to create "visual music." The project is a continuation of Rova's recent foray into employing the visual arts as either an inspiration for, or an actual tool in the creation of original music. Special guests include analogue electronics genius Thomas Lehn from Germany, and avant-garde viola master Charlotte Hug from Switzerland. Additionally USA-based musician/composers, Carla Kihlstedt (Oakland, CA) and Lisle Ellis (New York City) have also been invited as guests.
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Rovaté 2009: Fissures, Futures is an ambitious music project by a team of composer-musicians and the media-film artist Lillevan who will contribute his digital animation to create "visual music." The project is a continuation of Rova's recent foray into employing the visual arts as either an inspiration for, or an actual tool in, the creation of musical structures. For additional inspiration, the lead artists of Fissures, Futures will use American-philosopher Buckminster Fuller's ideas on flexible structure as inspiration for the structures we create for Fissures, Futures, erecting an artistic framework of our own that will inform the entire creative process for the pieces in the live performances.
The lead composer for each piece will imagine and create flexible and performance-specific "systems" or "structures," within which the musicians will interact in real time with each other and with the computer-generated images, resulting in films determined, in part, by these sounds. These composed structures for improvisation will include notation for musicians, verbal instructions for all participants, and visual cueing to take place spontaneously, the cues directly influencing both the sound and the visual components of each piece. Each structure, as well as each film created onstage, will result in a unique and non-repeatable performance-experience.
Featuring the Berlin-based digital animation of media-artist Lillevan, Fissures, Futures' structured improvisations will be performed by Rova, the saxophone quartet, along with a group of internationally-known musicians including analog-electronics artist Thomas Lehn (Koln, Germany); violist Charlotte Hug (Zurich, Switzerland); bassist Lisle Ellis (Vancouver, NYC); cellist Joan Jeanrenaud (San Francisco), violinist Carla Kihlstedt (Oakland), percussionist Kjell Nordeson (Sweden), and Lillevan (Berlin, Germany). Lillevan's work embraces improvisation in its approach to digital animation, combining moving film, "found" historic film stills, and digitally manipulated color design. Fissures, Futures offers the additional artistic challenge of real-time interaction between sound and visual artist during performance.
The inventive nature of Fissures, Futures, and its focus on experimentation and multi-disciplinary collaboration, is the embodiment of Rova:Arts' commitment to extending the boundaries of new music and the young music discipline of "structured improvisation," through the commissioning and live performance of new work. As a large-scale international artistic collaboration, Fissures, Futures continues Rova's exploration of the synthesis of composition and collective improvisation.
Rova:Arts was incorporated in 1985 as the non-profit umbrella organization of the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Inspired and informed by the work of the Quartet, Rova:Arts is devoted to extending the leading edge of musical expression and related artistic disciplines. The organization administers the ensemble's activities, presents work by other forward-looking artists, commissions new works by established and emerging composers, and furthers the public's understanding of adventurous art through education and outreach.
Rova:Arts' history is largely the history of Rova Saxophone Quartet. Formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1977, the Quartet quickly became well-known for its vital blend of written compositions and structured improvisation, and has performed over the course of three decades at some of the most prestigious jazz clubs and festivals throughout the world. The Chicago Tribune has hailed Rova for "the virtuoso ensemble work, the mercurial mood shifts, the startling array of instrumental colors and the sheer joy of sound that have made this quartet one of the most significant ensembles of its kind since the late 1970s." The New Yorker states: "The Rova Saxophone Quartet are obviously game for just about anything. The polish of this celebrated self-contained unit is matched only by their daring."
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