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  • From: mrf AT duke.edu (marc)
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Alternative Communities::9 October 2004
  • Date: 21 Sep 2004 12:43:47 -0700

please come, and tell everyone you know to come too. i'm completely
amped up about this, and totally stressed -- a combination which is
sure to mean amusement, at my expense, for you.

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITIES
Featuring the premiere of An Alternative Community by marc faris
SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 AT 8 PM
JOHN T. FREDERICK EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX AUITORIUM,
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS | DURHAM, NC
$8/$6 students/free for NCSSM students

You're invited to ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITIES, an exciting evening of new
music by local composer. To showcase the premiere performance of his
new work An Alternative Community, composer and electric guitarist
marc faris has organized a full-length concert featuring pieces by
Amelia Burch, Crowmeat Bob, and Todd Hershberger & Thom Limbert.

marc faris composed An Alternative Community while on an Artist
Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council in 2003-4. The piece
stems from his ongoing interest in creating productive musical
relationships between performers with different sociomusical
backgrounds, framed within a context that is informed by his social
politics and views on current debates about North Carolina's past,
present and future. Ranging from quiet and contemplative to highly
energized and emotive, the work is envisioned as a tribute to the
network of creative individuals working below the radar. The ensemble
gathered for the premiere features performers from our region's
vibrant underground music scenes. The performance will also
incorporate texts by poet Charles Jester and video projections by
artist Bill Noland.

The other music on the program shares the spirit of genre/boundary
crossing embodied in faris's work. Mnemonic & Phonetics for North
American Birds (Tweedle-Dee or Tea-Kettle) by Amelia Burch is an
extraordinary performance/sound-art piece, integrating Amelia's
interest in birdsongs into exploratory drum-kit work. Crowmeat Bob's
The Swords, which he describes as "retro-futurist chamber metal,"
showcases the composer-improviser's work on the fringes of
avant-what-have-you. And pulsoptional composers Todd Hershberger &
Thom Limbert will present Glossadlibia, a collaborative electronic
"controlled improvisation" that uses recordings of evangelical
glossolalia as source and inspirational material.

Performers include the composers themselves, as well as members of
Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, Cold Sides, des_ark, Hotel Motel, Micro East
Collective, pulsoptional, The Sames, Shark Quest, and more.

For more information, contact marc faris: (919) 660-3319 |
mrf AT duke.edu.

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITIES is made possible through the generous
financial and material support of the North Carolina Arts Council and
the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.



  • Alternative Communities::9 October 2004, marc, 09/21/2004

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