Vingt-deux aliénés, réunis autour d’une partition singulière, modulable à souhait, à caractère graphico-cyclique et structuro-improvisé, baptisée Partir un Jour et charpentée par Greg Gensse vous invitent au plus Toubifri des concerts à trépidations organiques.
C’est par ces ondes cosmiques et intraveineuses que les vingt-deux forcenés du Very Big Experimental Toubifri Orchestra envahissent leurs terrains de jeux, d’expériences, de culbutations et de virevoltages, de risques sans périls, de partage et d’humanité, de bourguignon, de boeuf balinais à la sauce aigre douce pour vous emmener dans un imaginaire folklorique puissant, (é)puisant son répertoire aussi bien dans les abysses profondes des mers indonésiennes que dans les geysers bouillants d’Islande du nord-ouest.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums “There is No Light”

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“Avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra stars in the movie version of his concept album Space Is the Place. Not following a linear plot line, this experimental film is a bizarre combination of social commentary, blaxploitation, science fiction, and concert performance. The opening scene is set in an intergalactic forest, with Sun Ra introducing his plan to use music as salvation for the black community.” Read more & watch the movie.

Some background. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, as player pianos emerged (pianos played mechanically by moving rolls of paper through a mechanism that physically moved the keys), the next logical step was to apply that same principle to a range of orchestral instruments, often including percussion and mallet instruments. These large instrument arrays were called Orchestrions.

For a number of years now, I have been gathering the forces of a group of talented and innovative inventors and technicians from around the country to construct a large palette of acoustic sound-producing devices that I can organize as a new kind of Orchestrion. The principle instruments have been designed and built for me by the incredibly talented Eric Singer, who is a major innovator in this area of engineering.”

They are Clay Giberson and John Nastos, working musicians in Portland, Oregon. Both are professional performers, composers, and educators and are kept busy in Portland’s jazz scene. Their goal is to release a new song each week for a year. Visit official website of Duo Chronicles.

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