Composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and record label enterpreneur Vinny Golia discusses his unlikely entrance into improvised music, going from his cover artwork for albums by Chick Corea (The Song of Singing), Joe Henderson, and Dave Holland / Barre Phillips (the seminal Music From Two basses), to his acquisition of a Selmer Mark VI soprano saxophone, replete [...]
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Ten Thousand Hours Installment 11: Vinny Golia
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 10: Nate Wooley
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Trumpeter Nate Wooley speaks about his upcoming projects as Artist In Residence at Issue Project Room and his projects with longtime collaborators like Paul Lytton and C. Spencer Yeh, as well as his work with amplified trumpet in a more noise -based sonic environment, and his work in three great contemporary jazz quintets: those of [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 9: Jeremiah Cymerman
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Clarinetist, composer, and producer Jeremiah Cymerman discusses his approach using his concepts about sound engineering to integrate composition and improvisation. He discusses the development of his concept of recording studio engineering as a compositional device when creating his Tzadik release “In Memory of the Labyrinth System” (see also his recent article in Tape Op), and [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 8: Elliott Sharp
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Elliott Sharp discusses recent projects that represent the latest developments in the disparate threads that run through his decades-long career, from solo performance to avant-techno to lush film scores. Sharp is most known in the United States as an innovative maverick guitarist, though as a composer he has been experimenting for decades [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 7: Andrew D’Angelo
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Andrew D’Angelo discusses creativity and plays a set of engaging improvisations in a trio with guitarist Jonathan Goldberger and bassist James Ilgenfritz. Contemplating the performer’s relationship to their own inner creative energy, D’Angelo poses the question, “Who is the one doing the creating?”. On Friday, January 25, 2008, D’Angelo suffered a [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 6: Matana Roberts
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts speaks with James Ilgenfritz about the technical and metaphysical aspects of her dynamic and highly autobiographical music, including her ongoing blood narrative project Coin Coin (documented on her blog In the Midst Of Memory as well as an upcoming record on the Canadian label Constellation, and the interactive nature of [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 5: Pauline Oliveros
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Composer, improviser and deep listening proponent Pauline Oliveros discusses her more than 50 years at the forefront of experimental music, from her initial arrival in San Francisco in the 1950′s to the celebration in honor of receiving the William Schumann Award from Columbia University, and beyond. She discusses her innovations in the field of music [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 4: Jon Rose
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Violinist, improviser, composer, instrument builder, and installation artist Jon Rose discusses his work creating music by bowing the Great Fences of Australia. These include the famous Dog Proof Fence and Rabbit Proof Fence. Hollis Taylor’s recent book/DVD Post Impressions documents this project, and a new work for the Kronos Quartet, was recently premiered at the [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 3: Aaron Siegel
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Composer and percussionist Aaron Siegel discusses his acoustic experimental work, raising questions about the relationship between composer and interpreter, spaces and contexts in which they interact. Unique instrumentation and experimental notation systems are discussed as Siegel and James Ilgenfritz read through a compositional sketch for glockenspiel and double bass that includes some extremely brief improvisational [...]
Ten Thousand Hours Installment 2: Dave Ballou
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Virtuoso trumpeter Dave Ballou discusses his activities as an improvising musician, his work as a composer of chamber music, and his philosophy on creativity. Topics include the Macro Quarktet (which he co-leads with trumpeter Herb Robertson), his transition from playing split lead trumpet in the big bands of Woody Herman and Tommy Dorsey to the [...]
