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Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Duration: 00:39:06
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Tracks

1. Here We Goes 10:04 2. Huh? 5:50 3. Melody Patterns 7:56 4. That Ending Though… 8:21 5. Attempted 7:35

Personnel

Mark Harris

saxophone, alto

Walter Thompson

piano

Matt Smiley

bass

Ron Coulter

drums

Additional Personnel / Information

Mark Harris – Alto Saxophone Walter Thompson – Piano Matt Smiley – Bass Ron Coulter – Drum Set & Percussion All compositions by Mark Harris, Walter Thompson, Matt Smiley, and Ron Coulter Recorded January 7, 2023 in Denver, CO Audio Recording, Mixing, Mastering, and Graphic Design by Ron Coulter

Album Description

This recording brings together Sweden-based pianist, Walter Thompson; Denver-based saxophonist, Mark Harris; Denver-based bassist, Matt Smiley; and Casper, Wyoming-based percussionist, Ron Coulter for the second time. This is their third release after “New Air” on Right Brain Records and “Ascending Structure” on Kreating SounD, both in 2022. BIOGRAPHIES: WALTER THOMPSON has achieved international recognition as a composer and for the creation of Soundpainting, the universal multidisciplinary live composing sign language. Thompson has composed Soundpaintings with contemporary orchestras, dance companies, theatre ensembles and multidisciplinary groups in United States, Europe and South America. In 1974, after attending Berklee School of Music, Walter Thompson moved to Woodstock and began an association with the Creative Music Studio. While there, he studied composition and woodwinds with Anthony Braxton and began to develop his interest in using hand and body gestures as a way to create real-time compositions. Beginning as a tool to help shape the direction of a performance, it has evolved to become a universal composing language for composers and artists off all disciplines and abilities. Soundpainting is now being used both professionally and in education in more than 35 countries around the world including; the United States, France, Canada, Australia, Czech Republic, China, Germany, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Uruguay, Montenegro, Guadeloupe, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, Turkey, and the Netherlands. MARK HARRIS is currently the Assistant Professor of Studio Saxophone at Metropolitan State University of Denver. After completing a Master of Music degree from the University of Colorado, in 1988, he has worn many musical hats, from backing national and international artists including Bob Hope, Cab Calloway, George Shearing, and Roger Waters, to working with bands in Afro-Pop, Electronic, Big Band, Avant Garde, Art Rock, Classical Chamber, Children’s Music, and other uncategorizable styles. His wide ranging interest in creative and collaborative music is demonstrated by his current performance groups including The Lamont Sax Quartet, the Metro Wind Consort, Thinking Plague, Hamster Theater, 9th and Lincoln Big Band, momen terra, Random Axe, and Ligeia Mare. He has a profound interest in getting improvisation and more open creativity into public schools and has become an advisor to Denver Public Schools on the subject. Mark has been a passionate studio teacher for over 30 years, and he maintains a private studio. MATT SMILEY is a bassist, composer, and educator residing in Denver, CO. In his work as a performer and a composer, Smiley focuses on developing systems and modes of playing at the nexus of composition and improvisation that reference elements of established American and European vernacular and experimental music traditions, while simultaneously and idiosyncratically deviating from them. His multifaceted and studied approach to both the bass and composition enable an adroit facility in both idiomatic and non-idiomatic settings. Smiley has worked with a number of diverse and prominent performers and composers including Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Stephen Drury, Jean-Claude Risset, Terrell Stafford, and Greg Osby. In addition to his rigorous performance schedule, he teaches at both Denver School of the Arts Jazz Camp and The Gift of Jazz, and he completed his D.M.A. degree in jazz studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2022. RON COULTER is a percussionist, composer, and improviser. He has presented at 100+ universities and has toured internationally appearing in all 50 U.S. states, Europe, Canada, and Japan with artists such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, David Murray, Sean Jones, Sam Newsome, Matthew Shipp, Nate Wooley, Linux Laptop Orchestra, Hugh Ragin, Vinny Golia, Sandy Duncan, Bolokada Condé, Music from China, Youngstown Symphony, Gino Robair, Michael Zerang, Eric Mandat, Chris Corsano, and Tone Road Ramblers, among many others. Ron has presented at numerous conferences, including: ISIM, PASIC, NIME, LiWoLi, BMC3, JEN, CMS, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Futurisms, Soundlines, RadiaLx, and the JVC and Montreal Jazz Festivals. He is co-founder of the Percussion Art Ensemble, duende entendre, Marble Hammer, Drm&Gtr, RACCA TRIO, and founder of the Southern Illinois Improvisation Series, and Creative Music Series. Additional interests include noise, intermedia, interdisciplinary collaboration, and organizing Fluxconcerts. As a composer, Ron has created 430+ compositions for various media.

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