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Chris Burn's Ensemble: Ensemble at Musica Genera 2002
by John Kelman
Free improvisation in a new music context can often be a challenge. How to create new sonic landscapes? How to provide a structure that encourages collective improvisation? How to stretch the limits of traditional instruments in new and unheard-of ways? With his Ensemble at Musica Genera 2002, Chris Burn and company provide at least some of the answers in a program which challenges conventional concepts of both sound and improvisation.
Burn is a pianist who eschews all convention on his ...
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