Results for "Avant Garde"

Strangerous

Born: September 20, 1998

Strangerous is an experimental artist based in Trondheim. She has performed at festivals such as the Emergency Festival (Nødutgangfestivalen), and Ung Nordisk Musik, and has released two albums. Strangerous is a new voice in the borderland between noise, ambient, contemporary and everything else that defies normal genre conventions. She uses vocals, field recordings, various instruments and electronic processing of sound to create a soundscape that captures both the disturbing and the beautiful. Attn:Magazine about Strangerous: “twisting the listener into a paradox of becoming both acquainted and alienated, pulling them into a buzzing, insidious greyscale trauma as the music churns like a horrid machine.” Strangerous is the solo project of Nora E

marco sinopoli

Born: November 29, 1985

Biography Composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Marco Sinopoli has dedicated his training to the study of classical composition and jazz studying with many of the best Italian musicians and teachers. Over the years he has collaborated as a guitarist in Italy and abroad with various artists, in the field of jazz and pop music, including Fabrizio Bosso, Roberto Gatto, Nicola Stilo, Ramberto Ciammarughi, Alessandro Gwis, Lino Patruno, Baraonna, Peppino Gagliardi, Max Gagliardi, Sergio Cammariere, Francesco Di Giacomo, Francesco Fratini, Simone Alessandrini, Federica Mischianti, The Session's Voices, Primiano Di Biasie (Dire Straits) and many others. He has received various commissions as a composer from institutions such as "Nuova Consonanza", "Macerata Arena Sferisterio", "Roman Philharmonic Academy", "Paolo Grassi Foundation", "Seminario de Cultura Mexicana", "Academy of the Cathedral of San Giovanni", "Un organ for Rome "and collaborating with various ensembles and soloists including" Sentieri Selvaggi "by Carlo Boccadoro," Mexico City Wind Quintet "," Mitja Quartet "," Accademia della Cattedrale di San Giovanni "," Imago Sonora " , “Alessandro Carbonare trio”, Michele Marco Rossi, Samuele Telari, Bruno Paolo Lombardi, Andrea Corsi, Luca Cipriano, Alessandra Amorino, Angelo Bruzzese. In 2018 he founded the "Marco Sinopoli-Extradiction" ensemble with which he developed his own original music in a transversal jazz approach, releasing the first album "Chromatic landscape" in 2021 for the label "Parco della Musica records". In 2022 he founded the "Marco Sinoopoli 5et" in wich he plays both piano and the guitar with Simone Alessandrini, soprano sax, Luca Cipriano, clarinet, Marco Siniscalco, bass, and Evita Polidoro on drums. In 2019 he won the prestigious international award "Macerata Opera Festival" and the commission for musical theater work "Can you heart me?" which has seen several replicas within the Sferisterio Festival and the Roma Europa Festival. At the same time, in addition to working in the studio as a session player and arranger, he composes music for plays, short films, commercials and documentaries. "The beauty of the donkey" and "Come to the world" by S.Castellitto assistant to the composition and guitarist for Arturo Annechino and Eduardo Cruz, "In waking we are saved" by L.Yandoli, "With the eyes of Rapanui" by RGBarca, "Vicino a te" by G.Sinopoli, "Entierro" by Maura Morales Bergamnn, "The guard" by L

David Aaron

Born: April 4, 1966

Canadian saxophonist David Aaron regularly works as a freelance musician, as well as a private teacher, composer, arranger and producer and has scored a number of live theater pieces plus numerous films, including two films most recently featured at Cannes.

He was also the creator/producer of the Improv At The Khyber series in Halifax, Canada, which ran in conjunction with the Atlantic Jazz Festival. The series featured internationally-known musicians in an intimate gallery setting.

David has performed at legendary venues such as The Apollo Theater, Knitting Factory (NYC, Brooklyn & Hollywood), The Bottom Line, 55 Bar, Tonic, The Stone NYC, Minton’s Playhouse, The Bitter End, The Cutting Room, Hammerstein Ballroom, Fillmore NYC@Irving Plaza, Lincoln Center "Out Of Doors", B.B

Roomet Jakapi

Born: April 18, 1973

Roomet Jakapi is an experimental vocalist and free improviser based in Estonia. He has performed with many talented improv musicians, including Rieko Okuda, Antti Virtaranta, Kris Kuldkepp, Guilherme Rodrigues, Emilio Gordoa, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Tom Blancarte, Beat Keller, Chris Pitsiokos, Fred Frith, Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki, Girilal Baars, Roman Stolyar, Dario Fariello, Elo Masing, Teemu Mustonen, Taavi Kerikmäe, Mart Soo, Niels Præstholm, Theodore Parker, Jukka Kääriäinen, Jonas Van den Bossche, Lauri Hyvärinen, and Ilia Belorukov

Elias Meister

Born in 1983 in Munich (Germany) guitarist Elias Meister is based in New York city since 2007. His numerous interests in different styles and ways of expression have led him to perform in a broad variety of musical settings. He leads his own groups, such as the Experimental Rock and Groove band Spacepilot with Leo Genovese and Joe Hertenstein, that performed at the Moers Festival and the XJAZZ Festival (Berlin) in 2017 among their shows in three tours to Germany and neighboring countries. They released their debut vinyl 'Exophonia' in 2016 (which the Süddeutsche Zeitung described as 'dancing and floating in zero gravity') and their second vinyl 'Particle Horizon' (feat. Grammy-nominated trumpeter Tim Hagans) in 2018.

Rex Shepherd

Guitarist and composer Rex Shepherd has been writing and performing music for more than 30 years. Initially a rock and blues player, Shepherd became entranced by the playing of guitarist Jim Hall on the first listen. He began learning the jazz language on guitar, studying at the University of Akron in Ohio, growing toward becoming a known performer and composer in the Cleveland area. His musical journey began with an affinity for the more "outside" music of Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, and Anthony Braxton. His current style, which is grown from the jazz tradition, employs a liberal application of melody and suggestive harmonies enabling free expression of musical ideas in a context he refers to as conceptual improvisation

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

Born: May 24, 1961

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is a Finnish composer, writer and musician. Studies in University in Helsinki (musicology, programming), OU (computing), composing privately. Mainly focused on free improvisations with electric guitar (and other instruments), avantgarde, human-computer systems in realtime improvising, extended guitar techniques.

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Matthew Giobbi

Born: August 28, 1974

Early Life and Education

Matthew Giobbi was born in 1974 and raised in Easton and Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. His early passion for music led him to study piano and trombone under esteemed mentors like Paul Schocker. He pursued formal music education at Moravian College, Mannes School of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, performing with prestigious ensembles such as the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Lima in Peru.

Dei Xhrist

Born: August, 1971

Sotto voce/art brut glossolalia, spoken word, fluxus compositions and movement. Xhrist began performing sonically in the early 00s, and now sings solo and with ensemble improvisors in the New England experimental sound/noise/improvisation/art scene.

Organizes XFest MA (www.xfestma.com) starting in 2019.