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Texture and Transformation: PEK & His Grand Aesthetic Challenge PEK (aka David Peck) is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds. PEK was born in 1964 and started playing clarinet and piano in elementary school. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone

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The Photon Epoch

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Photon Epoch.

Article: Album Review

Leap of Faith Orchestra: The Photon Epoch

Read "The Photon Epoch" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
December 24, 2019

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and label founder, PEK is an audacious experimenter. Beyond that, there are no appropriate labels for the music associated with his numerous groups on his Evil Clown label. Listen to the Leap of Faith Orchestra on The Photon Epoch and you will find yourself at thirty-thousand feet, in a place with few identifiable ...

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SuperClusters

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2018
Track listing: SuperClusters.

Article: Album Review

Leap of Faith Orchestra: SuperClusters

Read "SuperClusters" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 21, 2018

On two occasions each year, composer and multi-instrumentalist PEK (David M. Peck), gathers together his Evil Clown collective for live recordings. Culled from Leap of Faith, String Theory, Mekaniks, Metal Chaos Ensemble and their respective off-shoots of each, the players form his massive, eighteen-member Leap of Faith Orchestra. For the SuperClusters session, the group assembled at ...

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Leap of Faith ‐ Polynomial Time

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1) Polynomial Time ‐ 1:13:16 - Outpost 186, Cambridge MA ‐ 3/11/2017

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Leap of Faith - Extra Dimensions

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Extra Dimensions 59:20 - Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham, MA, 13 May 2017

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String Theory - Angular Distortion

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Angular Distortion 01:10:48 - Outpost 186 - Cambridge MA - 20 May 2017

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Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub Units - Surface of Revolution (2 CDs)

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Toroids 15:43; 2. Hyperboloids 15:27; 3. Generatrixes 15:48; 4. Zone of the Spheres 15:39; 5. Surface of Revolution 50:28 - Third Life Studios, Somerville, MA - May 14, 2017

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Leap of Faith - Unbounded Sets

By PEK

Label: Evil Clown
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Unbounded Sets - 51:01 - Spectrum, NYC, 5 May 2017; 2. Dark Energies 20:18 - Nave Gallery, Somerville MA, 4 June 2016