8pm – The Terry Dame Trio & The Volar Portex with Terri Dame: Percussion/Electronics, Jessica Lurie: Sax, Chris Cochrane: Guitar
9pm - Dafna Naphtali: Electronics, Gordon Beeferman: Piano
Gordon Beeferman and Dafna Naphtali will play a set of new duet pieces and improvisations for piano and voice with kinetic sound processing, fractal rhythms, and general polyphonic/kaleidophonic disturbances. Gordon Beeferman fleshes out protean fragments into strikingly visceral structures and landscapes that take the piano to its limit, and Dafna Naphtali augments her high energy live processing of Beeferman’s piano with extended vocal techniques/sounds/multi-modal singing and her custom take on hand and voice-activated electronics.
The Volar Portex is a new trio project combining the creative forces of composer/instrumentalist and instrument inventor Terry Dame, composer/multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jessica Lurie and guitarist/improvisor/producer Chris Cochrane. They will perform a new set of improvised and composed pieces for processed guitar, saxophones, invented instruments, toys, objects and whatever else they might find lying around.
Terry Dame is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, instrument builder, hacker and educator. She is director, composer and instrument builder for the ensemble Electric Junkyard Gamelan and its solo offshoot project involving original interactive controller instruments known as ElectronGong. Dame also curates a monthly music series at Barbes Brooklyn called Terry Dame’s Weird Wednesdays. Now in its second year the series is dedicated to instrument inventors and players of objects and other musical oddities. As a side person Ms. Dame performs with variety groups including Kenny Wollesen’s Himalayas and Wollesonic Laboratories, Jessica Lurie’s Plate Tiptonics and the electronic dance project Daughter Of Darrr with controllerist Julie Covello. From 1994-2004, Dame was composer in residence and saxophonist with Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok.
Jessica Lurie is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer. Jessica is featured on over 50 recordings and has worked with international artists including David Krakauer, Bill Frisell, Chuck D & The Fine Arts Militia, The Indigo Girls, Mark Ribot, Karl Denson, Frank London, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Vinicio Caposella, Otto Lechner, Nels Cline, Amy Denio, Jacob Fred Jazz Odessy, Kenny Wolleson, Bernie Worrell and Ivan Neville. She composes for multi-media, dance, theater and film, and has collaborated on over 20 multi-media works with visual artist Danijel Zezelj, Great Small Works and Circus Amok. In addition to her own Ensemble, Jessica composes for and performs with the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet, Living Daylights trio, Romeo Studs, La Buya, bigger bands Zion80 and Ayn Sof and many other worldwide collaborations.
Chris Cochrane, a guitarist, singer, songwriter, improviser and producer, has been active in the New York music scene since 1983. He has worked with a vast array of great artists, including John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Andrea Centazzo, T Bone Burnett, Marc Ribot, Fred Frith, Thurston Moore, Richard Buckner, Kramer, Eszter Balint, Derek Bailey, Annie Gosfield, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, and Bob Ostertag. He has composed music for dance and theater productions by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dennis Cooper, John Jasperse, Nayland Blake, Circus Amok, and others.
