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Concerts by Composers: Michael Lytle, George Cartwright, and David Moss
Works Performed or Excerpted:
1. “Excerpt from Improvisation” - Michael Lytle, clarinet and electronics, George Cartwright, woodwinds, David Moss, percussion, George Lewis, trombone and game calls, Christian Marclay, turntables
Michael Lytle
(aka elewhale) has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garrett List, David Moss, John Zorn, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dress and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5 star rated Iowa Ear Music of 1976. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented a set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the “most radical of his generation” by Joachin Berendt (The Jazz Book, 1984 edition)
George Cartwright
Born in the Mississippi Delta George has been performing composed and improvised musics for over 20 years. From totally improvised concepts to the relatively structured beat music of his band Curlew his experiences have been considerable. From a starting point at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio in 1977 and a move to NYC fall of 1979 he has seen and participated in musical changes and challenges no one could foresee. And he's loved it. Few contemporary composer/performers have had as varied and extensive experience in the changing concepts of avant music and maintained as high a quality of work. His compositions are at once direct and mysterious, possessing a clarity and focus that show both Ellington and Ornette assimilated in the the most unique of ways. With melodies wrangled to their essence, structures dense, clear and unpredictable it is a music that stands on its own. In the summer of 2003 George received a McKnight Composer’s Fellowship. In that same year he was chosen 'The City Pages' jazz musician of the year ( Twin Cities weekly arts and news paper). In 2009 he received a Jerome Foundation Composer's Grant to write, develop and perform Davey Williams radio play 'Bonanza:The Musical.
David Moss
David Moss is considered one of the most innovative singers and percussionists in contemporary music. He has performed his solo and theater work from New York (Lincoln Center) to Venice (Theatro La Fenice) to Brisbane (Festival). In 1991 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1992, a DAAD Fellowship (Berlin).
Moss has sung with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, and made his Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra. He was twice a featured soloist at the Salzburg Festival. He sings in Heiner Goebbels’ orchestra work Surrogate Cities and Helmut Oehring’s monodrama for orchestra, POEndulum.
He was a 2008/09 fellow of the “Interweaving Performance Cultures” research center at the Freie Universität, Berlin.
Moss is co-founder/artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice , which conducts master classes, workshops and seminars internationally.
He is artistic director of the MADE Festival in Sweden, and artistic director of the all-volunteer choir, New Babel Sounds, a project of the Neuköllner Oper, Berlin. He performs with the electronic groove trio, Denseland, and the audio performance group, Technologies.
Michael Lytle on the Experimental Intermedia Series
“A lot of performance spaces have come and gone or morphed into a foundation only, surviving on the depth of their archives, become grant organizations, or impossible to afford to attend or disappeared altogether. Especially performance spaces. I’ve seen so many go. Usually started by one strong person, in Kansas City, Minneapolis, Iowa City, everywhere, they are dedicated to the art, with strong belief and strength of purpose. Nothing can stop such monuments to us. We are the life. We are the art. - It’s a proud we thing.
But they go. In a few years the strong person wilts under the strain of government disinterest, the intelligent but poor audience, the volunteer that doesn’t show up, the occasional petty artist and he goes. But not Phill.
I don’t know how he has done it. It’s in an incredible old loft. He still has it. It hasn’t changed hardly at all in 40 yrs. (It has slightly less room only because the archives keep growing.) As far as I can tell, he upgrades and adds only to his performance equipment and friends. He knows everybody. He has great help. Still dedicated. He travels all over the world. Has another space in Gent. Drives a crummy old car between gigs. It probably helps that his main focus is on Minimalist Composers rather than Maximalist Improvisers, but he lets us maximalists in here and there and keeps stirring that pot ‘til by the end of the year, every year, the whole world has passed through and nicked another chip of paint off the wall.” – Michael Lytle 2011
David Moss on the Experimental Intermedia Series
“EIF was, and is, a place like no other. Sound, choices, family, food, and musical extremes of all kinds existed here side by side, if not embracing.... a lot of the music, and any number of the groups, of the 1980’s would never have been heard/made if not for that room and Phill Niblock!”- David Moss 2011
George Cartwright in DRAM
David Moss in DRAM
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