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GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA
photo by: Noureddine El Warari
GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA
Perform all new compositions in their first LA appearance in 4 years!
Winner LA WEEKLY AWARDS 'BEST WORLD MUSIC GROUP' 2003 and 2005
MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY ADAM RUDOLPH
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 @ 8PM
Admission $25 general, $15 students w/ valid ID
Advance tickets recommended
Performing artists:
BENNIE MAUPIN - bass clarinet, alto flute, bamboo flutes
PABLO CALOGERO - bass clarinet, bass flute, Tibetan trumpet
GUSTAVO BULGACH - clarinet, bamboo flute
MATT ZEBLEY - alto clarinet, bamboo flute
ELLEN BURR - c flute, alto flute, piccolo, bamboo flute,
EMILY HAY - c flute, alto flute, piccolo, bamboo flute
FAWNTICE McCAIN - c flute, alto flute, piccolo, bamboo flutes, suling,
ocarina
MYKA MILLER - oboe, english horn
RANDY GLOSS - riq, frame drums, conga, batajon, gongs, tuned gongs, bells,
percussion
MUNYUNGO JACKSON - congas, udu, cajon, marimbula, surdos, talking drum,
percussion
MILES SHREWSBERY - tabla, frame drum, udu, shakers. percussion
ANDRES RENTERIA - bata, cajon, bowls, shakers, percussion
ANDREW GRUESHOW - achimevu, sogo, talking drum, berimbau, percussion
TJ TROY - tabla, frame drum, dumbek, percussion
ADAM YASMIN - cajon, percussion
BILL CASALE - acoustic bass
NICK ROSEN - acoustic bass
LAURA STEENBERGE - acoustic bass
RONIT KIRCHMAN - violin
TYLANA RENGA - violin
PALOMA UDOVIC - violin
MIGUEL ATWOOD FERGUSON - viola
KAREN ELAINE - viola
CASSIA STREB - viola
APRIL GUTHRIE - cello
PETER JACOBSON - cello
WOODY APLANALP - guitar
Web page:
www.metarecords.com/go.html
Videos:
www.metarecords.com/go_youtube.html
Go: Organic Orchestra @ my space:
myspace.com/goorganicorchestra
Videos:
metarecords.com/go_youtube.html
Unique in the realm of approaches to improvisational conducting, Go: Organic Orchestra utilizes a composed non-linear score consisting of sound and motion elements. These include tone rows, synthetic scales, melodies, linguistic shapes, intervallic patterns, textural gestures, modes, ragas, maqams, and plainchant. The score serves to provide material for both the improvisations and the orchestrations. Motion and forms and are generated through the application of the composer’s rhythm concept “Cyclic Verticalism” whereby polymeters are combined with additive rhythm cycles.
In concert, the composer conducts the musicians in a spontaneous way by using a variety of hand signals to cue and orchestrate the score and direct the improvisations. He seeks to generate unusual relationships of sound against sound, form against form, and rhythm against rhythm in a non-linear, ever shifting kaleidoscope of music images: weaving an “audio syncretic music fabric”.
The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting serve as inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves in the moment by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice. Through listening and imagination the conductor and performers inspire one another to create emotional colorations of sound.
Rather than the score being a set of instructions of what, how and when to play, the non-linear semiotic (symbols) of the written music are an invitation to discover the potentialities of what can happen when transformed into syntax as expressed through the hands and breath of a group of virtuosic, imaginative, and soulful improvisers.
CONCERT REVIEWS:
"The music, performed by a large ensemble of wind and percussion players, rose like vines from hand drummer Adam Rudolph's written instructions and hand signals. And it truly is organic -- a blend of gentle sustained dissonance, heaven-crashing rhythm jams, and individual improvisations. No joke: a startling and involving development in roots music, with more to follow."
- Greg Burk, LA Weekly
" I caught a performance Go: Organic Orchestra down in SoHo last spring and was swept away by what they were doing. It was fascinating and ahead of its time, in the best possible way. I loved every minute of it. "
- Marc Meyers, jazzwax.com
" I was fortunate to have attended two nights with Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra at Roulette a few months back and was blown away by Adam's distinctive blend of jazz and world music as well as his conducting."
- Bruce Lee Gallanter - Downtown Music Gallery
“This mixture of planning and spontaneity is brought to life with such a high level of musicality that the “organic” part of the group’s name is always honored.”
Steve Holtje, The Big Takeover
“Extraordinary.... the audience was absolutely absorbed.”
Howard Mandel, Jazz beyond Jazz
Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave, Venice, CA 90291
(1 BLOCK EAST OF ABBOT KINNEY)
We strongly encourage alternative transport. Walk, bike, Blue Bus # 2 or Metro # 33 or #333. However, we also have free, on-site parking.
PRINCESS BEAN'S MESSY WORLD
The Smash Hit, Award Winning, Family Rock and Roll Musical “Princess Bean’s Messy World” is back! The petite pink haired dynamo rocks the house at the Electric Lodge in Venice. Weekend matinees run indefinitely.
Come check us out. This show is truly a good time for everyone. Running time is an hour and forty minutes, including a fifteen-minute intermission.
Feb. 6 & 14 @ 12:30pm
Tickets:
or call 310.490.2383
More Info: www.princessbean.net
“A surprisingly witty, slickly produced big giggle of a musical…that truly has all ages appeal.” - LA Times
“Ever been lost in someone else’s story? Princess Bean was…a great story in a great production with an even greater message. I want every girl and woman to hear it.” - Dr. Jean Illsley Clarke, co-author of Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children, and founder of The Self-Esteem Center.
"...A heroine for the new millennium … Nancy Hewitt, LA Daily News
Princess Bean is a pink haired, combat boot wearing, self-proclaimed Princess who counters our ideas of what princesses are supposed to look like, dress like and act like. Deciding one day that it’s not enough to “almost” be a princess, Bean jumps into the book next door to find out how the “real” princesses do it. A mix of comedy, rock-and-roll, and dance pop songs - this show is truly in a class of it's own in Family Theater.
“While the story is aimed primarily at girls, boys are sure to enjoy the songs, the story line, and Princess Bean’s outgoing tomboyish in-your-face personality. The catchy pop/rock songs will help keep kids following the story and the empowering themes should stay with the listeners long after this rock and roll fairy tale comes to a conclusion.” -Fred Koch for Chicago Parent
Princess Bean stars Rachel Resnikoff, who wrote the play and co wrote the music with Eric Stephens. Directed by Clare Carey and choreographed by multiple 'Ovation' winner Ameena Kaplan. The hit show also stars an Equity Musical Theater cast including; Rachel Sorsa –Khoury, Harvey Guillen, Anastacia McPherson, Emily Morris, Matthew Thompson and Justin Ray.
Winner of the Film Advisory Board’s Award of Excellence, Parent's Choice Gold and many more awards - Princess Bean got its start as a series of albums. Other titles include “Princess Bean’s Space Adventure” “Princess Spirit” and “Princess Bean’s Dance Party," all of which will be mounted in Los Angeles this year.
Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave, Venice, CA 90291
(1 BLOCK EAST OF ABBOT KINNEY)
We strongly encourage alternative transport. Walk, bike, Blue Bus # 2 or Metro # 33 or #333. However, we also have free, on-site parking.
BAD SPANISH & OTHER WORKS
Ellen Burr enjoys an eclectic career as an illustrator, jeweler, flutist, music teacher and composer. She has exhibited in many group shows and her works are collected by people in all walks of life. She has been published in Notations 21 and Lark Books, 500 Pendants. Currently she lives in Venice, California with her husband, cat and two parakeets.
OPENING RECEPTION: February 13 from 4pm to 7pm.
Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave, Venice, CA 90291
(1 BLOCK EAST OF ABBOT KINNEY)
We strongly encourage alternative transport. Walk, bike, Blue Bus # 2 or Metro # 33 or #333. However, we also have free, on-site parking.