ELLEN FULLMAN

Austin New Music Co-op Presents: Ellen Fullman & The Long String Instrument

Composer-performer and former Austinite Ellen Fullman returns to Austin with her 100 foot long string instrument for the first time in 12 years. Rare performance to be held at the historic downtown Seaholm Power Plant.

Saturday, March 13th - 8PM
Sunday, March 14th - 8PM
Both performances at The Seaholm Power Plant
214 West Avenue Austin, TX 78701
$12 students/advance and $15 at door
Advance tickets available now at End of an Ear http://endofanear.com

NMC is thrilled to present Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument for a long-overdue homecoming performance. Austin audiences will have the opportunity to step into the turbine hall of a historic power plant and be enveloped by dense masses of sound from a 100 foot long string instrument. This experience is akin to stepping into an enormous grand piano. Fullman's rare visit also celebrates the SXSW world premiere of Peter Esmonde's in-depth documentary film about her music entitled "5 variations on a long string."

Ellen Fullman called Austin home from 1985 to 1997, and rented studio space in a former candy factory off Manor Road east of the University. It was there that she developed many aspects of her work and her very unique instrument. Using incredible lengths of wire and custom built wooden resonators, Fullman transformed the hardwood-floored building into a gigantic instrument. Breaking with all conventions of string playing, she rosined her hands and walked along the lengths of wire coaxing out otherworldly vibrations.

Over the past 25 years, Ellen Fullman has taken that original idea, carefully refined it, and brought it to the world by performing throughout the Europe, Japan, and the Americas. For this incredibly rare event, Fullman and NMC will construct the Long String Instrument inside a particularly resonant Austin landmark: the magnificent turbine hall of the 1930's Art Deco Seaholm Power Plant. In two very special concerts, Ellen Fullman will perform her compositions solo and in ensemble with NMC instrumentalists James Alexander (viola), Henna Chou (cello), Nick Hennies (percussion), and Travis Weller (violin).

FREEFALL

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten in association with Epistrophy Arts present the Texas debut of internationally acclaimed jazz trio Free Fall on March 12.

FREE FALL
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Austin) – double bass
Håvard Wiik (Oslo, Berlin) - piano
Ken Vandermark (Chicago) – clarinets

Friday March 12, 8PM doors 7:30
AAMP
411 West Monroe
Austin, TX 78704 (map)
advance tickets available Feb. 12 at End of An Ear and Waterloo Records
$12 advance, $15 door

Free Fall was organized by bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, reedist Ken Vandermark, and pianist Håvard Wiik in 2001 as an opportunity to work together in a chamber music environment and without percussion. Inspired in part by Texas jazz legend Jimmy Giuffre's classic group with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, the band quickly found its own voice, utilizing velocity, space, and sound by incorporating combinations of pulse-based and open time, distributing melodic responsibility through its fragmentation, and building expression through a dialectic between understatement and explosiveness.

For this Austin debut performance, the trio will be performing in support of the upcoming release 'Gray Scale' on the Norwegian label Smalltown Superjazz. Grey Scale features material that is completely improvised.

MURAL

Ten Pounds To The Sound presents ::

from Norway / Australia
-- MURAL --
Kim Myhr - guitar
Ingar Zach - percussion
Jim Denley - saxophone, flutes
http://www.myspace.com/mural3

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Vic Firth and the Lutherans
Kurt Newman - guitar
Chris Cogburn - percussion
Nick Hennies - percussion

Saturday, March 6 at 8p (doors at 7:30p)
AAMP -- 411 west Monroe St.
$8 - 15 sliding scale admission

Saturday night at Trailer Space . FREE !

This Saturday, March 6th @ Trailer Space Records in Austin, TX

America Reads Derek Rogers , Jacob Green ,
Iraan Show will start around 7:30 I'd assume.

BYOB as always!

Invisible Landscapes

Friday, Feb 26th - 8PM
Saturday, Feb 27th - 8PM
Sunday, Feb 28th - 2PM (FREE afternoon show)
All concerts at Ceremony Hall
4100 Red River St.
$12 students/advance and $15 at door
Both Nights: $20 students/advance and $25 if purchased together
Advance tickets available now at End of an Ear http://endofanear.com

On February 26th - 28th, NMC will present three unique programs of new chamber music. Among the eleven works to be performed are two septets commissioned from maverick composers Radu Malfatti (Austria) and Michael Pisaro (California) by the Co-op. The New Music Co-op performers will realize these pieces alongside guest percussionist Greg Stuart, who has dedicated a significant portion of his career to collaboration with Michael Pisaro. Mr. Pisaro will also be in attendance for all three programs to discuss his work. This concert will give Austin new music audiences a rare opportunity to be immersed in one of the more radical branches of contemporary art music.

Many common threads run through the uncompromising pieces on these three programs, among them the summoning of new sounds from acoustic instruments, the use of silence as a material, and a clarity of musical experience which results from pure sounds which are allowed to be themselves.

Michael Pisaro and Radu Malfatti, the two featured composers of this presentation, are regular fixtures on the European experimental music circuit. Pisaro's "pi (1-2594)" was performed late last year by pianist Philip Thomas over the course of a week at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in England. Both Pisaro and Malfatti are active members of Wandelweiser, a geographically far flung collection of composer/performers who have been presenting concerts and publishing recordings and scores of their music for over 17 years. Wandelweiser stands on the shoulders of 20th century pioneers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and La Monte Young, continuing to explore sound, silence, and form in new music.

About the Program

Our program on Friday the 26th begins with Pisaro's piece "A Wave and Waves" for 100 percussion instruments. For this work Greg Stuart will perform solo, accompanied by an 8 channel surround sound system, playing back high fidelity recordings of Stuart playing the other 99 parts. Friday's program also includes Pisaro's "July Mountain" and the amplified sound of melting ice in Alex Keller's "Encantada II." During Saturday's performance we will premiere our two major commission pieces "Red River 7" by Radu Malfatti and "Ascending Series (7) (evaporation)" by Michael Pisaro. The co-op has been honing these two starkly beautiful pieces under the direction of the composers. Also on Saturday's program are new works by Nick Hennies and Travis Weller. Sunday's free afternoon performance features "Eye of the Blackbird" from Pisaro's notable "Harmony Series" and "Stones" by New York School composer Christian Wolff as well as new works by NMC composers Brent Fariss and William Bridges.

If you haven't heard WOODGRAIN yet......

WOODGRAIN CD RELEASE!!!!!!

Tweak Bird with Woodgrain (CD Release on Australian Cattle God), Auxiliary Earth (members of Gorch Fock) and The Gary
WEDNESDAY THE 24TH AT RED SEVEN !

Campers , Farmers , Strangers and Zorch !