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a. r. dewar : saxophone / j. pavone: viola / p. schulze: live electronics / a. siegel: percussion / m. bauder: saxophone - clarinet / a. lafkas: bass / j. chen: violin

"Low and Away"

is a musical group of composer/improvisers that create their work collectively in real-time.

Through the use of extended
techniques on their instruments and live electronic sampling/manipulation, the ensemble creates a multi-color sound palette.

News:

21.11.2005

Concert at Lucy Cat, New York.

featuring Matt Bauder, Phillip Schulze, Jessica Pavone, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Aaron Siegel, Jonathan Chen and Andrew Lafkas.

The Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New York, NY, USA

...

10.11.2005
 
featuring: Phillip Schulze, Aaron Siegel, 
Jessica Pavone and Andrew Raffo Dewar

10:00 pm
Red and Black

135 North 5th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New York, NY, USA

...

Concerts Dates Germany 2005

featuring: Andrew Deward, Jessica Parvone, Phillip Schulze, Aaron Siegel.

08.22.05 / 09 PM:

UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE / Lorenzstr. 15
Lichthof: concert & lecture*

08.23.05 / 07 PM:

ART ACADEMY DUESSELDORF / Eiskellerstrasse 1 
Hörsal: concert & lecture*

08.23.05 / 10 PM:

BAR IN THE KUNSTHALLE / Duesseldorf / Grabbeplatz 4
Salon des Amateurs: DJ Max and Phillip Schulze

08.24.05 / 09 PM:

BUTTCLUB / Hamburg / Hafenstrasse 126: concert

* Lecture in english:

"The Mobile Listener: Sound in Public Space, Sound as Public Space": Aaron Siegel

.andrew raffo dewar.. jessica pavone..phillip schulze..aaron siegel..jonathan chen..andrew lafkas..matt bauder.

audio examples: - 01 - / - 02 - / - 03 -

ANDREW RAFFO DEWAR (b. 1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, improviser and soprano saxophonist who is currently a Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA. He has lived and worked in the experimental music communities of Minneapolis, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, practicing collective improvisation and leading ensembles performing his compositions since 1995. Andrew has had the good fortune to study and perform with saxophonist/composers Anthony Braxton and Steve Lacy, composer Alvin Lucier, trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, and multi-instrumentalist improviser Milo Fine. For the past ten years he has studied and performed Javanese gamelan (with Joko Sutrisno and Sumarsam) as well as experimental and traditional music with West Sumatran composer/performers I. Dewa Nyoman Supenida and Mohammed Halim. As a composer, his pieces have been performed by the Flux Quartet (NYC), Sekar Anu (Indonesia), the Koto Phase ensemble (Tokyo, New York, Chicago) and the XYZ composer collective (NYC). As a performer, he has worked with improviser Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan), cornettist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum (NYC), composer/saxophonist Matt Bauder (NYC), cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (NYC), saxophonist Michel Doneda (France), multi-reedist Wolfgang Fuchs (Germany), vocalist Carol Genetti (Chicago), bassist Andrew Lafkas (NYC), guitarist/composer John Shiurba (Oakland, CA), bassist Alan Silva (Germany), composer/multi-instrumentalists A.L. Suwardi and Pande Made Sukerta (Indonesia), and many others.	JESSICA PAVONE (b. 1976) Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist, composer, and teacher based in Brooklyn,NY. She studied improvisation with Leroy Jenkins, viola with Victoria Chiang and Midhat Serbagi, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Music Composition at Brooklyn College. Most recently, she performs as a violist in a collaborative duo with Mary Halvorson (guitar and viola), -tours Europe with The Anthony Braxton Sextet (Anthony Braxton - reeds and composition, Taylor Ho-Bynum - brass Jay Rozen -tuba, Chris Dahlgren -bass, Aaron Siegel - percussion), -leads her new band "the pavones", (Aaron Siegel - percussion, Loren Dempster - cello, Matt Bauder - reeds, Peter Evans - trumpet), plus guests -improvises with Imaginary Folk (Peter Evans-trumpet & stereo, Brandon Seabrook-banjo & tape loop, and Amy Cimini - viola and boom box) and -The Taylor Ho- Bynum Sextet (Taylor Ho-Bynum - brass and composition, Mary Halvorson - guitar, Evan O'Reilly- guitar, Matt Bauder - reeds, Tomas Fujiwara - drums). She plays electric bass in Jason Cady and the Artificials (Jason Cady - mastermind and synthesiser, Mary Halvorson - guitar, Deanna Neil Sopranon, Leah Paul - flute), and - Mix Tape (soul and country cover band) with Matt Bauder (guitar and hollarin') She has performed at a number of international jazz festivals such as, the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway, The Banlieues Blues Festival in Paris, The Victoriaville Festival of New Music in Canada, the Santa Annarresi Jazz Festival in Italy, and at the Ciclo Jazz Foundation in Spain. As a composer, she has received commissions to write chamber music for The Eastern Winds and Till by Turning, and her music has been heard throughout the northeast in venues such as the Kitchen in New York and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut. As an instrumentalist, she has interpreted the music of composers such as Anthony Braxton, Matthew Welch, Aaron Siegel, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Evan Hause, James Fei, Kevin O'Neil, Jason Cady, Butch Morris, Glen Branca, Matt Bauder and Andrew D'Angelo. Her compositions have been documented on Peacock Recordings (www.peacock-recordings.com), and she appears on the recordings of Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone (Lucky Kitchen), Taylor Ho-Bynum's Spider Monkey Strings (482 Music), James Fei - Proun Space (Organized Sound), Butch Morris - The Jump Arts Orchestra (Conduction 117 - Jump Arts Records), Assif Tshar - New York Underground Orchestra (Hopscotch) Jackson Moore - The Laboratory Band (Peacock), and the Middletown Creative Orchestra (Newsonic).	PHILLIP SCHULZE (b.1979 Düsseldorf, Germany) is a media/sound artist and composer who is currently studying media art in Germany (University of Art and Design (HfG) - Karlsruhe, ZKM) with Michael Saup, Paul Modler and Andre Ujica. He has studied experimental composition at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, and Ron Kuivila in 2004 - 2005. The focus of his work is mostly dedicated to music, nonetheless he is highly appreciative of the other artistic expressions such as film, photography, and media art. Schulze's artistic work has primarily involved experimental electronic music, experimental compositions, live-audio, sound/video - installation, film - sound / music, video and internet. His work has been performed or installed in germany, france, switzerland, china, poland and usa.	AARON SIEGEL (b. 1977) is involved with a number of challenging thinkers, musicians and friends, with whom he collaborates and is inspired by. His work ranges from solo piano compositions and electronic music to improvised ensembles and multi-channel sound installations. Trained as a percussionist in the Washington, DC area, he lived in Ann Arbor, MI for six years before relocating to Brooklyn, New York in 2000. For two years, Aaron curated the Eggwolf Series of new and improvised music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He has a masters in composition from Wesleyan University where he studied with Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila and Anthony Braxton. Aaron has shared the stage as a percussionist with several well-known improvisers, in addition to his many peers, including: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Scott Rosenberg, Guillermo Gregorio, Stephen Rush, Boris Hauf, Jason Roebke, Nate Wooley and Sean Meehan. He is a member of Memorize the Sky, The Anthony Braxton Sextet, Chorus of Seeds and Rainer, all of which represent long-standing improvisational relationships. As part of these and other ensembles, Aaron has several times toured the United States, and Europe. His multi-channel sound works have been installed in Chicago, IL at the Myopic Bookstore and in Middletown, CT as part of the No Echo and For a Long Time... festivals. In the spring of 2005, Siegel presented his work at the Cybersonica Festival in London, UK. Aaron's recent recordings are a limited edition CD of electronic music entitled Rooms and Spaces, and a yet to be released record of solo percussion music. 1999's Shy Moments features 8 compositions for quartet, and there are three 3" recordings documenting the music of Memorize the Sky. His playing is featured on 2+2 Compositions, on 482 Music featuring Anthony Braxton, Matt Bauder and Zach Wallace, and several forthcoming documents of the Anthony Braxton Sextet and the Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra. One of his tape pieces was selected to be part of a compilation entitled A Call for Silence that was curated by the London-based Sonic Arts Network.
Jonathan Chen (b. 1974) Jonathan Chen is a sound artist, composer, and improviser. His compositions encompass a wide spectrum within the experimental genre, utilizing electronic as well as instrumental forces. His work has been performed or installed at The Soap Factory (Minneapolis), Chicago Cultural Center, Asian American Jazz Festival, and many others. Chen attended Northwestern University (received MM), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (to work with Nic Collins et al), and is currently studying experimental music composition with Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, and Ron Kuivila as a graduate student at Wesleyan University.	ANDREW LAFKAS Coming soon.	MATT BAUDER (b. 1976) Matt Bauder is a saxophonist and composer who has studied with Ed Sarath, Anthony Braxton, Ron Kuivila and Alvin Lucier. He has been an active member of the new music scenes in Ann Arbor, Chicago and New York, where he has performed with, among others, Braxton, Andrew D'Angelo, Jeff Parker, Chad Taylor, Jim Baker, Ken Vandermark and Phil Minton. He appears on recordings with Jason Ajemian (Locust Music), Warn Defever (Perforate My Heart), Neil Michael Hagerty (Drag City), His Name is Alive (4AD/Time Stereo), Saturday Looks Good to Me (Polyvinyl) and Bill Brovald (Tzadik).

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