About this Event
Saturday, March 28th
Join us for an evening of ethereal, ambient / experimental. Hosting is Mother Foucaults bookstore. Located on the border of Portland’s inner southeast industrial district, Mother Foucault’s specializes in used, rare, and vintage books. Mother Foucaults creates the perfect cozy space and unique listening room for live music.
This March 28th gig–the second of the Just Above/Just Below series–features compositions by Richie Green (featuring Sam Klapper, Timmy Barnett, Caleigh Drane, Andrew Jones), Matt Hanafin, and Michael Pisaro-Liu (featuring, stephanie lavon trotter, Ben Cohen-Chen, and Anthony J. Stillabower).
The series is inspired by the following quote:
‘The cut I Imagine making might be visualized as what lies just below and just above
“music”, as presently understood. This seems at first like an impossible space in which to
operate: below music (nothing but “raw” sound and “silence”) and just above music are
the primary materials (i.e. chords, scales, durations, etc.). And yet this is the vicinity in
which many of us continue to find things to do.’ - Michael Pisaro-Liu
Donation - $10 (cash / venmo at doors)
RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors
Doors @ 6:30 pm
Music at 7 pm
715 SE Grand
With ~
Richie Greene
www.richiegreene.com/
Richie Greene is a composer, arranger, and instrument builder. He has written music for the Oregon Symphony, 45ᵗʰ Parallel Chamber Orchestra, and has had his music set by choreographers and dancers of the New York City Ballet. Richie’s primary focus centers on the psychoacoustics of harmonic systems, working in just intonation and temperaments other than 12-equal. He currently lives in Portland Oregon where he composes, teaches, and collaborates within the community.
Matt Hannafin
www.matthannafin.com/music | www.extraditionpdx.com
Matt Hannafin is a New York–born, Portland-based percussionist active in experimental music,
improvisation, and Persian classical and traditional music. He studied Persian tombak with
Kavous Shirzadian and Pejman Hadadi, voice with La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath, frame drums with Jamey Haddad and Glen Velez, and Afro-Caribbean and African percussion with John Amira and Maguette Fall. His collaborators have included noted trumpeter Nate Wooley, sound artist Maria Chavez, industrial percussion legend Z’ev, shakuhachi player Jeffrey Lependorf, and oboist Catherine Lee. Since 2016, he’s served as artistic director and percussionist for Extradition, an ensemble that explores the history and depth of the American experimental tradition and the global disciplines of open composition, guided improvisation, and other forms it helped inspire. In this capacity, he’s presented nearly 50 concerts comprising more than 215 individual compositions, and collaborated with experimental greats such as Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, and Matthias Kaul to refine interpretations of their work.
Michael Pisaro-Liu
www.michaelpisaro-liu.com/
Michael Pisaro-Liu (born, Michael Pisaro, 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, in the past fifteen years his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution.
Pisaro-Liu has a long-standing collaboration with percussionist Greg Stuart, with over thirty collaborations (pieces and recordings) to date, including their 3-disc set, Continuum Unbound from 2014 and Umbra & Penumbra for amplified percussion and orchestra premiered by the La Jolla Symphony in February, 2020. Pisaro-Liu also has recurring (intermittent) duos with Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Taku Sugimoto, Antoine Beuger, Graham Lambkin, Toshiya Tsunoda and Reinier van Houdt. There are several recent compositions for orchestras of various kinds and constitutions – including commissioned work for the BBC Scottish Symphony, INSUB MetaOrchestra and the Grand Orchestre de Muzzix. Much of his current work takes the form of mixed-media assemblages, in collaboration with filmmaker/artist/writer Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu.
Recordings of his music have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, erstwhile records, New World Records, elsewhere music, Hubro, Potlatch, another timbre, meena/ftarri, Senufo Editions, Intonema, winds measure, HEM Berlin and on Pisaro's own imprint, Gravity Wave. His work is regularly performed throughout the US, Europe, South America and Southeast Asia.
Pisaro-Liu is the Director of Composition and Experimental Music the California Institute of the Arts.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mother Foucault's Bookshop, 715 SE Grand Ave, Portland, United States
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