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Sam Weinberg (NYC) | verk fyrir einleiks-saxófón
Sam Weinberg & John McCowen | dúó spuni
Sam Weinberg er samtímatónskáld og saxófónleikari frá New York. Hann mun flytja nýja tónsmíð fyrir einleiks-tenórsaxófón ásamt dúóspuna með kollega sínum John McCowen sem leikur á klarinett og blokkflautur.
Húsið opnar klukkan 20.30
Viðburðurinn hefst klukkan 21:00
Aðgangseyrir 2.500 kr.
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An evening of 2 sets of improvised music:
Sam Weinberg | composition for solo saxophone
Sam Weinberg & John McCowen | duo improvisation
Doors open at 8:30PM
The event starts at 9PM
Admission 2.500 ISK
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Contemporary saxophonist/composer Sam Weinberg (NYC) will perform a new composition for solo tenor saxophone as well as perform duo improvisations with his collaborator and Reykjavik resident John McCowen on clarinets & recorders.
Sam Weinberg is a saxophonist and improviser living in New York City. He has participated in many improvised contexts which have included Henry Fraser, Jason Nazary, Weasel Walter, Sandy Ewen, Andrew Smiley, Laura Cocks, Charmaine Lee, Barry Weisblat, Nate Wooley, Ben Bennett and many others.
He has led the group Bloar for over five years, and he also leads a trio with bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Tom Rainey, whose album Implicatures will be released by Astral Spirits in early 2023. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Weinberg was profiled in a long piece about his playing in Bandcamp Daily and his music was highlighted in consecutive year-end lists by Rolling Stone. His music has also been featured in WIRE, The Quietus, and The Brooklyn Rail.
John McCowen is a composer/clarinetist focused on extending the possibilities of the clarinet. His work has been described by The New Yorker as “the sonic equivalent of microscopic life viewed on a slide”. John's multiphonic approach embraces drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to squeeze out the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. Documents of this practice have been released by Edition Wandelweiser, International Anthem, Astral Spirits, SUPERPANG, Dinzu Artefacts, and others. John was a 2017 & 2019 artist-in-residence at Lijiang Studio in Yunnan, China, and also the 2020 artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn. He received the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award for excellence in music composition in 2016 from Mills College where he received an MA in Music Composition under the tutelage of Roscoe Mitchell. John remains stubbornly dedicated to acoustic phenomena. His works do not utilize amplifier feedback or electronically-generated sounds unless specified.