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Greetings to the list!!! This gig ALWAYS features plenty of looping, this time including phil kline, analog looper of death... And my own rig, AND a laptop guy who processes my loops... If you want to hear sound, go to http://www.toddreynolds.com/music.html Here is the press release... ========================== Violinist and Composer Todd Reynolds presents: Still Life With Microphone Version 3.0 Todd Reynolds assembles three very different and powerful artistic voices, downtown genre-destroying band GUTBUCKET, composer and boombox maestro PHIL KLINE, and laptopist DJ JESSE STILES, for an innovative evening of feature performances and interactive explorations. Thursday, May 16, 2002, 8:00pm Galapagos Art Space 70 N 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718.782.5188 (Bedford stop on L train) www.galapagosartspace.com www.toddreynolds.com April 30, New York On Thursday, May 16, violinist and composer Todd Reynolds continues to redefine ³concert performance² with the third installment of Still Life With Microphone at Galapagos Art Space. The previous two incarnations of Still Life... unified a range of performance disciplines and content: composed music by Todd Reynolds, the ensemble members and others; improvised music; improvised text; and spontaneously directed movement in the space, all orchestrated in real time using a conducting/composing system called Sound Painting, a gesture-based medium for structured improvisation developed by composer Walter Thompson that directs individual and ensemble actions in real time. While continuing the all-over stylistic and staging effect found in the previous versions of Still Life, Todd Reynolds is viewing Version 3.0 from a curatorıs perspective, bringing together three very different and powerful artistic voices to perform their own material, interact with each other, and integrate their audiences in a collaborative art event. Each ³voice² is indeed distinct and unique and includes downtown genre-destroying quartet Gutbucket, post-Minimalist composer Phil Kline with his battery of boomboxes and looping gear in tow, and laptopist DJ Jesse Stiles utilizing the performative software MAX/MSP with Reynolds himself, who The New Yorker calls ³New Yorkıs leading classical/jazz violinist², on amplified and digitized violin. The music will seamlessly flow between the component voices, developed and directed by Reynolds using Sound Painting. The performance will be structured in two 50-60 minute sets with a short break between them, with all three groups performing throughout the evening, both alone and in situations with others, sometimes orchestrated, sometimes spontaneous. Still Life With Microphone Version 3.0 takes place in the rapturous confines of Williamsburgıs preeminent performing art space, Galapagos. The New York Times describes it as having ³a truly sublime reflecting pool, an expansive cathedral-like interior, brilliant spotlighting² and as an ³ever-growing cultural oasis.² Please join Todd Reynolds and company for this visionary and innovative musical event. The following is a brief description of the Still Life With Microphone series by Todd Reynolds: ³Still Life with Microphone grows out of a desire to bring my varied interests and modes of artistic expression under one roof. It allows me to piece together my love of theatre, improvisation, conducting and directing, editing and organizing ideas, and of performing. A typical Still Life event involves a cast of 5 to 8 performers across disciplines, composed music, improvised music, theater, video, and movement, creating a seamless magic carpet ride for the audience through events, styles, and genres.² More information about Todd: Violinist and composer Todd Reynolds is one of the most active musicians on the contemporary music scene. He is a founding member of New Yorkıs hottest string quartet, Ethel. He explores composing and improvising in his music-based performance art project Still Life With Mic. Todd is violinist for the Bang On A Can All Stars and Yo Yo Maıs Silk Road Project. He a frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and recently appeared as soloist with Yo Yo Ma in Tan Dun's Water Passion after St. Matthew at the Barbican Center in London. He acts as assistant conductor and violinist for Steve Reich and Musicians and the Walter Thompson Orchestra. Todd has premiered an immense number of compositions by composers including Michael Gordon, John King, Steve Reich, Elliot Sharp, Julia Wolfe, and Randall Wolff, As an improvisor and solo interpreter of new musics from classical to jazz and pop, and has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts, Wayne Shorter and Cassandra Wilson. Reynolds has recorded for Nonesuch, CRI, and Atlantic Records and can also be heard on Tan Dun's soundtrack for the film Fallen, starring Denzel Washington. On Broadway, he originated the role of "The Fiddler", playing and dancing on stage in the Tony Award-winning revival of Irving Berlin's Annie, Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters and Reba McEntire. Currently he tours as part of the Mahavishnu Project, a five-piece jazz-fusion band which centers around the music of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, performs often with The Betty Buckley Band, alongside Kenny Werner, Billy, Tony Marino, Jamey Haddad, and, of course, Ms. Buckley herself. For further information, and to arrange interviews please contact Christopher McIntyre at 917.676.4585, cmacartserv@mindspring.com, or visit: www.toddreynolds.com Christopher McIntyre C Mac Artist Services 917.676.4585 contact 212.725.5940 office/fax cmacartserv@mindspring.com ---------------