Kamama
Tue, July 6, 2010
9pm
$7 admission
Opening sets by spokeNine and Putman/Rivas/Rubio/Woodard
SMART Art Project Space
1906 S Flores St
San Antonio, Texas 78204
Kamama is a collaboration between Audrey Chen (cello, voice, electronics) and Luca Marini (percussion). Chen lives in Baltimore, where she is an active member of the free improv community. Luca Marini currently lives in New York. Hear a sample of their music here:
Kamama taster
Kamama in Cherokee means both elephant and butterfly. There is no overlap in meaning other than the supposed resemblance of the long trunk and flapping ears to the proboscis and wings of that insect. This duo loosely embodies elements of this kind of disparate pairing. Chen and Marini combine the raw energies resultant from and continuously growing out of their respective histories and experiences. Since their first encounter early this year in 2010, they have been forming a new language which steadily deepens, evolves, converges and exposes their inherent similarities and striking differences. It is ecstatic music. it is contrary music.
Despite primarily focussing on solo performance, Chen has collaborated with a wide range of improvising musicians, including Phil Minton, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ko Ishikawa, Elliott Sharp, Aki Onda, Phill Niblock, Frédéric Blondy, Jerome Noetinger, C. Spencer Yeh, Alessandro Bosetti, and many others.
Marini plays drums in a number of groups including Herber Eckhard, Blin, The Little, Cavex, and Tatune. He has also collaborated with musicians including Matt Meade, Kenny Warren, Tom Blancarte, Xavier Lopez, Vilijam Nybacka, John Stanesco, JMSU, and Frans van der Hoeven.
spokeNine is a musician and artist living in San Antonio who is best known as the audio half of live-cinema duo Potter-Belmar Labs. He will perform an eight channel piece with a collection of proto-electronics, all about powerful men in conflict.
Putman/Rivas/Rubio/Woodard is an improvising quartet including Isaiah Putman, Viridiana Rivas (The Islands and the Sea), Marcus Rubio (Cartographers), and James Woodard (The Grasshopper Lies Heavy). This is their first performance.