Night of extreme strangeness. Words like “acoustic” and “electronic” are for “foolz”.
Distinquished and legendary NY trumpeter visits the Red Room to play in trio with two locals: longtime collaborator and computer music guru Sam Pluta and modular synth wizard Tom Borax. Evan’s outrageous extended techniques combined with Pluta and Borax’ noisy, textured and reactive playing styles will make for a horrifying, probably funny, probably really dynamic and trippy din.
Opening the night will be Peabody based and mysterious “We Sundry Vessels”. Aside from the “custom drum machine and no input mixer” descriptors, we have nothing else to share. They have “no bio.” Far be it for us to insist on a bio.
Speaking of bios:
Peter Evans (trumpet) and Sam Pluta (electronics) have been collaborating since 2008 in a wide variety of contexts. Their work together has spanned small Jazz groups, large wind ensembles, and through-composed works by themselves and others. Their work together has been featured in the Peter Evans Quintet and Octet, Rocket Science (with Craig Taborn and Evan Parker), Parker’s USA Electro-Acoustic Septet, International Contemporary Ensemble and the Wet Ink Ensemble. They have performed at major festivals and venues across Europe, Canada and USA.
In the duo format Pluta and Evans use all they have developed from their experience together to forge a new and dynamically interactive music. Since the release of their recording “Sum and Difference” in 2011 to their extended live release, “Two Live Sets,” they have persistently honed and refined their duo music into a fully formed type of electro-acoustic chamber music. Improvisation and a commitment to the explosive energy of sound itself informs the duo’s approach to real time composition.
Their music bridges Evans’ efforts to explore new sonic worlds for a traditional acoustic instrument with Pluta’s customized and highly flexible software. Their instruments are at some points fused into a unified sonic entity indistinguishable as two voices, while at others engaged in violent counterpoint.
