Nov 11: line space line - Kraig Grady solo & Biggi Vinkeloe Trio

line space line

a weekly new and improvised music series

at Salvation Theater

Monday, November 11th at 8 pm

KRAIG GRADY

Performing the not quite so humorless..........

CONFERENCE OF THE GHOSTS-for Solo Anaphorian Hammered Dulcimertuned to
Meta-Slendro as found upon the diagonals of Mt. Meru, carried out to a
12 tone constant melodic structure, positioned as chromatic tetrachords
within the Lesser Perfect System, with the highest rank doubling at the
"fifth", resulting in the interpolations of tones in the gaps of the
overall chromatic structure and further completed by interpolations
resulting from the transposition in the bottom rank.

The repertoire of solo hammer-like dulcimer music in Anaphoria
flourished in the 17th century to such a high degree that little change
in its "form" has developed. We would be at a lost though if we looked
for those architectonic models commonly found in the west. Instead we
must bear witness to the almost universal use of the "interacting of a
garden of musical characters", possibly more like spirits or genii in
alchemical combinations able to divide and mold together. It would be a
mistake not to take note of those changes that have occurred; new scale
resources and new technical innovation passed on and developed by the
masters in the successive generations till the present. Overall it is a
tradition not unlike a growing tree, new branches from its nourishing
unmoving trunk.

and

The Biggi Vinkeloe Trio
Biggi Vinkeloe, reeds
Lisle Ellis, contrabass
Donald Robinson, percussion

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Line Space Line is proud to host two great sets of music this coming
Monday. First up is local microtonal alchemist Kraig Grady performing a
very hypnotic solo
set on the unique Anaphorian hammer dulcimer. The second set is a very
rare chance to catch the wonderful Swedish saxophonist Biggi Vinkeloe
with the sensitive
and sympathetic rhythm section of Lisle Ellis and Donald Robinson. Biggi
Vinkeloe has been coming to the West Coast quite regularly as of late,
but this is a chance
to hear her music in her setting of choice, the classic
reeds-bass-percussion trio.

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Biggi Vinkeloe, is an alto player and flutist of immense energy and
creativity. She was born in Germany and has lived in France where she
began her musical career.
She is now living in Sweden. She has performed with, amongst others,
Andr� Jaume, Cecil Taylor, Barre Phillips, Peter Uuskyla, Peter Kowald,
Peter Friis Nielsen,
Perry Robinson, Miya Masaoka, Wayne Lopes, Ken Filiano, Steve Swell,
Lotte Anker, Filippo Monico and Gino Robair, among others before forming
her own trio
in 1990.

Lisle Ellis has been an active performer on acoustic bass, and a
composer, conductor, curator and director of orchestras, and small
ensembles for more than
twenty-five years. He has worked with many players associated with Cecil
Taylor including Andrew Cyrille, Raphe Malik, as well as the late Jimmy
Lyons and
Glenn Spearman. Ellis has toured and performed worldwide with many if
not all of the luminaries of creative music including Paul Bley, Alvin
Curran, Marilyn
Crispell, Myra Melford, and Paul Plimley..

Described variously as a "percussive dervish" (Coda), and as a provider
of "solid support," Donald Robinson is a technical master of the drums.
He has been called
"a stalwart of the San Francisco Bay avant-garde jazz scene," playing
and recording with many of the area's improvisational players, from
saxophonists John Tchicai,
Larry Ochs (from ROVA Saxophone Quartet), Glenn Spearman and Marco
Eneidi to koto player Miya Masaoka, and with prominent visitors like
Cecil Taylor,
trumpeter Raphe Malik and Canadian pianist Paul Plimley.

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line space line
Monday, November 11th at 8 pm
Salvation Theater
1519 Griffith Park Blvd (at Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA 90026-1048

$10-5 sliding scale

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-- -Kraig Grady
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