forwarded: concert in troy, ny, usa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

An Impulse/Response Production:

This Thursday!!!

THE SPACE BETWEEN
feat. Pauline Oliveros, accordian; Philip Gelb, shakuhachi; and
Dana Reason,
piano.
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The Arts Center for the Capital Region
265 River Street Troy
12-05-02
8pm doors at 7:30pm
$5/3 students
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http://www.ir-music.org

The final Impulse/Response of part one of our 3rd season is
indeed an
exciting one!

From three corners of our grand US of A, come three of the most
sensitive
and unique voices in contemporary improvisation. The Space
Between has been
mystifying audiences with their unique blend of sonic exploration
for over 7
years.

The Arts Center will be a wonderfully intimate space to listen to
this
delicate, organic ensemble...come in from the cold and warm up
your ears!

Group Bio:
THE SPACE BETWEEN

The Space Between trio was formed in the winter, 1996 when
the Dana
Reason/Philip Gelb duet invited Pauline Oliveros to join them for
a concert
in San Francisco. Utilizing a unique combination of Just
intonation
accordion with shakuhachi and piano immediately puts the trio
in a special
sonic space. The trio employs timbre and texture as their main
structural
units for composition and improvisation. As a result the
discrepancy in
tuning systems of the instruments becomes an advantage rather
than a
disadvantage. Since the three members live in different cities,
performances
have been sporadic; highlights include the Opus 415 festival in
San
Francisco, Spruce Street Forum in San Diego and a two night
stint at the
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies where they were
joined by Barre
Phillips on bass.

Individual Bios:

PAULINE OLIVEROS

Pauline Oliveros has become a senior figure in American
avant-garde. In the
'50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists,
poets and
such gathered loosely around John Cage. Oliveros has been as
interested in
finding new sounds as in finding new uses for old ones -
nowadays she most
often plays accordion, an unexpected visitor perhaps to musical
cutting
edge, but one which she approaches in much the same way that
a Zen musician
might approach the Japanese shakuhachi. Pauline Oliveros' life
as a
composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her
own and others'
sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Since the
1960's she has
influenced American music profoundly through her work with
improvisation,
meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Pauline Oliveros is
the
founder of Deep Listening, which comes from her childhood
fascination with
sounds and from her works in concert music with composition,
improvisation
and electro-acoustics. Pauline Oliveros describes Deep
Listening as a method
to listen in every possible way to everything possible to hear no
matter
what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds
of daily
life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds.
Deep
Listening is my life practice," she explains, simply. John Cage:
"Through
Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony
is... It's
about the pleasure of making music."

DANA REASON

Canadian born pianist, composer and improvisor Dana Reason
has performed at
the California Institute for the Arts, Colorado University, Guelph
Jazz
Festival, Frau Musica (Nova) Cologne, San Francisco Jazz
Festival, Beyond
the Pink Festival, (LA), Knitting Factory (NYC), Music Gallery
(Toronto),
and Newfoundland Sound Symposium. Ms. Reason has been
featured on National
Public Radio, Radio Canada and has recorded for Music & Arts,
Red Toucan,
Deep Listening, Sparkling Beatnik and Ryokan labels. This past
fall
Musicworks magazine published a feature article titled The
Piano Artistry of
Dana Reaons by Dan Given. Ms. Reason is Ph.D candidate and
scholarship
recipient at the University of California San Diego where she
studies with
George E. Lewis and Anthony Davis. Her dissertation research
is titled
Playing like a Girl: Women Improvisors in the Second Half of the
Twentieth
Century: A Cross-Cultural Investigation into Musical
Performativity. Ms.
Reason is a freelance writer for the Twentieth Century Music,
The Improvisor
and Musicworks.

PHILIP GELB

Philip Gelb was born in Brooklyn, NY April 12, 1965. He has
been studying
shakuhachi since 1988, and performing professionally since
1995.

Gelb began studying shakuhachi while a senior in college at the
University
of Florida where he recieved a BA in anthropology. His first
shakuhachi
teacher was Dr. Dale Olsen bai-o who introduced him to Kinko
Ryu shakuhachi
playing. He has also studied Meian Ryu shakuhachi with Ronnie
Nyogetsu
Seldin and with Kurahashi Yoshio. His traditional shakuhachi
studies have
concentrated on honkyoku, the solo Buddhist repetoire. In
addition he always
had a very strong interest in new and experimental music and
improvisation.

He attended graduate school at the Florida State University
School of Music
studying ethnomusicology. While at FSU, he founded and
directed the New
World Ensemble. As director of this ensemble he was
responsible for holding
several artists in residence, including George Lewis, Richard
Teitelbaum,
Wadada Leo Smith, Davey Williams, Derek Bailey, Ladonna
Smith, Shaking Ray
Levis and Lawrence "Butch" Morris. The Butch Morris residency
culminated in
a CD that was released on New World/Countercurrents as part
of Butch's 10 CD
box set. The group also collaborated with several other great
musicians
including Kazue Sawai, Jill Burton, Gustavo Matamoros, Scott
Walton, David
Durant and Dana Reason. The New World Ensemble continues
today at the FSU
School of Music even though it has been several years since any
of its
founding members were there.

In November, 1996, Philip Gelb received a grant to attend a
Japanese
American artists interchange at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to
study
with the brilliant composer, Yuji Takahashi. During this residency
some very
important professional and personal connections were made;
particularly
meeting dancer, Eri Majima who has become a regular
collaborator in Japan
and the US.

Since 1995, Gelb has been performing nationally and
internationally as a
soloist and in ensembles. Performance highlights include the
World
Shakuhachi Festival, Lincoln Center, Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts (San
Francisco), Mills College (Oakland), Knitting Factory (New York),
Session
House (Tokyo), Tiara Koto Concert Hall (Tokyo) Munster Neue
Musik Festival
(Germany), Earshot Jazz Festival (Seattle), Music Gallery
(Toronto), Center
For New Music and Audio Technologies (Berkeley), Gainesville
Jazz Festival,
Subtropics New Music Festival (Miami), University Of California
SanDiego,
Bard College, Stetson College, Rollins College, University of
Vermont, and
Earlham College and two appearances as guest soloist with the
Seattle
Creative Orchestra.

Gelb's current projects include The Space Between (a trio with
accordionist
Pauline Oliveros and pianist Dana Reason), duets with
interactive
electronics composer Chris Brown, a trio with violinist Carla
Kihlstedt and
cellist Hugh Livingston. Other musicians with whom he
frequently
collaborates are koto master Shoko Hikage, multi
instrumentalist Joe McPhee,
and synthesizer player Tim Perkis.

Philip Gelb's recordings are available on various labels: Deep
Listening,
Sparkling Beatnik, New World/CounterCurrents, Leo, Music482,
Ryokan, Abray,
Twisted Village, Limited Sedition, and Cultural Labyrinth.

Gelb currently lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay area.
Apart from
music, his interests include vegetarian cooking, organic
gardening, and
film.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, NY.
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