Concert Fri. in St. Paul, MN

Alternate Tunists,

Composer, Instrument-Builder, Bassoonist, and
Improviser Dixie Treichel has organized the Unique
Sounds ensemble, a group of Minneapolis/St. Paul
instrument builders, who will present an hour's
worth of mostly improvised music as part of the
National
Experimental Intermedia Art series at the Nobles
Studios at Metro State University, St. Paul, MN.

This concert is coming up on this Fri., Dec. 8 at 8
pm at the Nobles Studios. Tickets are $6/$4 for
students/seniors, all at the doorm (all proceeds to
the performers). From I-94, exit
at Mounds Blvd. just east of St. Paul. Take a left at
the end of the ramp, and then a left on E. 7th St.
Nobles is visible across from you as you turn on E.
7th.

The unique and homemade instruments (and their
tunings) include:

Harold�s
--Clavette microtonal MIDI keyboard controller
(playing a Kurzweil K2000) in 19, 22 and 31-ET (I�m
mostly using some 22-ET instrumental sounds)
--The Bottlophone, built with the help of Kris Peck.
It is a retunable rack of plastic 20 ounce soda
bottles. They�re mounted on three 2 by 4 inch wooden
ranks, and held there by � inch vinyl tubing. The
ranks are mounted on two 5 foot high metal plumbing
pipes, which are screwed into flanges on two 2 by 2
foot wooden �feet�. So far, I�ve tuned �em as an
octave of 22-ET by filling �em with varying amounts of
water.
--(playing) the 12/17/19-ET organ built by
undergraduate electrical engineering students at the
University of Manitoba ca. 1980. The instrument is
currently owned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul,
which maintains an impressive musical instrument
museum, and was just recently repaired.

Kris Peck�s
--20-tone just intonation electric guitar
--22-ET electric guitar
plus delay and other effect pedals
(described on my website)

Dixie Treichel:
--Chinese pipa
--glass xylophone
--hose+funnel-horn
aesthetically tuned

Steve Carlino:

--bowed thundersheet
--long shaker

Ryan:
--short bowed string instrument
--electric saw blade chimes
aesthetically tuned

Jessie:
--jazz voice and vocal effects

Sorry I don�t remember the last names of Ryan and
Jessie.

This multi-tuned, mostly improvisational event is not
how I usually present my instruments; but all the
musicians in the group are expressive performers, and
with the rehearsing and the structure in Dixie�s
score, the results should be impressive.

Sorry for sending this out with such little notice. I
would post the geocities link to the Nobles series
site, but I can�t access it here at my client 3M.

Alternately & sonically yours,
Harold Fortuin
harold_fortuin@yahoo.com
www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/7358

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