animals and giraffes –
Claudia la Rocco-Voice and Text
Phillip Greenlief-Tenor Saxophone, Bb Clarinet
Tom Swafford - Violin
Laurie Amat - Voice
Will Mason - Solo Percussion and Electronics
The fearless and fluid duo/collective "animals and giraffes" (Phillip Greenlief and Claudia La Rocco) are back on the East Coast from the West, and will be creating a whole new sound of improv, text and jazz
with PVD guests Tom Swafford and Laurie Amat!
Not to stop there, PVD percussionist Will Mason will making some wonderful sounds with acoustic and electronic percussion, all at once!
And Not to even stop there, Will is going to, on the spot, enhance and change Laurie's live improvisation for new surprises in sound!
Show is at 8 (All ages welcome!)
$10.00 - 20.00 sliding scale
This is a rare treat in a great space!
phillip greenlief and claudia la rocco met during an artist residency at headlands center for the arts in 2013. greenlief asked la rocco to provide text for his map score QUARTET, and the work was performed at the center for new music on their best coast composer's series in september 2013. this initial collaboration inspired them to form the project animals & giraffes, an ever-changing ensemble exploring improvisation with artists from different disciplines.
animals & giraffes was ensemble in residence at the center for new music (SF) from october 2017 - october 2018, where they performed two interdisciplinary concerts and engaged in monthly "improv happy hour" sessions with various bay area improvisers from music, dance, literature, and the visual arts.
animals & giraffes have performed at pieter (los angeles), the scottsdale museum of contemporary art, the lab (SF), the outsound new music summit, and reed college (portland). they have produced two CDs - JULY, released on the edgetone records label (bay area) and LANDLOCKED BEACH on creative sources (portugal).
NEW release on CD - LIVE AT MEDICINE FOR NIGHTMARES - featuring kyle bruckmann (oboe, english horn, electronics), alexandra buschman (voice, electronics) and adriana camacho torres (contrabass)
AND FROM PVD!!!
Laurie Amat – Voice
Providence based Vocalist/Sonic Explorer Laurie Amat performs in genres ranging from pop, jazz and punk to new opera, site-specific resonant spaces, and electronic looping.
She has performed and recorded architectural and electronic works in monasteries, cisterns, highway underpasses; and venues such as Museo di Santa Giulia (IT); Bergen Arkitekthøgskulen (NO); DeYoung Museum (SF); List Art Center/Brown University (PVD), MIT Chapel (Boston, MA).
In addition to her solo work, her reputation for fearless exploration has resulted in many adventurous performance and recording collaborations, including the Avant Guard music collective “The Residents”, FLOS (Stefano Castagna/Luca Formentini, IT), Sonisk Blodbad, NO), and Timeghost (Adam Morosky, US). Her most recent collaboration was creating and featuring in “Oh, It Hertz!” the Norwegian feature film about sound and how it affects us; and producing the Providence International Live Looping Festival.
www.soundcloud.com/Amatworks
www.ohithertz.com
TOM SWAFFORD -Violinist/improvisor/composer
Tom Swafford has been active in creative music scenes in Seattle, Boston, The Bay Area, Amsterdam, NYC, and Providence. He plays frequently with percussionist Matt Crane and cellist Zan Berry in various groups.
WILL MASON – Solo Percussion and Collaborator
Will Mason is a composer, electronic musician, and drummer. The New York Times wrote that his music “succeeds at fusing experimental rock and chamber music” and the Boston Globe wrote that he “mixes composition and improvisation, decorum and din.” He is associate professor of music at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
For more information visit willmasonmusic.com