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I'm the looper on this show!!!! - db ******************************************** Doug Boyce & David Laganella piano & cello duo David Beardsley microtonal guitar synthesizer [Temple In The Ear (2000)] Aharon Varady sound collage -- Music Annex 201 S. 34th St. 215 898 0039 saturday, 3 june 2000 8PM- no admission charge The Music Annex is right off of 34th Street- tucked behind the Music and Morgan buildings: http://www.upenn.edu/fm/map/m0365.html Directions: http://www.upenn.edu/fm/map/dir.html --BEGIN BONUS INFORMATION-- -- Doug Boyce Douglas Boyce was born in 1970 in New York, New York. After performing with a variety of punk rock bands in the greater New York metropolitan area, he attended Williams College, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Music, with honors, in 1992; in 1996, he received a Master of Arts Degree in Composition from the University of Oregon. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a William Penn Fellow. He has studied with Robert Suderburg, David Kechley, Andy Jaffe, Robert Kyr, Kathryn Alexander, Yinam Leef, James Primosch and George Crumb. Mr. Boyce remains active in many genres and fields of music. His PhD essay addresses issues of text-music relations in 13th Century French vocal music. As an improviser and conductor he has led numerous workshops and performances of John Zorn's COBRA improvisation system. Mr. Boyce has written music for theatrical productions on both coasts; he has worked with JMandle Performance on The Muslin Plays, a film and performance project in New York. Current projects include 'dogshow,' a collaborative film project with San Francisco Video artist Anne Etheridge. His works have been performed, among elsewhere, in Philadelphia; New York; Aspen, Colorado; Frankfurt, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; and Yokohama, Japan. http://www.electrotone.com/ci/ -- David Laganella [FROM A RECENT CONCERT PROGRAM] With strong regard for the western music tradition and sensitivity for the avant-garde, David Paul Laganella is composing music that blends a variety of contemporary genres cohesively into his own personnel style. His music, with overwhelming intensity, combines lush chromatic harmonies, sweeping lyrical motives, and great dynamic contrast. Laganella was born January 10, 1974 in Stratford, New Jersey.He grew up in a musical environment where he studied cello, piano, and guitar. His formal music studies began at the Berklee School of Music where he enrolled to study jazz and improvisation. It was there he was introduced to twentieth century concert music and given his first lectures in composition. Laganella went on to pursue his composition studies at New York University. While in Manhattan, he spent one year as the apprentice conductor of the New York Youth Symphony where he studied conducting, orchestration, and lead rehearsals at Carnegie Hall. He graduated from NYU cum laude with a bachelors degree in composition and theory. Presently, Laganella is a Ph.D. candidate and Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently, he received a scholarship prize to study with Betsy Jolas at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. He has also received awards from The Society of Composers Incorporated and from The Orchestral Society of Philadelphia. Laganella has studied composition with Marc-Antonio Consoli, James Primosch, Jay Reise, and Steve Mackey. His music is available for rental at The Edwin Fleishier Collection of Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~davidlag/ -- David Beardsley Temple In The Ear (2000) is for synthesizer tuned to the naturally occurring harmonic series - just intonation. David Beardsley has been making music for many years but only started to compose seriously in 1993. Recent performances include the Trenton Avant Garde Festival, Downtown Music Gallery, the American Festival Of Microtonal Music, NYU and the Knitting Factory. He is currently studying Hindustani raga with La Monte Young and Michael Harrison. http://www.virtulink.com/immp/db.htm -- Aharon Varady is rumored to be the brains AND brawn behind the Philadelphia Ambient Consortium [Music and Noise]: http://www.simpletone.com/spaceling.htm http://www.simpletone.com/ -- The Music Annex is just a building. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/music/annex/ contact: elew@sas.upenn.edu -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y * xouoxno@virtulink.com * * 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time" * M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor * * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm