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Colorado gog spam: Chris Cutler, Janet Feder, Colin Bricker - in concert
PRESS RELEASE
WHO: The legendary avant garde drummer Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
and guitarist Janet Feder with Colin Bricker on laptop computer
WHEN: Monday November 4th, 2002
WHERE: The Bug Theatre - 3654 Navajo Street, Denver - telephone
303.477.5977
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $10 at the door
Chris Cutler (www.ccutler.com)
Chris Cutler plays his electrified kit, of which there is only one in
existence. "Think of an electric guitar," he says, "then think of Fred
Frith
or Keith Rowe; I try to do the same thing with electrified drums, using
piezos, radio mikes and a lot of pedals and peculiar objects."
Chris Cutler once remarked that "for me, music has to be the deliberate
and
conscious organization of material to produce some kind of mutual effect
in
the human environment in which it is produced." During a performance at
the
MOCA-DC gallery in Georgetown on Saturday, Cutler offered a stimulating
organization of some rather amazing materials.
In an hour-long piece that scuttled forward and sideways through moments
of
stark beauty, the barefoot Cutler worked with a full drum set, a sampler
and
a wide variety of small electronic devices, most of which were fitted with
contact microphones. He attacked his drum kit with all manner of things,
including a pair of plastic roses. The resulting sounds occasionally
recalled
the otherworldly experiments of Biota, but Cutler's constant drum rustle,
which echoed and whispered through the near-capacity audience, bore a
unique
percussive signature. Grabbing implements that included an electric
toothbrush, hand drums, vibrating toys, a violin bow, an electrified egg
slicer and a pinball, Cutler produced a piece that buzzed in the mind long
after it ended and confirmed that his inspirational exploration of musical
boundaries is still in full, glorious motion." - WASHINGTON POST
Janet Feder (www.janetfeder.com)
No one has proposed an amalgamation of the music of Bert Jansch, Leo
Kottke,
John Fahey, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, but
Denver based guitarist and teacher (Naropa University, Swallow Hill),
Janet
Feder has. She accomplishes this and more on her “prepared”
guitars...producing music, noises and sounds which are never less than
captivating and seductive. This is highly listenable and entertaining
music.
Tonight at the Bug Janet will be premiering new work with Colin Bricker
(music director of 'The Angry Inch' band in Denver's current LIDA
production
of Hedwig and the Angry Inch) on laptop computer in their duo 'Cowhause'.
"Somewhere along the line in her classical training (which gave her
impeccable chops) Janet Feder jumped the tracks...the results are a kind
of
guitar music that you could not have imagined but which you've been
waiting
for, rife with surprise noises from weirdly tuned 'prepared' guitars
(classical, 'wrong-strung' and Dobro)" - SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
"In her hands the acoustic guitar is a power tool that shreds." - EAST BAY
GUARDIAN