Rhys Chatham
Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham has reached legendary status in experimental music circles, best-known most recently for high profile productions of his rugged noise symphonies written for hundreds of guitars. For this concert, Chatham teams up with guitarist David Daniell and drummer Tim Barnes. Chatham deploys extended playing techniques inherited from the glory days of free jazz (Don Cherry, Bill Dixon) as well as leaders of the minimalist movement (Tony Conrad, Jon Hassell, La Monte Young…) of which he is one of the successors. Arriving at a mix that ebulliently exits from various horns and axes while simultaneously going through the stomp boxes and electronic devices, Chatham seamlessly fuses downtempo, flexistential insanity with driving rock rhythms and screaming metal riffs liberally morphed with hydrogen jukebox delay trumpet.
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Tim Barnes is a Louisville-based percussionist, sound designer, and experimental musician. Over the past fifteen years he has performed and/or recorded with with Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rouke, Tower Recordings, The For Carnation, Text of Light (Lee Renaldo and Alan Licht), Matmos, Mike Watt, and Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Silver Jews amongst many others. He has also worked extensively as a producer and engineer, and established the Quakebasket record label in 1999.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tim+Barnes
David Daniell is a Chicago-based guitarist and composer who has collaborated extensively with Rhys Chatham throughout the last four years, including the 2006 Die Donnergötter tour, 2007 Guitar Trio tour, and as Concertmaster for Rhys’ 100- and 200-guitar ensemble performances. He has worked for fifteen years as a member of the improvising blues-drone trio San Agustin and with many other collaborators including Loren Connors, Tim Barnes, Jeph Jerman, Thurston Moore, Tomas Korber, Greg Davis and Jonathan Kane. Current active collaborations include a duo with Douglas McCombs (Brokeback, Tortoise), a trio with Christian Fennesz and Tony Buck (The Necks), and the quartet Apiary with Steven Hess (Pan American, Haptic, On), Jason Stein (Locksmith Isidore) and Joseph Clayton Mills (Haptic).
