09/11 @ 8:00pm – Loren Connors + Bill Baird

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Bill Baird

Bill Baird is a multi talented musician from Austin, Texas. Known to most for his prolific songwriting and pop productions under the names Sunset and Sound Team, Baird is at heart a musical experimenter without boundaries. The dynamic nature of his approach to songwriting leads to an always-evolving sound, constantly reaching for its true shape yet never settling in on form. With his album Silence! (an August 2010 release on the Austin label Autobus) he has created a rich, analog ambient recording akin to the Folkways records of Craig Kupka and the meditations of early Kranky releases. Silence! is awash with the heavy sonic textures of pianos sent through 24 stereo delays, french horn, and a variety of acoustic instrumentation. For this special ISSUE Project Room performance, Bill Baird will perform live arrangements of the pieces from the album in ensemble with Erica Dicker, Tucker Dulin, Dave Ruder, Nathan Stein, Alexander Waterman, Karen Waltuch, Kenny Wang, and Katherine Young.

Loren Connors

Loren Connors was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1949. Best known as a composer and improviser, Connors has issued over 50 guitar records on his own imprints (Daggett, St. Joan, Black Label) since the late 1970s and over two dozen on other labels across the globe. He has recorded under the names Guitar Roberts, Loren Mattei, Loren MazzaCane Connors and other variations. Connors’ singular adpation of the blues is a distinct personal vision combining the Delta bottleneck sound and the ancestral blues voice (appearing as distortion, baying hounds or multi-tracked guitar), with hauntingly unexpected sounds. Outside of Connors’ three decades of solo work, he has collaborated with Suzanne Langille, Jim O’Rourke, Darin Gray, Alan Licht, Christina Carter, Keiji Haino, San Agustin, Jandek and many others, as well as leading the group Haunted House. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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We have lots of upcoming concerts to look forward to from all of our artists.

• Carl Stone has a very interesting half-hour live broadcast concert coming up on February 24th via the unitedArtscene website.  Note: all their broadcast times are in Pacific Standard Time. Stone will also be performing March 5th at 7:30pm at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum (link).

• Lubomyr Melnyk will be performing two concerts in North America in the coming weeks.  The first is at the University of Victoria on February 27th (link), which will hold the world premiere of “Windmills”, for multiple taped and live pianos.  Following that will be a jaunt over to Seattle for a March 2nd concert in the Wayward Music Series.

• Elodie Lauten has a couple of charity events to benefit Haiti in March featuring a new program of tango compositions for keyboard inspired by the French songs of her childhood in Paris and her experience of New York and Argentinian Milonga.  The first takes place at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY on March 12th.  The next is March 27th at the Lafayette Bar in NYC.

Lauten will also be performing piano compositions from her soon to be released 2CD Piano Works Revisited in April at the Gershwin Hotel.  More details on that to come.

• “Blue” Gene Tyranny will perform in NYC on April 15th at Roulette with violinist Conrad Harris, premiering new 4 new electro-acoustic works (link).