Roulette hosts the SLM Ensemble performing music from Source, the new album on the Liminal Music label. Featuring experimental works written for an ensemble of renowned and diverse musicians, Source awakens networks of interconnection and synthesis. The performance contains the two pieces from the Source recording: “Spectral Syn,” which premiered at Roulette in 2008, and “Cycles of Awakening,” a worldwide premiere. The pieces integrate influences of contemporary music, jazz, improvised music, ritual, world music, and individual languages, creating a multidimensional nexus of realization. ...
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Roulette hosts the SLM Ensemble performing music from Source, the new album on the Liminal Music label. Featuring experimental works written for an ensemble of renowned and diverse musicians, Source awakens networks of interconnection and synthesis. The performance contains the two pieces from the Source recording: “Spectral Syn,” which premiered at Roulette in 2008, and “Cycles of Awakening,” a worldwide premiere. The pieces integrate influences of contemporary music, jazz, improvised music, ritual, world music, and individual languages, creating a multidimensional nexus of realization.
The SLM Ensemble is a New York City-based experimental music ensemble created by co-artistic directors bassist/composer Mark Dresser and conductor/composer Sarah Weaver. With a roster composed of diverse pioneering positions, The SLM Ensemble performs and records works for large ensemble, film/multimedia, and the telematic medium via the internet. The name SLM is an acronym for "Source Liminal Music" as well as a tri-consonantal root of words from several languages that mean "peace.” The album Source will be available for purchase at the concert in compact disc and digital formats.
Pieces include “Spectral Syn” by Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver, “Cycles of Awakening” by Sarah Weaver, “SubTeleToning” by Mark Dresser, and “Multidimensional Tunings” by Sarah Weaver
Performers include Jen Shyu (voice), Robert Dick (flute), Julie Ferrara (oboe), Rebekah Heller (bassoon), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Oliver Lake (alto saxophone), Ned Rothenberg (bass clarinet, shakuhachi), James Zollar (trumpet), Ray Anderson (trombone), Dave Taylor (bass trombone), George Ziadeh (oud, voice), Miya Masaoka (koto), Ursel Schlicht (piano), Gerry Hemingway (drumset), Mark Dresser (bass, composer), and Sarah Weaver (conductor, composer).
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