Upcoming

Title: ON PROCEDURAL GROUNDS: Rova + Wrack + Robair/Perkis

Date: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:00 PM

Address:
Community Music Center
544 Capp St
San Francisco

Description:

On Friday, October 1, improvising oboist and composer Kyle Bruckmann will premiere On Procedural Grounds for Rova in collaboration with percussionist, composer and conductor, Gino Robair; computer electronics wizard, Tim Perkis; and his long-standing quintet Wrack.

Bruckmann’s creative work spans a dizzying range, from a traditional Western classical foundation into genre-bending gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock. International touring and appearances on more than 50 recordings have led to his recognition as "a modern day renaissance musician" and "a seasoned improviser with impressive extended technique and peculiar artistic flair."

His Wrack project was founded in 2002 with the explicit intent of blurring distinctions between compositional and improvisational procedures, creative and interpretative mindsets, Afro-American and Euro-American experimental traditions. It is equally a book of compositions, an unconventional chamber ensemble, and an aesthetic philosophy entangling the methodologies of contemporary jazz and classical modernism.

“I can cite a 1993 Rova performance I witnessed while an undergraduate conservatory student in Houston as a seminal experience, instrumental in launching me onto the creative path I’ve pursued ever since.” -KB

Kyle Bruckmann
Community Music Center

Price: $12, $8 students/seniors, FREE to CMC students