Name: False Harmonics #14: Clone Decay (ft. Mary Halvorson) & SYMPHONY vs. GNR8RZ
Start: 2023-04-11T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Pioneer Works

False Harmonics #14: Clone Decay (ft. Mary Halvorson) & SYMPHONY vs. GNR8RZ

Pioneer Works

Join us for the 14th iteration of False Harmonics, featuring two mind-bending performances by Clone Decay and SYMPHONY vs. GNR8RZ.

Clone Decay

Mary Halvorson

SYMPHONY

GNR8RZ

False Harmonics is a musical series meant to explore new music and alternative approaches to composition, improvisation, and performance. Join us on April 11 for the 14th iteration of False Harmonics, featuring two mind-bending performances by Clone Decay and SYMPHONY vs. GNR8RZ.Clone Decay is a new project headed by Mary Halvorson (guitar) featuring Kalia Vandever (trombone) and Weston Olencki (trombone, electronics), marking the first collaboration between these three artists. The trio will perform two new compositions—for two trombones and guitar, augmented by electronics and processing—ultimately producing sound that begins as an acoustic trio and morphs into something else entirely.SYMPHONY vs. GNR8RZ head the second act of the night with a dual-performance by that will feature the ensembles performing live in relation to each other. SYMPHONY is a musical project headed by Peter Evans (trumpet, composition), featuring Alice Teyssier (flutes, vocals), Nick Jozwiak (bass), and Levy Lorenzo (percussion, live electronics). GNR8RZ is a quartet made up of Anthony Coleman, Simon Hanes, Aliya Ultan, and Calvin Weston. Each musician finds common ground in kinetic melodies and constant motion, zig-zagging between blown-out chaos and hypnotic grooves.About the ArtistsClone Decay is a new project headed by Mary Halvorson (guitar) featuring Kalia Vandever (trombone) and Weston Olencki (trombone &amp; electronics)—marking the first collaboration between these three artists. Read more about each musician below:Mary Halvorson, guitarist, composer, and MacArthur Fellow, has been called “NYC’s least-predictable improviser” (Howard Mandel, City Arts), “the most forward-thinking guitarist working right now” (Lars Gotrich, NPR.org) and “one of today’s most formidable bandleaders” (Francis Davis, Village Voice). Halvorson’s most recent releases, Amaryllis and Belladonna, showcase her string quartet writing deftly interpreted by The Mivos Quartet, alongside a new sextet featuring Adam O’Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums). The twin debuts for Nonesuch Records, released in May 2022, were called “...new landmarks in Halvorson’s already inimitable discography” in a five star review by The Guardian. Collaborative projects include the longstanding collective ensemble Thumbscrew (also with Formanek and Fujiwara), and a chamber-jazz duo with violist Jessica Pavone. Over the past two decades Ms. Halvorson has also performed in bands led by Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, Trevor Dunn, Tomas Fujiwara, Ingrid Laubrock, Jason Moran, Joe Morris, Tom Rainey, Tomeka Reid, Marc Ribot, Ches Smith and John Zorn, among others.Kalia Vandever is a trombonist, composer, and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She released her debut album, “In Bloom” in 2019 which has been described as "the rise of an exciting voice for the music." (Seton Hawkins, Hot House Jazz Magazine) Kalia's sophomore album, Regrowth released in May, 2022 on New Amsterdam Records and "confirms her strengths as a composer and bandleader with a distinctly contemporary point of view." (Nate Chinen, WBGO Jazz) She has toured and performed internationally with her quartet, as well as a side-woman, performing with artists including Moses Sumney, Joel Ross, Immanuel Wilkins, Maria Grand, Fay Victor and others. Kalia is an awardee of the 2022 Next Jazz Legacy, a program founded by New Music USA and Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. She has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Preservation Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, The Jazz Gallery, The Blue Whale, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, SMOKE Jazz Club, the Blue Note, and the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. While performing regularly as a bandleader and side-woman, Kalia is also an active composer and arranger. She has been commissioned to write works for groups and individuals including Tesla Quartet, The Westerlies, Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim, Hats &amp; Heels Duo and more.Weston Olencki is a musician, composer, and sound artist. Their current work is centered around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, various mediated practices of listening and improvisation, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of rural space/time. Various recording projects have been released by HatHut, Not Two, Sound American, Carrier, New Amsterdam, Clean Feed, Lobby Art, Dinzu Artefacts, SUPERPANG, Notice Recordings, Tripticks Tapes, Creative Sources, Out of Your Head, and their first solo brass release SOLO WORKS, which featured on Bandcamp Daily’s Best Experimental Music of 2020. They are an active member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and perform regularly as a soloist and ensemble member on low brass instruments, handbuilt contraptions, and various electronic media.GNR8RZ is brought together by a shared energy. The quartet—Anthony Coleman, Simon Hanes, Aliya Ultan, and Calvin Weston—find common ground in kinetic melodies and constant motion, zig-zagging between blown-out chaos and hypnotic grooves. They first thought to collaborate because of their individual passions for vigorous sound, wondering what might come out of a combination of Hanes’s potent electric guitar and bass, Weston’s ultra-powerful drums, Ultan’s incandescent cello, and Coleman’s undisputable improvisatory wisdom. The result is GNR8RZ’s pummeling music, built on the tenets of close communication and unstoppable vigor.Each artist brings their own perspective to the group’s blazing sound: Hanes’s work as a composer bridges Italian soundtracks with contemporary classical and improvisation, heard in groups like his band Tredici Bacci; Weston’s drumming has been heard in a wide range of jazz ensembles, including groups like Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time Band and The Lounge Lizards; Ultan’s cello and vocal music bridges her classical training with improvisatory and multidisciplinary ideas; and Coleman, a veteran improvising pianist from New York’s downtown scene, often makes music that draws from his Jewish heritage. Together, they build a sound based on the sheer abandon of noise and shredded melodies, the surprises of improvisation, and the joy of making music in the moment. Learn more: https://simonhanes.com/gnr8rzSYMPHONY is a musical project headed by Peter Evans (trumpet and composition), featuring Alice Teyssier (flutes, vocals), Nick Jozwiak (bass), and Levy Lorenzo (percussion, live electronics).

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