Kanda & Sharp // Landis & Sarin

Presented in partnership with CONTINUUM ARTS & CULTURE:

SATURDAY, MAY 9

8PM

AYAKO KANDA voice
ELLIOTT SHARP guitar, electronics

Visiting from Tokyo, AYAKO KANDA moves between the feral and the utterly wild, between free improvisation and standard jazz, quick sketches and impressionist painting, creating rules and breaking them as she roams between linguistic and alinguistic modes of expression.

ELLIOTT SHARP is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction.

9PM

MP LANDIS live painting
MICHAEL SARIN drum set

This duo pulls back the curtain for the audience to see how a painter creates a painting, and exactly how a drummer produces sounds/rhythms at the drum set. Thus exposed, each creates in real time while influencing the other without any predetermined outcome—in other words, improvising.

M P Landis is a visual artist inspired by music and sound artists with whom he often collaborates. He has exhibited widely since 1990, currently working with Cynthia Winnings Gallery (Blue Hill, ME), Farm Projects (Wellfleet, MA), and the international artist collective Pell Lucy. In addition to performing in Paint & Drums, he is in the trio Little Weirdo with Phillip Greenlief and Claudia La Rocco. He currently lives and works in Portland, Maine.

Drummer Michael Sarin has aided and abetted a wide range of musicians in the world of jazz/improvised music, including Ben Allison, Frank Carlberg, Thomas Chapin, Caleb Wheeler Curtis, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Joe Fiedler, Erik Friedlander, David Krakauer, Myra Melford… He has contributed to hundreds of recordings, and performs throughout the world—in major and minor festivals; concert halls famous and infamous, big and small. He lives in New York City.

$20 suggested / donations accepted at the door