transparency series - week 2
In collaboration with LOOVE, Continuum Culture & Arts presents composer/author/saxophonist patrick brennan’s transparency kestra, an improvisers’ community orchestra coordinated around brennan’s innovative transparency structures. Transparencies spontaneously overlap varying layers of rhythmelodic patterns to evoke ever surprising soundscapes. The ensemble has been convening musicians from across New York’s vibrant creative music cosmos since 2014 and regularly begins with an open rehearsal, during which listeners can witness the musicians exploring the ins and outs of each transparency, in advance of the full unfolding of the music in performance.
patrick brennan has for decades been rumored as an underground secret, a contrarian & independent progenitor of conceptually original music sharp at the frontiers of an ever expanding Blues Continuum. The NYC based composer & alto saxophonist coordinates ensembles & projects from unaccompanied solo excursions to 20+ musician formations.
His multidirectional creative music “expands upon compositional what ifs and the plasticities of rhythm section dynamics,” as jazz.pt writer António Branco has described it. “On the shoulders of giants like Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill and others, brennan constructs specific sonic and conceptual environments for collective improvisation, a kind of sonic lego from pieces that can be combined in infinite ways.”
The transparency series is made up of three performances featuring a semi-rotating cast of musicians, every 2 weeks, from April 26th to May 24th at LOOVE Annex, with open rehearsals beginning at 2:30pm, and doors at 4pm.
Featuring:
On Ka'a Davis • guitar
Haruna Fukazawa • flutes
Nick Gianni • flutes
Hilliard Greene • contrabass
Jerome Harris • guitar (TBC)
Thomas Heberer • trumpet
Patrick Holmes • clarinet
Nick Lyons • clarinet
Evan Palmer • contrabass
Josh Sinton • baritone saxophone
Michael T.A. Thompson • percussion
Rod Williams • piano
patrick brennan • composition+conducting+alto saxophone
@patrickbrennansound
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