Events . James Ilgenfritz, Snake Pliskin, Ben Opie, Nevhar Anhar

James Ilgenfritz, Snake Pliskin, Ben Opie, Nevhar Anhar

experimental jazz and improv
Concert
Palzanos 4614 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh
All Ages $0 / $10

Fri Mar 17 8 pm all ages welcome $10 at door
Palanzo's 4614 Liberty Ave Bloomfield

The Consortium and Alia Musica present
NYC bassist / composer / improvisor on Tzadik & Infrequent Seams
JAMES ILGENFRITZ https://jamesilgenfritz.com
performing works by Annie Gosfield, JG Thirwell, Elliott Sharp and Miya Masaoka

with special guests
Snake Pliskin (Rex Trimm + Chris McCune)
Ben Opie (of Thoth Trio and Opek)
and Nevhar Anhar (aka Derek Bendel)

James Ilgenfritz has been a part of New York’s experimental music community for ten years, working with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, & Anthony Coleman, as well as composers Lukas Ligeti, Pauline Oliveros, Annie Gosfield, JG Thirlwell, Karin Rehnqvist, Ted Hearne, & Gordon Beeferman. He is also active as a bandleader, sideman, & composer.

Recent recordings include MiND GAMeS (with Denman Maroney, Andrew Drury, Angelika Niescier) and Compositions (Braxton) 2011, a solo bass recording of the music of Anthony Braxton.
He has also recorded with jazz-rock band Hypercolor (featuring drummer Lukas Ligeti) on Tzadik, and has appeared on other releases on Clean Feed and Cuneiform.

In 2011 James as Artist-In-Residence at Issue Project Room, where he premiered his opera ‘The Ticket That Exploded’ (based on William Burroughs’ 1962 Novel). The opera recording was released on the Con D'Or label (owned by Grant Hart of Husker Du). A graduate of University of Michigan & University of California San Diego, James is on faculty at Brooklyn College Preparatory Center & Brooklyn Conservatory.

In Fall 2016, Infrequent Seams released James Ilgenfritz's new CD, featuring four new works for solo contrabass by some of Downtown New York's most innovative and revolutionary composers.

Each composer is renowned both as a writer and as a performer, and their diverse backgrounds inform their compositions. These works all also rely heavily on Ilgenfritz's distinctive technical vocabulary as an improviser and pedagogue of extended techniques. Each work takes advantage of these techniques in a different way:

Composer Annie Gosfield's "Rolling Sevens And Dreaming Elevens" uses the contrabass as a sampler, with James Ilgenfritz' distinctive techniques transcribed and recombined in a detailed score that makes extensive use of the 7th and 11th partials of the strings.

Elliott Sharp's "Aletheia" sets up a strict series of combinations of various types of bow - from the standard bass bow to metal springs, and bows made from ball chains. The scordatura tuning emphasizes the harmonic spectrum of a fundamental low D, with a chorus of upper partials created by the various pairings of the different bows.

Industrial music innovator and film composer JG Thirlwell's "Xigliox" explores a constantly evolving array of sonorities based on double-stops and melodic phrases, integrating interpretive freedoms with structured improvisation and intricate polyrhythms

Miya Masaoka's "Four Moons Of Pluto" uses a scordatura tuning derived from Just Intonation. The entire 17-minute work is performed with sustained harmonics, creating sonorous diads in Just ratios, from simple 5/4 ratios to the rich, rhythmic beating of microtonal ratios like 21/20.

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Tags: Experimental Free-jazz Improv