AMM at Bard

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I was passed this on to pass to you. . . It's a little early, but You should 
know:

For Immediate Release

The Creative Music Alliance at Bard College will present a two-day concert
series with the pioneering electroacoustic improvisation trio AMM (from
Britain) on Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27.  Both concerts will 
begin
at 8:15 PM.  The program for the first concert will feature three
performances: John Tilbury, the preferred interpreter of Morton Feldman
and Cornelius Cardew?s piano music, will present a talk and subsequent
performance of modern piano music; Keith Rowe, inventor of the
prepared guitar, will then play solo; and Eddie Prevost will conduct an
ensemble of student musicians.  The second evening will consist entirely
of an uninterrupted set by AMM.

AMM were one of the first musical outfits to expressively combine the
disciplines of jazz, electronic composition, and the found-object aesthetic
of 1950s Pop Art with the political and musical theories of the avant-garde.
They rely heavily upon the role of chance, free improvisation, and 
thirty-five
years of shared musical dialogs to discover new sounds and
compositional material even today.  Founded in England in 1965 by Keith
Rowe, Lou Gare, and Eddie Prevost, AMM?s ties with the experimental
avant-garde were strengthened with the addition of composer Cornelius
Cardew in 1966.  Disregarding the typical conventions of music
composition ? notation, melody, harmony, etc. ? the group helped forge a
new musical aesthetic based on the communal exploration of timbre
amongst various musicians, exploiting technological quirks and ideas of
acceptance and simplicity imported directly from the art world of the
mid-1960s.  They very quickly established themselves at the forefront of
the European avant-garde and free improvisation circuit of the time.  The
group?s line-up fluctuated from 1972 to 1976, with Cardew and Gare
leaving in 1976.  John Tilbury was invited to join the ensemble in 1980,
cementing the core line-up of AMM?s latter stage, which has also featured
stints by Christian Wolff, Evan Parker, and Lou Gare, among others.  What
has remained with AMM since its inception is the distinctiveness of its
performances, powerful assemblages of sound in flux with periods of
silence that make apparent the group?s long standing intent to explore
new worlds of sound.

This is a very rare American performance by AMM in the informal and
intimate setting of the bucolic Bard campus.  It is a must-see for all those
interested in the evolution of modern music and the aesthetics of
improvised music, as performed by the premier ensemble of the genre.
Tickets are $8 for each show, or $12 for a 2-day pass.  For reservations
and further information, please e-mail nk278@xxxxxxxxx


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