[microsound] Joe Exley/Claudio Parodi

[Claudio Parodi <cla.parodi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Exley   electric tuba
Claudio Parodi   Turkish clarinet, pocket electronics

A grooooovy night with a tuba and a clarinet? You bet, man!

Available from May the 27th

NYC's Joe Exley (aka TUBAJOE) started very early as an instrumentalist with violin lessons at the age of two. Later at age seven came the clarinet, followed by the oboe, bassoon and sax, but it was not until the age of fifteen that Joe found his true voice - the TUBA. Joe went through typical classical training, but all the while could never get rid of the powerful influence of rock, jazz, blues, and funk. Joe stuck to his guns and completed conventional music schooling, first at the University of Northern Colorado, then off to the big city and legendary "Tuba-Mecca", Chicago, for graduate school at Northwestern, lessons with the masters, and bigger and brighter things. 'Shedding' a steady diet of orchestral excerpts, sonatas, concertos (concerti?), and other typical historical reproduction, Joe started to become in demand as a freelance player in orchestras and chamber groups - but it was not those things that would become Joe's true voice (at least this far). Joe simply could not deny his roots of popular music and jazz, and somehow ended up playing on TV themes, rock albums, and touring with many society and show bands as well as tours with the Chicago Jazz Ensamble. Since he started playing the tuba in 9th grade, Joe always searched for ways to fit the tuba into modern and/or other situations where it might not normally be found. Historically, the tuba has always been at the back of the band or orchestra, often only pounding out "oom-pahs". But, with this new combination of electrification and slightly altered technique, Joe enabled himself to follow his dream of melding the TUBA into a completely viable, acceptable, non-comedic, accessible commercial instruments that fits naturally into a talented rhythm section. Just after Joe started experimenting with various gadget and techniques added to the tuba, he was (very casually) invited to "sit-in" (a jazz tradition where visiting musicians are invited to join the band for a tune or two) with the masterful drummer Paul Wertico and his band - ironically on a night where they had no bass player. This short experimentation opened up Joe's ears and mind to possibilities that were endless - he finally experienced a "glimpse" of what his voice could be. Joe was then invited to join several bands in Chicago where he was able to experiment and develop his new voice as a tuba player - leaving behind the typical flatulence and historical presumption that are expected of the big bass horn, foraging ahead to a smoother, groovier, more direct sound. It now was time to make "the move". Joe and his wife and cats packed up and headed out for New York City. Shortly after moving to the area, Joe found himself in a recording session laying down improvised grooves on the "electric tuba" along side the legendary groove-meister Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. This led to interesting live performance and studio recording sessions with great folks and new experiences in which conventional tuba playing might not suffice. Joe also found himself part of the avant-garde music scene, adding his sound to new music and free improv, experimental theater and modern dance. He is always in demand from many different ensambles in many different genres. Joe recently took permanent residence in Harlem - and can be found playing on diverse projects with great folks. He also recently put together his OWN band - as a leader...   -Susan Fenzl

Claudio Parodi has a classical training and played jazz. He joined the improvisers' scene after meeting Barre Phillips. Since some years he plays cheap electronics alongside his piano. He organized contemporary art exhibition Intersezioni. He played and recorded with Barre Phillips, Serge Pesce, Patrick Vaillant, Migueù Montanaro, Alain Joule, Edoardo Ricci, Eugenio Sanna, Guylaine Renaud, dancer Laura Banfi, Steve Piccolo, Nino Locatelli, Filippo Monico, Bilux, Roy Paci, DJ Jimmy, DJ Squamo, painter and bass and drums player Patrizia Oliva, Giuseppe Ielasi, Cathy Heyden, Jake Kaluna, Roberto Laria, Echo Logico, Roberto Agosta, Mira Calix, poet Marino Ramingo Giusti, Bruno Dorella, Stefania Pedretti, Eleonora Papapietro, Saitoh Tetsu, Bruno Gussoni, Alberto Belli, poet Serge Pey, Riccardo Molpurgo, Paolo Porfiri, Martin O'Loughlin, Marco Cinque, poet Lance Henson, Knarf, Pop, Saalschutz, Suonatori di Sogni, Ron Anderson, Carla Bozulich, Leyna Papach, djwjm, Anna Troisi, Nels Cline, Lullo Mosso, poet Enzo Minarelli, Maramao, Lello Colombo, Claudia Cancellotti, Anna Zecca, Pierpaolo Cimino, Le Quan Ninh, Martine Altenburger, dancer Valerie Metivier, La Fanfare de la Touffe, Ababacar (Abdou) M'Becke, Federick Colombie, Dudu Kouate, DBPIT, Lendormin, Agente Orange, CRAMS Improvisation Collective. He played in Prauxparodie, musical poetry duo with former Voci Atroci Luca Albrecht Praussello. Among his projects, Half Clouds, improvisation duo with wonderful virtuoso Michel Doneda on soprano sax; Duopoly, improvisation duo with Jon Dobie (founder and tour manager of B-Shops for the Poor and Sonicphonics; he runs the No Wave label) on guitar and sax. He intensely played with Alessandro Buzzi (drums, electronics) as a duo, in La Protezione - with Luigi Valenziano (dubmaster, CD player, tapes) - and in Burzi Snack Bar - with Riccardo Kalb (electric bass, electronics); the duo played in Arrivano le Streghe!, street theatre piece by Teatro del Piccione. He is the author of the music for the videos Malegantus (directed by Alberto Ghiara) and Frammenti Sonori (directed by Francesco Bianchi and Claudio Rossi), second prize in 1998 at VIII videodance international festival Il Coreografo Elettronico and mentioned at the second edition of Genova Film Festival. He played in Manoeuvre Directe with Michel Doneda, Ly Thanh Tien (dance, poetry, trumpet, diapoems) and Maki (guitar, tapes). He played in Sun Circle Moon, a project led by Jacopo Andreini (sax, drums, bass) and Harlan Lyman (drums). He played in a multi-media project with Mirella Carbone (diapositives). He organized Seminario sulla Libera Improvvisazione Saitoh Tetsu & Michel Doneda, with partial financial help from Centro della Creatività Comune di Genova. He plays in Taliban project by poet Alberto Masala, playing with Fabiola Ledda, Maurizio Carbone, Riccardo Pittau. He played in Macchina Disorganizzata n° 6 (a project by Cane Capovolto) playing with Massimo Bressan, Luca Pagani, Simone Perna. His new project is de Manincor/Rispoli/Parodi, improvisation trio with actresses Anna de Manincor and Anna Rispoli on voice. He resulted among the most accomplished musicians on piano (Improvisation Special Mention) and among the accomplished musicians on feedback (electronics) at 2002 Ibla Grand Prize. Under the name rabbia he runs an activity of recordings releasing and events organisation. He played in Animates with Pascale Moret-Astier (improvised dance), Ly Thanh Tien and Roland Ossart (mélisson). He played in Isola (conversation), a project by Carlo Natoli (concept for video and audio, live electronics) for Fabrica Musica, with Gaetano Santoro (tenor and baritone sax). The performance Rifl-Esso (Francesco Calandrino, computer visuals; Luca Pagani, computer visuals; Claudio Parodi, cheap electronics) was selected for the Selected Artist exhibition at Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival http://iceca.chiangmai.ac.th/events (Thailand), performed online at CMU Faculty of Architecture and twice at CMU Art Museum and performed live at PEAM '03 Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting www.artificialia.com/peam2003/ The Cdrom of the performance was presented at The Performance Open during Performance Art Festival + Archives (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) www.performance-art.org He plays piano and feedback in a trio with Mat Pogo (vocals, megaphone) and s.drò (electric guitar, objects). He played tarogato (Turkish clarinet) in the performance senza smàni (a pag. 777 di teleVideo) with Francesco Calandrino (performance coordinator, alto sax, acoustic guitar, electric bass) and Luca Pagani (acoustic guitar, electric bass). His records Loneliness and 11'39"+5'00"=20'00" were broadcast at le placard #6 last 72 hrs http://placard95.dokidoki.fr/placardgaiteprog.html 

Discography: OvO: Assassine (Bar la Muerte 2001)

Loneliness (collector's item CDr)

11'39"+5'00"=20'00" (CDr rabbia) 

Loneliness on Frammenti, sonorità in-tagli. (CDr + artbook Musica Moderna Records)

Enzo Minarelli/Luca Pagani/Claudio Parodi: Musicamimica Musicamimica (ovvero far musica

con la mano nella lingua dell'antico Egitto) nuova versione (miniCDr rabbia)

contacts:

Claudio Parodi

Via Trieste 46/23

16043 Chiavari (GE)

Italia

tel. +39 0185307740

mobile +39 3290276077

e-mail: cla.parodi@xxxxxxxxx