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The .9Mile Collaborative is pleased to share this archival video featuring a two-day 2013 Hallwalls residency with Brooklyn's brilliant Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber. On the 1st evening of the residency, the group performed in the 9th Ward and featured music created in the moment using Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris' Conduction® system for conducted improvisation. This video features music from that evening along with some post-concert discussion with Greg Tate about the influence Butch had on the group as well as some footage from a workshop at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.

A Hallwalls Artists-in-Residence Project (HARP)
https://www.hallwalls.org/music/5326.html

The Arkestra:
Greg Tate - conduction, electronics
Mikel Banks - vocals, freak-a-phone
Shelley Nicole - vocals
Lewis Barnes - trumpet
V. Jeffrey Smith - tenor & soprano saxophones
'Moist' Paula Henderson - baritone saxophone
Ben Tyree - electric guitar
Jared Michael Nickerson - electric bass
Chris Eddleton - drums

Burnt Sugar THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER is a territory band, a neo-tribal thang, a community hang, a society music guild aspiring to the condition of all that is molten, glacial, racial, spacial, oceanic, mythic, antiphonal and telepathic.
"A multiracial jam army that freestyles with cool telekinesis between the lustrous menace of Miles Davis' On The Corner, the slash-and-om of 1970s King Crimson, and Jimi Hendrix' moonwalk across side three of Electric Ladyland."- David Fricke, Rolling Stone.

All our love to Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, George Clinton and the P-funk All Stars, Lady Day, Miles Davis, Eddy Hazel, A.R. Kane, Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington and Betty Davis for opening the gates of paradise and pushing us through.

Butch Morris's Conduction System for Orchestral Improvisation is the preferred mode of channeling for this Gotham based ensemble of pan-ethnic sound warriors. Everyone of them is a border crossing trans-national whether they'll admit it or not.

Spontaneous combustion being an occupational hazard in Gotham, Burnt Sugar is how we keep it real, surreal, arboreal, aquatic, incendiary. If only because we might be mistaken for the world's second fully improvisational acid-funk band.

To quote Arthur Jafa, we don't strive to be original, but Aboriginal. Like the songlines and the dreaming, like Tracey Moffatt and The Last Wave, like Cubase and Cabrini Green. One foot in the prehistoric, the other in the post human. In this journey, you're the journal and we're the journalists. Houston, Houston, do you read? ~Greg Tate

more info at: www.burntsugarindex.com

from the HW archive:

Hallwalls is ecstatic to announce a week-long artist residency with the inimitable, transdimensional music entity best known as Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber. The residency will culminate in two evenings of music - the first night will feature music generated from Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris' Conduction system for collective improvisation. The second night will feature the groups' repertoire of re-invented sonic resources culled from the depths of James Brown, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Melvin Van Peebles and beyond. Our city will be transformed as the Burnt Sugar Mothership lands in Buffalo for a rare cosmic convergence with the Outer Spaceways…