Sunday, May 3 at 8:00 pm
$20 general admission, $18 students/seniors, $15 members
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Emily Beisel - bass clarinet, flute, voice, electronics
&
Bill Sack - electric guitar, electronics
Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator, and woodwind specialist whose work is celebrated for its visceral intensity and innovative blend of techniques. Beisel's 2023 solo album, Particle of Organs, has been described as "heavy stuff, sounds retrieved from the deeper places - the underworlds, the lightless subterranea... a raw, abrasive, oppressive, and thrilling journey."
"Beisel's unique approach to the bass clarinet is beautifully brutal... 'timbral effects' that push the clarinet to its tonal and sonic limits, at times sounding like a guitar feeding back, an overamped cello, a set of bagpipes, even a clarinet..." - Dave Foxall - A Jazz Noise
Beisel's music centers on the bass clarinet and incorporates voice, electronics, extended techniques, and other wind instruments creating a complex and nuanced soundscape in which the origins of sounds are often obscured.
More info at:
www.emilybeisel.com
https://emilyrachbeisel.bandcamp.com/album/particle-of-organs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMZsEr9pJUg
Bill Sack is a multimedia and electronic artist, musician, guitarist, composer, computer manipulator, and programmer. He is the former Technical Director at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Media Studies Department at the University at Buffalo. He has been an active part of the arts and electronics community in Buffalo for many years. In addition to countless other projects, Sack exhibited in Beyond In Western New York in 2010.
Hallwalls Music Program is made possible through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and a generous grant from the Cullen Foundation https://www.thecullenfoundation.org/
