Improvising woodwind Quartet is joined by the superb cellist Tom Kraines. Fresh off their duo album "Automatic Thinking" Tom Buckner and James Ilgenfritz perform duo Improvisations
7:30 Doors | 8pm Music
Resonant Edge
Aaron Pond- Horn, Voice, Slide Whistles Anjali Shinde- Flute, Piccolo, Slide Whistle
Mekhi Gladden- Oboe
Sonali Singh- Bassoon
w/ Special Guest Tom Kraines- Cello/Accordion
Wind quartet Resonant Edge is a melding of four innovative artists committed to exploring the history of classical and creative music through improvisation. Together, they represent the future of instrumental music, with members regularly appearing in world-renowned concert halls, performing with Grammy winning ensembles, and curating spontaneous music.
Automatic Thinking
James Ilgenfritz- Scoradtura Contrabass
Tom Buckner- Voice
Bassist James Ilgenfritz and vocalist Thomas Buckner have worked together for nearly 20 years, both as improvisers and in the performance of new concert works. With extensive backgrounds in both contemporary chamber music and the wide expanse of improvisational practices, their work together is deeply personal while also reflecting their perspectives on communal dynamics, both within and beyond the domain of creative music.
Bios
JI
James Ilgenfritz is recognized in The New Yorker for his “characteristic magnanimity” and “invaluable contributions to New York’s new-music community,” and is founder and director of the Infrequent Seams record label and the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Ephemera Obscura, Inc. He performs internationally and has twice had residencies at John Zorn’s The Stone. He has composed for Ghost Ensemble, the New Thread saxophone quartet, HUB New Music, The Momenta Quartet, Hypercube, String Noise, and Thomas Buckner. Recent albums include Altamirage(featuring composer/performer Pauline Oliveros) and #entrainments (featuring drummer Gerry Hemingway). Ilgenfritz holds a PhD from University of California Irvine and degrees from UC San Diego and University of Michigan. Recent work reflects on experiences with Aphasia and other complications from two surgeries to remove benign brain tumors.
For decades, baritone Thomas Buckner has dedicated himself to the promotion and performance of new and improvised music, collaborating with a host of new music luminaries including Robert Ashley, Noah Creshevsky, Tom Hamilton, Earl Howard, Matthias Kaul, Leroy Jenkins, Bun Ching Lam, Annea Lockwood, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Wadada Leo Smith, Chinary Ung, Christian Wolff and many others. Buckner has appeared at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Herbst Theatre, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlin Spring Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, and the Angelica Festival of Bologna. He is featured on over 50 recordings, including 6 solo albums, the most recent being “New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble,” which includes works by Annea Lockwood, Tania Leon, and Petr Kotik. Buckner also appears in the CD/DVD “Kirili et le Nymphéas (Hommage à Monet)” filmed at the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, which houses the Monet’s celebrated Water lilies murals. For the past thirty years Thomas Buckner has curated the Interpretations series in New York City, and continues to produce recordings on the Mutable Music label, introducing current artists and repertoire, as well as presenting important historic material, previously unavailable in CD format.