{"id":5507,"date":"2015-09-28T08:43:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T08:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2015-10-19T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:18:27","slug":"msppianoobjects-percussion-and-its-double-%e2%80%94-tala-meta-tala-and-meta-meta-w-william-winant-joe-lasqo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/msppianoobjects-percussion-and-its-double-%e2%80%94-tala-meta-tala-and-meta-meta-w-william-winant-joe-lasqo\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP\/Piano\/Objects\/+: Percussion and its Double \u2014 T\u0101la, Meta-T\u0101la, and Meta-Meta w William Winant & Joe Lasqo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re each keenly looking forward to play again at CCRMA<\/a>, <\/strong>the South Bay\u2019s floating city of computer music, whose brilliant composers and music technologists are always on the leading edge of projects such as telematic performance, reproducing the hyper-prolonged delay of the Hagia Sophia to perform Byzantine music designed for a space a half-planet away, mustering massive laptop-orchestras, gamifying music, 3D-printing mutated daxophonic attachments, and sonifying tomatoes.<\/p>\n

This free show will be at\u00a07:30pm, Tue 13 Oct<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0CCRMA<\/strong><\/a> is housed in\u00a0The Knoll, 660 Lomita Dr., Stanford, CA 94305 (map, transport, directions)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Two of the Bay Area\u2019s most daring improvising musicians team up for a percussion++ evening of rhythmic and meta-rhythmic electro-acoustic improvs.<\/p>\n

William\u00a0Winant<\/a> is one of the foremost percussionists of the era, equally at-home and sought after in both the wildest of avant-garde jazz and the most demanding of contemporary classical contexts. Joe\u00a0Lasqo<\/a> bridges the worlds of electronics and acoustic music, using both laptop and piano, improv and AI techniques, to create a meta-percussive moir\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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William Winant's Karnatic percussion guru, Trichy Sankaran (\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf \u0b9a\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb0\u0ba9\u0bcd)<\/p><\/div>\n

Both William Winant<\/a> and Joe Lasqo<\/a> trained as South Indian drummers, William Winant<\/a> with Trichy Sankaran<\/a> (\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf \u0b9a\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb0\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/a>), and Joe\u00a0Lasqo<\/a> in India with V. Nagabhushanachar<\/strong> (\u0cb5\u0cc0. \u0ca8\u0cbe\u0c97\u0cad\u0cc2\u0cb7\u0ca3\u0c9a\u0cbe\u0cb0\u0ccd<\/strong>), so the result is a compelling interplay of cutting-edge modernism and the world’s most virtuosic rhythmic tradition.<\/p>\n

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V. Nagabhushanachar (V. \u0ca8\u0cbe\u0c97\u0cad\u0cc2\u0cb7\u0ca3\u0c9a\u0cbe\u0cb0\u0ccd, L) & Joe Lasqo (R)<\/p><\/div>\n

William Winant<\/a> and Joe Lasqo<\/a> use and extend these South Indian rhythmic concepts (and a lot more…) in the context of today’s electronic and avant-garde music where they become part of a varied and eclectic toolkit for radical sonic exploration.<\/p>\n

Enriched by the avant experience and virtuosity that have made William Winant’s<\/a> recordings of Cage and other modernist percussion composers win critical acclaim, t\u0101la becomes meta-t\u0101la in his hands.<\/p>\n

Joe Lasqo<\/a> remaps the rhythms into the piano used as percussion instrument, adding from the laptop the kind of abstract, post-modernist, electronic realization of the Indian rhythm component pioneered by Walter Durand<\/strong> on Other Minds’ ground-breaking recording of Cage’s Song Books, Vol 1: Solo For Voice #58: 18 Microtonal R\u0101gas<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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William Winant performing John Zorn's Gri Gri at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 06 Sep 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

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William Winant performing music by James Tenney at San Francisco Electronic Music Festival #7, 2006 (photo by Peter B. Kaars, PeterBKaars.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

2014 Grammy nominated percussionist William Winant<\/a> has performed with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time, including John Cage<\/strong>, Iannis Xenakis<\/strong>, Pierre Boulez<\/a>, Frank Zappa<\/strong>, Keith Jarrett<\/a>, Roscoe Mitchell<\/a>, Anthony Braxton<\/a>, Fred Frith<\/a>, James Tenney<\/strong>, Terry Riley<\/a>, Cecil Taylor<\/a>, Gerry Hemingway<\/a>, Mark Dresser<\/a>, Barry Guy<\/a>, Marilyn Crispell<\/a>, George Lewis<\/a>, Steve Reich<\/a> and Musicians, Nexus<\/strong>, Charles Wuorinen<\/a>, Jean-Philippe Collard<\/a>, Frederic Rzewski<\/a>, Ursula Oppens<\/a>, Joan LaBarbara<\/a>, Annea Lockwood<\/a>, Danny Elfman<\/a>\/Oingo Boingo<\/strong><\/a>, Sonic Youth<\/strong><\/a>, Marc Ribot<\/a>, Keith Rowe<\/a>, Joey Barron<\/a>, Bill Frisell<\/a>, Yo-Yo Ma<\/a> (\u99ac<\/a>\u53cb\u53cb), ROVA Saxophone Quartet<\/strong><\/a>, and the Kronos String Quartet<\/strong><\/a>. His own groups include ROOM<\/strong> (w\/Chris Brown<\/a> & Larry Ochs<\/a>), CHALLENGE<\/strong> (w\/Anthony Braxton<\/a> & David Rosenboom<\/a>), WAKE<\/strong> (w\/Frank Gratkowski<\/a> & Chris Brown<\/a>), and the WILLIAM WINANT PERCUSSION GROUP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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William Winant performing music by James Tenney at San Francisco Electronic Music Festival #7, 2006 (photo by Peter B. Kaars, PeterBKaars.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

He’s principal percussionist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players<\/strong><\/a>, he’s been closely associated with NYC composer John Zorn<\/a>, & has made numerous recordings, and performed in many projects throughout the world, with the composer. Starting in 1995 he’s been the percussionist with the avant-rock band Mr. Bungle<\/strong><\/a>, has made two recordings (Disco Volante<\/em><\/strong> and California<\/em><\/strong> on Warner Brothers), and has toured throughout the world with this group. For many years he had worked with composer Lou Harrison<\/strong>, recording and premiering many of his works, and in March of 1997 he participated in the world premiere of Lou Harrison’s<\/strong> quintet Rhymes With Silver<\/em><\/strong> featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma<\/a> (\u99ac<\/a>\u53cb\u53cb) and the Mark Morris Dance Group<\/strong><\/a>, and has toured the piece throughout the United States and Great Britain. In the fall of 2011, he joined Mike Patton’s<\/a> Italian pop music project Mondo Cane<\/strong> which features a 12 piece band + string orchestra, and have recently completed tours of South America and Australia.<\/p>\n

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William Winant performing David Rosenboom's Zones Of Influence, 01 Nov 2014 (photo by V\u00e9ronique Larcher)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the fall of 2003, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company<\/strong><\/a>, William Winant<\/a>, along with composers Takehisa Kosugi<\/a> (\u5c0f\u6749<\/a>\u6b66\u4e45) and Christian Wolff<\/a>, created music for a series of eight special “Events” staged by Merce Cunningham<\/strong> and Dancers at London’s Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Since then he has continued to tour throughout Europe and the United States with the company.<\/p>\n

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William Winant (photo by Bert Johnson)<\/p><\/div>\n

He’s made over 200 recordings, covering a wide variety of genres, including music by Earle Brown<\/strong>, John Cage<\/strong>, Morton Feldman<\/strong>, Christian Wolff<\/a>, John Zorn<\/a>, Butch Morris<\/strong>, James Newton<\/a>, Frank Gratkowski<\/a>, Pauline Oliveros<\/a>, Luc Ferrari<\/a>, Karlheinz Stockhausen<\/strong>, Danny Elfman<\/a> (Batman Returns<\/em><\/strong>), Siouxse & the Banshees<\/strong><\/a>, Secret Chiefs 3<\/strong><\/a>, ICP<\/strong>, Han Bennik<\/a>, The Ex<\/strong><\/a>, White Out<\/strong><\/a> with Jim O\u2019Rourke<\/a>, Lou Reed<\/strong>, Thurston Moore<\/a>, and Mike Patton<\/a>. His recording of Lou Harrison’s<\/strong> La Koro Sutro<\/em><\/strong> was the New York Times<\/em> Critic’s Choice for best contemporary recording of 1988. In 1999 he produced a recording of music by 20th-century avant-garde composers with the influential rock band Sonic Youth<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Goodbye 20th-Century<\/em><\/strong> (SYR4), which was hailed by both The LA Times<\/em> and Village Voice<\/em> as one of the best compendiums of this type of music ever recorded. More recently his recording with cellist Joan Jeanrenaud<\/a> of her CD Strange Toys<\/em><\/strong> was nominated for a grammy in 2009. Also he along with guitarists Henry Kaiser<\/a> and David Lindley<\/a>, created special music for Werner Herzog’s<\/a> 2009 Oscar nominated documentary Encounters At The End Of The World<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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(L \u2192 R) William Winant and David Rosenboom on the cover of their ground-breaking album Zones Of Influence<\/p><\/div>\n

William Winant<\/a> has premiered many new works written specifically for him, by such noted composers as John Cage<\/strong>, Lou Harrison<\/strong>, John Zorn<\/a>, Christian\u00a0Wolff<\/a>,\u00a0Zeena Parkins<\/a>, Bun-Ching Lam<\/a> (\u6797<\/a>\u54c1\u6676), Barbara Monk Feldman<\/a>, Hi-Kyung Kim<\/a> (\uae40<\/a>\ud76c\uacbd), Roscoe Mitchell<\/a>, Wendy Reid<\/a>, Ralph Shapey<\/strong>, Peter Garland<\/a>, Michael Byron<\/a>, Paul Dresher<\/a>, Alvin Curran<\/a>, Chris Brown<\/a>, David Rosenboom<\/a>, Larry Polansky<\/a>, Gordon Mumma<\/a>, Alvin Lucier<\/a>, Terry Riley<\/a>, Fred Frith<\/a>, Somei Satoh<\/a> (\u4f50\u85e4<\/a>\u8070\u660e), and Wadada Leo Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Joe Lasqo & Morgana perform w Jim Ryan's Green Alembic in the sfSoundSalonSeries at Center for New Music, San Francisco, 15 Apr 2014 (Photo by Carly Hoopes)<\/p><\/div>\n

Pianist \/ laptopist Joe Lasqo<\/a> studied classical music in India; computer\/electronic music at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley\/CNMAT; has been a long-time performing modern & avant jazz musician; & has lived, played and listened in several Asian and European countries (now in San Francisco).\u00a0He’s keen on the application of artificial intelligence techniques to improvisation and the meeting of traditional Asian musics with the 21st century.<\/p>\n

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Joe Lasqo @ Meridian Gallery, 11 Jan 2012 (Photo: PeterBKaars.com, http:\/\/www.peterbkaars.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Joe had a weekly residency for 3\u00bd years+ in at Viracocha in SF, and has appeared recently with Bruce Ackley<\/a> and Steve Adams<\/a> of ROVA Saxophone Quartet<\/a>, Aaron Bennett’s<\/a> Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra,\u00a0Phillip Greenlief’s<\/a> Orchesperry, synthesist Thomas Dimuzio<\/a>, clarinetist\/vocalist Beth Custer<\/a>, pianist Thollem McDonas<\/a>, percussionist Suki O’Kane<\/a>, sound artists Joe Snape<\/a> (UK) & Lucie V\u00edtkov\u00e1<\/a> (Czech Rep.), technodivas \/ electronic musicians Pamela Z<\/a> &\u00a0Viv Corringham<\/a> (NYC\/London) as well as his own Renga-kai<\/strong> <\/strong>(\u9023\u6b4c\u4f1a<\/strong>), Mukaiji-kai<\/strong> <\/strong>(\u9727\u6d77<\/strong>\u7b8e\u4f1a<\/strong>), & <\/strong>Fushigi Kenky\u016bkai <\/strong>(<\/strong>\u4e0d\u601d\u8b70\u7814\u7a76\u4f1a<\/strong>) <\/strong>ensembles.<\/p>\n

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Joe Lasqo performing with Donald Robinson, 25 Aug 2013, SIMM Series, San Francisco (photo by Peter B. Kaars, www.peterbkaars.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

AU QUOTIDIEN<\/em><\/strong>, a new album with German-Swedish saxist\/flautist Biggi Vinkeloe<\/a>, Donald Robinson<\/a>, Joe Lasqo<\/a>, and Teddy Rankin-Parker<\/a> is in production for release in early 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

What is the t\u0101la of one hand clapping? Join us at\u00a0CCRMA<\/a> to find out\u2026<\/p>\n

\u3069\u3046\u305e\u3002\u3002\u3002<\/p>\n

Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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