THURSDAY 18th March 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Brian Harnetty is a musician and artist from Ohio, and his work involves overlooked elements of sound. Many of his pieces transform found material––including field
recordings, transcriptions and historic recordings––into personal sound worlds. His music and installations have been performed and shown in America and Europe.
He is also a co-founder and member of the artist collective Fossil Fools, which is focused on disseminating information based on social-justice and energy-related issues.
Harnetty’s music is released by Chicago’s Atavistic Records, and includes American Winter (2007) and Silent City (2009) featuring Bonnie “Prince” Billy, two CDs that create new, recontextualized pieces out of Appalachian archival
material from Berea College, Kentucky.
“...Brian Harnetty creates a space to work with a wealth of American folk, parlour music, radio
shows and roaming archivists. Silent City weaves a melancholy spell of chiming pianos and
vibraphones....By the closing “To Hear Still More” – backwards piano over purring harmonium
bass – we are in deep, under the music’s hypnosis.” Clive Bell, November 2009
“And if the conventional structures of songwriting (verse, chorus, etc.) fly apart here, so does the
narrative itself—close examples include the collages of William Burroughs, as well as Bob
Dylan’s lyrics—they are like abstract puzzles where each listener can find their own logic....time
stretches out before our eyes, to our great joy!” Renaud Paulik, September 2009
http://www.brianharnetty.com
Jeremy Woodruff (b. 1973, NY). Grew up in Boston and studied flute and
composition at BU and Brandeis University. Moved to London to study with
Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1999 -
2002. Made research into South Indian music at the Conservatorium van
Amsterdam 2002 - 2004, including a trip to India. 2004 settled in Germany.
He is currently Director of the Neue Musikschule Berlin. He has lectured on
South Indian music and New Music at the UdK and HfM "Hanns Eisler" in
Berlin. In the last few years several pieces were commissioned and
premiered by Percusemble Berlin, and by Martin Krause in conjunction with
the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, among others. Jeremy is also active
in Berlin and elsewhere as a flutist and saxophonist in new, experimental and
other music.
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