An evening of experimental improvised music

Free with Free Drinks

8pm on Saturday, April 2
At The Home Of
RSVP to contact@thehomeof.org for our secret location.

Featuring Two Acts:

Act 1: Gregory Sogorka (piano)

Gregory Sogorka has lived and worked in New York for the past ten years in
varying musical/technological capacities. Experiments/influences include classical,
jazz, Haitian, Ethiopian, and West African musics. Recent compositions have
centered around a search for connective tissue between disparate ideas/themes

Act 2: Discontense: Edward Schneider (alto saxopohone), Constance Cooper
(piano/vocals), and Wendy Ultan (violin).

Discontense is a newly formed collection of musicians who share an interest in
unstructured experimental improvisation. We begin each performance without
a set roadmap or score, instead the process becomes our goal. Through these
means we seek both discontinuity and continuity, creating a musical language
that incorporates past, present, and future “tenses.” Within each performance
we seek to look backward and forward by references various styles of music,
while also creating webs that connect our initial thoughts to our last.

Edward Schneider is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living
in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in
Minneapolis. During this time he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and
was an active member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. In 2009 Schneider
received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the
compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . That same year his new electronic
composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill
performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris.
Recently, Schneider was the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Mark
Nye.

Wendy Ultan is a violinist, who frequently employees electronics to expand
the palate of her instrument. She has performed with William Parker, Bern Nix,
Elliot Sharp, Evelyn Blakey, Dj Carnage, Valerie Naranjo, Alva Rogers, Charles
Burnham, Rufus Cappodocia, Jemeel Moondoc, Ahmadou Ngom, and many
others. She has been commissioned by the Rockafeller Foundation, Minnesota
Composers Forum, Intermedia arts, the National Gallery of art, Canada, the Dia
Foundation, the Mcknight Foundation, to name a few.

Constance Cooper (piano, vocals) received first prize in the 2002 Gustav
Mahler Competition (Austria). Her reflections about string instruments led to her
invention of new hand-positions and notation for Coming From Us, commissioned
by the American Composers Forum (Cadence Recordings). Her Divertimento
for String Quartet is available on the Princeton CD label. Amoroso for orchestra
was recorded by Harold Farberman in 2001. Her improvisatory pieces for
organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking
About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She has appeared
as composer, pianist, and singer at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and with the
Princeton University Composers Ensemble, Continuum, and the American
Microtonal Festival; and produced her own contemporary vocal recital series for
7 years. She received her doctorate in composition from Princeton University in
2003.