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Euphonic Productions presents
Tom Heasley is an internationally acclaimed composer, performer, improviser and recording artist whose compositions for electro-acoustic tuba create "a rich and sonorous aural experience that flies in the face of all the dumb cliches about what tuba music is." His music speaks to a wide variety of listeners, from students of Oberlin Conservatory to prisoners of San Quentin. Following the May 2001 release of his first CD of ambient tuba music - Where the Earth Meets the Sky (Hypnos) - Mr. Heasley toured throughout North America, performing almost 30 solo concerts. With the April 2002 release of his second CD - On the Sensations of Tone (Innova) - Heasley continues to redefine one of the world's least appreciated instruments and, as a result, finds himself increasingly in demand. His music has recently been featured on National Public Radio, BBC Radio 3, Public Radio International, John Schaefer's New Sounds on WNYC, NPR favorite Hearts Of Space, John Diliberto's PRI syndicated Echoes and many other radio programs, from Silicon Valley to Siberia. In 2002 Heasley was awarded an Artist Fellowship in Music Composition by Arts Council Silicon Valley. His work has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Composers Forum and the McKnight Foundation. Mr. Heasley returns to the east coast in Fall 2002, this time concentrating on New York City, where he will perform at Roulette, the Knitting Factory and CBGB's. While there, Mr. Heasley will record a performance for John Schaefer's New Sounds program on WNYC for future airing. Mr. Heasley has been invited to perform at the BBC in London in 2003. From there, he will embark on his first European tour. In the past, Mr. Heasley has performed, recorded or otherwise collaborated with an amazing variety of creative artists, including Bobby Bradford, Eugene Chadbourne, The Berkeley Symphony, Alvin Curran, Stuart Dempster, Charlie Haden, Pauline Oliveros, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Milcho Leviev, Oakland Ballet, Don Preston, Robert Rich, Lois V Vierk, Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra, Frederic Rzewski, Glenn Spearman, Henry Brant, Anne LeBaron, Gerry Hemingway, Jonathan Harvey, Wadada Leo Smith, Malcolm Mooney, John Carter, Oxbow, Marco Eneidi, Tuolumne Brass, Gunther Hampel, David First and Bertram Turetzky. For further info, please see: http://www.tomheasley.com/ David Kirby has been playing piano since the age of 7. Initially he was classically trained, but quickly began to improvise. Heavily influenced by avant-garde, free-jazz, and minimal music, David has developed a unique style that focuses on the sounds behind the notes. "I'm interested in the patterns and oscillations formed by the overtones and resonance of the piano." David has also been producing dance, ambient, and glitch since the early nineties. Jonathan Cantrell is an engineer, producer, and sound designer. Through working professionally in commercial music, he began to desconstruct recording concepts, utilizing inherent chaos within digital systems to create other-worldy sounds. His focus lies in the detail of a sound, squeezing the most out of whatever source material he is given. For this performance, David will be playing piano and sine waves; Jonathan will be manipulating the sound live with two 2.4g P4 computers. Together they create a rich environment, beginning with a single note and ending in a massive wall of sound. http://www.onetirednumber.com/mp3s http://www.dragcity.com/bands/licht.html picture Alan Licht He has also performed and recorded with Loren Mazzacane Connors, Thurston Moore, Kevin Drumm, Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker, Rudolph Grey, Wharton Tiers, KK Null, Tara Key, Brokeback, et al... Licht regularly contributes to The Wire magazine, and Drag City recently published his book: "An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn". Acapella Books in Little Five Points will host a reading and book signing at 7pm on Saturday, Oct 4.
The Levi Duo has performed internationally on the BBC, at Quebec's International Festival de Musique Accturelle, Newfoundland's Sound Symposium, London's Company Week, and Denver's ReThink Conference. Palmer has the distinction of being invited to play at Company Week in 1988 and the final one in 1994. Furthermore, their educational outreach program has been presented in many public schools and malls throughout the U.S. The Duo has been awarded grants by the British Arts Council, Meet the Composer and several regional organizations. Incus released the Duo's first and second CD's, "False Prophets or Dang Good Guessers" in 1993 and "Short in the U.K." in 1997 with drummer Roger Turner and keyboardist Steve Beresford. Although they are on many compilations, their first and only vinyl release is a quintet with Borbetomagus, a release which features Palmer's artwork on a limited edition picture disc. Their most recent CD, "Boss Witch", features collaborations with J.D. Parran, Davey Williams, Frank Pahl , Mary Richards, and Steve Beresford . As a watchkeeper in the Royal Australian Navy in WW2, I know how difficult it was with 80,000 horse power available to me to maintain station at night, I can well believe how much tougher it was for an Officer of the Watch in 1588 to keep in station on Revenge. An Admiral then, would have been no different to one in my time, they hate you to be out of station, it was then I am sure, as it still is today, " A Given" just Stay in Station under any condition, and no excuses are accepted. When the first fingers of light heralding a new day crept over the horizon, to Howard's absolute horror he found the lantern he was following, did not belong to Drake's ship, but to that of the Spanish flagship. He had the Bear and Mary Rose with him, all the rest of his command were miles away, only their topmasts in view. He had almost become embraced within the arms of the Spanish crescent. It seems that the Spanish Admiral let slip the chance to despatch three of the English fleet, with their Commander among them. Howard and his two consorts quickly went about and made themselves scarce, and watched the Armada continue slowly up the channel, ignoring Tor Bay, by afternoon the rest of the English Fleet had met up with their leader, who must have been very red faced with his monumental and nearly disastrous error. Drake reported what he had been up to overnight, he had observed shadows of ships passing to seaward, lest they be the enemy trying to slip some vessels past to gain the weather guage, he turned to challenge them, extinguishing his lantern at the stern, so he would not mislead the rest of the fleet. It was not enemy ships, but a group of innocent German merchant ships. He now ran into Rosario, captured her and then under escort of Roebuck sent this prize into Torbay. Don Pedro de Valdes who had been taken prisoner, was now presented to Howard by Drake. No excuse was offered by Drake, no one else managed to sight the reported German ships; was Drake merely covering himself in a tricky situation? We really do not know the answer to that, and no record of Howard censuring his conduct seems to have been recorded. Once again the flambuoyant Sir Francis had achieved success, and the spoils of a fine prize were added. It does seem that the Spanish gave up a fine ship very easily, Rosario was disabled by her collision and losing her bowsprit, then her foremast, little effort in rigging a jury mast seems to have occured, then Drake captured the vessel without any fight from the Spanish. This one episode does not auger well for the Armada as a whole. Not only was a 46 gun ship lost to the Spanish cause, in the Captain's cabin, were 55,000 gold ducats. A Second Prize also picked up on the 1st. of August. Several centuries later, I lived here at Weymouth for almost a year, when undergoing the anti-submarine segment of my course as a Specialist Torpedo Anti Submarine Officer. It was taken at HMS Osprey, the Anti-Submarine training school at Portland, a few miles from Weymouth. On that Monday, on the first day of August, the wind dropped right away, the Spanish reorganised their grouping, all the fighting ships were split into two parts, the more powerful were placed as a rear guard, a smaller group were sent off to guard the van. The next morning, the calm gone, a fresh breeze now coming from the east, giving the Spanish the weather advantage. A Running Fight without result. The enemy rear guard saw the problem and sailed an intercepting course, bringing both columns within musket range, now a running fight took place. Howard continuing to try and round the Spanish rear, whilst in turn they tried to board English ships. Neither side was successful, the wind from the south east pushing both fleets towards Lyme Bay. Off Portland Bill. This group were under attack by four Spanish galleasses, sent in by Medina Sidonia to grab this seeming opportunity to sink them. But the tide was ebbing, and the current was pushing the Spaniards aside, this specific area is renowned for the boiling race which prevails as the tide races out at about 4 knots. In fact Frobisher was in a good position, Howard, with the wind now veering to the south was able to lead some of the Queen's galleons and the larger volunteers off to rescue
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