Glen Hall and So NY - Shift-Click

Live at Studio 105, London, Ontario. Shift-Click begins with an atonal set of motifs, then a series of clicks by the flute. It then shifts into an intricate mesh of electronic from Cassidy and electroacoustic sounds from Martynec and Hall. The piece shifts between acoustic and acoustic-sounding and electronic and electronically processed acoustic sounds. Hall enters on tenor saxophone bringing a jazz sound and feel, which Cassidy mirrors with his EVI's synthesizer module.

So NU is a trio of improvising composers—Glen Hall, Bruce Cassidy and Eugene Martynec—connecting and creating free jazz, free improvisation and electroacoustic music in real time. The group uses a dazzling palette of sonic colors from an EVI (electronic valve instrument), MIDIax (software using personally recorded, selected and edited acoustic instrument and synthesized samples), a WWII wind controller and Kyma, a graphical language for live, interactive sound generation and manipulation. Their knowledge of composition shapes improvisations' structures, textures and thematic/conceptual development. The group's name comes from a Yiddish expression that roughly translated means "What's happening with you now?" Their music tells exactly those stories in Technicolor sonic detail.

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Tags:

• Glen Hall
• Bruce Cassidy
• Eugene Martynec
• Kyma
• EVI
• electronic valve instrument
• MIDIax
• MIDI
• electroacoustic
• improvisation
• free jazz
• free improv
• electronic music
• Musique Actuelle
• instant composition
• real-time
• STEIM
• Electronic Music Foundation
• EMF
• woodwinds
• reeds
• multi-instrumentalist
• saxophone
• bass flute