Glen Hall and So NU - Burn It Down

Live at Studio 105, London, Ontario, Burn It Down is a free jazz piece featuring Glen Hall on tenor saxophone and Eugene Martynec on MIDIax using personally recorded and edited bass samples and Bruce Cassidy on EVI-controlled synthesizer. You can tell by the title that the piece gets intense and fiery. In spots it harkens back to the Energy Music movement in jazz. The attentive London audience gave it their enthusiastic approval.

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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• 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