It Has No Title - Glen Hall and So NU at the Transac

Live at 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival, Toronto Nov 5, 2011 - Glen Hall reeds and Kyma, Eugene Martynec - MIDI AX, Bruce Cassidy - Electronic Valve Instrument (EVI) and trumpet

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