Roulette: Cleek Schrey & Yasunao Tone – 'Anagram'
Free (Online: Free | In person: $20 advance, $25 at the door)
- Yasunao Tone, daxophone & electronics
- Cleek Schrey, violin
- Joanna Mattrey, viola
- Aliya Ultan, cello
- Henry Fraser, double bass
- Gelsey Bell, daxophone
- Daniel Fishkin, daxophone
- Ron Shalom, daxophone
- C. Spencer Yeh, violin
Cleek Schrey and Yasunao Tone come together in a program that spans 60 years of experimental music. The concert will include a realization of Tone's 1961 piece, Anagram for Strings, composed in Tokyo before his immigration to New York City. After discovering the score to the piece, Schrey approached Tone with the idea of performing the piece on the daxophone, a wooden idiophone played with a bow that was developed by Hans Reichel in 1987. The ensemble will include performers on both stringed instruments and daxophones, with Tone himself performing on a daxophone built for him by Schrey.
The evening will also include new string music by Cleek Schrey and the visceral electronics of Yasunao Tone, both of which lie in the spaces between composition and improvisation, tone and noise.
A live stream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
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About Yasunao Tone, daxophone & electronics
Yasunao Tone (刀根 康尚, Tone Yasunao) (b. 1935) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City. He graduated from Chiba University in 1957 with a major in Japanese Literature. An important figure in postwar Japanese art during the sixties, he active in many facets of the Tokyo art scene. He was a central member of Group Ongaku and was associated with a number of other Japanese art groups such as Neo-Dada Organizers, Hi-Red Center, and Team Random (the first computer artgroup organized in Japan). Tone was also a member of Fluxus and one of the founding members of its Japanese branch.Many of his works were performed at Fluxus festivals or distributed by George Maciunas's Flux Press. Relocating to the United States in 1972, he has since gained a reputation as a musician, performer and writer working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Senda Nengudi, Florian Hecker, and many others.Tone is also known as a pioneer of "Glitch" music due to his groundbreaking modifications of compact discs and CD players.
About Cleek Schrey, violin
About Joanna Mattrey, viola
About Aliya Ultan, cello
As a classically trained musician turned free improviser, Aliya's sound is particularly unique as it presents contrasting styles, ideas, and approaches to the instrument resulting in a kind of maximalist minimalism, energy-based music. Her playing reads as both playful and cathartic through her physicality and use of preparations such as fishing line, glass, aluminum, chains, and more.
http://aliyaultan.com/