Saturday, February 18, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Leaven Community Center, Portland, OR, United States
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$12 ($50 festival pass)

From January 21 through February 18, 2023, Extradition will present EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER, a five-concert festival exploring the work of seminal American experimental composer Philip Corner, held across five consecutive Saturdays.

When we get around to building a Boulevard of Experimental Music Heroes, Philip Corner will get a particularly large and well-placed statue. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1933, he began composing as a teenager and went on to study with Henry Cowell, Olivier Messiaen, Otto Leuning, and Dorothy Taubman, as well as with Korean calligrapher Ki-sung Kim. He was a founding member of Fluxus with Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, and others; composer in residence with New York's Judson Dance Theater in 1962-64; co-founder of the Tone Roads ensemble with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein; co-founder of Gamelan Son of Lion with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode; an inveterate performer of both his own and others’ works; and a longtime educator, teaching at Rutgers University, the New School, and elsewhere. Now 89 and a nearly 30-year resident of Reggio Emilia, Italy, he continues adding to his enormous body of work, which includes thousands of compositions created in a range of styles, including text, graphics, and traditional notation.

As a humble celebration, in January/February 2023 Extradition will present multiple concerts and events exploring 65 years of Corner's prolific creativity, from 1957 right up to the present day.

About Matt Hannafin, percussion & vibraphone

https://www.matthannafin.com/music

About Matt Carlson, electronics & piano

Matt is a perfomer interested in music's capacity to articulate ideas that cannot be reduced or translated to another form or medium.

https://mattcarlson.bandcamp.com/

About Juniana Lanning, electronics, percussion, & sampled percussion

https://www.junianasounddesign.com/

About Tim DuRoche, percussion & drums

https://www.timduroche.com/

Leaven Community Center

5431 NE 20th Ave
Portland, OR 97211
United States

https://www.leaven.org/