Open Sound West presents: An Evening of Improvised Music - Lou Bunk's Tower of Electro-Acoustic Flim-Flammery meets Ken Ueno's Extended Voice and Matt Ingalls' Super Clarinets

Sound and silence are allies in the minimal yet intricate music of Lou Bunk. In both his acoustic and electro-acoustic music, timbre unfolds alongside harmony, while extended instrumental techniques, microtones, and a reinterpretation of the virtuosic paints an alien and sometimes barren soundscape. A native of the Connecticut suburbs, Lou’s earliest compositions were noise improvisations, and four-track collage experiments. Educated at Washington University (MA Composition) and Brandeis University (PhD in Composition and Theory), he has studied music composition with Eric Chasalow, Michael Tenzer, David Rakowski, Ladislav Kubik, Marty Boykan, and Yehudi Wyner. In his home town Somerville, MA, Lou chairs the board of the Somerville Arts Council and co-produces the concert series Open Sound. Lou has taught harmony and ear training at Boston Conservatory and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire where he teaches various course related to computer music. Lou’s music is the recipient of several awards (SEAMUS Student Commission Competition, finalist, Irving Fine Fellowship for Music Composition, ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, finalist), and has been performed in dozens of venues, in the US and Europe; SEAMUS, ICMC, Spark, CCRMA, June in Buffalo, The Computer Arts Festival in Padova, Italy, an American Composers series in Trossingen, Germany, Conservatory van Amsterdam, and the Centre for Music Composition and Performance in Athens Greece. Some current projects include a new piece for toy piano and electronics, working with high school students in Dorchester Massachusetts on a Hip Hop Opera, a tower of electro-acoustic flim-flamery, and formulating new ways to teach the world to sing a happy song.

Oakland musician [http://sfsound.org/matt|MATT INGALLS] is a composer, clarinetist, concert producer, and computer music programmer. Often incorporating elements of improvisation, his music is heavily influenced by his long involvement in computer music. His "composerly" solo improvisations explore extended clarinet techniques that interact with the acoustic space, often as combination tones. Matt is the founder and co-director of sfSound, a new music series, ensemble, and internet radio station devoted to new ideas and traditions of experimental music, performance art, live electronic music, Bay Area composition, and the various facets of contemporary improvisation.

A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer/vocalist who is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As a vocalist, he specializes in extended techniques (overtones, multiphonics, extreme extended registers, circular breathing). Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Mayumi Miyata, Teodoro Anzellotti, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Nieuw Ensemble, and Frances-Marie Uitti. His music has been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, Steim, and at the Norfolk Music Festival, where he was guest composer/lecturer. Ken’s piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, continues to be featured in their repertoire, recently being performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in England, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and aired on Italian national radio, RAI 3. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. Ken holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. For more information, please visit [http://kenueno.com|here].