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Sunday, October 1
Admission: $10
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Charles Waters conducts
the Nuzion Chamber Ensemble, consisting of guitar, bass, marimba,
and piano in the premiere peformance of his Williamsburg Concert
#4 -- 74 minutes long, 34 beautiful movmements.
Landing somewhere between Feldman and Ayler and
Cage, expect a sprawling opus that reflects and deflects the sounds
and visions of our symmetrically zipped neighborhood.
Besides his many accomplishments noted below, Charles was
also part of the original four quartets that played soundtracks
to the original video installation, Islands
in the Stream, at the first Monkey Town. We are
very honored to have his sounds return and kick off our birthday
week.
BIO:
Born in 1969 in North Carolina, Charles Waters began
his early music training in the Baptist Church singing, playing
hand bells and piano. In school, he played alto, tenor,
and baritone saxophones and finally studied clarinet and bass
clarinet with Eugene Kavadlo of the Charlotte Symphony.
In 1994, along with drummer Andrew Barker, trumpeter Roger Ruzow,
and saxophonist Rob Mallard, Waters formed the experimental jazz
group Gold Sparkle Band. The group became an
underground sensation, touring and recording extensively during
the first four years. During these early years on the road, GSB
studied an array of new jazz styles in Chicago and New York.
These two distinct styles were then further blended at home in
Atlanta to create the unique telepathic approach the group still
uses.
Since 1998, when Waters and Barker moved to New York City, the
group has continued to perform and develop its special approach
to vanguard jazz and new music. Initially working with such
avant-garde luminaries as William Parker, Matthew Shipp and Daniel
Carter, Gold Sparkle began to fully absorb the fiery free-improvisational
styles of late-90’s free jazz in New York City. By
synthesizing the energy music with architextural compositions
and counterpoint the group created a sound world of critical renown.
In the last ten years, Waters has composed over one hundred scores
and songs for Gold Sparkle. GSB has recorded seven full-length
CD’s as well as numerous side projects. Waters is
also in demand as a clarinetist, recording three CD’s with
William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music orchestra as
well as vanguard orchestras of Butch Morris (Conduction #117,
Jump Arts Records, 2001) and Assif Tschar’s New York Underground
Symphony (The Labyrinth, Hopscotch Records, 2002).
In 1999 Waters helped organize the Williamsburg Chamber Orchestra.
The group premiered his "Symphony in Two Views" in May
1999. In 2000 along with Chris Jonas, Waters helped organize
the Brooklyn Comprovisers Orchestra, which performed at the Brecht
Forum.
Waters defines himself as a "composer of place".
Since 2000, he began a 'reconstruction' of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg
Concertos. This large body of work in various styles and
forms is aptly titles "Williamsburg Concertos" and continues
to the present with four of the planned six compositions completed.
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