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The Shaking Ray Levi Society
Presents:
The
Electro-Acoustic Cupcake Festival
featuring
- LADONNA
SMITH AND MISHA FEIGIN
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GOOD NOISE BAD NOISE
-
DUET FOR THEREMIN AND LAP STEEL
- MONTANA
SKIES
Saturday, March 29th
@ 8 pm
JJ's Bohemia (231 MLK Blvd.), Chattanooga,
TN
$8.00
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LaDonna
Smith
is a veteran improviser and visual artist whose work spans three
decades. The Birmingham, AL native plays the viola and violin in
a completely unique fashion that employs classical and extended
techniques, and she has toured internationally and has performed
at every major improv festival in North America.
“A
virtuoso violinist, teacher, and co-founder of The Improvisor ("the
international journal of free improvisation"), she is the image
of feminine empowerment, the female criminal in pursuit of the ecstatic,
potent, subversive and transcendent.” - Kelly Burnette,
Perfect Sound Forever |
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Born
and raised in Moscow, Misha Feigin
is known as one of Russia’s premiere guitarists. After immigrating
to the United States in 1990, he’s continued to build up a reputation
of being a masterful improviser with a palette of various ethnic idioms
and styles, a compelling storyteller, and an award-winning poet. He’s
performed at the Kennedy Center and the WOMAD World Music Festival
and was featured on American Public Radio’s Mountain Stage
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Good
Noise Bad Noise
are a loose collective of improvising musicians, sound artists and
video artists based in South Cumbria and Sheffield, UK. They play
a mixture of electro-acoustic music and drone based free improvisation,
mixing processed field recordings on laptops with live violin and
live visuals.
“Good
Noise Bad Noise are sensational at surrounding the listener with
all these various odds and ends, ranging from Pandora's Box chaos
to an entrancing industrial sonance” – EXP/AM
review |
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Duet
for Theremin and Lap Steel is a collaboration between
Scott Burland and Frank Schultz of Atlanta, Georgia, creating a
combination of sounds from two non-fixed-pitch instruments in an
improv environment with a disregard for traditional styles. Their
rich textures, swooning collages, and hypnotic pulses intend to
drench the listener like a warm bath in the aural abyss.
“I
love this music!” – Rhys Chatham, legendary avant-garde
composer and musician |
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The
husband/wife duo of Montana Skies
seamlessly mix classical and rock music, with nimble
fingerstyle and flamenco guitar playing from Jonathan Adams and
fiery cello (both acoustic and six-string electric) revelries from
Jennifer Adams.
“[Montana
Skies] is a new ensemble with a tremendous passion for the music
they bring to their
audience.” – Fingerstyle Magazine |
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