Concert 56 – Apocalypso

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July 15, 2012: #56 – Apocalypso

  • Shayna Dulberger – double bass, electronics
  • Chris Welcome – guitar
  • Walter Wright – electronics, drums
  • with Joe Burgio – movement

http://nohtv.wordpress.com/performance/apocalypso-trio/

SHAYNA DULBERGER
is a bassist and composer currently living and working in New York City. She has recorded with The E.R.A., Chris Welcome “Quartet”, the Young Equestrians, the Push Pull Quartet, the Ras Moshe “Quartet” and as William Parker’s bass player on “Double Sunrise Over Neptune” (Aum Fidelity) . She has performed in festivals and series such as XFest (Lowell, MA), Rhythm in the Kitchen, KMB Jazz Festival, CMJ, “Brooklyn Next” BAM Festival, the Vision Festival, ABC No Rio’s C.O.M.A., and Neues Kabarett’s events at the Brecht Forum. Since 2007 she has regularly worked with Bill Cole performing in New York City and at Syracuse University.

Her first album as a band leader, composer and producer is named “TheKillMeTrio” and was described “…as one of the stronger avant-jazz groups we’ve heard in some time.” (Time Out New York) In 2007, in a review of TheKillMeTrio album “Jazz and Tzaz” wrote “The 23 year old New Yorker does not comply with the trendy model of women in Jazz”. Bruce Lee Gallanter (DMG) wrote in a review for Ras Moshe’s album “Transcendence” and said “Acoustic bassist, Shayna Dulberger, is another important new musician to watch, she takes a number amazing solos on this disc that show her to be a new force to be reckoned with.” Shayna has been interviewed on Taran’s Free Jazz Hour (Angers, France) and was invited by All About Jazz to participate in their “Listen Up!” Section.

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Dulberger was born in 1983, raised in Mahopac, NY and has been playing bass since she was 13yrs old. She attended Manhattan School of Music’s preparatory division during high school and graduated with a BM in Jazz at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Shayna is very interested in playing a wide variety of original music and developing bands that have unique sounds and concepts different from each other. “TheKillMeTrio” is very Free Jazz and Nu-Jazz inspired while “The Chris Welcome Quartet” is Minimal and Atonal. “Stoney Mountain” is reminiscent of Doom Metal and Steve Reich while “The Young Equestrians” explores the Drone but in an Indie Rock style. She is also very motivated to collaborate with artists of different media including painters, visual artists, sculptors, video artists, poets, and dancers. Her goal is to explore the new spaces where the arts collaborate to create new experiences for artists and audiences.
http://www.shaynadulberger.com

CHRIS WELCOME
plays guitar. From sparse chamber-jazz to spastic avant-metal, Welcome lends his unique voice to a variety of ensembles. He performs regularly with Mothguts, Sam Mickens’ Ecstatic Showband and Revue, Trio Caveat, Mike Pride, Ben Gerstein, Daniel Carter, Shayna Dulberger, Jonathan Moritz, James Ilgenfritz, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kirk Knuffke, and many others.

As a composer, he has written extensively for his own quartet and for various chamber ensembles. His compositions often combine the space and pointillism of Webern and Cage, with extended techniques, and a loose, Jazz sensibility.

Welcome attended Rutgers University where he studied closely with Vic Juris, Stanley Cowell, and Ralph Bowen. He was born in 1980 in New York, grew up in the Chicago area where he studied guitar with Frank Portolese. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
http://chriswelcome.com

WALTER WRIGHT
is an improviser, interdisciplinary artist, and community arts advocate. Educated as an architect, he has graduate degrees in engineering and interdisciplinary art. He is a co-founder of 119 Gallery where he produces new music and performance events including XFest, an annual festival for improvised sound, video and movement. He teaches new media at UMass Lowell.

He is a member of Apocalypso, bodydrama, Los Condenados, Loup-Garou, and One-Armed Mist. Most recently he toured with Stephanie Lak and this summer will tour Apocalypso.

He works with Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Marc Bisson, Joe Burgio, Aisha Cruse, Michael F Dailey Jr, Shayna Dulberger, Arkm Foam, Lou Cohen, Stephanie Lak, Steve Norton, Setheyny Pen, Andrea Pensado, Matt Samolis, Jules Vasylenko, Betty Wang, and Chris Welcome. He has performed with Josh Baker, Emil Beaulieau, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Kit Demos, Arrington de Dionyso, Andrew Eisenberg, Forbes Graham, Katt Hernandez, Joshua Jefferson, Bonnie Kane, Emilie Mouchous, Blaise Siwula, Crank Sturgeon, Id m Theft Able, Frank Turek, John Voigt, and Jack Wright.
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JOE BURGIO
born in Boston Massachusetts, received his first formal dance training from Jody Weber at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the Dance Complex, also in Cambridge, he studied Experiential Anatomy, Somatic Movement and Contact Improvisation with Debra Bluth. He has appeared with several dance-theater groups, including Callie Chapman-Korn’s Zoedance and Rose-Pasquerello-Beachamp’s inFluxdance, which made an award-winning appearance at the 2006 Montreal Fringe Festival. He has performed extensively with experimental and improvisational musicians, and has on-going collaborations with Katt Hernandez, Lou Cohen, Matt Samolis and Jack Wright. His principle area of interest is intermedia performance, and has worked on many projects with video artist and musician Walter Wright: electrovideomove, the BopAnts, Egg Sucking Dogs, the dadallamas, and Apocalypso with Shayna Dulberger. Joe leads bodydrama, a movement ensemble rooted in Butoh aesthetic, and teaches informally in Boston’s Fort Point arts community.

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