Ossatura (Rome) with Gene Coleman and Evan Lipson

Thursday, May 14
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

Ossatura, an improvisational ensemble from Rome features Elio Martusciello (electronics and video), Fabrizio Spera (percussion and electronics), and Luca Venitucci (accordion and electronics). Their music encompasses standard and unconventional practices and their performances incorporate notated and improvised music. Their approach to sound and structure is completely unique and creates a powerful and sensuous experience. For this performance they will joined by Philadelphia based composer and director Gene Coleman (bass clarinet and video) and the New York musician Evan Lipson (double bass). This event is produced by Soundfield with additional support from Federazione CEMAT (SONORA) supported by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Cultural Affairs - Department for Performing Arts"

Bios:

Elio Martusciello is a self-taught musician and composer and teaches electronic music and electro acoustics at the Conservatory of Cagliari, Italy.

Fabrizio Spera has actively contributed as a percussionist to the contemporary and improvised music scene since the late eighties. His current projects and groups involve "Ossatura", "Trio" with John Butcher and John Edwards, "RARA ensemble," and a trio with Alberto Braida and Lisle Ellis.

Luca Venitucci attended musical studies at the scuola popolare di musica in Roma and studied composition with Boris Porena. In the late eighties he began to participate in the activities of the improvised music scene in Italy and Europe, and during the next decade performed with musicians including Mike Cooper, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, Thomas Lehn, Axel Dorner and others. From 1996 to 2002 he has been part of zeitkratzer ensemble, with whom he performed and recorded contemporary music scores by Cage, Glass, Stockhausen, La Monte Young and James Tenney. He has undertaken original projects and collaborations with several experimental musicians and composers such as Christian Marclay, Butch Morris, Francisco Lopez, Keith Rowe, Phil Niblock, Lee Renaldo, and Nicolas Collins.

Evan Lipson (b. 1981, Toronto) is a bassist and composer who dually inhabits the pseudo-civic poles of New York City and Philadelphia. He has been performing and composing an eclectic variety of music since adolescence, but has always been most drawn towards cultivating the rarefied and esoteric world(s) of 'outsider' and underground music.

Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. He has created over 50 works for various instrumentation and media, often using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Innovative use of sound, image, space and time allows Coleman to create work that expands our understanding of the world. Since 2001 his work has focused on the global transformation of culture and music's relationship with other media, such as architecture, video and dance. He studied painting, music and film making at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his principle teachers included legendary experimental film artists Stan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr.