Party: Extreme Thursdays: Michael Foster/Pascal Niggenkemper/Michael Evans

Party: Extreme Thursdays: Michael Foster/Pascal Niggenkemper/Michael Evans

Michael Foster - saxes/objects
Pascal Niggenkemper - bass/preparations
Michael Evans - percussion/electronics

9 PM, no cover

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Michael Foster attended Bard College in upstate New York, studying with Thurman Barker, Richard Teitelbaum, and Marina Rosenfeld, studying jazz, electronic music, and composition. Outside of Bard College, Michael has studied saxophone with Ralph “Buzzy” Jones, Ellery Eskelin, Travis LaPlante, and Charles Gayle. Michael has played and performed with Thurman Barker, Han Bennink, The Sediment Club, Austin Julian, Mary Oliver, Austin Peralta, Wolter Wierbos, Weasel Walter, Marc Edwards, Mark Sanders, Paul Flaherty, Michael Evans, Anne La Berge, Andreas Fulgosi, Tristan Shepherd, Kid Millions, Laurens van der Wee, Eric Boeren, Bart van der Putten, and many others. Michael plays tenor, baritone, and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet, homemade reeds, electronics, and samples. current ensembles: -GALM Quartet -Foster/Swell/Millions Trio -See Something Say Something -Zombi Jazz -Thurman Barker Quartet.

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New York City-based German-French bassist, composer and improviser Pascal Niggenkemper is a performing and recording artist active on the creative music scene in the US and in Europe.

From 1999-2005 he was active in the music scene in Cologne having studied jazz & classical double bass at the Hochschule für Musik. In 2005 he received the DAAD award and moved to New York.

From 2008 to 2010 Pascal led the PNTrio with Tyshawn Sorey and Robin Verheyen. (CD "pasàpas" Konnex 2008 & “urban creatures” JazzHausMusik 2010). The trio toured extensively in Europe. Performances at the Jazzcologne Festival, Jazzherbst Konstanz and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Recordings for the WDR and the BR Radio.
In cooperation with Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin, Pascal formed the septet vision7 that performed at Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin, Vive le Jazz in Cologne, Jazz à la Cité in Paris and at the Pori Jazz in Finland. Their CD ‘Lucky Prime’ will be released on clean feed records this autumn.
In September 2011 Pascal released with Simon Nabatov and Gerald Cleaver the CD/LP upcoming hurricane on NoBusiness Records which is listed among 'Albums of the year' 2011 in the 'The New York City Jazz Record'. The trio performed in Canada and the USA in 2012.

He recently recorded a new solo program called: ‘see with your ears’ music for bass & shade which was premiered at the Jazzdor Festival in Strasbourg in November 2013.
Pascal is also co-leading the groups baloni with Frantz Loriot viola and Joachim Badenhorst clarinets (CD ‘fremdenzimmer’ Clean Feed Nov 2011) PascAli a duo for two prepared basses with Sean Ali (CD ‘suspicious activity’ creative sources September 2012), ‘one for the dark’ a trio with Dan Peck tuba and Jeff Snyder analog synth and speaking tube with Emilie Lesbros and Frantz Loriot.
He is a member of Thomas Heberer’s Clarino (CD ‘klippe’ Clean Feed Sept 2011 & ‘cookbook’ red toucan 2012), Gerald Cleaver’s Black Host (CD ‘living in the sugar candles mines’ northern spy records), Joe Morris abstract forest, Carlo Costa’s Minerva (CD ‘saturnismo’ between the lines 2011), Joachim Badenhorst’s Carate Urio Orchestra (CD “Sparrow Mountain’ klein records Sept 2013), Joe Hertenstein’s HNH (CD HNH on clean feed 2010) and polylemma (CD polylemma on red toucan 2011), Alan Bjorklund’s Amygdala (CD ‘History Lesson’ 577records), Jean-Brice Godet’s Mujô the ‘Pookestra’ (CD ‘HERZKOPF dances’ 2012) and watussi (CD ‘watussi’ listen closely records 2013).

With friends, he curates in NY the house concert series ze couch, where every month artists meet to present their work.

Festival presence includes: Vision Festival New York, Umbrella Festival Chicago, Banlieue Bleues Paris, Strade del Cinema Aosta, météo Mulhouse, Jazzcologne, Jazz à la Cité in Paris, DC Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, Grenzenlos Köln, undead Jazzfest NYC, D’Jazz Nevers, NewAdits Klagenfurt, Font New York, Vive le Jazz Cologne, Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin etc...

He received the following scholarships/grants: DAAD, Henry Mancini Institute, North Rhine-Westphalia composition stipend.

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Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/ thereminist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics.While his primary instrument is an unconventionally altered drumset, his work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics.

As an active and versatile New York City musician, he has worked with a wide variety of artists of all sorts including Ron Anderson, Jeff Arnal, Audio Artists, Claire Barratt, Samm Bennett, Jac Berrocal, Carla Bley, Naval Cassidy, James Chance, Martha Colburn, Combustible Edison, Lol Coxhill, EasSide Percussion (ESP), Roger Ely (the Devil’s Chaueffeur), Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Ken Filiano, Fast Forward (Gobo), Chris Ferris, Michael Gira (Angels of Light, Swans), Gisburg, Gilbert Godfried, God Is My Co-Pilot, David Grubbs, Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten), Susan Hefner, Steve Horowitz’s Code Ensemble, Jarboe (Swans), Pamelia Kurstin, Skip LaPlante’s Music for Homemade Instruments, Zach Layton, Gen Ken Montgomery, Neil Leonard, Aimee Mann, Karen Mantler, Sean G. Meehan, Donald Miller, Eric Mingus, Gordon Monahan, Joe Morris, Michelle Nagai, Anders Nilsson, Evan Parker, Andrea Parkins, Maxime De La Rochefoucauld, William Parker, Yvette Perez’s Birdbrain, Yvette Perez’s Mitra Sumara, Gino Robair, Lary Seven, Elliot Sharp, Moe! Staiano, LaDonna Smith, David Simons, Jesse Stewart, the Talking Band, Toronto Dance Theatre, Stephen Vitiello, Christopher Walken, Jason Willet, Peter Zummo’s Noisy Meditation Band and John Zorn.

He toured internationally with God is my Co-Pilot in the 90′s, performed solo percussion at Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with Gordon Monahan in Munich, Germany, and in an impromptu series entitled “Purgatory”, presented by Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten) in Berlin, Germany. He toured Japan with percussionist Samm Bennett in 2005, went to Sweden with Anders Nilsson and “Fulminate Trio” in 2006, and performed with Fast Forward in “Music a la Mode” at Sophiensaele in Berlin in 2010.

His work with the theremin varies the quality of its sound through set-up and technique. On the theremin he has performed with dancers and in group settings playing experimental, jazz, rock, ersatz lounge and chamber music. In 2000, he was photographed playing a Moog ether wave theremin for the front of Bob Moog’s Big Briar catalog. He has performed in multiple performances of the NYC Theremin Society’s concerts 2005 – 2012 at Issue Project Room and at Joe’s Pub.

He was selected for a composers fellowship to Music/Omi 2001, part of the International Music Colony @ the Art Omi International Arts Center, in Ghent, N.Y. During the summer of 2003, he participated in Baltimore’s High Zero Festival, an ongoing, yearly improvisational festival featuring musicians from the USA and abroad. Every August since 2006, he has been happily teaching percussion workshops to children, performs as a musician and often times helps out by cooking meals at the Electric Eclectics festival (Festival Of Modern Music And Irritainment) in Meaford, Canada presented by Gordon Monahan, Laura Kikauka and Chris Worden.

Eingeladen: Dan Fiege, Patrick Ryan, Elliot Rosenbaum, Liam O'Mara, Mike Hollis, Daniel Prince, Paul Stephens, Liana Gabel, Christopher Funkhouser, Corey MacCrae, John Allison, Brian Hugh Séamus O'Mara, David A Ross, Johanna Warren, Stephen Simpson, Heather T Luczak Vacarr, Ray Blue, Damon Banks, LeRoy Hankins, Dave Harris, Matt Hutchins, Andy Rice, Kendra Wheeler, Evan Schwartz, John Bryan, Mark Sinnis, David Rothenberg, Dan Stern, Chris Duffy, Carole Penner, Steven W. Ross, Thomas Cunningham, Matthew Skeaping, Leonard Behney, Thorleif Strande, James Keepnews, Patrick Cummings, Isabella Lacerda, Daniel Extra, Maggie Benmour, Eric Person, Austin Vaughn, Kit Fraser, Matt Luczak, Brian Bernard Murnane, Kasia Bilinska, Jim Eigo, Joe Fiedler, Gwen Laster, Chris Sandlund, Alison Fornes, Stephen Ray Dickens, Harley Fine, Jason Robert Schuler, Sommer Hixson, Kelly Ellenwood, Sister Stuffings, Derek A. Dempsey, Art Labriola, Sherie Cordaz, Jamie Saft, Michael Evans, Mike Dopazo, Matt Chilton, Susan English, Josh Rutner, Joel Goss, Peter Aaron, Barbara Perkins, Sophie Lazar, Erica Patterson, Al Hemberger, George W. Spafford, Rosie Edreira, Joe Heider, Caitlin Moriarty, David Arner, Matt Sekel, Mia Fio Rito, Tim Stone, Tom Conroy, Christine Peterson, Leigh Toast, Justin Riccobono, Emma Alabaster, Ben Neill, Todd Giudice, Russell Pillhammer, Kathleen Pemble, Jenny Züko, Diana Currie, Joe Lizzi, Bill Way, Pauline Oliveros, Mary Ellen Yannitelli, Bob Meyer, Katy Bell Behney, Marlowe Stern, Chris Kelsey, John-Anthony Gargiulo mehr »