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08/31 Friday

7:00 PM Nmperign/Swords of Yaweh

Nmperign (Boston)
Greg Kelley (trumpet) and Bhob Rainey (saxophone)

Swords of Yaweh (Brooklyn & Athens, GA)
Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet & electronics) Killick (H'arpeggione) & Matthew
Welch (Sax & Bagpipes)

About the musicians:

Matthew Welch:
Matthew Welch (b.1976) holds two university degrees in Experimental Music
Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA from
Wesleyan University (2001), studying with noted composers such as Barry
Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. The eclectic
breadth of his interests in Scottish bagpipe music, Balinese gamelan,
minimalism, improvisation and rock converge in compositional amalgams
ranging from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces,
improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments,
chamber ensembles, orchestra and non-western instruments.
www.myspace.com/matthewtobinwelch

Erik Hinds:
(b. 1972) of Athens, Georgia is active as a composer, performer, and
promoter of a wide range of music. He plays quartertone electric guitar
and the H'arpeggione, an upright acoustic instrument with 12 sympathetic
strings built by Fred Carlson. Equally influenced by improvisational music
and "composed" sounds, Erik's style blends primitive folk, heavy metal,
and sacred musics from around the world into a distinct voice. Erik has
played with improvisers including Susan Alcorn, Brent Bagwell, Colin
Bragg, William Buchanan, Jeff Crouch, Chris Cutler, Jeremiah Cymerman,
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Lisle Ellis, Tony Evans, Drew Gardner, the Georgia
Guitar Quartet, Vinny Golia, Frank Gratkowski, Leslie Helpert, Blake
Helton, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Ben Kennedy, Harald Kimmig, Habib Koité,
Peter Kowald, Craig Lieske, Marshall Marrotte, Jeff McLeod, Larry Ochs,
Brian Osborne, Ravi Padmanabha, Dennis Palmer, Dave Rempis, Blaise Siwula,
Carl Smith, Bob Stagner, Sándor Szabó, Ken Vandermark, and Eric Zinman.
www.myspace.com/iamkillick

Jeremiah Cymerman:
Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer and clarinetist living in New York City. The
bulk of the music that he plays is improvised (i.e. not written or composed
prior to performance). He is very interested in solo performance and
extended technique, and as contrived as it sounds, is interested in
creating, or at least contributing to, a new language for clarinet. He has
performed with Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Butch Morris, Ikue Mori, Walter
Thompson, Matthew Welch, Killick Erik Hinds, and Okkyung Lee, among many
others. Having self-released several cdr's, Cymerman released his first
record as a leader in March 2007, "Big Exploitation" on the Solponticello
label of Athens, GA.
www.myspace.com/jeremiahcymerman

Greg Kelly:
Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and
Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a
bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated w/ a
number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free
jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process. He
constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.
He is the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

Bhob Rainey:
Bhob Rainey's music has become a model in the world of experimental sound.
He is the founder of both nmperign (with trumpeter Greg Kelley) and the BSC,
which he also directs. Collaborations with musicians such as Ralf Wehowsky,
Le Quan Ninh, Gunter Mueller, and Lionel Marchetti, dancers Nicole Bindler
and Yukiko Nakamura, and filmmakers Loren Boyer, Harvey Benschoter, and
William Pisarri highlight Rainey's broad experience and outline a complex
body of work that continues to expand and surprise. His music occupies a
charged space between synthetic and organic sound, bringing forth improbable
sensual and narrative experiences through virtuosic extended techniques,
homemade synths and sound processors, found recordings, and a kind of living
silence that is apt to wreak havoc with the perception of time.

Recordings of Rainey's music have been released on labels such as Selektion,
Grob, Sedimental, Rossbin, Twisted Village, and Siwa. They number in the
dozens and have garnered a wealth of international accolades. Festival
appearances have included Musique Action, Instal, Amplify, Densites, Fruits
d'Mhere, High Zero, and Improvised and Otherwise.

About the musicians:

Matthew Welch:
Matthew Welch (b.1976) holds two university degrees in Experimental Music
Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA from
Wesleyan University (2001), studying with noted composers such as Barry
Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. The eclectic
breadth of his interests in Scottish bagpipe music, Balinese gamelan,
minimalism, improvisation and rock converge in compositional amalgams
ranging from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces,
improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments,
chamber ensembles, orchestra and non-western instruments.
www.myspace.com/matthewtobinwelch

Erik Hinds:
(b. 1972) of Athens, Georgia is active as a composer, performer, and
promoter of a wide range of music. He plays quartertone electric guitar
and the H'arpeggione, an upright acoustic instrument with 12 sympathetic
strings built by Fred Carlson. Equally influenced by improvisational music
and "composed" sounds, Erik's style blends primitive folk, heavy metal,
and sacred musics from around the world into a distinct voice. Erik has
played with improvisers including Susan Alcorn, Brent Bagwell, Colin
Bragg, William Buchanan, Jeff Crouch, Chris Cutler, Jeremiah Cymerman,
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Lisle Ellis, Tony Evans, Drew Gardner, the Georgia
Guitar Quartet, Vinny Golia, Frank Gratkowski, Leslie Helpert, Blake
Helton, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Ben Kennedy, Harald Kimmig, Habib Koité,
Peter Kowald, Craig Lieske, Marshall Marrotte, Jeff McLeod, Larry Ochs,
Brian Osborne, Ravi Padmanabha, Dennis Palmer, Dave Rempis, Blaise Siwula,
Carl Smith, Bob Stagner, Sándor Szabó, Ken Vandermark, and Eric Zinman.
www.myspace.com/iamkillick

Jeremiah Cymerman:
Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer and clarinetist living in New York City. The
bulk of the music that he plays is improvised (i.e. not written or composed
prior to performance). He is very interested in solo performance and
extended technique, and as contrived as it sounds, is interested in
creating, or at least contributing to, a new language for clarinet. He has
performed with Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Butch Morris, Ikue Mori, Walter
Thompson, Matthew Welch, Killick Erik Hinds, and Okkyung Lee, among many
others. Having self-released several cdr's, Cymerman released his first
record as a leader in March 2007, "Big Exploitation" on the Solponticello
label of Athens, GA.
www.myspace.com/jeremiahcymerman

Greg Kelly:
Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and
Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a
bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated w/ a
number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free
jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process. He
constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.
He is the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

Bhob Rainey:
Bhob Rainey's music has become a model in the world of experimental sound.
He is the founder of both nmperign (with trumpeter Greg Kelley) and the BSC,
which he also directs. Collaborations with musicians such as Ralf Wehowsky,
Le Quan Ninh, Gunter Mueller, and Lionel Marchetti, dancers Nicole Bindler
and Yukiko Nakamura, and filmmakers Loren Boyer, Harvey Benschoter, and
William Pisarri highlight Rainey's broad experience and outline a complex
body of work that continues to expand and surprise. His music occupies a
charged space between synthetic and organic sound, bringing forth improbable
sensual and narrative experiences through virtuosic extended techniques,
homemade synths and sound processors, found recordings, and a kind of living
silence that is apt to wreak havoc with the perception of time.

Recordings of Rainey's music have been released on labels such as Selektion,
Grob, Sedimental, Rossbin, Twisted Village, and Siwa. They number in the
dozens and have garnered a wealth of international accolades. Festival
appearances have included Musique Action, Instal, Amplify, Densites, Fruits
d'Mhere, High Zero, and Improvised and Otherwise.