Portland New Music Society Presents:

Thursday March 5th

8pm  *music will start very shortly after 8*
Suggested donation: $5-10 for traveling musician
(no one turned away)
@ Enterbeing

1603 NE Alberta Portland, OR 97211

503.808.0385

------featuring-------

Doug Theriault and Matt Hannafin :bringing guitar, electronics and percussion together in a most beautiful way. The Doug Theiault and the Matt Hannafin! These guys are amazing!!

&
Tom Hamilton (NY): Composer and electronics guru coming to Portland to inspire and awe you (read bio below).


(rumor has it that Matt and Tom may play a round together too-not to be missed!)
Tell your friends!!

BIOS:

TOM HAMILTON has been composing and performing for over 40
years, and his work with electronic music originated in the late-60s
era of analog synthesis. Hamilton often explores the interaction of
many simultaneous layers of activity, prompting the use of
“present-time listening” on the part of both performer and listener.


An active participant in New York’s new music scene, Hamilton was the co-director of the 2004 Sounds Like Now festival, and he has co-produced the Cooler in the Shade/Warmer by the Stove
new music series since 1993. He is a longtime member of composer Robert
Ashley’s touring opera ensemble. His audio production can be found in
over 50 CD releases of new and experimental music, including recordings
by Muhal Richard Abrams, David Behrman, Thomas Buckner, Alvin Lucier,
Roscoe Mitchell, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny.
Tom Hamilton’s sound installations have been presented in New York at
Diapason, Studio Five Beekman, the 479 Gallery and Experimental
Intermedia, and elsewhere at CCNOA (Brussels) The St. Louis Art Museum,
CalArts (Valencia, CA), the Sound Symposium festival (St. John’s NF),
Woodland Pattern Book Center (Milwaukee) and the Dorsch Gallery
(Miami).

Doug Theriault
is an artist based in Portland, Oregon.  His work is concerned with the
development of live electronic music systems on custom made instruments of his own design.  He maintains his current electronic instruments for sale here.

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Willamette Week May 4th 2005: Guitarist Doug theriault departs from jazz's usual form based parameters and engages a "non-idiomatic" improv sensibility that's informed by sonic experimenters like Michael Waisvisz, Hugh Davies and Derek Bailey. Working with a sensor guitar, Theriault smelts gestural controls, internal feeback, MIDI programming and otherworldly sampling, creating a poetically urgent soundscape that is mesmerizing. Fans of Jim O'Rourke or the late Japanese free jazz-noise pioneer Masayuki Takaynagi will appreciate the density, restless innovation and painterly approach of Theriault. By Tim Duroche Doug Theriault [is] an incredible instrument designer and musician from Portland, Oregon. Working with a reconfigured guitar/controller and audio software, Doug creates music that is exquisitely dense and musical recalling the work of Yasunao Tone and Xenakis with it's intense architecture, fragmentation, and physicality. from http://www.thetanknyc.org

 

Matt Hannafin is a New York-born, Portland-based percussionist
active in both free improvisation and Iranian classical and traditional
music. He studied Iranian tombak (classical goblet drum) with master
Kavous Shirzadian; Arabic and Indian percussion with Jamey Haddad, Glen
Velez, and Layne Redmond; African and Afro-Caribbean percussion with
John Amira and Magette Fall; and voice with composer La Monte Young and
Pandit Pran Nath. For improvisation, his approach blends the techniques
and timbres of eastern and western percussion with sonorities and ideas
borrowed from nature, electronic music, and the urban-industrial
soundscape.

Matt Hannafin has performed at the United Nations General Assembly Hall
and the Iranian Mission to the UN (NY); the Miami Iranian Cultural
Festival (FL); the Olympia World Sacred Music Festival (WA); The Ko
Festival (Amherst, MA); the Salem World Beat Festival (OR); the
Portland Iranian Festival (OR); the PanMedia Festival (NY); the New
England Conservatory and the Zeitgeist Gallery (Boston/Cambridge, MA);
the Red Room (Baltimore, MD); Princeton University (NJ); and New York
venues Symphony Space, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society for Ethical
Culture, Tonic, the Knitting Factory, the Issue Project Room, St. Marks
Church, Dance New Amsterdam, Makor, Washington Square Church, Roulette,
ABC No Rio, CBGBs, the Bowery Poetry Club, Columbia University, and the
audio/video series {R}ake. He's also performed for the World Music
Institute, New York University's Near Eastern Studies Department,
Portland's Creative Music Guild, and numerous Persian cultural and arts
groups in New York and Oregon. His recordings include two solos, a disk
of environmental musique concrete, and collaborations with Brian Moran,
Chainworks, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Donald Miller and Blaise Siwula, and
husband-and-wife improv team Ed Chang and Motoko Shimizu. A number of
these disks are available on the $5 DIY-CDR series Sachimay Interventions, of which Mr. Hannafin is the administrator.