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2006-03-16: NEW Music Forms of Things Unknown, P Moller |
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8PM:
Forms of Things Unknown is
an electro-acoustic musical project dedicated to pan-idiomatic
explorations beyond the pale of sectarian orthodoxies.Led
by multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan, the new cd,
entitled "Cross Purposes", features music ranging from dark ambient
dirge to medieval sacred song to brooding art-rock. See his websitte for more information; Forms of Things Unknown
9PM:
Polly Moller enjoys
a multifaceted career as a performance artist, composer, improviser,
chamber musician, and avant-garde flute player. Since 1995, she's
recorded three solo albums and performed in diverse venues all over the
San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Her recent performances include a
Late-Night Cabaret at the National Flute Association's annual
convention. Her gateway performance art workshop has been presented at
the Flute Festival Mid-South, and will be featured at the upcoming
Madison (Wisconsin) Flute Club's Third Annual Flute Fair. Her flute
quartet, Remove Before Flight, was commissioned by the Hiller Aviation
Museum and premiered in October 2005. It will be performed three times
this April by the Cayenne Flute Quartet in residence at Louisiana State
University.
Her spoken word and electronica work, Cold Blood, is
currently touring with the 2005 60 x 60 Project presented by the Vox
Novus collective. Polly Moller has been awarded grants by the American
Composers Forum Subito Program, the American Composers Forum Community
Partners Program, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the
Arts.
Her recordings have been released on Albany Records, Pax
Recordings, Mindspore Records, and Silver Wheel Music. She is currently
recording her fourth album of original work, Not Made of Stone.
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