From: "Collision Palace" <collisionpalace@yahoo.com> To: collisionpalace@yahoo.com Subject: May 1 invite / Vlucht article Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:06:18 -0400
Hi!
Saturday night we're playing the world premiere of All Work and No Play... by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, and John Zorn's Cobra, followed by DJ KODI afterparty. Details/line-up at the bottom of this article, courtesy of the good people at Vlucht Magazine. Hope to see you!
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Vlucht Magazine, April 2004 text: Francisco Gonzalez photos: Nesrine Khodr www.vluchtmagazine.nl
Collision Palaces Nathan Fuhr
SERIOUSLY PLAYING
I wrote Cobra to make beautiful music. I quit doing it because it makes monsters out of people. John Zorn to Nathan Fuhr, NYC 3/99
I met Nathan Fuhr by chance at an OT301 Kraakgeluiden night. He is the leader of Collision Palace, a large collective of musicians (and dancers too on occasion) from a real mix of stylistic backgrounds, who specialize in the exploration of different improvisation languages. He has played bass in Cobra with Zorn himself in New York, before moving to Europe and instigating Collision Palace (an apparently democratic endeavor, as he admits to not being keen on the name of the band, but was out-voted!). I attended some of their rehearsals before seeing them live at the Bimhuis and at OT301. Nathan is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the ensemble, but to my eyes he is much more a performer himself. His way of gathering the band members energy and redistributing it back via specific signals and movements has more to do with body expression and dance than with simply prompting (Zorns term for the DJ-like director of Cobra). This is not free or even interpretive improvisation; the visceral clarity and physicality of his directing almost seem to declare war on the well-run territory of improv sans language, which is not to say that he does not balance such command with moments of making himself fluid or invisible, trusting players own commands, letting the music just breathe, or even sharing laughter (with people on and off the stage). Upon my observation of energy as a core aspect of the work, his face lit-up, because although CP is playing via different preconceived improvisation languages (as well Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Frederic Rzewski, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, or local composer Alison Isadora), you can tell Nathan is slowly developing his own language, and it is definitely through the concept of energy.
When I asked him to describe a CP concert in one sentence, he replied without hesitation: We take risks, brew synergy, and go for blood (or Zen in the case of Oliveros or Isadora!) and try to have as much fun as possible along the way.
1 May 2004, 21.30 til late - CP plays Cobra and a Lee Ranaldo world premiere at OCCII, Amstelveenseweg 134, Amsterdam. 5 Euro before 22.30, 7 thereafter. With afterparty by DJ KODI (Nathalie Bruys).
Collision Palace (including live drum n bass band Suspicious White Powder!)
Marcos Baggiani - drums Barbara Gene - voice/trouble Lucho Enriquez - guitar Felicity Provan - trumpet Petre Radu Scafaru - woodwinds Valdi Kolli - double bass Mark van Tongeren - kaosspad/objects/voice Barb Hamilton - trombone Luis Diaz - percussion Jay McMahon - bari sax Phillip Zwirchmayr - drums Nikolai Onken - guitar Wiljam Nybacka - bass guitar
Nathan Fuhr, prompter
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