Toumani Diabate and Jeb Bishop. Backstage at Millennium Park, Chicago, August 12, before the concert by the Chicago Transilience Ensemble. Photo by Lauren Deutsch.
On Sunday, June 6, the Jeb Bishop Trio with Frank Rosaly, drums, and Jason Roebke, bass, will be performing at the Hungry Brain in Chicago, starting around 10 PM.
The show is a celebration of the release of the brand-new CD by the trio, entitled 2009. More on the CD in this space very soon!
On Saturday, April 10, I’ll be presenting my compositional contribution to the 2010 edition of the Chicago Sound Map project. The concert is at 10 PM at Heaven Gallery.
The trio (see two posts down) will be at Elastic on Feb. 25, sharing a bill with the Nick Mazzarella Trio. 10 PM showtime.
Upcoming Tuesday night gigs by The Engines at Elastic, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago:
16 February 2010
23 February 2010
2 March 2010
9 March 2010
THE ENGINES 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR
21 March : Zaandam, Netherlands | Serah Artisan
22 March : Enschede, Netherlands | Jazzpodium Drienerlo
24 March : Brest, France | Penn-Ar-Jazz
26 March : Poitiers, France | Carré Bleu
27 March : Nantes, France | Pannonica
28 March : Hasselt, Belgium | Belgie
29 March : Eindhoven, Netherlands | Café Wilhelmina
30 March : Amsterdam, Netherlands | Zaal 100
Jeb Bishop Trio (with Frank Rosaly, drums, and Jason Roebke, bass) at the Velvet Lounge, July 24, 2009, performing my composition The Lateness of the Hour. Shot and recorded by Frank Rosaly.
Here’s some footage of an interactive musical sculpture I saw at the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, back in May. The piece is called Quartet, by Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska. The viewer can input a melody via computer, and the sculpture then ‘improvises’ music based on the inputted notes. It involves ping-pong-like balls that are fired into the air and then land on the ‘marimba’ bars, plus rotating wine glasses filled with water that are made to sing by mechanical fingers, plus some robotic percussion.
(Posted with the permission of the artists.)
