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April 20th,

@ Terrace, 62 Washington St. Princeton NJ; 9 PM. FREE!


Eric Lewis


Eric Lewis is from Canada, and is interested in improvisation, graphic scores, philosophy from Canada

is both a professor of Philosophy at McGill University specializing in the philosophy of improvised music and art, and an improvising brass player.  He is the McGill coordinator of the international research project “Improvisation, Community and Social Practice” (ICASP).  He is preparing for press a book entitled, Other Worlds: Towards an Ontology of Improvised Music.  He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, Malcolm Goldstein, Jean Derome, Joe Giardullo, Mike Bisio, John Heward, Matana Roberts, and Lori Freedman, amongst others.  He is particularly interested in the intersection of issues ontological, aesthetic and political concerning improvised musics.  As a performer he enjoys both free improvisations and improvisations driven by graphic and non-standard notations.  He plays trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn and euphonium (but he will have a go at whatever you hand him!). Eric also curates art exhibits featuring improvisational art-works.


Sounds & Links:

http://www.improvcommunity.ca


John Heward (drums, kalimba, percussion)


John Heward is a Montreal-based drummer/painter/sculptor who has quietly become one of the world's leading percussionist working in the field of contemporary improvised music, new music, and avant jazz. He has played with music luminaries including Steve Lacy, David Prentice, Glenn Spearman, Malcolm Goldstein, Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Lisle Ellis, Paul Bley, Joe Giardullo, Lori Freedman and many others, who have sought him out during their Canadian sojourns. John is also the founder of the Murray Street Band, and had recently had a retrospective of his creative work featured at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Montreal and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Québec City. As Bill Smith of Coda put it, "John is one of Canada's foremost improvising percussionists."


Sounds & Links:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/john-heward/id6043760

 

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