Saturday, April 26th 2008
Ryan Jewell/Larry Marotta from Columbus, Ohio
Emily O'Leary featuring Chris Riggs and Klaus Sternhagen
RYAN JEWELL was born in a small Appalachian river town in southern Ohio in an environment set between the rundown post-industrial factories and train yards and the natural beauty of the forested foothills on the Ohio River. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting environments has profoundly affected his aesthetic. He studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger. His improvisations are equally influenced by Midwestern underground experimental noise, psychoacoustics, reductionist impov and certain schools of modern composition. Ryan regularly works as a solo performer in the arenas of very quiet free improv and very loud harsh noise, and is often called to play drums for established free jazz musicians, experimental rock bands, and iconoclastic songwriters. In addition to being a perpetual traveler of the US, he recently completed two solo tours of Europe and the UK and was invited to perform as such respected international festivals as the SOWIESO 1 festival in Paris, the Kraak Festival in Brussels, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and SXSW in Austin.
LARRY MAROTTA is guitarist and composer based in Columbus, Ohio. He has performed with David Reed, Mike Shiflet, Ryan Jewell, Jason Roebke, Ben Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, Ernst Karel, Neil Feather, Matthew Sperry, Rat Bastard, Bill Orcutt, David Gross, Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, Dave Rempis, James Ilgenfritz, Avant Collective, Brian Casey, Rocco Di Pietro, Steve Perakis, and the Rattling Wall Collective. In the last several years, he has scored several independent and classic silent films. His scores for the silent films Christmas, USA and The Cage were released on DVD by Kino International in summer 2007.
Larry Marotta was born in East Orange, New Jersey, but raised in North Miami Beach, Florida. He started studying guitar at age 10 with his father, the drummer/percussionist Mike Marotta, as his primary teacher. He divided his time between garage rock bands and playing and learning jazz (he was the guitarist in the Florida All-State Jazz Band in 1985). While studying philospophy at Florida Atlantic University in the late 1980s, he became actively involved in the Miami punk and noise scene. After graduating, Larry relocated to Columbus, Ohio, where he currently lives with his life partner Becky Sicking and their daughter Kate.
EMILY O'LEARY is collaborative improv by guitarist Chris Riggs and bassist Klaus Sternhagen. Pretty cool, huh?
Emily O'Leary featuring Chris Riggs and Klaus Sternhagen
10pm at Fairchild Chapel
RYAN JEWELL was born in a small Appalachian river town in southern Ohio in an environment set between the rundown post-industrial factories and train yards and the natural beauty of the forested foothills on the Ohio River. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting environments has profoundly affected his aesthetic. He studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger. His improvisations are equally influenced by Midwestern underground experimental noise, psychoacoustics, reductionist impov and certain schools of modern composition. Ryan regularly works as a solo performer in the arenas of very quiet free improv and very loud harsh noise, and is often called to play drums for established free jazz musicians, experimental rock bands, and iconoclastic songwriters. In addition to being a perpetual traveler of the US, he recently completed two solo tours of Europe and the UK and was invited to perform as such respected international festivals as the SOWIESO 1 festival in Paris, the Kraak Festival in Brussels, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and SXSW in Austin.
LARRY MAROTTA is guitarist and composer based in Columbus, Ohio. He has performed with David Reed, Mike Shiflet, Ryan Jewell, Jason Roebke, Ben Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, Ernst Karel, Neil Feather, Matthew Sperry, Rat Bastard, Bill Orcutt, David Gross, Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, Dave Rempis, James Ilgenfritz, Avant Collective, Brian Casey, Rocco Di Pietro, Steve Perakis, and the Rattling Wall Collective. In the last several years, he has scored several independent and classic silent films. His scores for the silent films Christmas, USA and The Cage were released on DVD by Kino International in summer 2007.
Larry Marotta was born in East Orange, New Jersey, but raised in North Miami Beach, Florida. He started studying guitar at age 10 with his father, the drummer/percussionist Mike Marotta, as his primary teacher. He divided his time between garage rock bands and playing and learning jazz (he was the guitarist in the Florida All-State Jazz Band in 1985). While studying philospophy at Florida Atlantic University in the late 1980s, he became actively involved in the Miami punk and noise scene. After graduating, Larry relocated to Columbus, Ohio, where he currently lives with his life partner Becky Sicking and their daughter Kate.
EMILY O'LEARY is collaborative improv by guitarist Chris Riggs and bassist Klaus Sternhagen. Pretty cool, huh?
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