On 4 November concert with Eric and Mary Ross Gunter Heinz factory in the Blue
(Mary Ross: Self portrait, Cibachrome Photograph, 1979) The art avant garde Eric and Mary Ross are from the U.S. to Dresden. On 4 November 2010 (20 clock) to connect the theremin and electronic pioneer and the photographic and video artist with the trombonist Guenter Heinz factory in the Blue. The concert is part of the second season of the 2010 festival, he free-improvised music. The current
as electronic legend Eric Ross realized for several decades the world together with his wife, multi-media concerts by piano, guitar, synthesizer, theremin and video art. It was for both of Beginning, of course, that progress in art and even in music can not pass through the avoidance of modern technology, but only through the appropriate use and integration of new technology. Ross was in his early years a personal friend of the inventor, Robert Moog, whose innovations in the field of electronic instruments (Moog synthesizer), he received first-hand and incorporates into its sound world. The use of the very first "electronic" instrument at all, evidence of the theremin, Eric's attitude, for which he is widely recognized and even honored. He was Master Teacher at the First International Theremin Festival, and he also wrote music for theremin - Both for the solo instrument and an overture for as much as 14 Theremin!
The music is presented in Dresden, is improvised, but it contains elements not only quite jazz, but classical music, serial music and the contemporary avant-garde.
The video art by Mary Ross, which is projected for music is selected for the musical sequences and structures, arranged and organized. Mary Ross is a pioneer of digital photography. In the early seventies, they used video equipment and computers, take pictures - create - that digital photography. Many of these unique works are in collections, Libraries and galleries worldwide, from Paris, Zurich, Cambridge, Copenhagen and New York.
With his concept of "Wetware Trombone" Günter Heinz developed almost twenty years ago a special way of playing the instrument trombone, with which he explores new sonic spaces. The reach of the artists using new techniques, such as the sucking sound, through the use of electronic transformations, but also through the game in specific areas, such as in churches, underground cavities, and even under water. Inspired by his concerts in the Tuscan spa in Bad Bad Schandau Sulza and was his idea to combine the sounds found there with those of the Theremin.
With Eric Ross was a virtuoso of this instrument Heinz Günter. The fact that both have experience not only in the free improvisation music, but also in the new Jazz, the concert could be another cohesion. For Eric Ross was also successful in jazz, he played with such greats as John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Byard Lancaster and the blues legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and BB King. Performances at the Jazz Festival in Montreux and the North Sea Jazz festival were milestones in his career. That Ross Guest musicians on AQi Fzono's "Cosmology" CD was supposed to be the best-selling board in Japan at all, should not go unmentioned.
Mathias Bäumel
"Free Improvised Music Festival, Part 2,
Blue Factory, Thursday, 4 November 2010 (20 clock)
Gunter Heinz, Eric Ross, Mary Ross
tickets at € 12 (concessions € 8) at the box office.
