Edwin Torres / Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez / Gerald Cleaver | V24 (2 of 2)

A Ritual of Words and Tones with Edwin Torres - poetry, Fred Moten - poetry, Brandon Lopez - bass, Gerald Cleaver - drums
Performed on June 12, 2019 as part of the Arts for Art Vision Festival 24 at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.
To be inside the ear of the structure, is one way to approachthe improvisation between language and music | to explain thesearch for continuous re-ignition, is another way to see insidethe listening | with each improvisation I try to not know thestarts until they appear | to wonder where the spaces are andif those spaces want me there -- can the audience | can I letmyself -- experience the process unfold while unfolding theprocess | can it just feel good? - Edwin Torres
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About the Artists
Edwin Torres (born 1958) is a Nuyorican performance poet. Torres's parents moved from Puerto Rico and settled in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. His father died when he was young and he was then raised by his mother and her brother Martin. He received his primary and secondary education in New York. His work incorporates vocal and physical improvisation. He is the author of "Ameriscopia, One Night: Poems for the Sleepy, Yes Thing No Thing," and several other poetic books. He also has produced recordings titled Oceano Rise, Novo, and Holy Kid. He is a member of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school. poets.org/poet...
Fred Moten is a teacher and writer whose areas of study and practice include Black Literary, Aural and Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Poetry and Poetics. He is especially concerned with the social force and social origins of black expressive cultural practices. In particular, Moten is interested in the relation between insurgent social movement and experimental art, and has been preoccupied with understanding these fields of endeavor as indissolubly linked and irreducibly popular. Browse Fred’s latest books: www.dukeupress...
Brandon Lopez is a New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times). From the New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others. www.brandonlop...
Detroit-bred drummer, composer, and bandleader Gerald Cleaver is among the most agile and wide-ranging first-call musicians on the 21st century jazz scene. As a sideman, he has worked with everyone from Jeremy Pelt, Craig Taborn, Miroslav Vitous, and Ivo Perelman to Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Tomasz Stanko, to name a scant few. He has co-led recordings with Lotte Anker, Andrew Bishop, and Taylor Ho Bynum among others. His own dates, including Adjust, Gerald Cleaver's Detroit, Be It as I See It, and Live at Firehouse 12, reveal a drummer whose discipline is equanimous with his appetite for taking risks.
Film production by Moon Lasso: moonlasso.com/
Audio by Stephen Schmidt.
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