12 electric guitarists perform Elliott Sharp's SyndaKit

Friday June 6th at Issue Project Room

The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
see http://www.issueprojectroom.org for more info and directions

Composed in 1998 for E#'s ensemble Orchestra Carbon, SyndaKit utilizes
a collection of biological metaphors to create an ever-shifting
rhythmic and timbral matrix. Improvisatory and algorithmic but not
improvisation, SyndaKit's essence is a transformative organism
consisting of 144 composed Cores on 12 sheets divided among the 12
players with a set of simple rules for their use through processes of
imitation, addition, recombination, transposition, and mutation. These
actions are based on the activities of flocking birds, African drum
choirs, cellular automata, hunting packs, and recombinant amino acids.

The musicians include Mary Halvorson, Marco Cappelli, Debra deSalvo,
Zach Layton, Ron Anderson, Angela Babin, Lily Maase, Zachary Pruitt,
Marc Sloan, and Dave Hofstra. For this special event, the ensemble
will make full use of the Issue Project Room's multi-channel speaker
system for a truly spatial experience.

The CD of SyndaKit performed by E#'s Orchestra Carbon, long out-of-
print, has now been reissued by the German label Neos and is available
at Downtown Music Gallery.
http://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/index.htm

Also on the bill: Tony Conrad

Evening begins at 8:00pm, $15