Order/Disorder November 5, 2007

NOW ORCHESTRA presents ORDER/DISORDER
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Dave Chokroun - voice/bass, Nikki Reimer - voice, Jonathan Wilcke - clarinet/alto/voice, Darren Williams - tenor, sax, voice

Using strategies of free improvisation combined with strategies taken from a branch of contemporary writing known as “procedural poetics,” Wilcke, Chokroun, Reimer, and Williams re-compose the work of contemporary and Modernist poets into a state wherein sense and sound cannot be told apart. The quartet’s combined “first readings” prompts the listener to consider poetry not as a static, finished, and precious form of page-based writing but rather as a framework for active, lingo-musical improvisation. Operating in the background is the group’s desire to up the ante on typical poetry/music and “spoken word” practices by combining years of experience in free improvisation with an acute sense of and irreverence for literary history; i.e. they’re going to rip, rig, and panic.

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