Somesuch Music Concert Series March 29, 2007

Somesuch Music and the Helen Pitt Gallery present:

Duo Duplex: An evening of improvised music
Stephen Lyons (guitar, implements) with Ben Wilson (laptop computer, implements), and Darren Williams (saxophone) with Lee Hutzulak (41 3/4" x 30" metal shelf, packaging, contact mic)

Thursday, March 29 at 8:00pm
Entrance by donation

The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to host Somesuch Music’s inaugural concert of their new music performance series, featuring four prolific Vancouver-based musicians. The Somesuch Music concert series is devoted to the presentation of new music with a focus on improvisation and contemporary composition. Somesuch Music produces regular concerts featuring local and international artists performing in unique spaces around Vancouver. For more information visit www.myspace.com/somesuchmusicseries.

Stephen Lyons’ physical approach to the guitar blends thoughtful extended technique with an unconventional sense of musical structure. Lyons practice focuses on the natural sounds inherent in the instrument—as well as wire brushes, mallets, knives, bathroom chains, and cello bows. Active in the Vancouver creative music community for almost a decade, Lyons’ projects include Fond of Tigers and Heartwarmongering.

Ben Wilson is a Vancouver based composer, performer and improviser of acoustic and electronic music. His compositions have been performed across Canada as well as in North Ireland, France, Germany, Portugal, Australia, and Japan. Ben has completed residencies at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany and the Computer Music Summer Workshop at the Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis in Paris, France.

Somesuch Music Series cofounder Darren Williams has been active for over a decade as a performer of musical improvisation its many forms. He has performed with John Oswald, Eugene Chadbourne, Mats Gustafsson, and John Abram among others. As a diverse instrumentalist Williams explores the timbral possibilities of saxophones and bassoon.

Lee Hutzulak's music strikes a balance between electro-acoustic improvisation and musique concrète, focusing on texture, tone and space. Hutzulak has played regularly at some of Vancouver's more intimate venues such as Blim, Chroma Books, the Western Front, the Cellar Jazz Club, 1067, and Video In.

Helen Pitt Gallery
#102-148 Alexander Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 1B5
www.helenpittgallery.org / 604.681.6740
Contact: Lance Blomgren, Director/Curator

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/somesuchmusicseries