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Friday and Saturday, August 22nd and 23rd

RÜDIGER CARL


Friday:
RÜDIGER CARL, Solo Accordion







Saturday:
RÜDIGER CARL, Solo Clarinet; RAYMOND PETTIBON, Voice/Text




Rüdiger Carl and Raymond Pettibon

Free Jazz requires an unconditional spontaneous readiness to suffer. The enthusiast has to pay for what the musician thinks he owes to himself and the others. This temporary relationship, however, is preceded by a different story, a concealed process: the one which creates the feelings of guilt (Indebtedness) and comes out of the secret awareness of one's own, equivocal emotional integument. To fight their presence by the means of "pure" self expression only brings temporary relief and remains fixed to it's contradictory basis. In the end, there is anyhow no way - and certainly no consistent way - to get out of this tight spot.

Beyond consistency, however, there is also the area of what one allows for oneself. There we witness Rüdiger Carl consecutively compensating for the consequences of guilt by refreshing surges of feelings which temporarily take of the weight of interpretation off our shoulders. - Andreas Kallfelz, liner notes, Book - Virtual COWWS

Rüdiger Carl has worked in improvisational music for over 30 years "virtually forsaking the quintessentially jazz instrument - the tenor saxophone" for the performance of free music on accordion and clarinet. He has participated in a number of collaborative projects with an international roster of artists, including Arjen Gorter, Makaya Ntshoko, Louis Moholo, Maarten van Regteren Altena, Tristan Honsinger, Johnny Dyani, Joëlle Léandre, Carlos Zingaro, Mayo Thompson Irène Schweizer, Hans Reichel Sven-Åke Johansson, and Han Bennink. Most recently he collaborated in Cologne and Berlin with Raymond Pettibon on the CD project Blank Meets Pettibon. He has toured throughout Europe, Turkey, Russia, Canada, and USA. Carl's at the Schindler House concert is his first performance in Los Angeles.

Raymond Pettibon is recognized as one of America's most important representational artists. Emerging on the international art scene in the 1980s, Pettibon is best known for his extraordinary output of ink wash drawings and their signature combination of figurative images and short, enigmatic texts. He first began making these in the late 1970s to adorn album covers of underground music groups such as Black Flag and Sonic Youth. The subject matter of Pettibon's drawings is culled from the printed pages of American popular and underground culture. Some of his recurring interests include baseball, surfers, film noir and literature.

Read the Los Angeles Times article on Rüdiger Carl Squeezed Fresh Music from the 8/17/03 Sunday Calendar


Listen to i don't go nowhere without my micophone (rehearsal for your pleasure) from Blank Meets Pettibon


Listen to VC 4 S from Virtual COWWS



Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Advance tickets: $12; $9 for students with valid I.D.,
FOSH and SASSAS members.
$15 at the door
Series ticket $40 for four performances.
Purchase tickets by phone/fax/email at the MAK Center


at the Schindler House 2003 is curated by Cindy Bernard, Sam Durant and Christopher Williams and produced by SASSAS and sponsored by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, LA. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is supported in part through grants from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Composers Forum.

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