Father Zosima Presents…
Nate Wooley- Trumpet (NYC)
Gust Burns- Tapes (Seattle)
Friday, May 23rd, 8pm
Access Artist Run Centre
206 Carrall St.
By Donation

Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same.He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father, and after studying he moved to Colorado where he studied more with Ron Miles, Art Lande, Fred Hess, and improvisation master Jack Wright. His tenure with Jack began to break Nate out of self-imposed molds and into the sound world that he has embraced as his own.
Nate currently resides in Jersey City, NJ and performs solo trumpet improvisations as well as with his trio Blue Collar with Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani. He has also performed regularly with Anthony Braxton, Bhob Rainey, Alessandro Bosetti, Fritz Welch, Herb Robertson, Kevin Norton, Tony Malaby, Randy Peterson, Scott Rosenberg, Matt Moran, Chris Speed, Andrew D’Angelo, Tim Barnes, Okkyung Lee, Assif Tsahar, and other improvisation luminaries.


Gust Burns is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Seattle, Washington.
Gust is foremost an improvising pianist. He continues to develop new routes into improvisation on the piano, working extensively with ideas concerning form, rhythm, and alternative narrative approaches, as well as new techniques for inside the piano. He also has a pronounced interest in the use of composition and improvisation together, and is usually writing music to this effect.
Gust makes improvised and new music that counts many different perspectives and lines of tradition as influences. Both jazz and classical traditions, the rap and hip-hop music he grew up with, the avant-garde lineages in Europe and America, and the traditions of improvised music over the last 40 years. He has a keen interest in how issues such as intention, practice, community, and musical content effect the role music plays in the socio-political-economic reality; and how this reality effects the music.

Sounds: Father Zosima Presents... April 26, 2008

Announcement: Father Zosima Presents... Saturday, April 26, 8pm

Father Zosima Presents…
Ken Roux & Pedal Decay
Saturday, April 26, 8pm
Access Artist Run Centre
206 Carrall Street
By Donation


Kenny Roux's handmade, analogue electronics experiments reference an imagined folk history/future of electronic music, and enmesh the aural and the visual. His previous experiments include Speaker Switch Box, The New Suitcase, Tape for Two, and Signature Series. He is a former artist in residence at the Western Front and has performed at the Chroma Reading Series, Gnarnia, Saint George's Marsh, Access Artist Run Centre, the 50-50 Gallery, Open Space, and in the Signal and Noise and the Open Circuits festivals. Currently he is working on a public 
interactive audio installation in Vancouver.

Pedal Decay is the solo outing of Speedy Weaver a member of the Montreal based experimental music collective Set Fire to Flames. In his hometown of Victoria, B.C., Speedy performs with the primitive improv group IMP(S).
Speedy has been performing under the guise Pedal Decay for 6 years, mostly playing at small venues and galleries in Victoria. Pedal Decay is a vehicle (For Him, His guitar, and His electronics) to explore shifting/juxtaposing tonalities and the slow degradation of cyclical sound in motion.

Announcement: Father Zosima Presents... Friday, March 28

Father Zosima Presents…
Chandan Narayan
Stefan Udell
Friday, March 28, 8pm
Access Artist Run Centre
206 Carrall Street
By Donation




Chandan Narayan (Philadelphia)

Autoharp

Chandan Narayan improvises with the autoharp, a traditional American stringed instrument. He performs and records as part of the Philadelphia quintet, Benito Cereno, as well as the Vancouver trio, Glass Plates. He has shared the stage with the likes of Jason Kahn, Christine Sehnaoui, Jack Wright, and Bhob Rainey. He is also the proprietor of the Simple Geometry record label.



Stefan Udell (Vancouver)

Guitar

Born in Jasper, Alberta, Stefan Udell currently resides in Vancouver, BC. He was in local musical group Beans for nine years. Since the bands demise, he has written a handful of pieces for acoustic, electroacoustic, and film soundtrack mediums. He recently returned from a six month residency at the Banff Centre where he wrote a music theatre piece which he hopes to stage soon. He performs semi-regularly in town, usually in low-key "music venues" such as the Access Gallery, Gaff Gallery, and Solder & Sons. With local musician Andrew Herfst, he has recently taken up the activity of playing music at various locations around the city at sunrise. These last types of performances have not been well promoted as of yet, though in the future the two hope to attract the early bird music listening crowd who have been discriminated against with the constant proliferation of "evening performances."

Announcement: Father Zosima Presents... Tuesday, February 26

Father Zosima Presents…

Rachael Wadham & Robert Pedersen
Ian Gregory James & David Grove
Tuesday, February 26, 8pm

Access Artist Run Centre

206 Carrall Street

By Donation



Ian Gregory James is a Vancouver based artist focused on sound recording and performance. Using home-made synthesizers and magnetic tape as sources, he crafts slowly unfolding drones that hark back to the early minimalist pioneers. Combining obsessive introspection with discreet universality, Ian Gregory's work wanders about on a narrow, well-trodden path of anxious repetition on the infinite plain. He has several self-released cassettes and CD-r's, as well as a release on RunDownSun records.

David Grove approaches sound creation from the primitive stages of synthetic instrumentation. Moving backwards as opposed to forwards in terms of technology, archaic methods are employed to create music with a conscious resistance to modern, digital methods of sound creation. With this strict analog approach, inherent random and unforeseen elements enter his work. As well, there is a characteristic of the labour and physicality involved with analog devices that emerges. David has performed his synthesized music solo and in duets at venues on the west coast of the United States and Canada. He studied visual art at Langara College and is self-taught in electronic audio art forms. He lives and works in Vancouver, BC.

Rachael Wadham has been involved in the Canadian noise/music scene for many years as a performer and composer. Through music she tries hard to enforce her views on recycling with the use of broken instruments, tossed junk and long forgotten songs...wonderful things that have been tossed aside. Rachael has worked and collaborated with artists including Deep Dark United, Picastro, the Fernwood Difficult Music Society, Arraymusic, Ensemble d'Ereprijs, Sound Stories, the Draperies, The Nihilist Spasm Band, triPOD dance collective, neither/nor, and many more. She recently released a couple of duet recordings with Chris Dadge (on the Calgary based label Bug Incision) and Chandan Narayan (on Vancouver based label Standard Grey ). Her current projects are Quaqua, Attn: Diamond Shoppers, Heads over Houses, The Aquatic Uncle, plus frequent small groupings from the large array of improv musicians in Vancouver and beyond.

Robert Pedersen is currently interested in re-wiring cassette players and creating feedback across their entire circuit grids using condenser microphones and prepared amplification. He performs in an electronics duo in Vancouver with Jeffrey Allport called Rough Noble, and is much influenced by the sounds of Ken Roux, a Vancouver radio and circuit builder.

Announcement: Father Zosima Presents... Tuesday November 27

Father Zosima Presents…
Staked Plain
Tuesday, November 27, 8pm
Access Artist Run Centre
206 Carrall Street
By Donatiion

Staked Plain
It all began in Edmonton Alberta back in 1993.. Formerly known as Pinokio, Lonley Orphan.
The Band played various shows in the Vancouver and Northwest area throughout the 90's. Also played in Austin, Texas in '97 opening for Harry Pussy on their final tour. While in Texas Staked Plain hooked up with Bobby J records who the next year releases a Lp of material they had recorded from 1993 to 1997. 
The band has played shows here and there since 1999, and soon will be culling through hours of unmixed recordings for some future releases. BC Scar has been working on various art projects over the last number of years as well as with his Rap groups "Knob Central" and "Grassy Knoll." Joshua Stevenson has been performing solo as -outhern acific+ and also with groups like Jackie-o Motherfucker, The Countless Jibes, The Minature Pancake Band, and others. Zoltan is back in the woodlands of Alberta. 


Sounds: Father Zosima Presents... October 25, 2007