Nathan Hubbard (solo percussion & electronics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4desmBMRQIoand
Mitsu Salmon & Ryotaro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1CnurQVlnI
Nathan Hubbard is one of those multifaceted multi-percussionists who does a whole lot of things really well. Adept at drum set, mallet percussion, all manner of “miscellaneous” percussion, electronics, extended techniques, composition, and pure noise, Hubbard has played with a dizzyingly complete list of luminaries in the realm of New Music as well as leading groups in every imaginable size and configuration (Nathan Hubbard/Everything After, Nathan Hubbard Octet, Glatter/Hubbard, Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra, etc.). A member of the Trummerflora Collective, he’s also the drummer in the acclaimed group Cosmologic. So why isn’t someone who is so gifted and has done so much better known? The answer can only be San Diego, where Hubbard bases his life and work, known for the excellence of its local music faculty but not exactly for its creative music scene. Luckily for us, that’s reasonably close enough for Hubbard to make it up to L.A. once in a while to demonstrate one of his many fascinating musical facets, something he has done a number of times in our concert series over the years. For this concert he will play a set of solo pieces for solo percussion and electronics, something he is tremendously qualified to do. Expect the adventurous, uncompromising, virtuosic, and unorthodox . . . and expect to be sonically well nourished!
Opening the concert in what they are calling, appropriately enough, “April Showers,” are voice and dance performer
Mitsu Salmon and accordionist
Ryotaro. Salmon, a graduate of New York University’s vaunted avant-garde theater program and already a very experienced and engaging performer in theater, dance, and music--she’s Open Gate Theater founder-director Will Salmon’s daughter, after all, and has performed with said ensemble as well as in her own concerts here in L.A. throughout her coming of age--will be performing her original performance works accompanied by unorthodox accordionist Ryotaro, from Kyoto, Japan, where the two artists have been performing and refining their working rapport since last year. The pair is currently engaged in a small U.S. tour, during which they are introducing American audiences to their unique brand of music and theater. Marked by a strong sense of the dramatic, poetic, surreal, and darkly beautiful, the pair present unusually personal, evocative, and accomplished works in this, their local debut. Check them out!They will be presenting collaborative pieces, which integrate text, dance and music. The pieces are built from improvisation and use some audience interaction. They will present Rain, which is inspired by the underlying image of rain and its associations with water, continuous moving and falling. The piece includes a dance with multiple umbrellas, stream of conscious singing, and ecstatic accordion playing.
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