Monday Night Experimental Cabaret
at Tess' Lark Tavern
June 12 2006
Ed Atkeson
Jessye Staar
Mary Jane Leach
Jessye Staar
Born in the Bronx and raised in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. This is Jessye Staar premiere in front of an audience. After witnessing the Experimental Cabaret for several month, she decided to dive in and create a piece. Currently working for Tess at the Lark Tavern, enrolled in online courses to finish her BA and a licensed cosmetologist. Jessye has been writing poems, novels and short stories her entire life (none of which are published or other people have read). Tonight she will perform:
I Believe
with beats by: JP Katz
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Ed Atkeson
There he is again! it is his third appearence at The Monday Night Experimental Cabaret! Ed Atkeson is a painter, printmaker, performance artist, and an award winning book designer.You may remember his work as a member of Workspace Loft Incorporated, Albany’s Fluxus art group in the 70s. Recent activities include producing the much acclaimed puppet show Rhinoceros at Firlefanz gallery. Tonight piece:
"The Road to Mandalay"...was never a Bob Hope / Bing Crosby movie
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Mary Jane Leach
http://www.mjleach.com/
International renowned composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach’s deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities. The result is striking music which has a powerful effect on listeners. Critics have commented on her ability to "offer a spiritual recharge without the banalities of the new mysticism" (Detroit Free Press), evoking "a visionary quest for inner peace" (Vice Versa Magazine), and "an irridescent lingering sense of suspended time." (Musicworks Magazine) Leach’s music has been performed throughout the world in a variety of settings, from the concert stage to experimental music forums, and in collaboration with dance and theatre artists. Recordings of her work are on the Lovely Music, New World, XI, Wave/Eva, and Aerial compact disc labels.
Pipe Dreams (music) and Stained Glass (slides).
Pipe Dreams was written for the organ in St. Peter’s Köln, which has two sets of pipes at opposite ends of the church. Each rank has separate sounds and stops that can combine to create microtonal intervals. Pipe Dreams is a structured improvisation, exploring antiphony and the specific sounds of that organ, extra-musical as well as musical.. The tempos and exact notation are left open; the notation is just a musical skeleton for the actual notes played. Ornamentation occurs when the sound warrants it: i.e., to not only obtain musical results, but to make extra-musical sounds occur. The weather affected the sound and action of this organ, changing every day, so realization changed daily. The melodic material is very simplistic, because that is what created the most interesting resultant sounds. The slides are handmade and are shown in pairs using slow dissolves.
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Tess’ Lark Tavern
453 Madison Avenue
Albany, New York 12210 (Map)
Phone: (518) 463-9779
mondaycabaret@mac.com
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