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| Sunday, October 30, 2005, 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee Alternating Currents Live presents: Assif Tsahar and Cooper-Moore Duo Assif Tsahar: reeds Cooper-Moore: one-string bass, fretless banjo, mouth bow, drums, and flute
Saxophonist Assif Tsahar was born in and grew up in Tel-Aviv. In pursuit of music he came to New York in 1990, receiving a diploma from Mannes College of Music and B.F.A at the New School. In 1998 he was awarded a young composer's grant from the Jerome Foundation. As part of his involvement in New York's improvised music scene he has founded and co-produced with Patricia Parker the annual Vision Festival. In 1999 Assif Tsahar started Hopscotch Records, a not-for-profit record label where the artists produce themselves and are in complete control of the all artistic decisions. He has performed and recorded with Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Hamid Drake, Peter Kowald, Susie Ibarra among many others including the large ensembles William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, the New York Underground Orchestra, and his own Zoanthropic Orchestra. Cooper-Moore is a composer-improviser, instrumentalist, designer and builder of musical instruments, and music educator, living and working in New York City. A native of the Piedmont area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Cooper-Moore began studying piano at age eight. While his attention was focused on piano performance in New York clubs and touring abroad, Cooper-Moore began designing and building musical instruments and played them in collaboration with all kinds of artists at lofts, galleries, artist spaces, museums, and in the streets of New York City. He has over the years built an extensive instrument collection, using such material as paper, bamboo, metal, wood, and acrylic. He most often performs with his ashimba (a type of xylophone), bass diddly-bow, horizontal hoe-handle harp, three stringed fretless banjo, and electric mouth bow. Cooper-Moore has a teaching association with The New School for Social Research, Jazz Department. He has performed and recorded with David S. Ware and Susie Ibarra among many others including large ensembles like William Parker's In Order to Survive and Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble. QUOTES: On their 2003 duo CD america: america is an essential work, one that offers not only the diversity of the landscape on the continent, but also its conflicting purposes and ideas all expressed in the universal sphere of music. Now this is discourse. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide Half protest statement and half call for renewal, america offers a wonderful combination of the familiar and the unexpected. The heartland music known as Americana—for lack of a better term—meets up here with an eager partner in the form of improvisation. - Nils Jacobson, All About Jazz  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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