Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
JAAP BLONK performs his own compositions, improvisations, and historical sound poems. Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, performer, poet and visual artist. His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. In […]
Pianist-composer JARED REDMOND performs MORTON FELDMAN'S 1981 masterpiece Triadic Memories for piano solo. Described by the composer as "the biggest butterfly in captivity", Triadic Memories typifies Feldman's late style: a dreamlike work woven of hypnotically shifting, mosaic-like patterns, unrelentingly fragile and quiet, and of great length. Influenced deeply by the abstract visual art of his time, Feldman uses resonance, repetition, […]
SUBCONSCIOUS LIFE LARRY OCHS (tenor and sopranino saxophones) offers up a deeply felt set of improvised music, created by this stellar ensemble of San Francisco Bay Area improvisers BEN DAVIS (cello); DARREN JOHNSTON (trumpet); LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass)... and we invite you, the creative listeners, to dig in to our spontaneous but thoughtfully sculpted music […]