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From Retrocausal Strategies
Evil Clown 9190:
Third Life Studios
Somerville MA
9/1/18

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from The Complete Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub​-​Units performances at Third Life Studios (2017 - 2019), released July 15, 2019
PEK, Grant Beale, SIlvain Castellano, Steve Niemitz
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-------- Retrocausal Strategies on YouTube
1) Sub-Unit 1: Effects Preceding Cause - youtu.be/X3OMGyF-Vnk
2) Sub-Unit 2: Non-Local Correlations - youtu.be/OLgeq44Ladg
3) Sub-Unit 3: Light Cones - youtu.be/9Z9Hd-iYq3s
4) Orchestra: Retrocausal Strategies - youtu.be/OeuulKnrlHM
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-------------PEK Liner Notes
Five times a year, a smallish Leap of Faith Orchestra (10 to 15 players) heads over to Third Life Studios in Somerville for an evening of large ensemble improvisation. For the first half of the show, we do four short 15 minute improvisations by different quartet sub-groupings of the orchestra. Then we do a 50 minute improvisation with everyone.
These shows are open to the entire Evil Clown roster of about 50 musicians. So, although we have some steady regulars, the orchestra really is different every time. I assign the sub-units to take advantage of unusual groupings of instruments. I also bring a bunch of auxiliary instruments like wood blocks, hand chimes, bells, slide whistles, sirens, etc., which we distribute though the ensemble to enable players to completely change their sound.
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For the longer improvisation with everyone, we have a rule that each player should lay out for roughly a third of the duration of the piece. Together with the broad palate provided by a large ensemble with everyone capable of instrument changes, this rule naturally creates a steady flow of transformation though different sonorities.
This set, performed on 9/1/2018, is on the smaller side for LOFO&SU shows with only 8 performers. The ensemble is composed entirely of LOFO veterans except for newbie Steve Niemitz subbing for Yuri in the drum chair… The base instrumentation coincidentally ends up being very similar to what you might find in a modern jazz octet – 4 reeds, 2 brass, guitar, cello, bass and drums – but here the similarities end. When you add some unusual instruments to the improvisational aesthetic and the combined prowess of this tight orchestra you get a natural steady progression through a broad range of sonorities.

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Leap of Faith is a long-term collaboration active from 1993 to 2001 and resuming in 2015 between Glynis Lomon (cello, voice) and PEK (clarinets, saxes, double reeds, voice) with various other regulars (Mark McGrain trombone, Craig Schildhauer bass, Yuri Zbitnov drums, James Coleman theremin, Steve Norton saxes, clarinets) + many guests. Pure improv with little or no planning prior to performance ... more

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