New Works Calgary x Bug Incision – 40th Anniversary Season: Jessica Ackerley Trio + Cloud Circuit + Devetzis Plays Hennies

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Since the last time Jessica Ackerley touched down in Calgary for an intimate set at Weeds Cafe, the musician, composer, and visual artist has seen an absolute flurry of activity coming their way, racking up diverse collaborations, festival appearances, tours, and a pile of albums in the meantime. New Works Calgary and Bug Incision are pleased to welcome back the Jessica Ackerley Trio as part of a West Coast tour in support of All Of the Colours Are Singing, the new album on AKP Recordings.

The Wire magazine has called Ackerley “one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years,” and the sheer breadth and mass of work accompanying this emergence is not only impressive in its own right but also an easy validation of this admittedly lofty claim. From collaborations with legends like multi-wind master Daniel Carter and epically prolific double bassist Damon Smith, to a series of duo and group investigations alongside Californian sax/multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi, Ackerley is effectively covering a huge amount of ground within the realm of improvised music, and that’s before we even get into their visual art or compositions. With All Of the Colours Are Singing, Ackerley presents the latest chapter in their evolution as a composer, aided and abetted by double bassist Walter Stinson and Aaron Edgcomb at the drums, and according to Foxy Digitalis, the album “weaves entire lives into each note from their guitar, stitching together a stream of reflections to make whole worlds of sound.”

As an added bonus the Jessica Ackerley Trio will be joined by a guest appearance from Mustafa Rafiq and Jairus Sharif.

NIA DEVETZIS PERFORMS SARAH HENNIES’ Sisters

Sarah Hennies is a terrific example of the kind of composer whose music works as a Venn Diagram of the guiding aesthetics of both New Works Calgary and Bug Incision. Hennies’ compositional output over the past decade-plus is one of the more readily identifiable, but also often wondrously head-scratching, and is often built of highly tactile, physical sounds, blurring the line between incidental sound, precise notations, and gestural, performance-oriented bodily movements. This penchant for such a singular (and sometimes quite rowdy) approach to instrumentation and direction, paired with Hennies’ background in improvisation, make her a natural fit for such a co-presentation. Nia Devetzis, one of our city’s preeminent percussionists and a recent addition to the Bug Incision players’ list, has been tapped as an ideal performer of Hennies’ composition Sisters, a beguiling piece for solo vibraphone, for its debut in Calgary.

CLOUD CIRCUIT

Self-proclaimed “Poetrysound” group Cloud Circuit are based in Montréal and composed of the duo of Deanna Radford, who “channels her poetry as deconstructed word events” and Jeremy Young manipulating “sine tones in flux and amplified surfaces”. Their music is fueled by the complications of communication and the failures within the systems we use to try and achieve it. Their music, often a collaborative affair utilizing guests (such as Alexandre St. Onge of Shalabi Effect), is a deeply engrossing, detailed melange of hard to identify, glitchy sounds amid fractured and processed spoken word passages. Their latest release, Live In Concrete 2020, sees the duo adding even more layers to their arsenals, and New Works Calgary and Bug Incision are excited to present them for their first time in Calgary.

Event Artists

Walter Stinson and Aaron Edgcomb; Mustafa Rafiq and Jairus Sharif; Jessica Ackerley; Nia Devetzis; Deanna Radford; Jeremy Young; Sarah Hennies

New Works Calgary x Bug Incision – 40th Anniversary Season: Jessica Ackerley Trio + Cloud Circuit + Devetzis Plays Hennies

Date/Time
Sunday, October 27, 2024
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Location
High Line Brewing
1318 9 Ave SE
Calgary, Alberta
Canada, T2G 0T3

Price
$17-27

Phone
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Website
https://www.newworkscalgary.com/jessica-ackerley-trio-cloud-circuit-devetzis-plays-hennies

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