Jakob Heinemann (photo by Ralph Kühne)
Dave Gordon Quintet
About the Artists
The current configuration of the Dave Gordon Quintet has been solid for 14 years, but for the recent addition of Chris Dammann. The ensemble core of Gephart, Gordon and Gallagher, prolific composers all, began collaborating together to play and record their work while studying at Berklee in 1978, with a constant focus on creative improvised music of widely varying amounts of structural pixie dust. This has resulted in a long string of varied releases and performances as a group, and in related projects by each. Dushun Mosley locked in to the group in 2010, drawing on his long, worldwide experience in the iconic Eight Bold Souls, Vizitors, Signature Group, the AACM Big Band, and a host of other artists. Chris Dammann brings a dedication to furthering creative improvisation with a wide experience working in music for various visual media. Stephan Moore is a sound artist working in performance technology who designed and built the CLEAl system which he will integrate into the total soundscape.
Tonight’s Improvised Music Series brings together jazz-like and electronic explorations with stunning results:
Jakob Heinemann returns to Chicago with a collaborative ensemble with Norman W. Long, and Sebastian Strinning from Switzerland.
Dave Gordon’s Plasmosonic Sextet builds on Gordon’s long-running collaborations in creative music with a special performance utilizing Elastic’s unique 16-channel CLEAT speaker system.
8:30 pm -
Jakob Heinemann - double bass, electronics
Norman Long - laptop & synths
Sebastian Strinning - saxophone
9:30 pm - Plasmosonic Sextet:
Dave Gordon - piano, keyboards, percussion
Dushun Mosley - drums, percussion
Brian Gephart - tenor and soprano saxophone, percussion
Chris Dammann - bass
Jack Gallagher - bass trumpet
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Jakob Heinemann is a double bassist, composer, improviser and sound artist working between Chicago and Madison, WI. His interests are wide-ranging, but tend to center on close listening, environmental composition, and open collaborations with other artists. As a bass player, he frequently performs freely improvised music, and counts himself as a member of the rich and varied community of creative musicians in Chicago. As a composer and sound artist, he utilizes field recordings, spectral analysis, and traditional scoring to sonify his local community, seeking to document and understand a sense of place in a radically changing environment.He has been fortunate to work with some incredible artists over the years including Roscoe Mitchell, Tomeika Reid, Mike Reed, Jim Baker, and Dave Rempis.
Norman W. Long (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a sound artist/designer/composer based in Chicago, IL. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. The processes involved in his practice lie within the area of field recording, electro-acoustic composition and dub technique. Norman’s art/studio practice involves gardening, collecting, performing and recording to create, objects, environments, situations in which the artist and audience are engaged in a dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the invisible. It is his desire that his practice offers us a space to consider our relationship to sound via social, ecological structures, our interiority and to affirm our existence. Norman has exhibited and performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, New York, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Born on the 1st of June 1985 in Brugg (Switzerland) and currently living in Lucerne, Seb String is a Swiss/Swedish jazz musician whose focus is on experimental jazz and free improvised music. From 2006 to 2013 he studied at the Musik Hochschule, Luzern and at the KMH Stockholm, taking lessons from, among others, Urs Leimgruber, Gerry Hemingway, Hans Koch und Fredrik Ljungkvist. Early in his career, String gave expressive solo performances at festivals such as the Stanser Musiktage and Jazz Festival Schaffhausen. In 2013 he started working with Gerry Hemingway and Manuel Troller (Tree Ear), and with Lauren Newton and Emanuel Künzi (Blindflug). At the same time, he began organizing concerts at Mullbau and at the Kleintheater Luzern. In 2016 he received the Werkbeitrag of the Canton of Lucerne and founded together with Lino Blöchlinger the band Le String'Blö. In 2017 he was awarded a residency in Chicago. At the same time, the Looty Trio was set up (with Valeria Zangger and Marc Unternährer). 2019 he started the interdisciplinary group Suzuribako and from 2022 to 2026 he receives living cost contributions of the Stiftung Arvore. Festival and club performances take him throughout Switzerland, Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America.