Try to Get it Right This Time: 5

Try to Get it Right This Time: 4

this is an improvised suite with five sections


Try to Get it Right This Time: 3

Try to Get it Right This Time: 2

Try to Get It Right This Time:  1

improvisation structure composed by Scott Currie, performed by Instabilitrio 

Ring Zone A

Transvergence

compositional structure created by Scott Currie, performance by Instabilitrio

Ring Zone B

compositional structure by Scott Currie, performance by Instabilitrio

14 Ring Zone C

Instabilitrio is an experimental improvisation trio that includes: Scott Currie, Erkki Huovinen, and Edward Schneider. Their performances are informed by free jazz, contemporary European concert music, folk, and circus traditions. 

Scott Currie has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from New York University. His research to date has focused on ethnographic studies of avant-garde jazz practice in New York City and Berlin. In addition, Currie has served as associate director of the Vision Festival, an independent avant-garde arts festival in New York, and founded the Sound Vision Orchestra, in which he currently serves as president. He has performed on saxophones with such artists as Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Alan Silva, Marty Ehrlich, J. D. Parran, and the Other Dimensions in Music collective.

Erkki Huovinen is a Finnish improvising musician, musicologist and philosopher of music who currently works as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota. After his doctoral dissertation on the perceptual psychology of music (University of Turku, Finland, 2002) his academic work has also variously focused on music theory, the philosophy of music, improvisation pedagogy and ethnomusicology. Before moving to the US in 2009, much of his musical activities in Finland revolved around his long-term project, Kiiski/Huovinen Blow, co-led by the speech and video artist Ville Kiiski, producing video art based on multi-artistic improvisations. Their most ambitious production to date is a one-hour thematic work exploring the grassroots culture and commerce of a Northern European town. Other recent musical activities in Finland have included association with the composer Pertti "Peppe" Jalava in his progressive jazz-rock group Peppe Jalava Band (e.g., on the CD "Go to the Beach", Alba Records, 2010). 

Edward Schneider is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York. In 2009 Schneider received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . That same year his new electronic composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Schneider was the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Mark Nye, and has become an active member of the performance collectives Instabilitrio and Discontense. 

