Othello

Music For Spring (Live at La MaMa)

An excerpt from an event put on by the dance collective AUNTS, May 5, 5, 2015 at BRIC Arts Media. I and other musicians took turns playing music while several dance groups danced in the open space. You'll hear some of the other musicians in the background at times. In the first half of this clip, I play music I wrote in Salvador, Brazil in 2015. In the second half I play a piece called "Watercolors," which was co-written with James Harrison Monaco in Virginia Beach in 2008.

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Music for Gardening

I perform original electro-acoustic music for saxophone, piano, synthesizer, and sampler. The three pillars of my music are improvisation, counterpoint (the weaving together of melodic and rhythmic layers, creating an effect similar to a Persian rug) and repetition (usually in the form of loops, short cycles of repeated sound). 

Think of stained glass windows. The windows can be admired as a work of visual art, but they also breathe into the cathedral a space outlined by color and light, through which we can move and think. Likewise, one can listen to my music, but one can also enter and move within it. It can be a room, a corridor, a bed, a blanket, a garden, a boat. 

I create wordless aural refuges and environments for improvising. For years I have been building and furnishing a house, and when I perform I invite the audience over for a visit. 

jeromeellis.bandcamp.com
jamesandjerome.org

For contact: jeromejohnellis@gmail.com

Videos:
http://vimeo.com/58236925
http://vimeo.com/62213778

Jerome John Ellis

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