Juiicy 2xs - Yeah Yeah (feat. Lola Brooke)

Performance
Saturday, September 10th, 2016

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear. Pitches and melodies are rare, as the basic sonic capabilities of the instruments dictate the musicality and structure of the piece.

The piece features Brandon Lopez, Sean Ali, and Zachary Rowden on double bass. The premiere is followed by a second improvisational set featuring Leila Bordreuil, Joanna Mattrey (viola) and Sean Ali (bass).

Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist and composer from France. Her cello playing is often improvised, and focuses on the relationship between the human body and the inherent sonic qualities of her instrument. Essential to her musical aesthetic is the expression of humans’ neuro-somatic imperfections, which she chooses to magnify through extreme amplification of very quiet playing, revealing microscopic gestures that are otherwise inaudible to the human ear. Her composed works draw from a similar aesthetic but also focus on sound through space and the distortion that arises from spatially organized sound sources. Leila’s collaborative projects include duos with Michael Foster and Tamio Shiraishi, a trio with Sean Ali and Joanna Mattrey, and the no-wave band “Signal Break” with Austin Jullian (Sediment Club) and Evin Huguenin (Sects). She has performed at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, The Stone, MoMA PS1, Roulette, the Performa Biennale, Ftarri (Tokyo, JP), the Heresy Series for Women in Sound (Manila, PHL), and many basements across the U.S.

Established in 2006, ISSUE's annual Artist-in-Residence program provides emerging artists each with a year-long residency in 2016, offering access to rehearsal space and facilities, equipment, documentation, pr/marketing, curatorial and technical expertise to create new works, reach the next stage in their artistic development, and gain exposure to a broad public audience.

Leila Bordreuil: Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble - Live at ISSUE / September 10th, 2016

Helsinki
Orchestral, Big ensemble
Ensemble: Avanti!
Conductor: Anna Maria Helsing
Rehearsals in Porvoo on 06/30/2017

Bellum

One of the many great musical encounters that I had with Cory at Banff that I actually managed to document

Cory Smythe Zekkereya El-magharbel Duo

Piranha Project is:
Filippo Rinaldo -pn
Federico Calcagno - cl
Stefano Grasso - dms

Recorded on July 21st 2020 at Il Guscio Recording Studio, Milano

Visione 2

Stefano Grasso (1992) is a contemporary-classical free jazz drummer and percussionist based in Basel, Switzerland.
As both drummer and percussionist, he has had the luck of meeting many musicians he admires a lot, taking part to many different and challenging projects in various musical genres (classical and contemporary music, jazz, punk-rock, songwriting, improvised music and what's between all of this. With some of this bands he has performed in clubs and festival around Italy and Europe. He features more than 40 albums as sideman, released from italian labels (Emme Record, JazzIt, Felmay, Setola di Maiale, Squilibri Editore, La Stanza Nascosta, ABeat, Splasch) and foreign labels (Chant Records, Ravello Records, AUT Records), plus a self-released album as bandleader (2018).
Aside his activity of performer, he works as class musician for dancers and as composer for theater (Una Vita a Matita, Un po' di più, Prometeo?).
He's curently pursuing his personal approach to music/drums/percussion, practicing, contaminating and cultivating his thoughts through the ideas and approaches of the many musicians he is very happy to work with.

Visione 2

Stefano Grasso

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