The Tank Presents Loop 243 in Residence 10/13

The Tank Space for Visual and Performing Arts presents a monthly installment this fall featuring the work of composers/percussionists Loop 243, along with their featured guests and collaborators. The programming of the residency highlights new work by Loop 243 with collaborations by multi-media artists, along with guest spots that showcase the duo's interests and influences. For the next event, downtown NYC legend Erik Friedlander opens with a solo set, while Emily Hope Price (Pearl and the Beard) joins Loop 243 during their set. Wednesday, October 13, 7 p.m. at The Tank, 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036.

Loop 243's residency at the Tank continues in October with a show christened Songs, Drums, and Refrains of Death, featuring cellists Erik Friedlander and Emily Hope Price. The title is a nod to the evocative work of George Crumb (whom Loop founder Kozumplik studied with in Prague), autumn, and a description of the material being performed; unique takes on the song form by Loop 243 and Friedlander.

"Erik Friedlander can do things with a cello that should have a reasonable listener fearing for her life," says PitchforkMedia.com, "Rostropovich one second and Rottweiler the next." Cellist Erik Friedlander, a virtuosic veteran of NYC's downtown scene, has backed John Zorn, Laurie Anderson and Courtney Love. New York's Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a classical musician and a jazzbo. He has recorded 8 CD's as a leader and has always worked to stake out new ground for the cello in both his compositional choices and his dynamic improvising style. Whether its solo playing or performing with one of his bands Friedlander' blends his vision of what the cello can be pushed to do, while maintaining a firm grasp on traditions, both improvising and classical. He is the son of Lee Friedlander, the photographer known by musicians and jazz aficionados for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records.

Loop 2.4.3 is a composer/performer duo that has drawn comparisons to Steve Reich, Battles, Harry Partch, Moondog, Konono No.1, Brian Eno, and Belle Orchestre - an assortment that alludes to their hard to classify, yet visceral aesthetic. They are composers/instrument
inventors/improvisers/performers and "virtuosi musicians of the highest caliber" (Gordon Stout), mixing electro-acoustic techniques with an array of percussion and other instruments. Their new album, Zodiac Dust, features strings and two instruments of their invention, the Rose Echo and eLog. Their music has been described as "transportive percussion odysseys" (The Boston Phoenix), "taut compositions with a stunning improvisational sense" (Time Out Chicago), and as both "action adventures and reveries... All sound[ing] like part of a well-thought-out tradition, only the tradition has never existed until now." (Milo Miles, Fresh Air - NPR)

Upcoming:

The November 10 residency finale, Roots of Reality, features Cuban jazz drummer Dafnis Prieto, master drummer John Amira, along with Loop 243, in a program that works its way through folkloric drumming, Cuban-infused jazz, and large-scale electro-acoustic percussion works. The rhythms and melodies of Afro-Cuban drumming are taken from the literal to the abstract.

The Tank presents: Loop 243 in Residence
II. Songs, Drums, and Refrains of Death
Wednesday, October 13, 7 p.m.
w/ Erik Friedlander and Emily Hope Price
III. Loop 243's Roots of Reality w/ Dafnis Prieto and John Amira
Wednesday, November 10, 8 p.m.
The Tank
354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036
Subway: A, C, E, N, Q, R, 1, 2, 3, or 7 to Times Square

Advance tickets ($10 for Sept/Oct, $15 for Nov):
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9726 or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006