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The
Paul Dresher Ensemble interprets the ideas and sounds of todays
most innovative and irreverent composers. With energy, virtuosity
and incredible
attention to the theatrical
dimensions of performance,
it produces and tours its own works
of opera and experimental
music theater (developed in collaboration with Obie Award-winning
performer Rinde Eckert),
and as the Electro-Acoustic Band performs
the
work of an amazing range of contemporary
composers with
instrumentation that combines
traditional acoustic and contemporary
electronic instruments. Virtuoso solo performers like Terry
Riley, Joan Jeanrenaud and David Abel frequently join the Electro-Acoustic
Band for concerts that redefine contemporary chamber music.
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Schick Machine World Premiere (more info)
Presented by Stanford Lively Arts
Saturday, March 7, 2009 8PM

Tickets: $34-38/general, $17-19 /students
online: livelyarts.stanford.edu
by phone: 650-725-ARTS (2787)
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Cage
Machine
Paul Dresher's new CD includes ten years of innovative, industrial
strength "chamber music with a clang." Released on
the prestigious New Albion label, the CD celebrates Dresher's
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Paul Dresher and the
Electro Acoustic Band |
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"
The ensembles performance,
as ever, was a marvel of rhythmic and harmonic precision
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Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle |
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Ravenshead |
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"
an incredible look at a brilliant
mans inability to understand his limitations
The
wild music of the six-piece Paul Dresher Ensemble
weaves
a wily sonic tapestry
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Mark De La Vina, San Jose Mercury News
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