wilson_shook

wilson shook
events february 12 (friday) 8:00 pm seattle improvised music festival, night two Birgit Ulher - Leonel Kaplan - Jaime Fennelly Wilson Shook - Jaime Fennelly - Fred Lonberg-Holm - Leonel Kaplan Jack Wright - Gust Burns - Mark Kaylor at the Chapel Performance Space, seattle waywardmusic.blogspot.com seattleimprovisedmusic.com $10 february 13 (saturday) 8:00 pm seattle improvised music festival, night three Tyler Wilcox - Robert Pedersen - Rachael Wadham Birgit Ulher - Leonel Kaplan - Jack Wright - Paul Hoskin Large Group (which will include myself) at the Chapel Performance Space, seattle waywardmusic.blogspot.com seattleimprovisedmusic.com $10 ps: this is my birthday, so you should definitely come out. february 14 (sunday) 8:00 pm seattle improvised music festival, night four Rachael Wadham - Mara Sedlins Wilson Shook - Jack Wright - Robert Pedersen - Paul Neidhardt Tyler Wilcox - Gust Burns - Paul Neidhardt - Fred Lonberg-Holm at gallery 1412, seattle gallery1412.org seattleimprovisedmusic.com $10 february 16, 2009 (tuesday) 8:00 pm i'll be playing with these fine northeasterners: Reuben Radding - bass Andrew Drury - drums Bonnie Jones - electronics Keir Neuringer - saxophone Jacob Wick - trumpet at douglass street music collective, brooklyn nyc myspace.com/295douglass $? march 6, 2009 (saturday) 8:00 pm HERE/NOW is a quarterly improvisation-based performance program based on eight dancers/movement artists and eight musicians/sound artists being randomly paired and given eight minutes to improvise a duet together. at open flight studio, seattle openflightstudio.org $8 suggested	i am an improvising musician, writer, photographer, activist, etc. living in seattle, washington, usa. my principal instrument is the alto saxophone, which i often disassemble and/or augment with everyday items and junk. i also practice friction based percussion with found instruments. in my music i emphasize texture, chance and exploration. i try to avoid music that communicates primarily by referencing preexisting structures of meaning (forms, hooks, progressions, gestures, quotes, etc.). at the same time, i'm not interested in creating 'new music' in the the sense of overcoming history or proving that i'm unique. to me, the obsession with creating unique art is horribly misinformed by capitalism and other hierarchies. how is 'new music' fundamentally different from the new Ford or the new dishwasher on the market? rather than something new or unique, i search for something personal, and something that communicates what i need to get across. i am interested in the actualization through art of feminist and libertarian ethics, the interplay between artistic freedom and freedom at large. i see improvisation as a model of interaction that can inform diverse situations and relationships. i currently perform solo, as well as with the Gust Burns Ensemble, Wilson/Phillips, and in various ad hoc and piece-oriented collaborations. some musicians i have collaborated with: Gust Burns, Nate Wooley, Bob Marsh, Gino Robair, Tyler Wilcox, Greg Kelley, Jaimie Branch, Joshua Manchester, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jonathan Zorn, Michael Thieke, Robert Blatt, Tom Swafford, Jonathan Sielaff, Mark Collins, Tom Yoder, Teri Nelson-Zagar, Dave Knott, Seattle Improvisers' Orchestra, many others... i am also the director of gallery 1412 and part of the Seattle Improvised Music board of directors. here is a more concise press blurb
current projects
gust burns quartet: an acoustic quartet led by seattle pianist/ inside pianist gust burns "developing directions from and to form, structure, duration, and silence". gust burns (inside piano) mara sedlins (viola) mark collins (bass) wilson shook (alto saxophone) gust is a dear friend of mine and someone who has influenced my experience of music significantly. mara and mark are also players with whom i share a strong musical affinity. this group is awesome.	bst.cr improvised music, organized mutiny, free association ben bennett (drumheads - columbus, oh) ryan jewell (snare drum - columbus, oh) wilson shook (alto saxophone - seattle) (pronounced Bee Ess Tee See Arrrrgh) ...formed initially in the summer of 2009, this heretofore unnamed vessel comprises a core trio of Ben Bennett, Ryan Jewell and Wilson Shook, as well as any foolhardy stowaway who happen to seek passage under these ragged sails. whether careening through uncharted seas or reposing under familiar stars, bst.cr follow a map of their own creation, where X marks not a terminus of promised riches, but a signpost along the way of perpetual becoming. fellow travelers are advised to set aside their customary defenses and take up the banner of an alter-subjectivity.
A Saxophone Quartet tyler wilcox (soprano saxophone) wilson shook (alto saxophone) kelvin pittman (tenor saxophone) paul hoskin (baritone saxophone) Four of the northwest's most distinctive voices on the instrument: Hoskin, Wilcox, Pittman and Shook unite under the collective project of 'a saxophone quartet', which in its very anonymity (namelessness) speaks to the general perception and tendency of such projects to be mere novelty acts or platforms for showboating and backslapping; this quartet maintains a steady focus on collectivity and the organic rather than the orgasmic. there are no soloists here. they build a delicate, powerful music with a focus on texture, density and silence, approaching each moment with a fresh sense of possibility.
sporadic projects
Wilson/Phillips is the collaborative research of one Wilson M. Shook, of Seattle, Washington, and one Chris P. Phillips, of Vashon Island, Washington. Their music investigates the incomplete cipher, the broken record, and the contents of your garbage can. New resonant possibilities arise from dusty miscellania, while generally well-regarded instruments such as the guitar and alto saxophone are made to sound like a box of busted canopeners. Their findings are completely unsubstantiated. chris phillips - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, zither, assorted crap. wilson shook - alto saxophone, lamphorn (francophone), voice, junk, etc.
past projects
Flim Night is a film series i curate at gallery 1412. On the first Tuesday of every month, Flim Night showcases a variety of film-based art, with special emphasis on subversive humor, surrealism, activist and revolutionary topics, and whatever else resonates. screenings begin at 7pm donations benefit Seattle Food Not Bombs scn.org/activism/foodnotbombs Local film makers are encouraged to submit pieces for screening. Submissions may be dropped off at (or mailed to) gallery 1412, care of: Wilson / Flim Night.	Others TBA brings together the creative energies of Matthew McDowell and Wilson Shook. Stripped down to a minimal setup of alto sax, casio keyboard and voice, Others TBA build their sound from the ground up, reimagining the possibilities of their respective instruments via nontraditional human and machine technologies. wilson Shook - alto sax, text, etc. matthew McDowell - Casio, stuff, etc.
for hearing
_5:05_	at gallery 1412, seattle 4.30.09 Wilson Shook - alto saxophone

_29:15_ _9:35_	live at brown rice, chicago 11.17.08 Wilson Shook - alto saxophone Guillermo Gregorio - clarinet Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello Daniel Fandiño - electronics Aaron Zarzutzki - no-output turntable Joshua Manchester - kagel drum



_10:41_	live at the Free Sheep Foundation, seattle 10.1.08 andrea neumann - inside piano mara sedlins - viola mark collins - bass wilson shook - alto saxophone gust burns - inside piano



_01_ _02_ _03_ _04_ _05_ _06_ _07_ _08_	short/suite 2008 this is a series of brief solo improvisations recorded in spring, 2008 instruments include alto sax, plastic packaging, and paper cup


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