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Experimental Music/August 23th/Offenbach

Experimental Music Thursday august 23th, 2007 8pm (20:00)
With:


-Jair-Rohm Parker Wells
http://www.myspace.com/jairrohm

-Suspicion Breeds Confidence
http://www.acrylnimbus.de/

-Buc Precious

@
bettinastr. 71-73 Hinterhaus | offenbach am main | germany

Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is an American bassist, composer, programmer,
conceptualist and record producer. A resident of Stockholm, Sweden
since 1985,
he is widely recognized as a highly individual voice on the electric
bass
guitar, Ashbory bass, Fichter electric double bass and acoustic bass
guitar,
he has also distinguished himself as a clinician (demonstrating at the
Frankfurt Musik Messe and the Los Angeles NAMM show for Hohner and
Steinberger), programmer and synthesist developing with Max/MSP, Csound
and
Java. As a record producer and composer he has collaborated with many
of the
more prominent names in the international art world such as Peter
Kihlgård,
Lydia Grey, Johannes Bergmark, Iris Lord, Magnus Alexanderson, Olaf
Rupp and
Reeves Gabrels. He is the recipient of commissions from prestigious
institutions such as Stockholms Stadsteatern and New York's MEET THE
COMPOSER.
Current activities include promoting the debut release of his
improvising trio
Decision Dream ("Steamroom Variations", Red Toucan Records) as well as
appearing solo augmented by Nord Modular Synth and electronics. He
heads the
net label Loopadelica.com which promotes live improvised music.

Raised in southern Germany, Jair-Rôhm moved to New York in 1978. After
touring
the United States for a year with a top forty band he attended Tulane
University in New Orleans. While at Tulane, he regularly performed with
local
jazz and rhythm and blues artists. He also performed as a member of
Tulane
University's Tulanians, met and studied with Richard Payne (the first
person
to record with the electric bass) and discovered the music of Harry
Partch. He
returned to the New York area in the fall of 1980 where he met and
started
work study under saxophonist/composer Ken Simon. During this period
Jair-Rôhm
also met Anthony Braxton and became involved in the study of his music.
In
1982 Jair-Rôhm founded his own experimental music/theater group GLASS
THOUGHT
THEATER ENSEMBLE. Between 1982 and 1983 he was composer in residence at
the
New York Theater Ensemble (New York, N.Y.) where he wrote and produced a
trilogy of progressive"operas". He received a MEET THE COMPOSER grant
in 1983.
> From 1984 - 1985 he was resident in New Jersey where he continued
> composing
and playing the bass. He was a founding member of the New Brunswick Jazz
Musician's Collective (New Brunswick, N.J.) for which he composed and
performed many significant works for various ensembles. He is also one
of the
original members of the legendary New York improvising band Machine Gun.

Some of the artists Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells has performed and /or
recorded with
include: Robert Musso, Tobias Schmitt, Karl Berger, Reeves Gabrels,
Lost Boys,
FIVE, Dr. Alban, Daniel Carter, Regina Belle, Max Martin, Jon Lord, Tony
Scott, Marcus Heesch, Thomas Chapin, Charles Brakeen, Jonas Hellborg,
Peter
Sonntag, Luther Thomas, John "Jab'O" Starks, and Steve Conte.
http://www.myspace.com/jairrohm

see also:

www.curmbox.de
www.produck.tk

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