[atlantaprog] Several things...

First off, where are all the posts lately? Ya'll have been awfully silent lately. I'd love to hear a report on the Ca. Gtr. Trio show from someone who went to it (rather than Roguefest).

Also, anyone go see Les Claypool besides me? Interesting show, including a surprise appearance by Trey Anasatio (sp?) for most of the set! His band featured this amazing blue-haired woman who wore a *real* sitar like a guitar and played it like a lead instrument - very good! She was also an excellent Theremin player, coaxing some great lead lines out of that weird little box while dancing and twirling her arms like crazy.

Lastly, a cool show at Eyedrum this Friday - see below:

Susan Alcorn
Scott Burland/John Lowther-Johnny Minotaur
9:00 pm
$6

Susan Alcorn is a Houston-based composer and musician who has received international recognition as an innovator of the pedal steel guitar, an instrument whose sound is commonly associated with country and western music. Alcorn has absorbed the technique of C&W pedal steel playing and refined it to a virtuosic level. Her original music reveals the influence of free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, Indigenous traditions, and other musics of the world. The Manchester Guardian describes her music as "beautiful, glassy and liquid, however far she strays from pulse and conventional harmony." 

Recent performances include the Leipzig JazzTage in Germany as a part of the Chris Cutler Project, critically acclaimed performances at the London Musicians Collective's Festival of Experimental Music, and performances at the High Zero Festival in Baltimore, Birmingham (AL) Improv Festival, and the No Idea Festival in Austin, Texas. Improvisational collaborations include those with composer Pauline Oliveros, the late bassist Peter Kowald, Joe Giardullo and Joe McPhee, LaDonna Smith, Tatsuya Nakatani and Audrey Chen, as well as concerts and recordings with avant-garde guitarist Eugene Chadbourne. 
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"Susan A is a great player who has mastered and redefined an unlikely instrument. With an exquisite touch she invoked it's history, extended its emotional and ethereal strengths and explored its microtonal possibilities—drawing it out of the contexts that traditionally render it invisible, or generic, and into its own mature discourse—reminding improvisers that 'free'  includes the right to be romantic, melodic and four to the bar." 
Chris Cutler, The Wire (UK) 

"Alcorn’s pedal steel tones, stretch, float, and dance in the air, and on the ears, expressing something that’s worlds beyond words, yet able to communicate on the deepest level." 
Pete Gershon, Signal to Noise 

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OPENING FOR SUSAN ALCORN are Scott Burland and John Lowther who will make up the next episode of Johnny Minotaur.

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