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Suggested admission $6-10
An afternoon show at Twist Gallery featuring innovative pedal steel
guitarist Susan Alcorn and guitarist and poet Misha Feigin.
Susan has created a unique voice in experimental music. Starting from
deep experience in jazz, country, and western swing bands, Susan has
developed a broad approach to improvisation that draws on Indian
music and Gamelan, Tango, Nuevo Cancion, Fado, contemporary
classical music, soul and extended techniques. A typical performance
may include an adaptation of Olivier Messiaen’s “O Sacrum Convivium”
and Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready.” Within the sound of the
pedal steel itself she finds a common vein of spiritual energy in all of
these styles.
Writing for Downtown Music Gallery in New York, Michael Anton Parker
described her music this way: “Rather than the typical avant-garde
path of rejecting melody and focusing on harsh, difficult new sound
vocabularies, Alcorn has dug so deep inside her melodies that she's
opened up a new space of details in individual note shapes, creating
decays that don't decay or suddenly become attacks instead, and
patiently revealing subtle shifts in overtones. Alcorn's music is a hall of
mirrors flooded with liquid gold shimmering off her horizontal fretboard.”
She has performed and recorded with Joe McPhee, Eugene
Chadbourne, Chris Cutler, Pauline Oliveros, Audrey Chen, Jandek,
Tatsuya Nakatani, Peter Kowald, Le Quan Ninh, and many others. She
was a featured performer in Baltimore ’s High Zero Festival, toured in
Europe several times, and has released several stunning albums. For
many years based in Houston , Susan recently relocated to Baltimore .
Misha was born and raised in Moscow and gained a reputation as a
leading guitar and balalaika player in Russia , recording four albums for
Melodia and pioneering a bottleneck style on the balalaika. When the
independent radio station “Echo of Moscow” ended three days
emergency broadcast after the failed coup of August 1991, it ended
with Misha’s song “Gulp of Freedom.” He emigrated to the U.S. in 1990
and is now based in Louisville . He has recorded with Eugene
Chadbourne, Eliot Sharp, Ladonna Smith, Davey Williams, and Craig
Hulgren, and appeared at Tonic and the Knitting Factory in New York ,
the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Kennedy Center in DC. His
performances feature virtuoso free improvisation, a lively sense of
humor, and incorporate poetry and storytelling. His current projects
include The Sahara Gypsies, which fuses Russian Gypsy and Arabic
music with blues and funk.
The concert will include solo sets from Susan and Misha and duet
performances. Other acts may be added to the bill.
For more information, contact David Maddox at dcmaddox@comcast.
net. For gallery directions, click here.
Susan Alcorn's MySpace Profile
Susan Alcorn's Web Site
Misha Feigin's MySpace Profile
Craft Day at Twist!
January 26, 2008
12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Join us for another fun Crafty Day! Saturday, Jan. 26th from 12 p.m to 3
p.m. Bring your current craft project and enjoy some hot beverages
and snacks. Please RSVP to twist@twistartgallery.com.
NPT Arts Break Features
Art at the Arcade
Click here to see a video about the genesis of the First Saturday
Gallery Crawls and Art at the Arcade.
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