Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub-Units

At Third Life Studios


Power Series Expansions


Liner Notes by PEK

The fourth performance at Third Life Studios for this part of the overall Evil Clown project. A smaller orchestra, this time 10 players, perform a pure improvisation of 50 minutes duration. To open the show, we play 4 shorter (15 minute) trios/quartets by different Sub-Units…

We get two critical kinds of prep for the full orchestra performances of PEK scores: Concise improvisations by sometimes unique small cross sections of players from the roster and pure improvisations by the largest versions of Leap of Faith to perform without a score directing the development of the work. The only direction is for each player to lay out for about 1/3 of the total duration on the full length set…

Power Series Expansions:

Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub-Units

Third Life Studios, Somerville MA – 28 October 2017

Disc 1:

1) Sub Unit 1: Interval |X| – 15:28

2) Sub Unit 2: Term by Term – 15:20

3) Sub Unit 3: Partial Sums – 15:10

4) Sub Unit 4: Radii of Convergence – 15:18

Disc 2:

5) Orchestra: Divergence to Infinity – 51:27

PEK (1,4,5) – clarinet, piccolo & contraalto clarinets, tenor & bass saxophones, tarota, contrabassoon, guanzi, metal, wood, crank siren, sheng, aquasonic, folk whistle, cymbells, crotales, melodica, fog horn, glockenspiel, hand chimes, crank siren, voice

Glynis Lomon (5) – cello, aquasonic, voice

Yuri Zbitnov (1,4,5)  drums, percussion, metal, wood, cymbells, crotales, glockenspiel, daiko, hand chimes. voice

Dan O’Brien (2,5) – tenor sax, clarinet & bass clarinet, flute

Bob Moores (3,5) – trumpet, wood flute, hand chimes, wood, metal, percussion

Kat Dobbins (4,5) – trombone

Reverend Grant Beale (2,3,5) – guitar, metal, wood

Eric Zinman (4,5) – piano, metal

Silvain Castellano (3,5) – bass

Kevin Dacey (1,2,5) – drums, percussion, metal, wood, cymbells, crotales, glockenspiel, hand chimes

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