A performance by Flandrew Fleisenberg with Amanda Cagle, Evan Lipson, and Angela Sweet
will be presented next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Mark Making, 2510 N. Chamberlain Ave. Tickets are $5-10 at the door (sliding scale).
Reviews of the performers:
Called “Einstein of drums” by poet Gordon Marshall, Flandrew Fleisenberg plays percussion on an ever-changing assortment of ephemera and modified drum parts coaxing texture and tone both familiar and bizarre. Attentive to room resonance, ambience and collaborator, Mr. Fleisenberg playfully utilizes sound and presence to explore space, time and relationships. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) with a focus in conceptual art, he is musically self-taught and has developed a cadre of idiosyncratic techniques that are all his own. Mr. Fleisenberg has been involved in the improvised and creative music community since 2001 performing solo, in ad-hoc improv groupings and in set projects. A recent migrant to Philadelphia, Mr. Fleisenberg is an active producer and advocate of Free Improvisation music and dance across the region.
Recent and favored implements: Cannon ball, 10” ball chain, catering platters, doors, loose cymbals, sticky sticks, soup pans, glass window, steel spring, floors, walls, air, sand, paper, rope, ping ping balls, a couple glasses of wine, some luck and good fortune.
Amanda Rose Cagle studied Baroque strings and woodwinds at Case Western University and piano, double bass and clarinet at Hiram College. She has performed with the big band Sweet Georgia Sound, psychedelic jug band Big Kitty, poet-prophet Jack Rentfro and the Apocalypso Quartet, Ghanian drum and dance group Mawre & Co., polka partiers The Wurstbrats, rococo-horror trio Trigger Mortis and speakeasy chanteuse Christabel.
Evan Lipson has operated as a musician since adolescence—intuitively seeking the liminal zones in which intellect and instinct, history and myth, and creative and destructive force intersect. Drawn towards aberrant perspectives at an early age, his formative experiences were primarily rooted in extreme and often discordant forms of rock, improvised music, modernist composition, jazz, outsider pop, soundtracks, and noise. Mr. Lipson is currently active with Normal Love and WREST. Recently, he has written music for several films as well as a new collaboration with David Greenberger, Amanda Cagle, and Bob Stagner of the Shaking Ray Levis.