The Multiphonic Choir and Melissa Moore: Live Tonight at Wind Up Space, Baltimore

The Multiphonic Choir
A Night of Exuberant AFRO-GERMANICISM


1/14/10, 9PM, $6

The Wind Up Space
12 West North Avenue

Melissa Moore:
Wake-making: Ceremony of a Polyrhythmic Biogram

The Multiphonic Choir
Music of John Berndt, Sun Ra, Kraftwerk, and Daktaris

AFRO-GERMANICISM, the sensibility that no one wants but everyone loves, was born in Baltimore, The Ambiguity City, where the forcing of contradictions between historically opposed sensibilities comes as natural as beavers building beaver dams or human beings building nuclear power plants.This show combines the talents of two of the "thought leaders" of the genre, Melissa Moore and the Multiphonic Choir.

In *Wake-making: Ceremony of a Polyrhythmic Biogram*...
"“The diagram becomes a type of topological transformation, variably looping between virtual potential and the actualized possibility.” (Doruff 2006) I attempt to create moments that are in transport and go between re-articulations and potentialities { future – past – becoming }. An “abstract machine” of sorts. One that is unstable and contains a spatiotemporal duplicity. A system that precludes form but paradoxically organizes itself into a pseudo-form. With the use of traditional African ceremonial drumming music, invented polyrhythm machines, and electric guitar, I am employing a technique that shifts layered polyrhythms into abstract polyrhythms that are biogrammatic in nature; a language of the body that brings external realities into the internal field."-Melissa Moore

The Multiphonic Choir
John Berndt's AFRO-GERMANICIST ensemble includes some of the best musicians in Baltimore: John Dierker, Chris Pumphrey, Tiffany Defoe, Rose Burt and John Berndt (Saxophones), Dan Breen (electric bass), and Paul Neidhardt (drums). Using extended multiphonic technique, the band has a unique sound and rock-band intensity mixed with complex structure and rhythms. Together they play new compositions by Berndt, as well as unusual covers of pieces by Daktaris, Sun Ra, and Kraftwerk.