The Music of Anthony Braxton: Mary Halvorson & George Lewis // Live at Roulette

George Lewis: Hearing Voices • Roulette Intermedium

 

This performance is presented live in Roulette's theater in Downtown Brooklyn. Roulette’s mission is to support artists creating new and adventurous art in all disciplines by providing them with a venue and resources to realize their creative visions and to build an audience interested in the evolution of experimental art.

George Lewis: Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts

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• George Lewis || Florence, July 8th, 1978

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George E Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell @ CTM 2018: Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise?

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As part of CTM’s Turmoil edition, trombonist George E Lewis and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell gave a performance alongside Lewis’s AI improvising system Voyager. Following this, Lewis delivered a talk entitled “Why Do We Want Our Computers To Improvise?”, discussing machine subjectivities in interactive music and questioning how cyborg sociality has transformed everyday sonic life. He was then joined by Mitchell for a conversation mediated by The Wire’s Daniel Spicer, during which they reflected on their recent performance and their collaborative and individual practices.

Both talks took place at Kunstquartier Bethanien on 3 February 2018

The two Chicagoan jazz pioneers, music professors and longstanding AACM members were in conversation at the latest edition of the Berlin festival

The Trio || Muhal Richard Abrams | Roscoe Mitchell | George Lewis

Muhal Richard Abrams, piano • Roscoe Mitchell, winds • George Lewis, trombone and electronics

Radical Roundtable || Benjamin Patterson & George Lewis

Benjamin Patterson and George Lewis in conversation on the occasion of Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Grey Art Gallery, NYU.
November 15, 2013

George Lewis || The Will To Adorn

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George Lewis is a modern musical polymath, in the truest sense of the word. As the legendary trombonist and pioneering member of the Chicago based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Lewis was a driving force in one of the most important movements in improvised music in the last decades of the 20th century. His work with interactive computer software has transformed the fields of electro-acoustic music and virtual instruments.
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Written for Seth Parker Woods, Not Alone uses interactive digital delays, spatialization and timbre transformation to create a dance among multiple cellists following diverse yet intersecting spatial trajectories. Although the work does not deploy explicit models of self-similarity, the more immediate spatial trajectories expand into larger trajectories of affect across the duration of the piece. Advancing a conversational aesthetic, albeit in a nonimprovised work, in Not Alone foreground and background deliberately conflate. The electronics and the cello blend, intersect, and ultimately diverge into multiple digital personalities that can suddenly converge into unified ensembles while shrouding their origin in processes of repetition. The composition is dedicated to cellist Abdul Wadud. Software design by Damon Holzborn.

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L-R-G, a composition by Roscoe Mitchell, performed by Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), George Lewis (trombone) and Wadada Leo Smith (trupmet)

Roscoe Mitchell, James Fei, and William Winant • George Lewis

George Lewis

William Winant

James Fei

Roscoe Mitchell