Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday November 17th, 2010 with Bernard Stepien
Linsey Wellman's live interview on Ephemera

Since his graduation in 2001 at Carleton University, Linsey Wellman has matured into a fully loaded musician worth the detour. Linsey has since been involved in complementary, overlaping and opposite musical styles ranging from world music to extreme avantgarde. His latest project is a solo CD where the techniques laid down by the greats like Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker and David Mott are widely extended. Here is how Linsay describes his music: Ephemera is a 45 minute meditation for solo alto saxophone, improvised around a diverse set of parameters; different with each performance, but always recognizable. It can be described as an exploration of texture, timbre, melody and tonal relationships in the ‘free’ music tradition, incorporating approaches to techniques such as circular breathing and multiphonics. Alternatively, if works of art can be said to be descriptions of the (or a) world, this one can be said to contain tenderness, passion, frustration, chaos, anger, joy, love and beauty. In a world where narratives are being standardized by political and economic forces, Ephemera is a small act of rebellion. Tonight, we propose an interview with Linsey where we discuss the material of his latest Ephemera CD.