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The Reconstructed Accordion Conspiracy
7:00 PM on Sunday Mar. 25th, 2018
Behind 5 Fairmount st, Ottawa

First, the individual parts:

Bernard Stepien: Accordion happened to be Bernard Stepien’s first musical instrument, initially in a classical and folkloric music context. Back in the ‘60s, Stepien heard Ornette Coleman and started to play accordion in his then proto-harmolodic style. Stepien's accordion, a Hohner Morino model from the late ‘50s, has a keyboard on the left hand that is identical to the one for the right hand but with smaller more compact buttons. This feature enables to play harmonies in a similar way as on a piano. But these harmonies are not the traditional ones. Instead and thanks to the fact that Stepien had the immense privilege to study with the great master Cecil Taylor in 2001 in New York City, the harmonies are more of an in-depth exploration of sounds rather than chords but giving this overall sinuous sense of harmony, like harmonies without traditional harmonies?

David Broscoe: He has been nurturing the art of multiphonics, first on alto saxophone but then on the baritone saxophone for quite some time.

Scott Warren: is a drummer that sees rhythmic patterns in any sound sequences and overlapping surrounding us. He develops what he hears using samplers or tapes. He has an extensive collection of found objects that ensure the best of sound texture experiences.

Then, what to expect:
This time, there will be no composed tunes. It will be all total improvisations combining divergence or convergence, texture vs squeezed out melodies and all the effects you can expect from the help of electronics.