Courtney Brown at the Lighthouse March 20, 2008

THURSDAY MARCH 20
The Lighthouse presents a night of true musical exploration in all realms.

Sejayno
Courtney Brown
Sonic Circus
Fantasy Apple Pipe Machine

*8pm*
1421 Buchanan St NW
5$ suggested
202 468 7842 for info

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Sejayno = incantations with unique musical instruments,
We have half-assed-shamanism and wabi-sabi-zen (it's intentional)
Fretless bass, baldheaded wonder, use the blues that the Avant-Garde hates
Strictly Traditional Tablas, Blowing magical esoterica flutes
A poem about alien eyes, pharmacopeia, Ben Franklin, homeopathic

there's propoganda poetry filling up this page:
http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/sejayno/index.html

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Courtney Brown is a composer, vocalist, and computer programmer using electronics to question the boundaries of performance. Her most recent work consists a series of pieces in which she gradually loses control over the music and the computer takes over. These compositions explore the uneasy balance between artifice, actuality, and embodiment. She is strongly influenced by cabaret, tango, and early goth rock, and therefore, she incorporates a strong element of melodrama and theater in her performances.

She currently performs with electrocab, a trio she founded with fellow composers, John Arroyo and Carmen Caruso. They combine subversive pop and sound art into a strange beast. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics at Dartmouth College, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, and others. Courtney is working towards a Master's in the Dartmouth Electroacoustic music program. She is the founder of Seductivism, an art movement based on the play of appearances. She will be performing her piece "Every Night I Lose Control". Visit http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~courtney/ for more.

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Currently fixated somewhere along the East Coast, Sonic Circus consists of Dana Jessen (bassoon) and Michael Straus (saxophones). Dedicated to today's music, their combined individual efforts include the premiers of over forty new works with performances at New York City's The Stone, Boston's Jordan Hall and Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Always looking to collaborate with non-traditional artists and musicians, they will be joined this show by turntablist DJ Dubble8. These three musicians, having all dabbled in the institutionalized world, hold graduate degrees in music from the likes of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the New England Conservatory of Music. New music performed tonight will fuse electronics with live acoustic instruments and visual projections. Look at http://www.mstraus.net, http://www.danajessen.com, and http://www.dubble8productions.com for more artist info.

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Fantasy Apple Pipe Machine = compositions for homemade instruments by Layne Garrett, Sean Peoples, Christian Brady, Steff Barrow, and Britton Apple Powell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe

Official Website: http://www.courtney-brown.net