Portland New Music Society Concert!! March 18, 2010

Doug Theriault (electronics)
Kelvin Pittman (sax)
Matt Hannafin (percussion)

Solos and a first-time Trio!

Doug Theriault is a longtime Northwest improviser and instrument builder. His work is concerned with the development of live electronic music systems on custom made instruments.He has presented his work all over the United States with a wide variety of musicians and in many festivals.

Kelvin Pittman.Born in England and raised in Germany & much of the western US, Kelvin Pittman has been an active member of the improvised "music scene" since 2001. Though he began as a guitarist, he has since expanded his skill set to include clarinet, drums, electronics, and alto & tenor saxophones.

Matt Hannafin is a New York-born, Portland-based percussionist active in both free improvisation and Iranian classical and traditional music. He studied Iranian tombak (classical goblet drum) with master Kavous Shirzadian; Arabic and Indian percussion with Jamey Haddad, Glen Velez, and Layne Redmond; African and Afro-Caribbean percussion with John Amira and Magette Fall; and voice with composer La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath. For improvisation, his approach blends the techniques and timbres of eastern and western percussion with sonorities and ideas borrowed from nature, electronic music, and the urban-industrial soundscape. Recently, he's also begun exploring electronic music directly, mixing live/processed percussion with field recordings and samples of his acoustic instruments.