KEIR NEURINGER (Philadelphia) Keir Neuringer is a musician and interdisciplinary artist who is involved in creative arts communities in Poland, Holland, and the US. He has cultivated a personal and intensely physical approach to saxophone improvisation, plays analogue electronics and Farfisa organ, and sings and narrates text. After training as a composer and jazz saxophonist in the US, he spent two years on a Fulbright research grant in Krakow. He then moved to The Hague, where he spent eight years, curating performative audiovisual art and earning a masters degree from the experimental ArtScience Institute. He lives in Philadelphia and continues to travel widely to present his work, collaborating closely with Rafal Mazur, Ensemble Klang, and Julius Masri, among many others. Ceremonies Out of the Air, a double LP of solo saxophone improvisations to the memory of Esther Neuringer, will be released on New Atlantis Records in April 2014. Recorded in a single performance, it is a 79-minute technical, conceptual, and emotional tour-de-force, setting prodigious use of the circular breathing technique in relief against a wealth of compositional history and sonic terrain. http://keirneuringer.bandcamp.com/ ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((O)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) CLARINET PANIK DELUXX (Toronto) CPDLXX is a ensemble born in 2009 as vehicle for the dense music of cellist Cory Latkovich's dreams. CPDLXX has taken many forms but most often it manifests as a cello, guitar, drums and sax quartet. Hectic dream jams from cellist Cory Latkovich, woodwind player Ruhee Dewji, and avant percussionist/eccentric genius D. Alex Meeks. Clattering ahead like the score to a never ending horror film, inching towards climax as cello and sax play a game of back & forth only to be driven forward by systematically antagonistic drum patterns and their own instrumental curiosity. Bastard chamber music meets math rock. -- burndownthecapital.weebly.com http://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com/ ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((O)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) THE SOLINA STRING ENSEMBLE (Ottawa/Gatineau) doom riffs arranged for string quintet francoise hardy covers at high volume reverse-engineered gang dance footsteps doppler violins: Austin Lui, Kelly Tang zoom celli: Agnes Malkinson, Matt Morel, & V. Rachel Weldon combo organs / earplugs: M.M. & Adam Saikaley rattle snare: Matt Aston "I died, went to heaven, and bought the movie." - Jackie Shane http://mattmorel.bandcamp.com/