群英会
The Meeting of Heroes

电脑即兴音乐第一人 + 琵琶现代乐爵士乐女侠 + 三味线跨界实验圣手
特邀本地好友助阵：采样音乐，茶道，舞蹈，古琴，电子噪音

闵小芬，田中悠美子, 卡尔•斯通
冯昊（DJ Strausss），费波，巫娜，颜峻


2009年12月15日晚8时：两个好朋友酒吧
嘉宾：冯昊（DJ Strausss）（采样音乐）
票价：50
地址：燕莎以东1500米路北，汽车电影院内（www.2kolegas.com）；TEL：87948882

2009年12月16日晚8时：方家胡同46号黑方剧场
嘉宾：费波（舞蹈），茶道
票价：80 （16，17日联票120）
地址：北京市东城区方家胡同46号剧场

票价：80元（16，17日联票120元）
咨询电话：64000199


2009年12月17日晚8时: 方家胡同46号红方剧场
嘉宾：巫娜（古琴），颜峻（电子）
地址：北京市东城区方家胡同46号剧场

票价：80元（16，17日联票120元）
咨询电话：64000199


联合策划：撒把芥末，丝桐馆，聚敞现代艺术中心
www.subjam.org
blog.sina.com.cn/u/1222812921

海报设计：阮千瑞（www.r000r.cn）


闵小芬
闵小芬是国际上公认的用琵琶来演奏现代音乐及爵士音乐的权威演奏家。在2004年，她作为第一位中国音乐家演出于加拿大多伦多国际爵士音乐教育会议，并荣获“杰出的爵士教育使者”殊荣。从2006年到2009年之间，她以特邀独奏家的身份与世界各大交响乐团合作演出，包括：纽约布鲁克林交响乐团，太平洋交响乐团，圣地亚哥交响乐团，史丹佛交响乐团，澳门交响乐团，台北市立团交响乐团，荷兰新音乐团，等等。她还参加了世界各地著名的音乐节，包括：林肯中心音乐节，纽约吉它节，旧金山爵士音乐节，荷兰Utrecht国际弹拔乐节，芬兰TUM艺术节，澳门国际音乐节，上海之春国际音乐节。她还参与了冰岛歌星Björk （比约克）的唱片“Volta”录音，并在纽约的Madison Square Garden 及Radio City与她同台演出。作为一位作曲家，她在2006年，和她的蓝调琵琶三重奏参加了全美规模最大的JVC 爵士音乐节和 Deer Isle 爵士音乐节。2007年，闵小芬还荣获美国作曲家基金会委约奖及纽约the Kitchen委约奖，创作了“龙之归”，并与她的亚洲乐队首演于纽约。她的独奏作品“蓝调琵琶”获美国作曲家乐团委约奖。今年，她的“龙之归”与她的亚洲乐队还应邀参加美国芝加哥举行的中国文化周，在千禧公园上举行开幕演出。她还荣获美国亚洲文化基金会的奖学金。闵小芬现居住在美国纽约，是蓝调琵琶艺术团的创始人。
www.bluepipa.org



田中悠美子
田中悠美子是出生于日本福冈北九州市的三味线艺术家，作为一个三味线乐手和人声乐手，她的活动领域并不仅仅局限在日本传统音乐内，还包括了当代音乐、自由爵士、新音乐、舞蹈、剧场艺术等。
田中悠美子从1994年开始，与多名前卫音乐家合作，包括日本著名实验音乐家大友良英、前卫吉他手内桥和久、纽约前卫音乐家爱略特•夏普，前卫鼓手 Samm Bennett 与 David Moss、电子音乐家卡尔•斯通（Carl Stone）、萨克斯手奈德•罗森伯格（Ned Rothenberg）等。在1994年和1997年，她两次参与了约翰•佐恩（John Zorn）的著名即兴组合眼镜蛇（Cobra）的日本版本，此版本的Cobra全部由日本乐手组成。
她与大友良英的合作，始于1995年8月，此后她一直作为大友良英的Ground-Zero的成员，直到1997年该组合解散，并在伦敦、意大利、前南斯拉夫等地演出，同时，她个人也参加了在意大利的博洛尼亚、前南斯拉夫的贝尔格莱德、英国伦敦等地举行的多场音乐节。1995年，她与 Mikako Mihashi 组建了二重奏 Kitchen Drinkers，此二重奏音乐风格多变，包括日本传统音乐、流行乐、异教音乐等。同是在1995年，她加入了前卫爵士乐手 Butch Morris 在东京组建的即兴音乐团体 Butch Morris's Conduction，1998年，她与包括贝司手吉沢元治在内的8名日本乐手在美国演绎了 Butch Morris 的 Japan Skyscraper project.
2005年，她与 Ivar Grydeland 在挪威和瑞典巡演，并与挪威当代音乐组合剖音（Poing）共同演绎了当代作曲家鹤见幸代的作品。
www.japanimprov.com/ytanaka/index.html



卡尔•斯通
卡尔•斯通（Carl Stone）生于洛杉矶，现在在日本和美国两地居住、创作。是世界电脑音乐的先锋人物，被美国的《村声》杂志誉为电脑采样之王、当代美国最优秀的作曲家之一。姚大钧称他是“电脑即兴音乐世界第一人”。他在加利福尼亚大学学习作曲，师从 Morton Subotnick 和 James Tenney，从1972年开始创作电子原音音乐，1986年开始用电脑进行现场演出，他的表演与作品，遍布美国、加拿大、欧洲、澳大利亚、南美等地。除了表演与作曲之外，他还在日本中京大学任教。
www.sukothai.com


冯昊：
吉他手，从事多种类型音乐创作，包括采样音乐，电子音乐，声音设计等。核桃室乐队，没谱四重奏乐队成员。
www.douban.com/artist/fenghao
www.douban.com/artist/djstrausss


巫娜：
活跃的青年古琴演奏家，跨越传统和当代音乐，合作者包括崔健，窦唯，刘索拉，艾略特•夏普以及众多实验音乐家。09年CCTV民族器乐电视大赛冠军。

颜峻：
声音工作者，文字工作者。现场即兴主要使用反馈噪音和人声。
www.yanjun.org



Min Xiao-Fen
Pipa player and composer Min Xiao-Fen is known for her fluid style. She is a world recognized virtuoso in both orchestral and underground projects. She was the first Chinese musician received an Outstanding Service to Jazz Education Award for the IAJE International Conference in Toronto in 2004. Ms. Min was a pipa soloist with the Nanjing Traditional Music Orchestra in China, winning the Jiangsu national pipa competition. Since Ms. Min moved to the United States in 1992, she has been featured soloist at the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York Guitar Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Amsterdam-China Festival, the Utrecht International Lute Festival, the TUM Festival in Finland, the Macao Arts Festival, the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. 2009 highlights included a performance of "Return of the Dragon" with her Asian Trio for the opening of Chinese Cultural Week at Millennium Park in Chicago. She was recently honored with an award from the Asian Cultural Council (USA). Min is also the founder of Blue Pipa, Inc. and currently lives in New York City.
www.bluepipa.org



Yumiko Tanaka
Yumiko Tanaka, a Gidayu-Shamisen Player,was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.Tanaka has been very active as a shamisen and vocal musician, not only in the world of traditional Japanese music, but also in contemporary music, free jazz, new music, dance, theater, etc.
Since 1994 Tanaka has been performing with turntable and guitar player Otomo Yoshihide, guitarists Uchihashi Kazuhisa and Elliott Sharp, drummers Samm Bennett and David Moss, electronics musician Carl Stone, sax player Ned Rothenberg, and others.

In '94 and '97 she participated in the Tokyo version of John Zorn's Cobra, which was performed entirely by Japanese musicians. A CD was released in '95.
Tanaka first performed with Otomo Yoshihide's band Ground-Zero in August 1995, and she was a member of the band from '96 until it disbanded in May '97. In that month she toured with Ground-Zero in Italy, Serbia, Austria, Scotland, and England. She also played solo in a number of festivals, including the Angelica Festival in Bologne, the Ring Ring Festival in Belgrade, and the LMC Festival in London.
In 1995 Tanaka formed the musical duo Kitchen Drinkers with Mikako Mihashi. The duo are still active and perform many styles of music, from traditional Japanese to ethnic to pop, transforming each style with their original interpretations.
Also in '95, Tanaka performed in the conducted improvisation project Butch Morris's Conduction, which Morris conducted in Tokyo. In '98 she traveled to the U.S. with eight other Japanese musicians, including the late Motoharu Yoshizawa (bass), to perform in Morris's Conduction: Japan Skyscraper project.
Since 2003 she has been participating in a project with Carl Stone and Chinese pipa player Min-Xiofen. They have performed at the Transonic Festival in Berlin, Interaktion Tanz Musik in Stuttgart, and the Strasbourg Museum in France.
In 2005 Tanaka toured with guitar player Ivar Grydeland in Norway and Sweden; and with Poing (Frode Haltli, Rolf-Erik Nystrom, and Hakon Thelin), at the Ultima Festival in Oslo, performed contemporary music pieces composed by Sachiyo Tsurumi.
www.japanimprov.com/ytanaka/index.html



Carl Stone
Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling." and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." Da Jun Yao has praised him as “the king of improvisation computers”.
He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University in Japan.
www.sukothai.com