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Sun Ra Arkestra
The Sun Ra Arkestra returns for their third Summer Series appearance with another very rare hometown performance which is sure to have audiences either dancing feverishly or contemplatively traversing the spaceways. Founded in 1958 under the leadership of Sun Ra, the Arkestra pioneered a unique brand of afro-futurism, forging intersecting musical pathways that explore outer space and Egyptian mythology. Drawing on the work of Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson, the Arkestra are pioneers of the bop-derived avant-garde and collective improvisation. Their work has had tremendous impact on scores of musicians including MC5, Sonic Youth and George Clinton. Following the Arkestra's influential tenures in Chicago and New York City, Sun Ra and the Arkestra relocated to Philadelphia in 1968, where they continue their commitment to the study, research and development of Sun Ra's musical precepts. Following the ascension of Sun Ra in 1993 and John Gilmore in 1995, Maestro Marshall Allen (b. 1924) has launched the Sun Ra Arkestra into a dimension beyond that of mere "ghost" band by writing fresh arrangements of Sun Ra's music, as well as composing new music and arrangements for the Arkestra.
Oneohtrix Point Never is the solo project of Daniel Lopatin, a Brooklyn-based artist whose work has brought him to the forefront of the modern electronic composition scene. Although Lopatin’s rise seemed meteoric following the praise for his double disc anthology Rifts, which was coveted by the likes of Wire, Pitchfork, Fader, Guardian, and XLR8R, it is the result of a deep engagement with polyphonic synthesizers dating back to childhood jam sessions with his father’s Juno 60. Audiences in the last year have gravitated to Oneohtrix Point Never’s profound arrangements, which manage to touch upon both mainstream pop consciousness and discarded electronic music histories and merge the structural freedom of noise with the abstract emotionality of work considered by many to be “background music.” His passion to find personal meaning in failed new age utopias and liminal science fiction environments often brings his compositions to the refracted brinks of minimalism, drone, proto-techno, noise and pop, while always clarifying the past through a blissful repetition of its sonic signifiers.
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EVENT DETAILS
WHEN
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Recurring: ONCE
TIME & PRICE
6pm
Free
WHERE
40th & Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA
One time only on 07/28/2012.
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FOR MORE INFO
40th Street Field
