The Robinwood Concert House, 2564 Robinwood Ave, Toledo, will host a triple bill featuring Chris Corsano, Mike Khoury, and BGSU graduate student Orson Abram on Friday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets at the door are $10.
Chris Corsano
Chris Corsano is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990s. He’s been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of “jazz” including Joe McPhee and his long-time duo pertner saxophonist Paul Flahert and rock”.
He performs a dynamic, spontaneously-composed orchestra-of-one utilizing extended techniques for drum set, non-percussive instruments of his own creation (e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads), circular breathing on modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metals.
Corsano spent 2007-08 as the drummer on Björk’s Volta world tour.
Mike Khoury
Mike Khoury is a Palestinaian-American composer, improviser, and curator focused on performance and documentation. Khoury has worked to establish an Arab-American avant-garde and document the movement’s intellectual heritage through presenting his own work, publishing on the topic, and presenting other artists’ work.
Orson Abram
Abram is a multimedia artist who blurs the lines between composer, percussionist, improviser, filmmaker, performer, and sound artist.
Orson works across the intersections of video, performance, installation, and music composition to explore the translation from personal to universal memory, the ethics of performance, and transgression in traditionally conservative spaces.
Their work aims to provoke and cross the lines of what music composition and performance is designed to be. They have an extensive background in improvisation, and they often integrate music technology and percussion into their theatrical improvisation practice.
They currently are pursuing their master’s degree in Music Composition at Bowling Green State University.
