Tipple - Jacob Wick

Tipple is the trio of David Watson, electric guitar, Kevin Norton, percussion, vibes and marimba, and Frode Gjerstad on alto saxophone, Bb clarinet, and bass clarinet.Tipple is a free improvising group, crossing the international boundary by joining the Norwegian Gjerstad with New York area players Watson and Norton. Watson performs on electric guitar, a quite different instrument from his frequent bagpipe forays, but his use of the guitar often brings the bluster of the bagpipe to call; at other times his playing is abstract but with a distorted edge, meandering around the point but always getting to it.

Jacob Wick: The rain in its avoided effects is a solo trumpet performance and listening exercise loosely based on a late essay by French philosopher Louis Althusser. In the essay, Althusser writes of subjects, objects, and events — you, that tree, a strike — passing through time as rain passes through the sky: forever in parallel, only meeting by a chance wind. In the performance, I will sit with the audience, in a circle, square, or other closed shape. We will listen to the space around us and place the sounds of the space along a horizontal plane, privileging none of them, allowing those that intersect to intersect, those that do not intersect to pass forever in parallel. The trumpet performance will become one of those sounds.