Composer: Benjamin Carson and Jazz Duo: Sila Cevikce-Shaman and Dave Storrs
Sunday March 29 - Oregon State University: Benton Hall Room 303
$10 Suggested Donation- OSU Students and Children under 18 FREE—
For More information: Contact Series Director Dana Reason @ danareason@gmail.com or
call 541 230 1401
Featuring:
Visiting Artist and Composer: Benjamin Carson, Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Accclaimed Jazz Artists: Sila Cevikce-Shaman (piano) and Dave Storrs (drums and percussion)
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Benjamin Carson, Ph.D
Composer Benjamin Carson teaches composition and the psychology of music at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Carson writes experimental music informed by his own studies in the perception of rhythm and form. His music makes use disjunct use of traditional tonalities, voice ambiguity, a wide-ranging rhythmic language, and a quietly skewed dynamic range that sometimes blurs the boundary between intentional musical sounds and incidental environmental noises.
In Anahistoric (2004), for piano, percussion, and consumer-model electronic keyboards, the result is an illusion-like feeling, with one perception being traded for another: chaos and randomness often yields to a sudden feeling that direction and purpose has been present all along. Writing about Carson’s piano music in the journal “Open Space” (2003) Christopher Williams has said that Carson’s music makes a kind paradox of keys and tonal resolutions, and of the traditional relationships between polyphonic voices. As keys change and overlap, and as pairs of voices oppose one another, “each element in the false dichotomy defines and becomes the other” so that “we have the opportunity and responsibility to navigate our [own] uniquely useful paths.”
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Dave Storrs and Sila Cevikce-Shaman: : The musicians will talk about their process and perform various pieces.
Dave Storrs is a composer, improvisor and percussionist currently collaborating with various artists in Oregon. He runs an independent music label called Louie Records. Storrs has recorded and toured extensively in the United States for over 30 years.
Sila Cevikce-Shaman is a pianist and composer. Critics have described Cevikce’s work as: “Intelligent, Inventive and Free-swinging.” She currently teaches Jazz History and Composition in the Music Department at OSU.
