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Tom Djll with special guest Slender Loris

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Tom Djll with special guest Slender Loris

Slender Loris—Maybe You Should Sit Down Now
Let us enjoy the sounds melding together. Let us find space to let go of expectations.

Slender Loris (Keith Kelly, woodwinds, Tony Obr, modular synth/electronics, Brett Reed, percussion) is a Phoenix-based improvising trio working to blend acoustic and electronic resources while creating a shared language of improvisation in that space. Slender Loris was founded in 2016 with early performances and the subsequent release of their debut record, Two Parts Helium. The trio is the host ensemble for the Phoenix Synthesizer Festival, an annual gathering of modular synth professionals and enthusiasts. Their latest release, I Was a Raven, is a live performance from synthfest and is available now.

From Tom Djill: “It turns out that there is a ‘poetics of chaos.’ A chaotic system, far from the popular conception of the inside of a tornado — violent, uncontrollable, never-ending disaster — is constantly seeking stability. It’s just like you and me! It wants peace and stability. It will settle into comfy stasis and never get up from the easy chair again, if there are no new conditions introduced into it. A chaotic system starts from a discrete set of variables that determine where it will end up. Thing is, even with the same opening conditions, it doesn’t reach the same outcome with each iteration. Launch it, and it may head not for Mars but straight into the sun, or into the nearest 7-11. Even with the same initial conditions, the trajectory cannot be predicted with certainty.

The instruments I use, based around Rob Hordijk‘s rungler circuit, function via the double-well principle (sometimes called “strange attractors”); they settle into patterns that remain in place until a new condition, or stimulus, is introduced into the system. Chaotic systems are thus always seeking stasis — or “peace,” if you will. Anyone can relate to this, lending my presentations a resonance which elevates a concert of abstract sound generation into an ecstatic immersion. I like to draw audiences into what I’m doing gradually and, in a manner of speaking, unfold an outward-facing synaesthesia of abstract sounds connected with speaking.”

Tom Djll studied electronic music with Stephen Scott at the Colorado College, working with the EMS Synthi 100. In 1978–79 Djll studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY, with Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, Karl Berger and others. He spent the years 1981-1993 working with the Serge Modular Music System (published work MUTOOTATOR, 1992); Deep Listening work with Pauline Oliveros, 1991. At the Mills College Contemporary Music Center Djll 1993-95, developed a personal trumpet language alongside electronic and microtonal studies. Further developments with his Bay Area band GROSSE ABFAHRT were undertaken from 1999 – 2016, released on the Emanem, Creative Sources, and Setola di Maiale labels. Beginning in 2012, Djll gradually re-introduced electronics into his sound-set, concentrating on analog systems and electroacoustic interfaces. Currently Djll concentrates on presenting and explaining chaotic sound-worlds, inspired by the work of the late master instrument designer Rob Hordijk. Recent collaborations with Gino Robair, Rova Saxophone Quartet, William Winant, Fred Frith and EUPHOTIC with Cheryl Leonard and Bryan Day.

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✨WEDNESDAY, 10/16 LIVE IN FLAGSTAFF, AZ ✨

Bay-Area electronic music legend collaborates with Southwest Improvising Trio in an epic evening of creative music!

“It turns out that there is a ‘poetics of chaos.’ A chaotic system, far from the popular conception of the inside of a tornado — violent, uncontrollable, never-ending disaster — is constantly seeking stability."

Tom Djll studied electronic music with Stephen Scott at the Colorado College, working with the EMS Synthi 100. In 1978–79 Djll studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY, with Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, Karl Berger and others.

Slender Loris (Keith Kelly, woodwinds, Tony Obr, modular synth/electronics, Brett Reed, percussion) is a Phoenix-based improvising trio working to blend acoustic and electronic resources while creating a shared language of improvisation in that space.

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