Spondee
The Observer Effect is a scientific concept suggesting that the act of observation can influence the properties of light at the quantum level, altering a photon’s characteristics from that of a particle to a wave and that these effects can act backward in time, rewriting the past. Our ensemble began rehearsing a few months before the Covid lockdown. Driven by careful attention and hard work and outside pressures it evolved from a standard jazz quartet to an acoustic duo to the present electro-acoustic improvisational ensemble. Using our time over the past year and a half for rehearsal, writing, listening, incorporating new technology, discovering and analyzing our development, we have forged a new musical identity. Our forms are open, built on our own unique musical experiences in jazz, popular, and world music, on
the development of our shared musical language, and on the incorporation of the techniques of musique concrete, sound collage, and sampling. We collect and create soundscapes, musical figures, and sonic environments. We juxtapose ideas and sounds, and we listen, react, and respond anew in each performance. Over the past year, we have acted as observers, closely listening, watching, reacting,
and interacting with our own curated soundscapes and samples and each other’s musical qualities. This performance will ask others to join us, to observe along with us, and to observe us and the music we create. What changes will occur to our own sonic properties under the close observation of others and how will this experience inform our understanding of the past year and a half of work and development in our own music?
Spondee features Marc Giley on Saxophones and Louis Romanos on Percussion, with both taking a role in the production of the electronic elements.
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