For the final concert in this year's Willow Street Fall series, we have a special guest from Berkeley California. This Wednesday Eric Glick Rieman will be performing solo on prepared Rhodes electric piano. The Rhodes piano is technically an amplified acoustic instrument rather than a synthesizer. Its distinctive sound has appeared frequently in jazz and rock music of the last fifty years. Since it has a mechanical "action" and vibrating tines, the inner workings of the instrument can be modified to produce unexpected results (analogous to Cage's experiments with the grand piano).

Eric will also be joined by local artist Josh Ronsen for improvised duo performance.

Wednesday, December 3rd 2003, 8:00pm
1010 Willow Street
Free, $5-7 Donation encouraged

About Eric Glick Rieman

Eric Glick Rieman is an improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist performer who lives in Berkeley, California. Trained as a classical pianist and performs regularly in contemporary classical, improvisational, sound art, avant-Jazz, and ambient music genres. His current solo project is performance with his extended and prepared Rhodes electric piano. Collaborative projects include DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt, an improvising ensemble with Lesli Dalaba, Fred Frith and Carla Kihlstedt (soon to be released on Accretions); Bilge/ Radiolaria, a 10 piece new music ensemble (composed of tuba, trumpet, bassoon, viola, percussion, guitar, flute, computer, saxophones, and piano) playing structured improvisations and compositions of its members; Thieves of Silence: an ambient duo with Jeff Karsin; and The Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble, a chamber orchestra that plays improvisations and new music.

To hear examples of Rieman's music, please see: http://www.zucasa.com/rfzc/albums/googol.html