Saturday, November 18
Convivium 33 Gallery, 1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland
Doors at 7:30, music at 8:00
$15 suggested donation, no one will be turned away for lack of funds
Composer/cellist Cory Harper-Latkovich's (Clarinet Panic, Imaginary Flesh) newest project Jelly Ear sees him take up the medieval stringed instrument the rebec. This ensemble featuring an ever-evolving cast of members plays creatively open renditions of medieval repertoire. The maudlin wistful interpretations bristle with quiet nuance and tears of hope. Jelly Ear's pensive cautious dance evokes the dreams of a world long past. Contained cacophony buzzes with the energy of a bucolic babbling brook." (Burn Down the Capitol)
Cory will be joined by a collaborative ensemble of local musicians:
Naomi Columna, voice
Melanie Emig, voice
Grace Harper, piano
Danur Kvilhaug, lute/theorbo
Katy La Favre, percussion
Adrian Murillo, lute/theorbo
Cory Harper-Latkovich (he/him) is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based musician who balances his practice between musics of many forms: as a composer, experimental rock musician, or cellist. Cory's music plays with delicate densities, oblong grooves, and fragile tones that carefully dismantle semiotic structures and encourage careful listening and performer vulnerability.
Cory is the band leader of Jelly Ear, a creatively open early-music music group. Playing the rebec, a medieval fiddle, he is joined by a rotating cast of Toronto’s creative musicians. He has recorded and toured with his bands Clarinet Panic and Imaginary Flesh and has his music performed across Canada, the U.S, and the U.K.
https://harperlatkovich.com
Cory Harper-Latkovich · Jelly Ear live from Louisville: O Virtus Sapientiae – Hidegard von Bingen
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Ishmael Ali is a dynamic cellist, guitarist, improviser, and composer based out of Chicago. His work centers on exploring sound through improvisation, experimentation, composition, and collaboration, focusing on a wide array of idiomatic approaches in an ever-changing, always-growing list of projects informed by diverse influences.
Though varying drastically from group to group, a common thread in his work is the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate elements to create something new: both foreign and familiar.
Ishmael is leader or co-leader of a plethora of working projects including the KAH trio, Hearsay, Je’raf, Akjai, Archipelago, and Oido. He has also performed or recorded with Avreeayl Ra, Josh Berman, Jim Baker, Fred Jackson, Ed Wilkerson, Angel Bat Dawid, Jason Stein, and many more.
In addition to performing, Mr. Ali is a part of the Chicago record label Amalgam Music, and is a co-founder and audio engineer at Marmalade, a recording and rehearsal space in the West Loop. He continues to work as an organizer and promoter with varying degrees of regularity.
https://ishmaelalimusic.com