Butch Morris Celebrates 25 Years of Conduction®

One of OTR Studios favorite artists... Butch Morris! A Contemporary Music Legend. Check out his piece, Nowhere Everafter, mixed by Cookie Marenco at OTR. In the meantime, if you're in NYC, go to see him in action tonight!.

25 YEARS OF CONDUCTION®

BUTCH MORRIS CONDUCTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

AT THE STONE & NUBLU

7PM-9:30PM at THE STONE

2^ND STREET @ AVENUE C.

THE PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCTION®

LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION/REHEARSAL/PERFORMANCE

Violins: Skye Steele and Charlie Burnham

Violas: Nicole Federici and Stephanie Griffin

Celli: Alex Waterman and Okkyung Lee

Basses: Jane Wang and Shawn Mc Gloin

10PM & 12AM AT NUBLU

BUTCH MORRIS CONDUCTS nublu ORCHESTRA

NUBLU

62 AVENUE C. BETWEEN 4^TH & 5^TH STREETS

On February 1^st 2010, Avenue C. will help celebrate the 25^th anniversary of Conduction®, Butch Morris’ ground breaking supplement to music. From 7 to 9:30pm at STONE (Avenue C at 2^nd Street) he will discuss and demonstrate his methods with String Octet. $20 At 10 & 11:30pm the same night, he will conduct nublu Orchestra just a 3 minute walk down Ave. C at nublu (62 Avenue C, bet 4^th and 5^th Streets).

WHAT IS CONDUCTION®?

A sign and gesture structure-content exchange utility to construct or modify sonic possibility.

Conduction®:

The practice of conveying and interpreting a lexicon of directives to modify or construct sonic arrangement or composition; a structure- content exchange between composer /conductor /instrumentalist that provides immediate possibility to alter or initiate harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, progression, articulation, phrasing or form by manipulating pitch, dynamics, timbre, duration and order in real-time.

Directives (idiographic signs and gestures) 'signify' the parameters of interpretation and demonstrate a precision and flexibility that may be utilized by all musical forms, styles and traditions.

“What Morris accomplishes is a work so vast in its tonal spaces and colors, recordings can barely contain it. In conduction — and perhaps only there — is it possible to achieve the feat of a musical community dissolving its separate identities in order to communicate in freedom as an individual unit of creative expression.”

- All Music Guide

“The universal nature of Morris’ Conduction Vocabulary is obvious...but the unorthodox beauty is what resonates the most.”

- CD Review

“You do really feel you’re at the beginning of a new and exciting musical language.”

- Gramophone Magazine

“….Nothing compares to (or prepares one for) the magnitude of Morris’ personal vision of Conduction.”

- Metroactive Music

www.conduction.us