Sunday, April 17, 8:00pm WRACK (Chicago/San Francisco)
Rough Idea
presents:
Wrack
with
Kyle Bruckmann -
oboe, english horn
Chicago/San Francisco
New Work Studio
319 Spadina Ave.
(at St. Andrew,
Kensington Market)
8:00PM - concert
Wrack
Kyle Bruckmann - oboe, english horn
Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Jen Clare Paulson - viola
Tim Daisy - percussion
Anton Hatwich - bass
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With a history of conservatory training gone awry, oboist and electronic
musician Kyle Bruckmann combines the rigorous discipline of a classical
foundation with raucous sensibilities indebted to Dada and punk in a
dizzying variety of artistic endeavors. He has recently relocated to San
Francisco from Chicago, where since 1996 he had been a fixture in the
thriving local experimental music underground. While teaching and
free-lancing extensively as a classical musician, he collaborated regularly
with many of the city's most creative improvisers and sound artists,
including Jim Baker, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang,
Guillermo Gregorio, Scott Rosenberg, Bob Marsh, and Olivia Block. Adventures
on the road have brought him into contact with the likes of Polwechsel, Bhob
Rainey, Greg Kelley, Jack Wright, Guiseppe Ielasi, Boris Hauf, Larry
Marotta, Djalma Primordial Science, and L.A.'s linespaceline collective. His
Bay Area tenure has so far featured multiple performances with Oakland Air
(a trio including Jacob Lindsay and Aurora Josephson), new music specialists
sfSound, and John Shiurba's 5x5, as well as a recording project with
visiting dignitary Anthony Braxton.
Ongoing affiliations include EKG, an electroacoustic duo with Ernst Karel,
and the experimental punk monstrosity Lozenge. His quintet Wrack, which
performs compositions drawing equally from the traditions of contemporary
jazz and the classical avant-garde, released an album on Montreal's Red
Toucan label with the help of a grant from the Chicago Department of
Cultural Affairs. As a member of sfSound and Gene Coleman's Ensemble
Noamnesia, he has performed works by composers including Berio, Cage,
Cardew, Crumb, Goldstein, Ives, Sciarrino, Xenakis, and Yoshihide.
His debut CD of solo improvisations, entymology, available through Barely
Auditable Records, has been hailed as "an enchanting experience that expands
the possibilities (and the comprehension) of the double reed family"
(François Couture, All-Music Guide). He has also recorded for Hat Art, New
World, Musica Genera, 482 Music, Sedimental, Lucky Kitchen, ToYo, Sickroom,
Farrago, and Locust Music.
Bruckmann earned undergraduate degrees in music and psychology at Rice
University in Houston, studying oboe with Robert Atherholt, serving as music
director of campus radio station KTRU, and achieving academic distinction as
a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his Masters degree in 1996 at the
University of Michigan, where he studied oboe performance with Harry Sargous
and contemporary improvisation with Ed Sarath. He has attended the Bowdoin
Summer Music Festival in Maine, the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New
York, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.