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Markus Reuter + Elliot Sharp and Nocturne Blue presented by Event Horizon Series

By The Rotunda (other events)

Saturday, August 6 2016 8:00 PM 11:00 PM EDT
 
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Event Horizon Series SPECIAL EVENT: Markus Reuter.  
Markus Reuter + Elliot Sharp and Nocturne Blue 

PLEASE NOTE! This event is FREE but we are encouraging reservations due to the popularity of the show. Reserving your spot means that you will have an unassigned seat (in other words, sit wherever you like) as long as you redeem your spot between 7:30pm and 7:50pm on August 6. If you do not redeem by 7:50pm, we will give your spot to someone else. 

Touch Guitarist and composer Markus Reuter:

Markus has spanned the world of music: from his development of "Playnotes", a recursive compositional software tool, to performing with some of progressve rocks icons like Tony Levin, Adrian Belew and Pat Mastelotto as well as recoring with the ambient electronic legends Ian Boddy and Robert Rich. Few players cross genres like Markus, who brings the sensibilities of both worlds together in the best possible way.member of the internationaly renouned group The Stick Men and The Crimson ProjeKCt,  will be appearing at a special edition of The Event Horizon Concert Series.

Eliiot Sharp -  Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer:

A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction.

His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.

Sharp is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson's Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials on The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

Nocturne Blue - Dutch Rall and Markus Reuter

PLEASE NOTE! This event is FREE but we are encouraging reservations due to the popularity of the show. Reserving your spot means that you will have an unassigned seat (in other words, sit wherever you like) as long as you redeem your spot between 7:30pm and 7:50pm on August 6. If you do not redeem by 7:50pm, we will give your spot to someone else. 

 

Restrictions

The Rotunda is an all ages, alcohol-free venue.

The general entrance is on the left side of the building toward the back. The wheelchair and stroller entrance is on the right side of the building toward the back. 

Mailing Address

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104