Brendan Dougherty, drums & electronics
Aaron Meicht, trumpet & electronics
Matt Mitchell, piano & electronics

Feigner is the result of a collaboration of musicians interested in
the creation of large-scale forms through electro-acoustic
improvisation. The group was founded Philadelphia in 2001 by members
of two of the areas most prolific improvising groups: The Meicht Group
and Kaktus. Our work has embraced the jazz origins implicit in this
process as well as what some call sound-based composition, drawing
from late-twentieth-century European music and the American
experimental impulse that confronts and interrogates convention.

The variety of sounds available with the electronic and acoustic sound
sources has necessitated clarity of presentation. The ambiguity felt
when noises are considered part of the spectrum of sound at a
musician's disposal creates a challenge for the musician and audience
to grasp the music. The complexity of electro-acoustic and computer
music lends itself well to this conundrum of noise and sound--when the
common vocabulary of a musical language is hardly established there is
much to explore.

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Dougherty Meicht Mitchell - Feigner (2002) SCR 53407

Brendan Dougherty, drums & electronics
Aaron Meicht, trumpet & electronics
Matt Mitchell, piano & electronics

1. Feigner 56:27 - excerpt (mp3)

recorded by George Whittam of ElDorado Recording Services at Connelly Lecture Hall, Philadelphia, PA 15 Oct 2002; mixed in Philadelphia, PA by Meicht & Mitchell