Amplifiers & Explosions / play talk play

As mentioned in my last blog post, the last few years have been strange ones, with lots of limbo and lots of waiting.

Well one of the more exciting things that I was waiting for was Amplifiers & Explosions, a project, collective, community, and sometimes place which I started with Angela Guyton.

The project is still young and will grow with us over the years, but I am excited to finally be able to get it up and running.

One of the first aspect of Amplifiers & Explosions that I want to share is a series of videos Angie and I have been filming for the last few years. These are called play talk play and they feature different improvisers performer and talking about their improvisation. The idea is to put one of these out a month and the first one is with fantastic vocalist and improviser Audrey Chen.

The second one is now up with fantastic composer/improviser Ray Evanoff.

And here is the third one with composer/drummer Pedro Melo Alves.

The fourth is with laptopist extraordinaire Wade Mathews.

The fifth one is with saxophonist and improviser Sam Andreae.

The sixth one is with composer, performer, and instrument builder João Carlos Pinto.

So for now, I give you Amplifiers & Explosions.