Composer, Improviser, Conductor, & Percussionist - Adam Rudolph - Curates a One-Week Residency at The Stone, New York City May 24-29th, 2016 Following the release of several significant new recordings (including the first-ever Go: Organic GUITAR Orchestra album on Cuneiform) and numerous US and European concerts, Rudolph caps Spring 2016 - a season of unprecedented creative activity - by curating a week-long residency at The Stone. 
Based in NYC, Adam Rudolph
has long been a key figure in the jazz, creative/classical and world
music communities, working both solo and in long-term collaboration
with such renowned musicians as Yusef Lateef. A composer, bandleader, and percussionist, he is deeply immersed in hybrid music and interactive live performance using written and graphic charts and conducted improvisation. Rudolph performs with a wide variety of ensembles, ranging from solos to duets to large orchestras.
One of Rudolph's main focuses since the new Millenium's dawn has been to transform the Western / Classical concept of "orchestra" to make it relevant for the 21st century. For the last 15 years, he has been widely acclaimed for his Go: Organic Orchestra, which features a variety of classical, ethnic and modern instruments. The Go: Organic Orchestra's live performances, described as "visionary" by the New York Times, are legendary, with Rudolph frequently conducting the group at festivals worldwide. Most recently, Rudolph assembled and recorded an all-guitar version of Go: Organic Orchestra. Cuneiform Records released the Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra's debut album, Turning Towards the Light, in late 2015. The orchestra consists of eleven world-renowned guitarists including Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Damon Banks, Marco Capelli, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Joel Harrison, Miles Okazaki, Kenny Wessel, Jerome Harris and Marvin Sewell. The Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra will perform on May 29th as the grand finale of Rudolph's week-long 2016 residency at The Stone. Those interested in Creative Music - breathtaking contemporary music that defies single genres, encompassing jazz, classical, world & more - and those interested in maintaining the relevancy of the orchestra and classical music in the 21st century should check out Adam Rudolph's upcoming performances at The Stone. Rudolph's concerts are always a revelation: his week-long residency is not something be missed. "A genuinely original, captivating, and interactive performance” -Village Voice “A visionary large performance” -NY Times **** MAY 2016 - The Stone - Adam Rudolph One-Week Residency May 24th-29th, 2016  The Stone at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd St. New York, NY 10009 $15/set (no advance sales) (212) 473-0043 http://thestonenyc.com Tuesday, May 24th 8:00PM Adam Rudolph and Wadada Leo Smith: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Adam Rudolph – handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion; James Dellatacoma - electronic processing 10:00 pm Adam Rudolph Quartet: Adam Rudolph – handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion Marco Cappelli - acoustic guitar, looping and electronics Kaoru Watanabe - noh kan, fue, c flute James Dallatacoma - electronic processing Wednesday, May 25th 8:00 pm Electro-Acoustic Trio: Adam Rudolph - electronic processing, handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion Graham Haynes - cornet, flugelhorn, percussion, electronics Aruan Ortiz - piano, electronics, lap top 10:00 pm Go: Organic Woodwind Orchestra: Composed and improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph Sylvain Leroux - tambin fulani flute, c flute, bamboo flutes Michel Gentile and Z!" Luis Oliveira - C and alto flute, bamboo flutes Kaoru Watanabe - noh kan, fue, c flute Batya Sobel - oboe Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon, sona J D Parran - contra alto clarinet, bamboo flute, kalimbas Ned Rothenberg - B flat & bass clarinet, shakuhachi Ivan Barenboim - B flat clarinet, bamboo flutes Sean Sonderegger - contra bass clarinet, & bass clarinet Thursday, May 26th 8:00 pm Dave Liebman and Adam Rudolph Duet: Dave Liebman - soprano and tenor saxophone, assorted flutes Adam Rudolph - handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion 10:00 pm Go: Organic String Orchestra Composed and improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph Elektra Kurtis, Julianne Carney, Sana Nagano, Trina Basu, Sarah Bernstein, Mark Chung - violins Gwen Laster, Melanie Dyer, Stephanie Griffen - violas Marika Hughes - cello Marzo Reis, Emma Alabaster - contrabass Friday, May 27th 8:00 pm Gift of the Gnawa plus special guest Steve Gorn: Hassan Hakmoun - sintir and vocal Adam Rudolph - handrumset,udu and cajon Steve Gorn - bansuri flute Abderahim Hakmoun - qarqaba and vocal 10:00 pm Gift of the Gnawa plus special guest Graham Haynes: Hassan Hakmoun - sintir and vocal Adam Rudolph - handrumset and cajon Abderahim Hakmoun - qarqaba and vocal Graham Haynes - cornet Saturday, May 28th 8:00 pm Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Adam Rudolph - compositions, handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba) , thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion Graham Haynes - cornet, flugelhorn, percussion, electronics James Hurt - drums percussion Kenny Wessel - el. guitar, electronics,banjo Alexis Marcelo - fender rhodes, piano, percussion Damon Banks - el. bass 10:00 pm Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures: Adam Rudolph - compositions, handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion Graham Haynes - cornet, flugelhorn, percussion, electronics James Hurt - drums percussion Kenny Wessel - el. guitar, electronics, banjo Alexis Marcelo - fender rhodes, piano, percussion Damon Banks - el. bass Sunday, May 29th 8:00 pm Hu: Vibrational presents The Epic Botanical Beat Suite: Jame Dellatacoma - electronic processing Adam Rudolph - compositions, bata, slit drum, rebolo, gankogoui, udu, percussion James Hurt - sogo, kidi, igbo bell, udu, percussion Matt Kilmer - frame drum, djembe, kanjira, udu Tim Kieper - dusun’goni, pandiero, udu, percussion Keita Ogawa - earthtone drum, frame drum, hadjira, pandeiro, udu, percussion Joe Hertenstein - gongs, cymbals, udu, percussion John Hadfield - frame drums, udu, percussion Shane Shanahan - frame drums, , pandeiro, udu, percussion 10:00 pm Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Composed and improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph Nels Cline, Rez Abbasi, Miles Okazaki, David Gilmore, Marco Cappelli, Liberty Ellman, Joel Harrison, Kenny Wessel - electric guitars and electronic processing Damon Banks - bass guitar Jerome Harris - electric guitar and bass guitar  We look forward to seeing you at these very special concerts! Please help us to spread the word about these shows. Concert booking: Adam Rudolph and his groupings are available for festival bookings worldwide. To book a show, please contact Adam@MetaRecords.com ********  jump to: press quotes // press release // press photos ADAM RUDOLPH / GO: ORGANIC GUITAR ORCHESTRA TURNING TOWARDS THE LIGHT Cuneiform Records 2015  STREAM/SHARE: "Heliotropic"@SOUNDCLOUD / @BANDCAMP / @YOUTUBE Cat. #: Rune 406, Format: CD / DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Genre: Guitar / Improv / Experimental / Jazz / Creative Music Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Rez Abbasi - electric guitar Damon Banks - electric bass guitar Marco Capelli - acoustic guitar, effects Nels Cline - electric guitar Liberty Ellman - electric guitar David Gilmore - electric guitar Joel Harrison - electric guitar, national steel guitar Jerome Harris - electric guitar, electric bass guitar, lap steel guitar Miles Okazaki - electric guitar Marvin Sewell - electric guitar, electric slide guitar Kenny Wessel - electric guitar, banjo Composed and improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph Produced by Adam Rudolph SELECTIONS FROM PRESS RECEIVED THUS FAR. for TURNING TOWARDS THE LIGHT: "“On the shortlist for the best modern guitar record of the year is Turning Towards The Light... by Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra. In part because it features ten of the most accomplished, forward thinking jazz guitarists in New York, which, when it comes to jazz, means the world. Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, Marco Capelli, Jerome Harris, Joel Harrison, Kenny Wessel, and Marvin Sewell, join Damon Banks on bass to form an ensemble unlike any you have heard. Turning Towards The Light is must listening for anyone who wants to hear great music that is not about ‘guitar,’ but nevertheless couldn’t have been made by any other instruments. Rudolph took time to explain his organizational system and the process of forging 10 disparate instrumental voices into a cohesive unit...” -Guitar Moderne: Spotlight: Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra," Michael Ross, Guitar Moderne, March 4, 2015 “This acoustic-electric guitar summit by an upper-echelon congregation of modernists yields a polychromatic listening experience wherein the guitarists simply tear it up... ...a thought- provoking sequence of musical events, often budging matters into another realm, starkly unlike conventional guitar summit fare. ...4/4 Stars” -Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz “Rudolph has assembled an incredible cast of string-benders, all jazz players but those with an eclectic/inclusive approach.... Rudolph- who does not play on this album and does not play guitar- has created his own auditory universe, one in which jazz improvisation, rock imagination and audacity, minimalism and rhythmic aspects from African and Indian music interlace simultaneously. This is truly Music of the Spheres- his, ours, and some new ones we haven’t visited yet." - Mark Keresman, New York City Jazz Record “An incredible all star band” -Dan Ouellete / Zeal NYC “The resonating weaves and shifting dynamics are inspired” -Jazz Times “...Turning Towards the Light is a very 'guitar' centric album, and with the omission of drums, it's up to the various players to create not only the lead melodies but also the rhythms. ...'Spacious, melodic, atmospheric, and at times raucous, Turning Towards the Light is ultimately a very pleasing listen to jazz, rock, and avant-garde fans, as well as all the guitar geeks out there. ...4/5 Stars” -Pete Pardo, Sea of Tranquility "[2015 Top 5] Large Ensemble Release” –NYC Jazz Record "a not-to-be-missed release. 4.5 stars out of 5" -All About Jazz Italy PRESS RELEASE: TURNING TOWARDS THE LIGHT: On the Winter Solstice of 2014 – the Northern Hemisphere’s longest night of the year – composer, bandleader & percussionist Adam Rudolph convened 11 of New York City’s finest and most adventurous guitarists in a New Jersey studio for a most auspicious event: the debut of Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra, his all-guitar orchestra. In attendance were guitarists Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, and Marvin Sewell, all on electric guitars and effects; Damon Banks on bass guitar; Marco Capelli on acoustic guitar, effects; Jerome Harris on electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and lap steel guitar; Joel Harrison on electric guitar and national steel guitar; and Kenny Wessel on electric guitar and banjo. Rudolph had assembled an all-star orchestra; each of these remarkable guitarists were composers and bandleaders in their own right, with a collective musical experience that spanned a universe of contemporary music, from Wilco to Cassandra Wilson to Ornette Coleman and beyond. The studio’s atmosphere on that dark November night was electric. With Rudolph at the helm, an antenna conducting musical charts and creative improvisational energy, the orchestra began to play. The result is this extraordinary release, Turning Towards the Light, the dawn of Rudolph’s visionary, all-guitar “Future Orchestra” and his first release on DC-based Cuneiform Records. Turning Towards the Light is the 10th release in Adam Rudolph’s series of recordings for Go: Organic Orchestra, a concept for “new” global/creative orchestra that he began developing in 2001. His previous 9 recordings for Go: Organic Orchestra, released on Meta Records, featured an array of instrumentation to bring to life his rhythmically unique creative music. But for Turning Towards the Light, Rudolph envisioned a new kind of orchestral sound conveyed by a single instrument: guitars, whose strings, coaxed by the right hands, are capable of unleashing an orchestra of different musical sounds. He says: “I try to do something new with each performance and recording. This time I wanted to experiment with a new kind of orchestration. I felt that with their range of sound and rhythm, these 11 electric guitars could generate a sonic palate that had never been heard before. I was looking for a new kind of “Future Orchestra” – and I think we found it.” Rudolph grew up and began playing music on the South Side of Chicago, performing with artists like Fred Anderson. By 1978 he was touring Europe with Don Cherry. Hailed by the New York Times as “a pioneer in world music”, in 1977 Rudolph began his collaborations with kora player Foday Musa Suso, followed by his work with the Gnawa musician Hassan Hakmoun, L. Shankar and other musicians from around the globe. His longest and most significant collaboration was with the great Yusef Lateef; from 1988 until Yusef’s passing in 2013 they performed as a duet and collaborated as composers on many large ensemble projects. “Even when I started focusing more on my own music projects in the early 1990’s, I would always make the time to tour and record with Yusef. I learned so much from him not only about music, but how to live a deeper more spiritual life.” Since 1992, Rudolph’s primary outlet for his unique compositional vision has been his Moving Pictures ensemble. But in 2001, he founded Go: Organic Orchestra to expand his instrumentation. “I had always been interested in the idea of an orchestral concept of world music, and fascinated not only with the sounds but also with the organizing concepts that structure orchestrations from around the world. …the colotomic structure of Javanese Gamelan or the thematic fibers of a Bantu drum and trumpet orchestra are all valid ways of organizing orchestra. At the same time my approach to orchestra comes out of my work since 1974 in electronic music. With Go: Organic Orchestra, I feel the resonance of iconic electronic music composers such as Pierre Schafer, Stockhausen or Subotnick. And of course I am, like many creative musicians today, a student of the great 20th Century composers of the European tradition – Messian, Carter, Ligeti, Bartok and my personal favorite, Toru Takemitsu.” |
[Adam Rudolph / Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra]
Rudolph has integrated and transformed these influences into a highly personalized language, a language whose rhythmic component, which he calls “Cyclic Verticalism,” combines polyrhythms (from African music) and rhythm cycles (from Indian music). Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra has performed worldwide at music festivals and served residencies in such countries as USA, Turkey, Mexico, Italy, Finland, Denmark and Norway.
Rudolph’s process is more egalitarian and community driven than the top down structure of Western orchestra. “My idea is to get the most structural and aesthetic focus from the music with the least amount of reading. I want the musicians to bring their own voice, feeling, and phraseology to the music. In a kind of “de-composing” process, he creates graphic scores that consist of what he calls “pure elements” – “Interval Matrices,” “Cosmograms” and Ostinatos of Circularity”. Add to the process Rudolph’s unique conducting method. “Through trial and error I have invented my own way of conducting. As with the score, I wanted my conducting to yield as much interpretative range as I could get with the fewest, simplest and clearest gestures possible. I think of my conducting method as being more related to the idea of something that conducts electricity than someone who is always leading. When I begin a concert, I don’t know what is going to happen, how the music will unfold. After my initial gesture, as I hear the first sounds of the orchestra I follow the feelings and ideas of where the music flows. But we are all PREPARED due to deep study of the elements in the score. So the score, the musicians and myself as conductor, we all dialogue in a process which I consider “organic.”
With the Go: Organic Guitar Orchestrahe moves the idea of what an orchestra can actually BE resolutely into the 21st century. He states: “When you generate new creative processes, the result will be prototypical art.” On Turning Towards the Lightthe 11 guitarists sound in turn like a futuristic string section, percussion group, woodwinds, and brass. Rudolph says that his NOT being a guitarist was an advantage in leading this project. “Since I don’t play guitar, I don’t really think “guitaristically,” I’m thinking compositionally and percussively. Perhaps that led us into some areas we might not have gotten to otherwise. I have to say also that these musicians were so incredible – they were so generous in letting their virtuosity serve the musical moment. They played with so much imagination and soulfulness. I am grateful.”
Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra is a natural evolution for Rudolph’s orchestral vision. The music asks to be heard on its own terms; its unprecedented sounds and formulations invite the listener to set aside their preconceived ideas and expectations. Rudolph adds: “while I was mixing the recording I felt the music itself was so new that is was teaching me HOW to listen to itself. The act of listening to it became a creative activity. I think there are still people who like to engage music that way.”
To celebrate the release of Turning Towards the Light, Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra will be playing shows in major cities along the East Coast, in venues including Roulette and Ars Nova. The all-star guitar orchestra is also available for festival bookings worldwide.
Rudolph’s process is more egalitarian and community driven than the top down structure of Western orchestra. “My idea is to get the most structural and aesthetic focus from the music with the least amount of reading. I want the musicians to bring their own voice, feeling, and phraseology to the music. In a kind of “de-composing” process, he creates graphic scores that consist of what he calls “pure elements” – “Interval Matrices,” “Cosmograms” and Ostinatos of Circularity”. Add to the process Rudolph’s unique conducting method. “Through trial and error I have invented my own way of conducting. As with the score, I wanted my conducting to yield as much interpretative range as I could get with the fewest, simplest and clearest gestures possible. I think of my conducting method as being more related to the idea of something that conducts electricity than someone who is always leading. When I begin a concert, I don’t know what is going to happen, how the music will unfold. After my initial gesture, as I hear the first sounds of the orchestra I follow the feelings and ideas of where the music flows. But we are all PREPARED due to deep study of the elements in the score. So the score, the musicians and myself as conductor, we all dialogue in a process which I consider “organic.”
With the Go: Organic Guitar Orchestrahe moves the idea of what an orchestra can actually BE resolutely into the 21st century. He states: “When you generate new creative processes, the result will be prototypical art.” On Turning Towards the Lightthe 11 guitarists sound in turn like a futuristic string section, percussion group, woodwinds, and brass. Rudolph says that his NOT being a guitarist was an advantage in leading this project. “Since I don’t play guitar, I don’t really think “guitaristically,” I’m thinking compositionally and percussively. Perhaps that led us into some areas we might not have gotten to otherwise. I have to say also that these musicians were so incredible – they were so generous in letting their virtuosity serve the musical moment. They played with so much imagination and soulfulness. I am grateful.”
Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra is a natural evolution for Rudolph’s orchestral vision. The music asks to be heard on its own terms; its unprecedented sounds and formulations invite the listener to set aside their preconceived ideas and expectations. Rudolph adds: “while I was mixing the recording I felt the music itself was so new that is was teaching me HOW to listen to itself. The act of listening to it became a creative activity. I think there are still people who like to engage music that way.”
To celebrate the release of Turning Towards the Light, Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra will be playing shows in major cities along the East Coast, in venues including Roulette and Ars Nova. The all-star guitar orchestra is also available for festival bookings worldwide.
[WATCH: Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra Live @ Fringe Arts, Philadelphia, PA - 11.22.2015 - #1]
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PROMOTIONAL TRACK //
If you'd like to share music from this release, please feel free to use the following track:
"Heliotropic": @SOUNDCLOUD / @BANDCAMP / @YOUTUBEPURCHASE LINKS //
ITUNES - AMAZON - BANDCAMP [24 bit / 48khz] - WAYSIDE MUSIC
ARTIST WEB SITES //
www.metarecords.com/go.html - @Facebook - www.cuneiformrecords.com
HIGH-RES PROMO PHOTOS // photo credits in file names.
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