Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish)

Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish)

Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish) is

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone

Kyle Bruckmann, oboes/electronics

Mark Clifford, vibraphone

Brett Carson, piano

Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass

Jordan Glenn, drums

Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new set of music with the latest incarnation of her stellar improvising ensemble.

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Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish)

Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone

Kyle Bruckmann, oboes/electronics

Mark Clifford, vibraphone

Brett Carson, piano

Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass

Jordan Glenn, drums

Bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa premieres a new set of music with the latest incarnation of her stellar improvising ensemble. Mezzacappa's previous works for this group have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster's lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino's hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she's exploring the concept of worldbuilding—inspired by preteen Dungeons & Dragons sessions with her metalhead friends, and her fascination with the speculative fiction of writers like Ursula Le Guin, David Mitchell, and Samuel R. Delany— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction, storytelling, structure and play.

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Berkeley-based composer, bassist and producer Lisa Mezzacappa has been active in the Bay Area music community for more than 20 years. Her activities as a composer and ensemble leader include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, dance, and visual art. Her most recent project is the 9-episode serial audio opera The Electronic Lover, with writer Beth Lisick. She is a recipient of the Pauline Oliveros New Genres Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), and has been commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus and Del Sol Quartet. This year, she is releasing 12 records by Bay Area creative musicians in 12 months on her micro label QueenBee Records.

www.lisamezzacappa.com

www.theelectroniclover.com

www.bandcamp.com/queenbeerecords