The Westerlies - August 3, 2014
At our first rehearsal as an ensemble three years ago, we were faced with the immediate quandary of how to create a written repertoire and improvised language in an all-brass instrumentation. As often happens when limits are put into place, this challenge became the catalyst for inspiration; the experiments and risks we’ve taken in order to solve this fundamental question have opened the door to our questioning of the conventional roles of the trumpet and trombone.
This remains a primary factor in our composition, improvisation, and performance. In this session we will present a brief variety of pieces where we have attempted to reimagine the role of our instruments in order to create a context for other instruments of the same family. Taking this concept a step further we will open up the session per usual, encouraging instrumentations of the same family, i.e. all strings or only saxophones, to create similar limits and discover unknown possibilities.
Love,
The Westerlies
Riley Mulherkar - Trumpet
Zubin Hensler - Trumpet
Andy Clausen - Trombone
Willem de Koch - Trombone