Leap of Faith Orchestra Performs The Photon Epoch by PEK

PEK – clarinets, saxophones & double reeds
Glynis Lomon – cello, aquasonic, voice
Yuri Zbitnov – Drums, percussion
Dan O’Brien – saxophones & clarinets
Jim Warshauer – saxophones & clarinets
Bob Moores – trumpet
Forbes Graham – trumpet
Eric Dahlman – trumpet, overtone voice
Kat Dobbins – trombone
Duane Reed – baritone horn, bass trombone
Greg Burbank – tuba
Abigale Reisman – violin
Tony Leva – bass
Adrienne Schoenfeld – bass
Reverend Grant Beale – guitar, electronics
Federico Balducci – guitar
Chris Florio – guitar synthesizer
Eric Woods – analog synthesizer
Eric Zinman – piano
Eric Rosenthal – drums, percussion
Sydney Smart – drums, percussion

The vision of the overall Evil Clown project is to create an extremely broad universe of sound and to realize music which transforms into widely different sonorities within a single performance. The full Leap of Faith Orchestra performing a PEK frame notation score is the most complete implementation of that vision. The large ensemble size and the details provided in the score directing the improvisation allow us to create a story through a huge number of controlled textures over the 75 minute duration of the works.
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The small Leap of Faith Orchestra, and the various sub-units (Leap of Faith, Metal Chaos Ensemble, Turbulence, String Theory, New Language Collaborative, Sub-Units and Mekaniks) also perform pure improvisations. These pure improvisations comprise most of the work of the Evil Clown ensembles and tune the player’s improvisation languages to each other and the Evil Clown aesthetic (in 2017 we performed two scores, but published a total of 37 new albums).
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This is the sixth frame notation score to be performed since the current project fired up in 2015…
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This page on the Evil Clown site has liner notes for the albums, links to bandcamp, YouTube, the scores and lots of other content:
http://www.evilclown.rocks/lofo-scored-performances.html