OpenSound West Improvisation Series Presents:

A concert of experimental improvisation featuring Gene Coleman (bass clarinet), Marina Peterson (cello), and Ken Ueno (voice). 

Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. He has created over 50 works for various instrumentation and media, often using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Innovative use of sound, space and time allows Coleman to create work that expands our understanding of the world. Since 2001 his work has focused on the global transformation of culture and music's relationship with other media, such as architecture, video and dance. He studied painting, music and film making at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his principle teachers included legendary experimental film artists Stan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr, as well as Robert Snyder (sound and music) and Barbara Rossi (painting).

Marina Peterson is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University. She works on performance, music and the contemporary city. She teaches performance studies courses that engage with critical approaches to space and time, the body, transnationalism, and ethnography.

As a cellist, Peterson plays primarily experimental, contemporary and improvised music. She has performed in the United States and Europe, working with composers and musicians ranging from Luc Ferrari to Rahzel. She is currently a member of Ensemble Noamnesia and Neme.

Twice commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for orchestral works, the 2006-2007 Rome Prize recipient, Ken Ueno, is a composer and vocalist whose wide range of innovative works has been thrilling audiences around the world. He engages with multiple modes of music making: as a composer of acoustic works, as an electronic musician, and as an improviser specializing in extended vocal techniques (overtones, multiphonics, extreme extended registers, circular breathing). He performs with the experimental improvisation group Onda and the noise/avant-rock group Blood Money. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.