Recording: Mike Hansen & Gary Barwin

Artist: Mike Hansen & Gary Barwin

Songs: [duo excerpt] & Timelines LA [excerpt, with Connor Bennett and Chris Palmer] [composer: Jason Kahn]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (SynCirSundays), October 9, 2022.

Mike Hansen & Gary Barwin - [duo excerpt]

Mike Hansen/Gary Barwin/Connor Bennett/Chris Palmer - Timelines LA [excerpt]

Mike Hansen (percussion) and Gary Barwin (alto sax) came over from Hamilton to celebrate the release of Where the Angels Once Were, which they did in a short duo segment. Then they expanded things by bringing up Connor Bennett (alto sax) and Chris Palmer to join them. Besides some group improvisations, they also tackled a graphic score that mixed group play with a structured series of duets.

You can catch some more of this set over on youtube:

[SynCirSundays is back at The Tranzac on November 13th featuring sets from Jeff Burke/Mira Martin-Gray/Ben Grossman/John Oswald and Tilman Lewis/Nilan Perera/Rick Sacks.]

Recording: Barwin-Betts-Lee

Artist: Gary Barwin / Gregory Betts / David Lee

Song: Kit Talk [composer: Paul Dutton]

Recorded at Supermarket ("Celebrate Paul Dutton at 70"), March 4, 2014.

Barwin-Betts-Lee - Kit Talk

Full review to follow. More than just a birthday party, this event was planned as a tribute to Paul Dutton's "four decades of challenging the borders of literature and music". I mostly know him from his excursions in the latter realm, so it was interesting to hear the musical stuff freely mixed in among readings and reinterpretations from his poems and prose. (I did not know that Dutton had written a novel, but I left with a copy of Several Women Dancing.) Not that there's a hard boundary between those two fields, given that they're both based around the free expressiveness and infinite variability of the human voice.

David Lee brought along his cello to support the stereophonic speech-sputtering. Never in my life have I seen so many people staring intently at sheets of paper in order to read things like "p-p-pa-pa-p-p-pa-po".