2010: Alex Cline & G.E. Stinson

Alex Cline and electric guitarist G.E. Stinson have played together in a number of contexts over the last couple of decades including in one another's bands and in collaborative ensemble projects focusing on free improvisation. In more recent years they have been performing as an improvising duo. Their set at the Outsound New Music Summit will delve into explorations of the common ground they share as musicians and as human beings. This means a great deal of attention to subtle sonic color, a very wide dynamic range, varied textures, and alternately tonal and atonal musical content delivered somewhat paradoxically (for a duo) in a very orchestral manner, all often presented as a very gradually evolving, slowly developing whole. The result is beyond genre or idiom, but a shared musical vocabulary activated in the moment in the interest of manifesting pure sound and spontaneous music.

Percussionist-composer Alex Cline has been a mainstay on the jazz and new music scenes of Los Angeles for over thirty-five years, his endeavors having established for him a career international in scope. Combining colorful and sensitive percussion sounds with a drumming foundation based in the jazz tradition, Cline is recognized for his contributions to the music of such artists as Vinny Golia, Julius Hemphill, Bobby Bradford, Tim Berne, Richard Grossman, John Carter, Don Preston, Horace Tapscott, Gregg Bendian, Joseph Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith, Charlie Haden, and countless others. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe and appeared on almost a hundred recordings. His work as a composer and bandleader has been documented on four recordings with his group, the Alex Cline Ensemble. Cline has spearheaded some notable improvisational group collaborations as well, such as the trio Cline-Gauthier-Stinson and the quartet Cloud Plate (with Kaoru, Miya Masaoka, and G.E. Stinson), both of which have released CDs. He has also been heard on numerous film soundtracks and in collaboration with many dancers and visual artists. more information for Alex Cline

G. E. Stinson (born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma) is an American guitarist and founding member of new age / electronic musical group Shadowfax. Inspired by blues masters such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, Stinson experimented with blues, jazz and other musical genres before co-founding Shadowfax in 1974. He remained with the band for six albums. He departed Shadowfax after recording The Odd Get Even (1989), entering the Los Angeles underground music community to refine his “extended technique” and “frequency manipulation”. Since then he has worked with a number of musicians on various projects, including Alex Cline, Napalm Quartet, Splinter Group, Stinkbug, Metalworkers, and others.

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