2011: Interactions Quartet

Kyle Bruckmann: oboe, english horn, analog electronics
Andrew Raffo Dewar: soprano saxophone, composer
Gino Robair: percussion and analog electronics
John Shiurba: guitar Strata (2011), Dedicated to Eduardo Serón
This composition explores a formal structure inspired by Argentine artist Eduardo Serón's 2008 series of paintings, La Libertad Es Redonda (“Freedom is Round”). Through a combination of improvisation and notation, performers negotiate several “layers” of written material, mixing and matching components that are eventually assembled into nested counterpoint.

Andrew Raffo Dewar (b.1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, improviser, soprano saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. Since 1995 he has been active in the music communities of Minneapolis, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and performing his work internationally. Dewar has studied and/or performed with Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Alvin Lucier, and Milo Fine. He has also had a long involvement with Indonesian traditional and experimental music. His work has been performed by the Flux Quartet, the Koto Phase ensemble and Sekar Anu. As an improviser and performer he has shared the stage with a plethora of musicians worldwide, both the celebrated and the little-known. Recordings of his work are available on Striking Mechanism and Porter Records. He also appears on albums by the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet and the Bill Dixon Orchestra. Andrew Raffo Dewar is an Assistant Professor in New College at the University of Alabama.

Artist (photo by Photographer)