San Diego Reader

Marcelo Radulovich: Performance art | Christopher Adler: Performance art | Charles Curtis: Cello | Scott Walton: Bass guitar, Keyboards

Genre: Jazz, Noise | Xprmntl, Rock

Sound description: Experimental, minimalist art rock.

RIYL: Marcelo Radulovich, Christopher Adler, Hans Fiellestad, Marcos Fernandes, Donkey, the Trummerflora Collective

Upcoming Local Shows

• http://www.marceloradulovich.com

• Website · July 18, 2007

Synoposis

Inception: San Diego, 2005

Current Status: Playing occasional shows.

Influences: Borborygmus, Lisle Ellis, Donkey, Cosmologic, Marcelo Radulovich, Hans Fiellestad, Marcos Fernandes, Bill Horist, Peter Brotzmann, Cross Border Trio, 2 Foot Yard, the Assholes, Thomas Dimuzio

Background:

Gunther's Grass began in 2005 as a collaboration between Marcelo Radulovich and Christopher Adler to bring together two ancient drone-based instruments from across the world: the medieval European hurdy-gurdy and the Lao/Northeast Thai mouth organ khaen. Chilean-born Marcelo Radulovich is an audiovisual artist.

Acknowledged internationally as a performer of new and experimental music, cellist Charles Curtis has been closely associated for over 15 years with the legendary avant-garde composer La Monte Young. As director of Young's Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble, Curtis has participated in more performances and premieres of Young's works than any other interpreter. For a number of years Curtis has maintained an interest and a presence in the downtown New York free music scene, performing in clubs like Tonic, the Knitting Factory, the Cooler, ABC No Rio, CBGB, and Acme Underground. He collaborated over a period of years with poetry-rock pioneers King Missile, John S. Hall, Dogbowl, and Kramer, and has been a guest of artists and groups such as Alan Licht, Michael J. Schumacher Donald Miller, Dean Roberts, Elliott Sharp, David First, Ben Neill Bongwater, Borbetomagus, Circle X, and with individual members of the bands Television, Pere Ubu, and Public Image Limited.

As an outgrowth of his intensive work with La Monte Young and his presence in the New York avant-garde rock scene, Curtis has evolved into a creative artist straddling the boundaries between art rock, sound art, and minimalist composition. Since 2000 Curtis has been a professor of contemporary music performance at the University of California, San Diego, where he had previously been guest lecturer and performer.

Scott Walton (bassist and pianist) is a member of the Trummerflora Collective. His most recent CD release is Venice Suite with Gilbert Isbin and Jeff Gauthier. Current recording projects include Cosmologic's fourth CD, Harris Eisenstadt's The All Seeing Eye + Octets tribute, the Tracy McMullen Quartet, and a "prepared" trio with Nathan Hubbard and Erik Griswold.