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Micah Hummel Alex Meltzer Duo at Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble
Courtesy of Kim Gumbel | Posted on March 6, 2021
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Sun, March 21, 2021
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Micah Hummel
drumsAlex Meltzer
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Micah Hummel (drumset) and Alex Meltzer (electronics, samples) invite the audience into their creative process with an open workshop and performance of music they have developed as a duo. As musicians continue to develop their work under covid-related restrictions, this video, shot on the mainstage at and with lighting design by Portland Center Stage, invites the audience to hear how they develop their music and to hear the “before and after” of a new composition as they collaborate.
There is a deep human element to this duo’s creativity—they’ve long been friends but done even more work together lately since they are also roommates—and a technological element, resulting from the tools they’ve chosen. Using devices on Hummel’s drums that send data to Meltzer’s laptop, the music combines acoustic and sampled or synthesized sounds in an improvised succession of textures and timbres....