About
COLLABORATORS
What gives Anarchestra life are the people who choose to
participate. Without their contributions Anarchestra would be
nothing more than a collection of objects (in the concrete) and ideas
(in the abstract): a "graveyard of thinking" and/or an "ivory
tower". Objects and ideas are both enjoyable and valuable (even
essential) within the limited fields they occupy, in their capacity to
analyze and/or suggest human activities in the past and/or the future,
but it is the activities themselves, the collective engagements of
groups of people, that invest the objects and ideas with life, that
bring them into the present (in all senses of the word).
Over the last four years a few hundred people have participated in
Anarchestra on different occasions and I value the contributions of all
of them.
The people on this page have contributed to our (thus far) released recordings. More to come.
Rod Welles
Rod Welles, film maker, sacred geometrician, etc., is the founder and
director of Labyrinth Speakeasy. Without his generosity
Anarchestra might never have existed.
Labyrinth Speakeasy
Sharmayne Tamm
Sharmayne Tamm is currently living and playing the bass around San Diego. Before moving to San Diego in 2003,
she was a member of the Boston music scene where she played and
recorded with various blues, funk, and r&b bands. She studied jazz
theory, improvisation, ear training, writing, arranging, and electric
bass at both New England Conservatory (Boston) and Roosevelt University
(Chicago,) where she earned both a BA and an MA in Jazz Composition and
Electric Bass.
Labyrinth Speakeasy
Scott Hershowitz
(photo:dick iacovello)
name is scott,love life indeed,all of it including the not great
parts,it all adds up,i drum,i help horses with their toes,i keep
people going with caffine,i'm learning to saves lives as an emt,i
love to sleep,i love to learn,i love to eat,i feel all humans
have equal validity,and i am upset that it's cool to wear pants
with no belt,but not ok to wear a belt with no pants.
Labyrinth Speakeasy
Paul Thurlow
(photo:dick iacovello)
Paul went to 48th st. with Alex Ferris when he was 12 to get a red
Epiphone bass. From that time he has been headlong down a
slippery slope of
psychedelic-jam-bebop-afro-cubano-celtic-reggae-world- he needs to get
out of this mess before it's too late! It may already be; he is
currently knocking down half notes in an old-timey string band,
accompanying african dance class, singing the blues with a local
political leader, constructing scores for epic underwater adventure
movies never made with the extra-brilliant Scott Hershowitz and
relearning everything he thought he knew about the piano, all the while
struggling to pursue his first love, housepainting.
Labyrinth Speakeasy
Linzi Arundale
(photo:dick iacovello)
Linzi is a painter, currently living in London.
Lindsey Arundale
Labyrinth Speakeasy, . . .terofourdis..., Hot Flash
Gaspard Cabanes
Gaspard Cabanes is an instrument builder, experimental musician and
co-founder of the Re-evolve record label, whose multiple projects have
included improvisational music, live music for dancers and theatrical
troops, with music ranging from free jazz, to noise. Trained in jazz
piano at an early age in his native country of France, he moved to New
Mexico in 1992 to study music at the college of Santa Fe.
Soon after, is passion for creative and improv music led him to
concentrate on free jazz (and drop out of school), and through the
fabrication of his own electro-acoustic-transducers instruments a more
radical and experimental soundscape/noise approach was born.
His multiple projects in New Mexico have included live music for buttoh
dancer Deirdre Morris, live Music for aerial troop Wise Fool, The
Invisible Plane, Springload, Audible Whispering Half Quartet, guest in
The Uninvited Guest, and more recently Anarchestra, and solo recordings.
sitsteel --furniture made by Gaspard
Hot Flash, Well. . ., Plenum, Dry Ice, Remnant
Dawn Edelman
dawn
elise edelman, bad ass cuz she's not far from 40, just getting her shit
together, and FINALLY making music and learning that there is nothing
better in the world. (well, nearly nothing!) all the best
elements of life coming together in those moments of creation make dawn
sleep better at night, a really beautiful thing, and wish she had not
waited so fucking long. but anything is better late than never,
as THEY say! coelescence is this year's theme and anarchestra,
with the supreme assistance and love of alex ferris, has led the way
into that other-worldly, long sought after experience! dawn
edelman, bad ass extraordinaire!
Well . . ., Plenum, Remnant, Contingent
Dezbah Stumpff
Dezbah Stumpff is an artist, reader, jewelry maker and singer.
She is currently studying at the School of the Art Institute in
Chicago. She feels that anyway she can get "the most creative life
possible is the way to go "Dezbah grew up in a musical household with a
piano playing mother and a bluegrass strumming cowboy father. As a
teenager she sang in a few punk rock bands and was known as the crazy
girl who sang loudly in the halls of her high school. Later she
performed her own music in a few plays and has been a backup singer and
guitarist in her father's band.
"Playing improv was really freeing because there was not a lot of
expectation that tends to get in the way, also the instruments are so
unique and really become part of one's physicality and I
appreciate that connection. It was really exciting to have this
music coming from everyone, like a living breathing entity so unique to
the individuals in the collaboration, and then hearing my own voice
incorporating and influencing has been amazing and downright joyful."
Well . . ., Plenum
Garry Transue
Though my role as Designer/Artist in Residence for the Telluride Film
Festival has taken me far into the realm of environmental design, I
remain, at heart, a painter and a musician with a lot of other
interests. I try not to define my output by category or genre,
but to approach all my varied exploits with a personal creative
philosophy which is the common thread that runs through what may appear
to be very different fabrics. When, in other aspects of my life,
I can engage in the kind of creative exploration that I find accessible
through painting and music, then theater design, photography,
landscaping or cooking all begin to feel like art made by the same
artist, and my work on earth seems cohesive and whole.
"You cannot lose your creative license, though it does eventually expire."
Home < The Art of Garry Transue
Contingent
Bill Wolford
Bill Wolford is a sound designer from Seattle.
Vivid Sound Productions
Contingent
Montana Steell
Montana Steell grew up on a boat and has never been to school. She came to america to make grilled cheese on an iron.
"Home to me is the smell of garlic cooking and the sound of Joni Mitchell singing."
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Zach Pearson
Zach Pearson is afraid of bees and retards.
He's been driving the deez.
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Andrew Prouty
Andrew Prouty
"Born to die."
Rising Sun
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Ellie Dauscher
Ellie Dauscher
LED
"I like hair and I don't really care. OK for now. it'll change.
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Zach LaNoue
Zach LaNoue
Fire beathing skunk ape hunter.
his space
mindgazer
skunkape circus
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Madog Frick
Madog Frick
Drummer for Vulgar Bulgars.
Upright bass, percussion, and rhythm guitar in the Okara Mountain Jig Riggers.
...travels...works on farms...
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