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"TRIALOGUE" in the **Evolving Voice Vocal Series**
Featuring Luxembourg poet & performer Pierre Joris with Nicole Peyrafitte (voice) & Michael Bisio (bass)
THE LOCAL 269 - 269 East Houston Street – New York City
Monday, August 23, 2010 - 8:00pm – Cost: $10.00 at the door – www.thelocal269.com
Pierre Joris has moved between Luxembourg, the US, Great Britain, North Africa & France for close to half a century. He has published over 40 books of poetry, essays and translations, most recently Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending from the Blade, an Ahadada ebook 2010. In 2007 & 2008 he published Aljibar and Aljibar II (poems, a bilingual edition with French translation by Eric Sarner, Editions PHI, Luxembourg). Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 came out in 2009 from SALT in the UK. His 2007 publications are the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; & Mitch Elrod, guitar) issued by Ta’wil Productions and Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Hallaj 1-21. Translations include Paul Celan: Selections and 4x1: Work by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey & Habib Tengour translated by Pierre Joris. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry. He has published 3 further volumes of Paul Celan translations: Breathturn, Threadsuns and Lightduress (which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award) and a range of translations into French, including books by Jack Kerouac. Julian Beck, Allen Ginsberg & Sam Shepard. Working with Nicole Peyrafitte has allowed Joris to create a range of collaborative performances such as dePLACEments, Manifesto&a, Sumericabachbones, and many others. www.pierrejoris.com
Nicole Peyrafitte is a Pyrenean-born performance artist who sings, paints, films, writes, and cooks. Her eclectic heritage allows her to perform songs that range from French cabaret to jazz standards and contemporary poetry. Her voice is frequently heard integrated into multimedia stagings based on her visuals and writings. These performances usually also involve the onstage preparation and cooking of a dish that she shares with her audience. Peyrafitte’s work highlights her exploits in creating an imaginative identity between two continents & four languages. Her more recent performances are: The Bi-Continental Chowder/La Garbure Transcontinentale (Multimedia performance & CD), Whisk! Don’t Churn (with Michael Bisio, live performances & CD), Augustus Saint Gaudens’ return to the Fatherland (Multimedia performance, article, and documentary in development), Sax, Soup, Poetry & Voice (Performance & DVD with Pierre Joris & Joe Giardullo). Her visual work was recently on display at the “D’Artagnan Anniversary Art Show” at the Trump Tower World Bar & at “Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage” at Gathering Tribes Gallery. www.nicolepeyrafitte.com
Michael Bisio:
As a recording artist Michael Bisio appears on over 50 CDs, he is leader on 10 CDs and co-leads 7 duet recordings. His recorded output has consistently met with critical praise. Michael's first international release, In Seattle, (Silkheart), was chosen as one of the "Best Jazz Records of the 1980's" in the Village Voice. Connections, (CIMP), 2005, as reviewed in Cadence Magazine. "...this is another important disc from Bisio and company that highlights Bisio's talents as a musician, composer and bandleader." Fourteen new releases in 2009 included two MBQ CDs for CIMP and Not Two, two CDs by Tomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult, and Old Dog, By Any Other Name, (Porter Records). The very beginning of 2010 saw the release of Session at 475 Kent, duets with the highly acclaimed pianist Connie Crothers on MutableMusic. As a composer Michael Bisio has been recognized with nine project grants from various arts organizations; in 2003 he was awarded an Artist Trust Fellowship.
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**Evolving Voice Vocal Series ** is an Avant Garde Music series curated by Fay Victor, Rucma & The Vision Festival
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ADDRESS: THE LOCAL 269 – 269 E. Houston Street – Corner of Suffolk Street – NYC 10002 - (1-212) 228-9874
SUBWAY: F and V to Lower East Side-Second Avenue or J, M, Z to Essex Street
CONTACT: Ms. Laurence Pierron - Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office in New York
(1-212) 888-6664 Ext 208 – laurence.pierron@mae.etat.lu