熔炉阶段 The Melting Pot Session
美国 USA
场地 Venue
深圳 B10 现场 B10 LIVE, Shenzhen
演出者 Artists
John King – 吉他 Guitar
William Hooker – 鼓 Drums
William Hooker
William Hooker 是一位音乐家、作曲家和诗人，被誉为“打破常规的音乐先锋，其世代中最具创新性的音乐家和鼓手之一”。
他拥有超过 70 张由他领衔的录音作品，涵盖爵士、新音乐、实验音乐和跨领域的艺术形式（包括舞蹈、默片和口头表演艺术等）。他曾在多个知名场馆进行演出，包括布鲁克林音乐学院、林肯中心中庭、沃兹沃思雅典娜博物馆、伊丽莎白女王音乐厅、沃克艺术中心、MTV、Yoshi’s（旧金山）、The Kitchen、The Knitting Factory、ISSUE Project Room、Roulette 和 Real Art Ways 等。他也登上各大国际音乐节的舞台，如 JVC 爵士音乐节、蒙特利尔爵士音乐节、温哥华爵士音乐节、CMJ 音乐节、维尔纽斯爵士音乐节、阿根廷实验音乐节和维多利亚维尔国际当代音乐节等。
William Hooker 曾获得众多机构的支持与项目委托，包括纽约州艺术委员会、播客节目 Meet the Composer、东京海上保险公司等，以及欧柏林音乐学院、福特汉姆大学、哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学、波士顿大学、普林斯顿大学和达特茅斯大学等多所高等学府。与他合作过的音乐家包括 Billy Bang、David Ware、William Parker、Thurston Moore、David Soldier、Roy Campbell、DJ Spooky、Steven Bernstein、Zeena Parkins、Lee Ranaldo、Jason Hwang、Sabir Mateen、Elliot Sharp、David Murray、Ted Daniel 和 JD Parren 等。
他近期的专辑 Symphonie of Flowers （ORG厂牌）及为其而办的演出获得了极高的评价，而他早期的一些经典作品也在最近被重新出版，包括他 1977 年的首张专辑 … Is Eternal Life 和 1997 年的 Mindfulness。
Hooker 还主持着自己的播客“失落的一代：主流之外”，是一系列当代自由爵士音乐家的访谈节目。他正在为刚完成的长篇纪录片撰写配套书籍。
William Hooker is a musician, composer and a poet recognized as “an iconoclast, and one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation”.
With over 70 recordings as a leader—encompassing jazz, new music, experimental music and multi-disciplinary forms of expression (including dance, silent film and spoken word), he has presented his work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Atrium at Lincoln Center, Wadsworth Atheneum, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Walker Art Center, MTV, Yoshi’s(SF), The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, and Real Art Ways. He has also presented his work at the JVC Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, CMJ Music Festival, Vilnius Jazz Festival, Experimenta Argentina, and the Victoriaville Music Festival.
William Hooker has received commissions and support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, Tokio Marine Insurance Company and colleges and universities such as Oberlin, Fordham, Columbia, New York University, Boston University, Princeton, Dartmouth and many more. Musicians he has collaborated with include Billy Bang, David Ware, William Parker, Thurston Moore, David Soldier, Roy Campbell, DJ Spooky, Steven Bernstein, Zeena Parkins, Lee Ranaldo, Jason Hwang, Sabir Mateen, Elliot Sharp, David Murray, Ted Daniel, JD Parren and many more.
The critical acclaim of his most recent album, Symphonie of Flowers (ORG), and the performances in support of it are overwhelming. Some of his earlier recordings have been reissued recently, including his 1977 debut, … Is Eternal Life and 1997’s Mindfulness (ORG).
Hooker also has his own podcast called “The Lost Generation: Outside the Mainstream”, an interview series devoted to the free-jazz musicians of the present. He’s now at work on his book as a companion piece to the full-length documentary film just completed.
John King
John King，作曲家、吉他手和中提琴手。
作为一名作曲家，他曾接受 Kronos 四重奏、Ethel 四重奏、奥尔巴尼交响乐团/“欲望之犬”、Bang On A Can All-Stars 乐队、曼海姆芭蕾舞团、纽约市芭蕾舞团/钻石计划、斯图加特芭蕾舞团、蒙特卡罗芭蕾舞团等和莫斯·康宁汉舞蹈团（MCDC）等多个乐队/机构的委托进行创作。他的弦乐四重奏作品被许多乐队演奏，如洛杉矶的 Eclipse 四重奏和阿姆斯特丹的 Mondriaan 四重奏，还有 Secret 四重奏——他们在纽约知名前卫/实验音乐场地 The Stone（2007/2015）、The Kitchen（2009）和 Roulette（2014），以及林肯中心艺术节（2011）等进行了 John King 多部作品的首演。
John King 到目前为止创作了 7 部歌剧：ping 和 WHAT IS THE WORD，文本由 Samuel Beckett 创作，分别首演于 2014 年春天的 Experiments in Opera 戏剧节和 2016 年 2 月的 Avant Music 音乐节；impropera，使用了歌手手机中随机选择的短信文本；SapphOpera，一部由 Anne Carson 翻译的、古希腊诗人 Sappho 的诗歌文本碎片组成的室内歌剧；herzstück/heartpiece，基于 Heiner Müller 的文本，首演于 1999 年华沙秋季音乐节，并于 2000 年在纽约的 The Kitchen 上演（与 Krzysztof Knittel 共同创作的双歌剧）；la belle captive，基于 Alain Robbe-Grillet 的文本，2003 年在布宜诺斯艾利斯的科隆剧院/CETC首演，并巡演至 2004 年的伦敦 ICA（Fronteras Festival）和 2005 年的 The Kitchen；Dice Thrown，基于 Stéphane Mallarmé 的诗歌，纽约市歌剧团在 2008 年 5 月的 VOX 系列中上演了该剧的精简版，完整的舞台版则于 2010 年 4 月 23-24 日在加州艺术学院上演；2015 年 5 月，为置于一个大空间内的 6 架三角钢琴而作 Piano Vectors，首演于纽约皇后区四万平方英尺的 Knockdown Center。
他为 Peter Kratz 执导的五部戏剧（The Tempest、Faust, The Trial、Steppenwolf 和 Wings of Desire）创作了歌曲和配乐，这些戏剧于路德维希堡的 TheaterSommer 剧院上演。他多次接受布鲁克林青年合唱团的委约，并与他们合作了“Black Mountain Songs”项目，于 2014 年 11 月 20 日在布鲁克林音乐学院首演，并随后在欧洲进行了巡演。
他最近发行了 3 张弦乐四重奏音乐的 CD：10 Mysteries 和 AllSteel（Tzadik 厂牌），以及 Ethel（Cantaloupe 厂牌）。他于 1999 至 2003 年期间担任 The Kitchen 的音乐策展人，并于 2002 至 2011 年期间担任莫斯·康宁汉舞蹈团音乐委员会的联合总监。他获得了 2014 年当代艺术基金会的声音/音乐奖，以及 2009 年阿尔珀特艺术奖音乐奖。他于 2016 年 3 月成为洛克菲勒基金会/贝拉焦中心的研究员，并于 2015 年 7 月成为意大利威尼斯 Emily Harvey 基金会的驻地艺术家。
John King, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet; Ethel; the Albany Symphony/“Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His string quartets have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet (LA) and the Mondriaan Quartet (Amsterdam), in addition to the Secret Quartet which has premiered many of his compositions at The Stone (June 2007, May 2015), The Kitchen (April 2009), Lincoln Center Festival (July 2011); and Roulette (Oct. 2014).
He has written 7 operas: ping and WHAT IS THE WORD, with texts by Samuel Beckett, premiered at the Experiments in Opera Festival, spring 2014 and the Avant Music Festival, February 2016; impropera, which used randomly selected text msg’s from the singers’ cell phones; SapphOpera, a chamber opera with text-fragments by Sappho translated by Anne Carson; herzstück/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller, premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn Festival and presented at the Kitchen NYC in 2000 (a double-opera, co-written with Krzysztof Knittel); la belle captive, based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, premiered at Teatro Colon/CETC in Buenos Aires in 2003, and toured to London’s ICA (Fronteras Festival) in 2004 and The Kitchen in 2005; and also his most recent opera, Dice Thrown, based on the Stéphane Mallarmé poem, an excerpt of which was performed by New York City Opera as part of its VOX series in May 2008. The complete staged version was presented at CalArts April 23-24, 2010. And in May of 2015, Piano Vectors, which was created for 6 grand pianos in a large space, premiered at the beautiful 40,000 sq. ft Knockdown Center space in Queens, NY.
He has written songs and incidental music for five plays (The Tempest, Faust, The Trial, Steppenwolf and Wings of Desire) at the Ludwigburg TheaterSommer directed by Peter Kratz. He has been commissioned numerous times by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and collaborated with them on their “Black Mountain Songs” project, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Nov. 20, 2014 and went on to tour in Europe.
He has 3 recent CD releases of music for string quartet: 10 Mysteries and AllSteel (Tzadik); and Ethel (Cantaloupe). He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and from 2002-2011 was a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC. He received the 2014 Award for Sound/Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and is also the recipient of the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation/Bellagio Center Fellow in March 2016, as well as in residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy in July 2015.
