DESCRIPTION:
Live at Studio 105, London, Ontario, Acoustico is a freely improvised piece combining live acoustic wind and brass instruments, acoustic woodwind samples controlled by MIDI, electroacoustic filtered sound and purely electronic sounds.

Acoustico begins as a dialogue between Glen Hall on bass flute and Bruce Cassidy on trumpet with a background electronic music texture provided by Kyma. Eugene Martynec on MIDIax adds samples of Hall's playing, first of flute overblowing, then of woodwinds pads slapping on tone holes, while Cassidy continues with scalar and rhythmic motifs and Hall re-enters with piccolo punctuations. Then Hall 'rolls the dice' (a process on Kyma that literally uses an algorithmic statistical chance operation of resetting pitch and filter settings), responding to Cassidy's and Martynec's playing. The piece ends with the exotic sound of the Balinese monkey chant

So NU is a trio of improvising composers—Glen Hall, Bruce Cassidy and Eugene Martynec—connecting and creating free jazz, free improvisation and electroacoustic music in real time. The group uses a dazzling palette of sonic colors from an EVI (electronic valve instrument), MIDIax (software using personally recorded, selected and edited acoustic instrument and synthesized samples), a WWII wind controller and Kyma, a graphical language for live, interactive sound generation and manipulation. Their knowledge of composition shapes improvisations' structures, textures and thematic/conceptual development. The group's name comes from a Yiddish expression that roughly translated means "What's happening with you now?" Their music tells exactly those stories in Technicolor sonic detail..