Gary Rouzer

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker
"for the first time since the sixities, improvisers aren't working in a post-Coltrane aethetic, but rather a post-Duchamp one." - Keith Rowe



What I should say? Language cannot describe music anymore than it can describe the taste of food. I am an improvising musician that works in noise, minimalist textures, and jazz/funk-based interplay. My current approach utilizes extended techniques, loops, effects and preparations as ways to extend the vocabulary of the bass. Also I have begun experimenting with text and vocals as live sounds and as recorded cassette tapes. This follows my love of languages and words/sounds which had remained separate from my music until now.



ITALIAN - Studio italiano da cinque anni ma non sono mai stato in italia. Ho comenciato di suonare il basso all'eta di 16 anni. Mi piace offuscare la linea tra composizione e improvvisazione, tra suono e rumore. Quando sono andato a un concerto di King Crimson in 1974 fu una folgorazione. Alcuni dei mei sogni sono andare alla festival Rassegna di Nuova Musica a Macerata, verdere un derby allo stadio di San Siro e mangiare tortellini in brodo a Bologna.
SWEDISH - Jag läste svenska sedan 5 månader man jag har läst inte in en kurs. enbart på kassetter. Jag vet inte varför jag gillar svenska men jag gillar vintern. :-) Jag spelar en Steinberger NS bass cello pa bilen. Jag redan pratar spanska och italienska. Nu spelar ni och tänker på Salvador Dali.



DISCOGRAPHY:
2010 Overlapping Gestures - solo
2010 Fits of Cages - Vector Trio
2010 The Sounding Table - nine_strings_trio
2010 Bastard Squid Implant - Bastard Squid Implant
2010 A Better Future Than We've Had in the Past - Trio O
2010 Fixture of Degree - Pilesar/Rouzer
2009 Five Colors - Random Access Rendezvous
2009 Without Hidden Noise - Solo
2009 Live at Pyramid Atlantic - Vector Trio
2009 Departure Broken - Mason/Rouzer
2009 The Sincerity of Non-Sentient Things - Nine Strings + Pilesar
2009 Open Circuits/Communicating Fields - Nine Strings
2009 Nine Strings + Pilesar – Nine Strings + Pilesar
2008 A Part of Wholes – Nine Strings
2008 Nomina – Vector Trio
2008 Ramped – Vector Trio
2008 Outside Room – Vector Trio
2008 Aleasthete – Aleasthete
2006 Paths Unknown – Vector Trio
2006 Live at Electric Possible – Vector Trio
2006 Live at Bangkok Blues – Vector Trio
2005 Live in DC – Vector Trio
2003 Plot Twist – Vector Trio
2000 Contagagious Images – Vector
1997 Sonic Hieroglyph - Vector



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