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A excerpt from the concert with Stephen Dorocke/Risofon resophone, at Mengi Iceland on Friday, February 3rd 2017 with special guests: Berglind María Tómasdóttir flutes, Dr. Julian F. Thayer bass.


STEPHEN DOROCKE

Stephen Dorocke/Risofon, is the ongoing sonic research and exploration utilizing the “Resophone”, a modified and sometimes prepared metal body resonator guitar, set up for playing with a steel.
Sonically adventurous, Dorocke continues the exploratory traditions of artists such as Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Harry Bertoia, Egisto Macch and Harry Partch, as well as Derek Bailey, Freddie Roulette, and Ry Cooder from a guitaristic standpoint. The worldly and cosmic sounds that surround us are influential in the sonic componentry of the Resophonian Dialect. He has toured, performed, and recorded with Can.Ky.Ree, The Lofty Pillars, The Handsome Family and Freakwater, playing steel guitar (pedal and lap), guitar, violin, mandola/mandolin, and d’oud - a variant of the OUD, of which he has designed and built several iterations.

BERGLIND MARÍA TÓMASDÓTTIR

Berglind Tómasdóttir is a flutist and interdisciplinary artist living in Reykjavík, Iceland. Berglind has worked with elements of video art, theater and music through various performances and projects in which she frequently explores identity and archetypes, as well as music as a social phenomenon. An advocate of new music, Berglind has worked with composers such as Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Evan Ziporyn, Nicholas Deyoe, Clinton McCallum and Carolyn Chen, and received commissions from The Dark Music Days Festival and The National Flute Association. Her work has been featured at Reykjavík Arts Festival, MSPS New Music Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana, The 2013 National Flute Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, REDCAT (Los Angeles), CMMAS in Morelia, Mexico and at the Bang on a Can Marathon in San Francisco to name a few. Berglind Tómasdóttir holds degrees in flute playing from Reykjavik College of Music and The Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and a DMA in contemporary music performance from University of California, San Diego. Berglind is an associate professor in contemporary music performance at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
Website: http://berglindtomasdottir.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9oVx-SEYS0ZuyqPPgiFJ8A
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/berglind-tomasdottir

DR. JULIAN THAYER

Dr. Julian Thayer is a long time friend of Stephen Dorocke, a musician and bass player, a research neurologist and the Director of the EQP lab at Ohio State University whose research pertains to adaptive, flexible functioning in the context of cardiovascular, cognitive, psychological, and neural integrity under a model of neurovisceral integration. Website: http://labs.psy.ohio-state.edu/eqp/

MENGI

"Mengi has created an innovative and excellent program for events of all kinds. In a tiny space at Óðinsgata it’s audience has been able to experience hundreds of events every year; concerts, visual art performances, dance performances and theater performances. As regards music, Mengi has created a rare platform for musical creation of all kind, rock, electronic, baroque, folk, contemporary music, jazz or all at once, performed by both Icelandic artists and artists from abroad. In 2015 Mengi added weekly creative music labs for children to its ambitious program. Mengi is an invaluable melting pot for discoveries and experiences for artists and visitors alike."
The venue was designed by Elísabet Jónsdóttir, designer and Hrafnhildur Jónsdóttir, architect.
Cultural Prize of Icelandic Newspaper DV in 2016
Mengi was opened on December 11th, 2013.
Website: http://www.mengi.net/



ICELANDIC

Stephen Dorocke í Mengi föstudagskvöldið 3. febrúar. Hefjast klukkan 21.

Sérstakur gestur: Berglind María Tómasdóttir + Dr. Julian Thayer.
Áhugi tónlistarmannsins Stephen Dorocke á alls kyns hljóðarannsóknum kviknaði þegar hann var ungur að árum, þökk sé meðal annars stuttbylgjuútvarpi sem leyndist á æskuheimili hans. Á meðal tónlistarmanna sem hafa haft áhrif á hann og hvatt til áframhaldandi hljóðleiðangra má nefna Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Harry Bertoia, Egisto Macchi, Harry Partch, Derek Bailey, Freddie Roulette og Ry Cooder.

Stephen Dorocke hefur komið víða fram og hljóðritað plötur með tónlistarmönnum svo sem Can.Ky.Ree, The Lofty Pillars, The Handsome Family og Freakwater. Á meðal hljóðfæra sem hann spilar á í tónlistarverkefnum sínum eru gítar, fiðla, mandólín og d’oud, sem er sérsmíðað hljóðfæri Stephen Dorocke, sérstakt afbrigði af arabísku lútunni úd.

Stephen Dorocke býr og starfar í Chicago þar sem hann tekur virkan þátt í öflugri spunasenu stórborgarinnar. Á tónleikum í Mengi mun hann einbeita sér að hljóðlátari blæbrigðum hljóðfæris síns Resophone sem er nokkurs konar umbreyttur gítar.