Sandy Ewen: Solo Guitar Improvisations Will Be Jan. 30

  • Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Sandy Ewen
Sandy Ewen

Secret Weave and the Shaking Ray Levi Society will present Sandy Ewen: Solo Guitar Improvisations on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 8:30 p.m. It will be held at Exile Off Main Street, 1634 Rossville Ave. Admission is $7 at the door. 

Review for Sandy Ewen:

Sandy Ewen is a sound artist, visual artist and architect. Ewen’s audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques, improvisation, graphic scores and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements – railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool and other items become an arsenal of abstraction.

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1985, Sandy Ewen received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, before relocating to Houston, Tx. and New York City, her current home. Ewen has worked extensively with film makers, dancers, poets and musicians to create films, audio recordings, sound interventions and performance art. Ewen’s musical collaborations include the trio Etched in the Eye, a duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs, the trio Garden medium, and ongoing collaborations with percussionist Weasel Walter and bassist Damon Smith.

For nearly 10 years, Ewen has been the leader of an all-female large ensemble. The ensemble conceptualizes and performs sound and performance art, utilizing graphic and text based scores and improvisational constraints. The ensemble performed with an amplified bathtub at Diverse Works in 2016, and performed a suite of installation-specific compositions for Francis Alÿs’ Fabiola Project at the Menil.

Sandy has spent much of the last few years touring, performing solo sets and in collaboration with Steve Jansen (tapes and electronics) and Maria Chavez (turntables) around Europe. In years past, Ewen has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch and many others, and has performed and recorded with Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser and more. In 2014 she performed at San Francisco’s 13th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin’s annual No Idea Festival. Ewen’s visual work is closely tied to her work in sound; she uses both mediums to explore texture, composition and materials.

For more information visit the Facebook page or her website

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