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John Ingle/Dan Joseph
duo
New music for saxophone and hammer dulcimer
“Truly inspired.” –San Francisco Bay Guardian
Since 1998, John Ingle (San Francisco) and Dan Joseph (New York) have
been developing a unique style of pattern-based improvisation and collaborative
composition. With the unusual instrumentation of alto saxophone and
hammer dulcimer, their music is built upon fixed modes and simple melodic
patterns from which they develop and improvise their collaborative works.
With a sound combining elements of minimalism, free jazz and Indian
raga, they have developed a devoted following in the Bay Area where
their collaboration began. They have appeared at New Langton Arts, the
Headlands Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Arts Center, Knitting Factory
Los Angeles and other California venues. In New York they have performed
at Roulette, Issue Project Room and the Bowerey Poetry Club. Their 2000
CD trancepatterns with guests India Cooke, violin, and Miya
Masaoka, laser-koto, is available from the Deep
Listening Catalog and in digital form from Mutable Music wherever
digital downlaods are sold.
Saxophonist John Ingle
is originally from Memphis, TN and now resides and works in San Francisco.
His music is informed and influenced by contemporary concert music,
jazz, electronic music, improvised music, various Asian folk traditions,
and the blues and gospel of his native Southeast US. He currently collaborates
with electronics innovator Laetitia Sonami, in duo with composer/dulcimerist
Dan Joseph, and in the quartet Shinola. He also performs with the new
music group sfSound Ensemble and with the electric-jazz-rock band Frypan.
John has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia with such diverse
artists as Eliane Radigue, Wadada Leo Smith, Miya Masaoka, Marco Eneidi,
William Winant, Douglas Ewart, India Cook, Frederic Blin, Fred Frith,
the Memphis Symphony, the Taipei Philharmonic and pop icon Stevie Wonder.
He has a Master of Arts degree from Mills College where he studied with
Pauline Oliveros and Glen Spearman, among others.
Dan Joseph
is a free-lance composer based in New York City. He began his career
as a drummer in the vibrant punk scene of his native Washington, DC.
During the late 1980s, he was active in the experimental tape music
underground, producing ambient-industrial works for independent labels
in the U.S. and abroad. He spent the ‘90s in California where
he studied at CalArts and Mills College. His principal teachers include
Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and Terry Riley. As an artist who
embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously
in a variety of media and contexts, including instrumental chamber music,
free improvisation, and various forms of electronica and sound art.
Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle
for his music. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble,
The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations
and as an occasional soloist.
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