The 21st Season of Thomas Buckner’s innovative series of new music continues on November 12, 2009, featuring work by two American masters of integrating composition, electronics, and live performance: Earl Howard and Edmund Campion. Saxophonist, composer and electronic sound constructionist Earl Howard’s work seamlessly integrates meticulously sculpted electroacoustic textures with the visceral immediacy of live improvisation. Howard presents Strasser 60 for synthesizer solo, 2455 for saxophone solo, and Crupper, an electroacoustic duet with koto player Miya Masaoka.

“Howard successfully moves his composition[s] through different zones of rhythm and harmony without diminishing the buoyant 'presentness' which characterizes freely improvised music”– Ben Watson, The Wire Connections between music and the natural world are major themes in Edmund Campion's work, which mixes formal composition, improvisation, and interactive instrument design to focus on real-time interactive computer/instrument environments. Campion will be joined by Susan Fancher on saxophone and computer, and Nils Bultmann on viola and computer.

General admission: $15 ($10 students, seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members; free for Roulette and Location One members)