YON SIL / HUMMINGBIRD [EVELYN DAVIS + PHILLIP GREENLIEF + JORDAN GLENN]

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HUMMINGBIRD: PHILLIP GREENLIEF, EVELYN DAVIS and JORDAN GLENN make sputtering buzzes with tail feathers in meadows and open forests. Their perches tend to willows and alder from Mexico to 5,000 year old pine forests. They add beauty by attracting audiences to hover, increasing metabolic rates by quoting the odysseys of Pauline Oliveros and Tony Williams. Their survival depends on chasing red tailed press releases with the eloquence of epic poetry found primarily in the early work of The Slits, and other renegade protagonists associated with the essence of iridescence; where the glowing, intensifying, changing colors of their sonic palette is but one brilliant example of their off-the-charts biology.

YON SIL is visiting in Berkeley from the UK, where he regularly performs in London’s vibrant experimental scene with artists such as Steve Noble, John Edwards, and Charles Hayward. Yon’s bass clarinet solos - often performed in one uninterrupted circular-breathed flow - weave multilayered sound/note textures through refractions of noise and melody, and stem from an intensely corporeal and visceral relationship to his instrument, partly informed by his experience as a member of Ana Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble, whose radical, noise-adjacent improvisational interpretation of spectral music has deeply affected him. Yon has performed with Birgit Uhler, Angharad Davies, Ashely Paul, Toshimaru Nakamura, Abstract Concrete, John Butcher etc., and appears on Creative Sources, Editions Modern, Aural Terrains, Confront Recordings, Chocolate Monk, Hideous Replica etc.

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