Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland
8pm, free
performingarts.mills.edu

Come celebrate the release of "Moving Parts", by Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari (aka Normal) out on fo'c'sle

Presented by the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College at Northeastern University

Moving Parts is a collection of vibrant improvisations by Normal, the duo of Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, playing manually and electronically manipulated home-made instruments. The duo formed in 2002 when Tewari sparked a revitalization of Frith’s early 80s explorations in self-made “planks of wood with strings”. Approaching instrument making not as beautifully crafted art objects requiring virtuosic techniques, but rather as crude de-constructions patched together using the simplest of means and requiring only minimal exertion to produce sound, the duo turns the smallest spring into a potential orchestra, the bluntest needle into a sharp response. As with any music, what is really going on is intense listening, tricks of memory, and the joy of discovery. Listen at focslemusic.com