MUSIC
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2019
7:00 PM

Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain VI
Blank Forms
St. Peter's Church
346 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

$10
https://blankforms.org/events/nate-wooley-seven-storey-mountain-vi/

As Lincoln Center's supposedly "spiritual" White Light Festival gets more and more generic, the spiritual action this week moves to avant-garde powerhouse Blank Forms, presenting a new iteration of the questing trumpeter Nate Wooley's vocal/instrumental/electronics magnum opus. Seven Storey Mountain started 12 years ago as an evocation of Thomas Merton using a tape of sounds from Wooley's apartment (air conditioner, refrigerator) and an instrumental trio playing both scored and improvisational sections. But it just grew since then, into a piece for some 32 singers and players (and those home tapes), tonight comprising a sort of crème de la crème of the New York jazz/classical improvisational music scene. Major.

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