The Empty House Co-operative The Empty House Co-operative is an improvising collective based in northeastern USA andA led by David Michael Curry (Thalia Zedek, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Chris Brokaw, Boxhead Ensemble, Molasses and more). On the occasion of Thalia Zedek's first-ever Australian tour, David Michael Curry will be joined by Thalia and the Dirty Three's Mick Turner for a one-off Empty House Co-operative show at Gertrudes on Monday, August 1 from 8pm (see ticket details below). The Empty House Co-operative began in 1997 with casual gatherings for brunch and music at David Michael Curry's apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The limits of a conventional band setting led DMC to explore ideas of improvised music with like-minded friends. Operating with no fixed formula, and featuring a floating lineup and flexible instrumentation, the group settled into a moody, meditative style drawing both from chamber music and avant-garde noise-rock. The Empty House Co-operative features an extended family of musicians including members of Molasses, Thalia Zedek, Pullman, Boxhead Ensemble, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Godspeed You Black Emperor, and more. Though all of these artists are involved with significant other projects, the EHC has taken on a unique life of its own. The music is melodic and musical but the open-ended, extended pieces float and shimmer with a minimum of structure and are marked by a nuanced melancholy. The Empty House Co-operative has performed live soundtracks to silent films, improvised dinner music at restaurants, and transformed rock clubs. The group provided music for the American Repertory Theatre's 2003 production of Highway Ulysses, and provided the ambient musical score to a marathon reading at the 2001 Jack Kerouac Festival in Lowell, MA. For more information, please go to http://emptyhousecooperative.blogspot.com/ Don't miss this extraordinary one-off collaboration which will feature David Michael Curry on viola, loops, horn, singing saw andA Thalia Zedek on clarinet, joined by Mick Turner on guitar. Empty House Co-operative: one night only @ Gertrudes, Monday August 1 featuring Thalia Zedek, Mick Turner, David Michael Curry plus an opening set by Ned Collette (City City City) @ Gertrudes, upstairs at 30 Gertrude St, Fitzroy: tel 9417 6420. A Doors open 8pm. --

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