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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