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FIGEATER STUDIO EXTRAVAGANZA

April 2010
Fandrich Piano Studio
Seattle, WA


Opening / Improvisation


Commentary

FRANK WORKSHOP

Business Basics & Building Bridges

http://www.divshare.com/download/11481814-6e1

SING-A-LONGS AND STAIRS

Special Ops
a family moment






Special Fig
stairway to heaven

BRISTOL BASEMENT PARTY

May 2010
Clarinet Improvisation

FIGEATER NYC MEDIA

FIGEATER
Performing Unit: Special Fig

Zebulon
4/26/10

The Stone
4/27/10

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Press/Song Download: WNYC New York Public Radio

"wild, experimental, genre-hopping...Led by Seattle clarinetist and composer Beth Fleenor, Figeater is an avant garde outfit that uses audience participation to frame live performances. With band lineups that morph from a seven-piece ensemble to an acoustic quartet to an experimental rock foursome, there's no telling what you might be in for at a Figeater show. This maniacal Figeater track features the rockier lineup known as Special Fig which will be performing tonight at Zebulon. With it's mad yelps, frenetic vocals and wild, woozy guitar, "Crazy Lady" lives up to its name." - WNYC

HNK TRIO

Wayne Horvitz, Le Quan Ninh, Briggan Krauss
March / April 2010

Supported by CMA/FACE French/American Jazz Exchange




video: workshop Cornish College of the Arts / Seattle, WA

LEARNING UKRAINIAN VOCAL MUSIC

Za Horodom Kozy Pasla



BF and Michael Owcharuk rehearsal
March 2010

APARTMENT GARDENING

March 2010

THE BUFFALO PROJECT

The very act of creating - not specifically what is created - but the act of creating, ushers in a wave of clarity, a calming of the chatter, an inner peace that unfolds and opens. Through creating space, and adjusting alignment, creativity makes room for the birth of new ideas/perspectives.

An emphasis on creativity in a culture gives rise to creative solutions to social problems. It is a catalyst for change and growth. It is stable, sustainable, and extends expedientially.

CREATE CREATE CREATE

PRESENCE

OWLS & EAGLES

I started actively working with Gino Yevdjvich, composer and lead singer of Balkan punk-shaman metal band, Kultur Shock, last month. We are working on a production of Julius Caesar, a project that will tour to prisons this June. The production is directed by Robin Lynn Smith and Gino is composing the music - I am music director and one of two musicians performing the score/sound design of the piece.

Ever since I had the great honor of touring Russia & Slovenia with Kultur Shock in June 2009, I have wanted to study with Gino. I noticed immediately that he was to be my next mentor in sound, and I was eager to step up to the challenge and get to work, diving into a new language and dimension of voice & percussion.

Having the opportunity to work so closely with Gino in the development of this score is amazing. I will be performing clarinet, bass clarinet, voice, percussion and electronics for the work, alongside an additional percussionist...and it is my first project taking the helm as musical director. Gino does the Shakespeare project every year, and is usually the performer in addition to the composer. This year, because he will be on tour with Kultur Shock, he is not able to perform and I will be manning the ship. It is a tall order, to say the least...but I think I am ready. And I know I am willing, and able.

EYES

DOUBLE YOKO NYC

FIGEATER NYC