WOOT Fest
2001 / New York City

One of the projects to be featured in the New York City concert series will be Jon Catler's Evolution for Electric Guitar and Orchestra. Evolution evolves the orchestra into a purely tuned organism fueled by the energy of Catler's Just Intonation guitar. Drawing upon his years of work with legendary Minimalist La Monte Young, Catler builds a bridge between musical worlds, leading the orchestra with a 62-note per octave electric guitar and a vision of the future of music. Catler's idea of Natural Music has grown out of his complete dedication to the Harmonic Series, exploring the deep range of true consonance and dissonance not even approached in 12-tone equal tuning. Here, Catler has drawn together the best of musical worlds, creating stunningly beautiful and complex lyrical phrases which are embraced by the classical orchestra, further enhanced by the addition of pure soprano voices.

Our belief is that WOOT Festival will have the potential to expand the consciousness of the musical and artistic community and inspire dialogue about Natural Music. Produced in conjunction with MELA Foundation, WOOT Festival will also feature the work of La Monte Young who is one of the world's leading experts on Natural Music.

MELA Foundation, founded in May 1985, is a not-for-profit interdisciplinary arts organization designed to encourage creative work in the fields of music, the visual arts, and other media; to explore the applications of advanced technologies to artistic expression; and to present major contemporary works and extended duration art installations that eliminate the boundaries between artistic disciplines. MELA has produced and organized more than 100 events since its inception, including performances, exhibitions, installations, recordings, film screenings, video and radio presentations, teaching, research and publications. The name MELA references the Sanskrit word mela, which has the meanings of consonance, harmonizing, combining, gathering together, and is etymologically related to milana: to tune. In addition, MELA forms the acronym for Music Eternal Light Art.

New York, New York

Monday, June 11th, 2001 11pm, EDST

Tune into "New Sounds" - WNYC, 93.3 FM (N.Y., N.Y.) John Schaefer hosts; Jon Catler talks about the "Nature of Music", featuring excerpts from the W.O.O.T Festival, including music by La Monte Young, Jon Catler and others.

Thursday, June 14, 2001

Jon Catler's Evolution for Electric Guitar and Orchestra and
Rod Poole, solo Just Intonation acoustic guitar

$12.00 
7-9 pm
Makor
35 West 67th Street
N.Y., N.Y. 10023
212-601-1000

Wednesday, June 20th, 2001

La Monte Young

Composition 1960 #7 is Young's minimalist drone of B and F# "to be sustained for a long time" from July 1960.

Admission is $12 for MELA members, $16 for non-members.
8 pm
DIAPASON
1026 6th Avenue, #2S (between 38th & 39th Streets)
New York, NY 10018
(212) 719-4393.

Tuesday, June 26th

Swallow - electrifying Harmonic Series rock band - featuring the Catler brothers, with vocalist Meredith Borden.

$7 
8 pm (sharp) 
the Elbow Room
144 Bleeker Street
between Thompson Street and LaGuardia Place
(212) 979-2434.