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Artist Bio

Composer/musician Joel Peterson has 22 years of experience performing and teaching music. He has programmed music and art in Detroit for 16 years, including over 200 events a year at Bohemian National Home from 2005-2008. Peterson studied double-bass with Detroit Symphony Orchestra Principal Robert Gladstone and Dan Pliskow, as well as guitar with John Denome. He is a founding member of Immigrant Suns, Scavenger Quartet, Lac La Belle, Odu Afrobeat, Xenharmonic Gamelan and BoxDeserter. He has collaborated with Rhys Chatham, Eugene Chadbourne, Damo Suzuki, Faruq Z. Bey, Frank Pahl, Thollem McDonas, Tatsuya Nakatani, Steve Cohn, Amy Denio, Gino Robair, The Violent Femmes and many others. www.myspace.com/bohemiannationalhome

ArtX Project Description

Title: BoxDeserter
Medium: Music Performance
Year Created: 2011
Description: Collective improvisation ensemble featuring noted pianist Thollem McDonas and locals Joel Peterson, Kurt Prisbe, Skeeter Shelton, and Abby Alwin. McDonas is a Bay area native who is the only person to have recorded on DeBussy’s piano. He frequently visits Detroit and collaborates with Joel Peterson and others under the BoxDeserter moniker which has one CD to its credit. Zeena Parkins and Chamber Works by Joel Peterson A solo performance by the world’s leading experimental harpist. Zeena Parkins is a Detroit native who attended Cass Tech, but came to prominence in the 1980’s New York “downtown” scene. She has worked with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Nels Cline, Bjork, Elliot Sharp, Thurston Moore, etc. A noted composer, Parkins is frequently commissioned for works in theater, film, and dance. The performance will begin with Chamber Works by Joel Peterson. Eugene Chadbourne and Tatsuya Nakatani This duo features two of the finest improvisers in America. Eugene Chadbourne is considered one of the country’s first free-improvisers, but is also the largest living repository of music from the 20th century. He has appeared on hundreds of recordings with a staggering range of collaborators: John Zorn, The Violent Femmes, Hank Williams Senior’s pedal steel players Don Helms, Charles Tyler, Derek Bailey etc. Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani has pushed his instrument as a solo performance further than anyone in the country. He has had many collaborations since coming to the U.S. from Osaka, Japan. His solo performance was documented by the Smithsonian. Preceded by 10 minutes of Chamber Works by Joel Peterson.