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The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present internationally recognized composer, trombonist, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music, George E. Lewis.

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George E. Lewis Saturday, January 22, 2011 Photo courtesy George E. Lewis 2PM, free admission

Excellence in Recorded Sound Research from the Houston, TX (January 5, 2011)—The Contemporary Association for Recorded Sound Collections (2009), and Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present a lecture an award from the Jazz Journalists Association for the by George E. Lewis, an internationally recognized Best Book on Jazz (2009). Lewis’ discography shows his composer, trombonist, and scholar in the fields of jazz amazing range as an artist. His recordings include and experimental music. Lewis will present In Search collaborations with such jazz notables as Lester Bowie, of Benjamin Patterson: An Improvised Journey in , Craig Harris, Gil Evans, Roscoe conjunction with the CAMH exhibition Benjamin Mitchell, as well as experimental musicians like Laurie Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us. Anderson, Douglas Ewart, and John Zorn. Lewis has also

collaborated with a number of visual artists including the George E. Lewis serves as the Edwin H. Case experimental Canadian filmmaker and Professor of American Music at Columbia University. documentary filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, an

Alpert Award in the Arts in 1999, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lewis studied ABOUT BENJAMIN PATTERSON: BORN IN THE composition with at the AACM STATE OF FLUX/US School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. A Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us is a member of the Association for the Advancement of retrospective of the artist’s career, which now spans Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis' work as nearly fifty years. The exhibition includes both early and composer, improvisor, performer, and interpreter recent work by the artist that range from annotated explores electronic and computer music, computer- scores and books to painting and sculpture. Video based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and documentation from performances and audio files of notated and improvisational forms, and is documented Patterson’s music are also featured. As a founding on more than 130 recordings. His oral history is member of Fluxus, a loose and international collective of archived in Yale University’s collection of “Major artists who infused avant-garde practices of the day with Figures in American Music,” and his published articles humor and anarchic energy, Patterson helped on music, experimental video, visual art, and cultural revolutionize the artistic landscape at the advent of the studies have appeared in numerous scholarly journals 1960s and usher in an era of new and experimental and edited volumes. His widely acclaimed book, A music. Now in his seventies, Patterson is being Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American discovered by a new generation of artists. Benjamin Experimental Music (University of Press, Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us marks the 2008) is a recipient of the American Book Award artist’s first major exhibition, bringing together a (2009), the American Musicological Society’s Music in multitude of works never before seen in the United American Culture Award (2009), an Award for States. The exhibition is curated by CAMH Senior

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