The Music Gallery and Contact Contemporary Music present

Professor Bad Trip + The Michael Eckert Large Earth Ensemble

Doors: 7PM | Concert: 8pm

The Music Gallery, 197 John St.

Tickets: $25 Regular | $15 Member | $10 Students | $20 Advance BUY NOW

Take a trip with psychedelic orchestrations

‘‘Professor Bad Trip’ is Fausto Romitelli’s most ecstatic plunge into psychedelia and spectralism. The Doors meet -– and unapologetically drown out -– Pierre Boulez. …This is a piece hard to perform, difficult to love and impossible to ignore.’

-Mark Szwed, Los Angeles Times

“At the centre of my composing lies the idea of considering sound as a material into which one plunges in order to forge its physical and perceptive characteristics…it is sculpture of sound, instrumental synthesis, anamorphosis, transformation of the spectral morphology, and a constant drift towards unsustainable densities, distortions and interferences.”

-Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004)

Contact Contemporary Music renews their partnership with the Music Gallery in performing the late Italian composer Fausto Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip, a 45-minute long piece divided into three sections (lesson 1, 2, and 3) inspired by Professor Bad Trip himself, Italian artist Gianluca Lerici.

Professor Bad Trip (1998-2000) is written for 11 instrumentalists and electronics. Nobody really cares that this music borrows from techno, psychedelic rock, and spectral techniques (it certainly does all that); or that it draws inspiration from various artistic representations of hallucinogenic states; all of the these influences are overshadowed by the absolute success Romitelli achieves in creating a sound world all his own.

Somewhat obsessive, often startling, this music overflows with sound and is completely refined at the same time. In experiencing Professor Bad Trip we’re given the rare opportunity for a fully-guided, personal tour inside this composer’s brain.

The Michael Eckert Large Earth Ensemble has been creating a unique musical style out of elements from around the world and more familiar classic rock tones and stylings. Dedicated to original music Drawing on the music of the Pan African Orchestra, jazz composer Maria Schneider, MELEE brings a fresh take on world percussion, soaring guitar lines and classic analog synth sounds to a more contemporary framework.