No musical script when artist and musician team up
The focus will be on improvisation when Vernon artist Bjorn van Haalen and Vancouver musician Lyle Hopkins put on a multi-media performance next week at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
The concert on March 22 will be the 33rd instalment of the Skin And Bones experimental music series.
Hopkins has been a featured performer at a number of international music festivals including the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Seattle Jazz Experience, Reno Jazz Festival, Oregon Jazz Festival, and many others.
He is a bass player and educator who is interested in creating occasions for intuitive and interactive experience through improvisation and interactive multimedia within the context of musical performance.
Van Haalen is a painter/visual artist and selftaught music improviser. He performs as one half of the Wounded Humans with David Ben Yellowitz, which explores textural sound building through extended guitar and electronics.
Additionally, van Haalen records extensively and co-runs the DIY improvised music label Teenage Stockhausen.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the concert will begin at 8 p.m.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is located inside the Rotary Centre for the Arts at 421 Cawston Ave. in downtown Kelowna.
Admission is $15 for the public and $10 for students and Alternator members. Tickets can be purchased at the door.