PERFORMANCE BY PUZZLE OF LIGHT ENSEMBLE
FEATURING MICHAEL BASHAW’S SOUND SCULPTURES
Puzzle of Light is an ensemble of musicians with individual musical backgrounds and experience ranging from jazz to contemporary percussive classical to experimental music. Their music is both technically exciting and emotionally deep, earning the quintet enthusiastic ovations everywhere.
Michael Bashaw has become well known for the large-scale, welded steel instruments which he designs and builds. The instruments, known as Sound Sculptures, are played in a variety of ways: some are mallet instruments, some have strings which are hammered or bowed, while others are made up of chimes. These unique instruments are combined with the more traditional flute, guitars, drums and hand percussion.
Bashaw's Sound Sculpture concerts are engaging; a provocative blend of sound and theater, aspiring as much to ritual as to entertainment. Audience members often describe the concert experience as uplifting -- even healing. Atmospheric tone poems segue into more traditional musical structures, but all employ the sonic uniqueness of Bashaw's Sound Sculptures.
