Villagers and Vagabonds, February 19, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Villagers and Vagabonds featuring wAvEs HQ - the Warren-Ver Straeten Half-Quartet, Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 8 PM on Green Kill Sessions.
Villagers and Vagabonds features wAvEs HQ - the Warren-Ver Straeten Half-Quartet, Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 8 PM on Green Kill Sessions.
wAvEs HQ is evolving out of the interactions of Chuck Ver Straeten (vocalizations) and Rick Warren (guitar, electronics) at recent Creative Music Studio workshops, the soundpainting ensemble Audiocanvas and sessions with Karl Berger. Read more below the ticket information.
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wAvEs HQ - the Warren-Ver Straeten Half-Quartet
wAvEs HQ is evolving out of the interactions of Chuck Ver Straeten (vocalizations) and Rick Warren (guitar, electronics) at recent Creative Music Studio workshops, the soundpainting ensemble Audiocanvas and sessions with Karl Berger. Both players invent from a broad palette of music and sound. It has been said that Chuck and Rick are “musical twins from other mothers”. Warren’s guitar and Ver Straeten’s voice combine in a synergy that defies all concepts of genre.
Chuck Ver Straeten
Chuck Ver Straeten uses his voice as an instrument, seldom utilizing words. Originally a trombonist (26 years), his approach incorporates varied musical components, sounds, harmonic singing, drumming, and the rhythms, pitches and melodies of speech. The abstracted results range from dense and percussive to open and lyrical, and more.
As a young trombonist, Chuck attended the Creative Music Studio (1978-81), and he regularly participates in the current series of CMS workshops. He was selected as a Music Omi Resident in 2014, along with 12 other musicians from four continents and diverse musical backgrounds. He studies improvisation with Karl Berger and voice/harmonic singing with Timothy Hill. He also trained in voice with Franco Spoto.
Using voice, he has performed with Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra, a trio/quartet with flutist Wilfrido Terrazas, violist Stephanie Griffin, and percussionist Andrew Drury, the soundpainting ensemble Audiocanvas and others. He recently recorded with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Harvey Sorgen, joined on some cuts by Karl Berger.
Rick Warren
Originally from Kingston, NY, Hudson-based Rick Warren has been deeply involved in the improvisational and experimental music scene fostered by renowned vibraphonist Karl Berger at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. It was Berger’s chance visit to Rick’s high school music theory class that led him to become a regular participant in twice-yearly workshops held at CMS, an international hot bed of improvisational music performance and education founded in 1971 by Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman. Rick is well known for his soundscape compositions using his guitar and a variety of electronic sound sources, all totally improvised with no preconceived ideas, presented live many Sunday evenings from his Facebook page. Rick, or “Lightnin’ Rick” the name erroneously gifted to him in High School during a pizza lunch, has most recently joined the Hudson Valley Psych-Surf Rock outfit “spaceheater”, headquartered in the Woodstock/Saugerties area. Further adventures include Folk-Rock performances and recordings in the aptly named duo “Rick and Marilyn”. Rick is often called upon to perform with Gus “The Sultan of Sonic Soul” Mancini and the improvisational “Sonic Soul Awekestra”. Warren is also involved with the Woodstock-based soundpainting ensemble “Audiocanvas”, led by bassist Steve Rust and captured on the 2019 disc “Some Bad Western”.
