AVONDALE ADDITION | CD

STIRRUP is NICK MACRI : Bass, CHARLES RUMBACK : Drums + 6, JEN CLARE PAULSON : Viola, ZOOTS HOUSTON : Electronics, KEEFE JACKSON : Reeds, RUSS JOHNSON : Trumpet, PETER MAUNU : Guitar, Violin, MARS WILLIAMS : Reeds -The Avondale Addition is an amalgam of two of Fred Lonberg-Holm's long-running projects: Stirrup and his "Lightbox Orchestra", a revolving-door project that began over 2 years ago as a way to organize large, ad-hoc improvising ensembles using a light-based cueing system and cue cards. Typically, a Lightbox concert has no pre-composed materials, but for this performance recorded live at Elastic Arts in Chicago, compositions by members of Stirrup comprised a "book" from which the guest musicians (the "+6") draw on in addition to freely improvising when called on to do so. In effect, Charles and Nick continue to do things they might normally do on a Stirrup gig, but instead of Fred playing cello, he acts as a kind of improvising arranger stationed behind his Lightbox cueing