ARTHUR BULL 13 questions Arthur Bull is a veteran guitarist and harmonica player on the Canadian improvised music scene. In the 1970’s he played with the Monday Night Orchestra, and many recognized Canadian improvisers, including the CCMC, John Oswald, Stuart Broomer, and many others. In the 1980’s he toured and recorded as guitarist with the Bill Smith Ensemble, was a member of the duo Duck Soup, with Bill Smith, and performed with the Four Horsemen, Paul Dutton, John Heward, Michael Snow, David Lee and David Prentice. Since then he has performed with many of Canada’s most recognized improvisers including Paul Plimley, Norm Adams, Paul Cram, Hank Bull, Tena Palmer and Bob Vespaziani. He has also performed in concert with Roscoe Mitchell, John Tchcai, Joe McPhee, Peter Kowald, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Fred Anderson, Roger Turner, Kidd Jordan, Mike Cooper, John Russell, Pascal Marzan, Magda Mayas, Luca Venitucci and Fabrizio Spera. In 1996, he met Daniel Heïkalo, who as lived nearby in rural Nova Scotia (a 2 hour drive). The duo has collaborated closely since 1999and has recorded CD Dérapages à Cordes on the label Ambiances Magnétiques in 2000, followed in 2001 by Guitar Solo, in his friends label Heïkalo Sound Productions. In that year, the duo appeared at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. In 2002 they performed at the Guelph Jazz Festival and Guitarévolution (Montréal). He occasionally accompanied the spoken word/sound poetry quartet the Four Horsemen (Dutton, Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and BP Nichol) and also Bob Cobbing. He is also a poet, with three books published Hawthorn (Broken Jaw, 1994), Key to the highway (Roseway Pub., 2000), The Lake Diary (Emmerson Street Press, 2011) , as well as two chapbooks, and a translator from the Chinese. His book, The Lake Diary is described by the press with copy that is almost a mini-poem in itself: nature/ longing/ isolation/ calm — perfect poems for a hot summer day. The Lake Diary evokes Arthur Bull’s love of the natural world, Chinese literature, and jazz. He has also written 25 Scores, a collection of prose poems for personal sound performance. Some of these pieces were excerpted in Word Events- Perspectives on Verbal Notations, (ed. John Lely and James Saunders, Continuum 2012), which also included scores by Ono, Cage, Bryars, Filliou and Stockhausen Arthur Bull lives on Digby Neck, in a small fishing community on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, with his artist and musician wife, Ruth Bull. and has been a long time activist for small-scale fisheries. READ & HEAR & WATCH HERE--------------> 147 ARHTUR BULL preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/06/arthur-bull-13-questions.html 146 Eraldo Bernocchi preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/06/eraldo-bernocchi-13-questions.html Complete set of 147 13 qs Questionnaires preparedguitar.blogspot.es/p/descripcion.html Our open Facebook Channel https://facebook/groups/preparedguitar/
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