Fay Victor / Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK
Brooklyn, NY
Grant amount: $13,590
Performances
The Fire Museum. Philadelphia, PA. 10/23/2021
Rhizome. Washington, DC. 10/24/2021
Constellation. Chicago, IL. 10/27/2021
EdgeFest (KerryTown Concert House). Ann Arbor, MI. 10/28/2021
About the Artist
Fay Victor is a sound artist that uses performance, improvisation and composition to examine representations of modern life and blackness. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Victor’s ‘everything is everything’ aesthetic permeates her work in performance, composition and improvisation. Victor has released eleven albums as a leader and performed with luminaries such as Randy Weston, Archie Shepp, Gary Bartz, Nicole Mitchell, Marc Ribot, Myra Melford and Tyshawn Sorey to name just a few. Victor is currently on the faculty of the New School of Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York City, NY. SoundNoiseFUNK's second release, WE’VE HAD ENOUGH! was released in October 2020.
This trio collective also includes:
Sam Newsome is a jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. His music combines straight-ahead jazz, world music (drawing influences from North Africa and East Asia) and experimental jazz, which uses extended techniques. Newsome is an associate professor of music and the coordinator of the music program at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. In 2010, In addition to his solo recordings and performances, Newsome has collaborated with saxophonist David Liebman, drummer Andrew Cyrille, pianists Ethan Iverson and Jean-Michel Pilc.
Joe Morris is a jazz guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator. In 1981 Morris formed his own record company, Riti, for his own recordings. He has led a group called Sweatshop, the sextet Racket Club, and quartets featuring, separately, Mat Maneri, Jamie Saft, and Rob Brown. He has continued to record extensively for many labels such as Knitting Factory, AUM Fidelity, and Hathut. In addition to leading his own groups, he has recorded and performed with, among others: Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Maneri, and Ivo Perelman. He has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the US and Europe and is on the faculty at New England Conservatory in the jazz and improvisation department.
Reggie Nicholson has firmly established his reputation in the great tradition of jazz drumming. In 1979, he joined the Chicago legacy of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an iconic black arts consortium of composers and performers devoted to the art of improvisation and the creation of original music. Relocating to New York City in 1987, Nicholson has performed with Ahmed Abdullah, Myra Melford, Billy Bang, Roy Campbell, Bryan Carrott, Marty Ehrlich, Yuko Fujiyama, Eli Fountain, Dewey Redman, Jon Hendricks, D.D. Jackson, Amira Baraka, Wilber Morris, Butch Morris, Oliver Lake, Ned Rothenberg, just to name a few.