Jamison Williams
Jamison Williams (born June 20, 1976) is an American soprano saxophone player specializing in experimental deconstructionism, and extended techniques; currently heading up the Experimental Arts Union of Florida. Resides in Jacksonville, Florida
Biography
Since 2005, Jamison Williams has been organizing, producing, and performing for Vantage Bulletin publishing, established and organized +SoLo Sound Gallery, and has been touring relentlessly throughout the state performing soprano saxophone at festivals, clubs, and galleries.
In addition to performing, and with great effort and support from the experimental arts community, Jamison Williams has also established the Experimental Arts Union of Florida, an experimental arts collective that utilizes public spaces and venues, in collaboration with union members and supportive music/arts associations, to bring to Jacksonville and the rest of Florida, a greater sense of experimental arts education and a more open experience towards the topic of understanding the many varieties of experimental art.
From January through August 2013, hosted by Burro Bar, Jamison Williams assembled a full cast of experimental artists from every corner of Florida to perform during +SoLo: reprise, a four hour Art Walk showcase extravaganza, a literal smorgasbord of musical talents: sound artists blasting off their latest creative electronics, modified instruments, as well as free improvisation and noise.
"In the tradition of players like Brötzmann and (most famously) Albert Ayler, Williams is a proponent of the extended techniques of the saxophone, spitting out harmonics, weeping “multiphonics”, the reed equivalent of a guitarist creating feedback and noise from an amplifier and effects pedals." Dan Brown (Folio Weekly)
Discography
- STUDY TAPES: An Artist's Account Of Himself (2007)
- Intimate Portrait Of Youth (2007)
- Ukiyo-e Shunga (2008)
- Harry Houdini (2008)
- Thomas Edison (2008)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (2008)
- Helen Mirren (2008)
- Adolescence (2008)
- Vantage (Selects) Vol. 4 (2009)
- A Private History Of Comfort Women (2009)
- Piano Duets (2009)
- Williams/Henderson Duo & Torturing Nurse Split (2009)
- STUDY TAPES: The Artist's Account Of Himself, Jan-Aug '09 (2010)
- May 6, 1937 (2010)
- Emily Dickinson (2010)
- Mystics, Heretics, And Witches In The Western Tradition (2010)
- Auto De Fe (1481) (2011)
- Sobriety and Beyond (2012)
- The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2012)
- Britney Spears (2013)
- Un Portrait Simple de Valeurs (2013)
- Eiffel (2013)
References
1. ^Dan Brown, Brass Knuckles, Folio Weekly, April 24-30, 2012
External links
- OFFICIAL PAGE
- Experimental Arts Union of Florida
- Vantage Bulletin publishing
- +SoLo Gallery
- Jamison Williams' Bandcamp
