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Roy “Futureman” Wooten and Wayne Kirby – innovative music theorists, instrument-designers and musicians – will join for a free workshop and concert at UNC Asheville. The percussion workshop takes place at noon on Thursday, Sept. 8 in Lipinsky Hall room 018, and their electro-music concert begins at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 in Lipinsky Auditorium.
Percussionist Wooten has five Grammy Awards to his credit a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and he is the creator and producer of the Black Mozart Ensemble. Kirby, a bassist, guitarist and electronic musician, is the Paddison Distinguished Professor of Music at UNC Asheville. He played with Debbie Harry (Blondie) in New York before moving to UNC Asheville, where he became a close associate of the late Bob Moog.
In the Sept. 8 workshop, Wooten and Kirby will discuss the work that led to creation of the RoyEl keyboard which can be tuned to the ratios of the golden ratio (phi), and explain how principles of these new tunings can be applied to rhythms. The public is invited to bring hand-held percussion instruments.
The Sept. 9 concert will feature Wooten and Kirby in performance.
For more information, visit music.unca.edu.
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