Andrew Raffo Dewar

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Andrew Raffo Dewar (b. 1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, improviser, woodwind instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist. Since 1995, he has been active in the music communities of Minneapolis, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, performing his work in North America, Southeast Asia and Europe. Dewar studied with saxophonist/composers Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton and Phillip Greenlief, composer Alvin Lucier, trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, and multi-instrumentalist improviser Milo Fine. He has also had a long involvement with Indonesian traditional and experimental music, particularly the Minangkabau music of West Sumatra and Central Javanese gamelan. Dewar has been noted as "having the rare ability to translate his knowledge into something beautiful" (Matthew O'Shannessy, Foxy Digitalis). The 2008 debut recording of his music on Porter Records was described as "a garden of forking paths" (Foxy Digitalis), "absorbing" (Bill Meyer, Dusted Magazine) and "evoking something unnatural and plugged-in" (Clifford Allen, Bagatellen). San Francisco's Aquarius Records described the album as "musical rainfall...a swirling soft cloud of free jazz flutter," and "absolutely essential listening for the drone inclined and jazzbos with a thing for far out sounds." As a composer, his pieces have been performed by the Flux Quartet (NYC), Sekar Anu (Indonesia), the Koto Phase ensemble (USA/Japan) and the XYZ composer collective (NYC). He has received grants from Arts Inte

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Six Lines of Transformation

Interactions Quartet

Six Lines Of Transformation / Music For Eight Bamboo Flutes

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dublab "future roots for free" mp3 blog!

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Ekphrasis Suite

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dublab mp3 blog

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Quartet Solo Series

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Interactions Quartet (feat. Kyle Bruckmann, Gino Robair & John Shiurba)

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Modulisme Session 033

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Interactions Quartet (with Bruckmann, Robair, Shiurba)

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Andrew Raffo Dewar

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Music for 8 Bamboo Flutes (Dedicated to Inson Wongsam)

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