Bob Marsh
Photography: Curtis G. Staiger
Composer
Multi-Intrumentalist
Bob Marsh performs regularly on violin, cello, piano, vibraphone, flute, and uses extended vocal techniques. He is the founder of the Quintessentials, the Emergency String Quartet and the Emergency Piano Quintet.
Education
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1974
Master of Arts, Humanistic Clinical Psychology, Merrill-Palmer Institute, Detroit, 1981
Classical guitar with Carl Bernstein (Detroit, 1967)
Vibraphone (San Francisco, 1970)
Classical Piano, Grosse Pointe Conservatory of Music, 1973
Current musical projects
Gene Coleman's "Ensemble Noamnesia"
Fred Lomberg-Holm's "Phenomenal String Quartet"
Marc Perlish's "Stray Quartet"
duo with Blaise Siwula in "(a+b) squared"
founder/director "Quintessentials"
Plays Well with Others...
Jim Baker, Aaron David Bennett, John Berndt, Carrie Biolo-Thompson, Jeb Bishop, Kyle Bruckmann, Gene Coleman, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, R. Albert Falesch, Carol Genetti, Greg Hamilton, Chris Heenan, Matt Ingalls, Kurt Johnson, Adam Lane, Eric Leonardson, Fred Longberg-Holm, Toshi Makihara, Tatsuya Nakatani, Bhob Rainey, Hal Rammell, Scott Rosenberg, John Shiurba, Blaise Siwula, Damon Smith, Adam Sonderberg, Ken Vandermark, Matt Weston, Sue Wolf, Jack Wright, Michael Zerang.
Discography
Rattle OK
Jack Wright and friends - a sampler
tracks 1 & 2
Bob Marsh, violin and voice; Jack Wright contralto
clarinet and alto sax.
Spring
Garden Music 006, 2ooo
Water Music
Bob Falesch, metaPiano, electronics; Bob Marsh,
cello, voice
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
Carol Genetti, voice; Bob Marsh, cello
The Darkest Corner, the Most Conspicuous
Jack Wright, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones;
Bhob Rainey, soprano soxophone; Bob Marsh, cello; Fred Lonberg-Holm,
cello
Co-lage
Bob Falsech, metaPiano, electronics; Bob Marsh,
cello, flute, voice
That Nothing Is Known
John Berndt, saxophones, electronics; Bob Marsh,
voice; Jack Wright, saxophones, flutes; Michael Zerang, percussion
FHMZ Trios and Quartets
Bob Falesch, percussion, electronics; Chris Heenan,
alto clarinet, sax; Bob Marsh, electronic piano, voice; Michael Zerang,
percussion, flutes, tubaphone
ZeroEggzie Recordings
0x001, 1998
Thaw
Jack Wright and Friends, solos, trios, sextets
Jack Wright, Bob Marsh, Murray Reams, Terry Sines,
Gordon Kennedy, Mike O'Neill, Justin Perdue, Jeremy Harlos
"That Nothing Is Known", CD, 1998
"This collects two sets originally performed live on John Corbett's Chicago radio show by four musicians who had never previously played together as a group. It's anti-virtuosic music rooted in close listening, pitched between principles of dialogue and ambient sound. It's generally an interesting mix of varied sources - voice, electronics, and blown and struck instruments. Marsh uses his voice effectively, suggesting half heard conversation. It combines with the vocalic sputterings of the saxophone and the electronics to suggest meanings just outside the range of comprehensible speech. In one early listening, I had to check to make sure the CD had ended, willing to credit it with the sounds of a washer and dryer on the floor below, a fan on the floor above, and the hum of the computer. So it's music that asks for and elicits close listening, which, as is often the case, is its own reward."-- Stuart Broomer (a review of "That Nothing Is Known" from the November 1998 issue of Cadence Magazine)