Catherine Sikora - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Catherine Sikora is from Ireland, and spent some time in Leeds, England (at University) and in Berlin, Germany before moving to New York, where she embarked on a serious study of abstract/chromatic improvisation. Currently, in addition to her own projects, she is honored to be working with Eric Mingus, fulfilling a lifelong dream of working with a poet. She spends her time practicing, reading poetry and hitting things. Sikora believes that even when she is not playing the saxophone, she is always playing the saxophone, and also that she is never playing the saxophone. It's very simple, really.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Members: 2008 is Tabula Rasa. Stay Posted! All will become clear in due time.
Influences: George Garzone, T.S.Eliot, Ligeti, Arvo Part, Jack B.Yeats, W.B. Yeats, The Roots, Muhammed Ali, Andy Warhol, Spike Milligan, Oggy and all the musicians I get to play with.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

maximum entropy

The laws of physics state that all matter tends toward maximum entropy: Iron rusts, rocks break up, essentially things fall apart. Life operates in direct opposition to this law, creating order from t...
Posted by Catherine Sikora on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:56:00 PST

Reviews

Some recent reviews...Sikora, who absolutely burns on My Favorite Things,deserves special mention..not only for her work on that tune, where she gets inside of Coltrane's style, but anywhere she plays...
Posted by Catherine Sikora on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST

Acquainted with the night

my current favorite poem-Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost.It's beautiful, check it out. To consider a poem deeply and seriously, learn it by heart, and then truly absorb the structures within...
Posted by Catherine Sikora on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:08:00 PST