From rentromus at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 16:23:43 2008 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:23:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] LSG New Music Series 1/3/08 - Start the new year off! Message-ID: <949945.28440.qm@web53706.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ************************************* Outsound Presents LSG New Music Series @ LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY 1007 Market St. @ 6th St San Francisco, California USA ************************************* Thursday, Jan 3 2008 8:00 PM 8pm: Jen Baker (Trombone) and Damon Smith (Double Bass) 9pm: Les Hutchins (Electronics) and Polly Moller (flutes) Les Hutchins is a Californian abroad, testing Philip K Dick's theory that once you become a Berkeley radical, you can never leave. He explores issues of regional identity, plays music, goes to school and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth. Right now Les is back in the Bay Area for the holidays and we (Les and Polly) are going to improvise some solos and duos together, featuring the flute, bass flute, laptop electronics, and digeridu. Cost : $6-10 ******************************************************************************** Jan 10 - 8:15pm Matt Davignon 8:45pm Kristin Miltner 9:30pm Agnes Szelag Jan 17 - 8pm Kaiser/Hsu Duo, Instagon, Phroq Jan 24 - 8pm: Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace (Santa Barbara) 9pm: Son of Mary ******************************************************************************** Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit art organization that graciously provides venue support. For Gallery info tel: 415.255.5971; For booking email Rent Romus: rentromus at yahoo.com To get to the LSG New Music Series take BART to the Powell street station and walk a little over a block to 6th & Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th & 7th Sts. for more info visit: http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ http://www.bayimproviser.com/venuedetail.asp?venue_id=7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From erling at musclefish.com Tue Jan 1 21:04:46 2008 From: erling at musclefish.com (Erling Wold) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 21:04:46 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Mordake at Intersection for the Arts January 10th Message-ID: Work-in-Progress Showing and Benefit for Mordake, an Opera by Erling Wold starring John Duykers Intersection for the Arts 446 Valencia Street Thursday January 10, 7:00pm Tickets $5 General Admission For more information call 415-399-9554 or www.mordake.com The tale of Edward Mordake is taken from the nineteenth century text of the Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle, which begins by saying that One of the weirdest as well as most melancholy stories of human deformity is that of Edward Mordake, said to have been heir to one of the noblest peerages in England. He never claimed the title. He was a man of fine attainments, a profound scholar and musician of rare ability. His figure was remarkable for its grace, and his face - that is to say, his natural face - was that of an Antinous. But upon the back of his head was another face, that of a beautiful girl, ?lovely as a dream, ugly as a devil.? The voice of his 'devil twin' taunts him and reveals to Edward his true nature but, unable to see this truth, and unable to integrate his two aspects - good and evil, self and shadow, male and female - he destroys himself and his family. From rentromus at yahoo.com Wed Jan 2 21:30:50 2008 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:30:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] LSG New Music Series 1/3/08 - updated lineup change Message-ID: <516898.58241.qm@web53707.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ************************************* Outsound Presents LSG New Music Series @ LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY 1007 Market St. @ 6th St San Francisco, California USA ************************************* 8pm: Jen Baker (Trombone) and Damon Smith (Double Bass) 9pm: Les Hutchins (Electronics) Les Hutchins is a Californian abroad, testing Philip K Dick's theory that once you become a Berkeley radical, you can never leave. He explores issues of regional identity, plays music, goes to school and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth. Due to a unforseen family emergency Polly Moller will not be able to perform this night. Our hearts and sincere wishes go out to her. Cost : $6-10 ******************************************************************************** Jan 10 - 8:15pm Matt Davignon 8:45pm Kristin Miltner 9:30pm Agnes Szelag Jan 17 - 8pm Kaiser/Hsu Duo, Instagon, Phroq Jan 24 - 8pm: Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace (Santa Barbara) 9pm: Son of Mary ******************************************************************************** Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit art organization that graciously provides venue support. For Gallery info tel: 415.255.5971; For booking email Rent Romus: rentromus at yahoo.com To get to the LSG New Music Series take BART to the Powell street station and walk a little over a block to 6th & Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th & 7th Sts. for more info visit: http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ http://www.bayimproviser.com/venuedetail.asp?venue_id=7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From fourseasonsc at juno.com Thu Jan 3 19:29:23 2008 From: fourseasonsc at juno.com (Mary Jo Hudgel) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:29:23 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Tom Buckner Concert - January 27 - Herbst Theatre, SF Message-ID: <20080103.192940.2108.25.fourseasonsc@juno.com> Four Seasons Concerts Presents Tom Buckner, Baritone Sunday, January 27, 4:00 PM, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco Civic Center With: Joseph Kubera - Piano, Jon Gibson - flute, Lynn Vartan - percussion, Susan Ung - viola, Ted Mook - cello, Earl Howard - electronics and alto saxophone, David Wessel - Computer Instrumentation Program: Works by William Duckworth, Jon Gibson, Chinery Ung, and Mel Graves Texts: Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Charles Darwin Tickets: $40, 35, and 30. Call Four Seasons Concerts: 510 601-7919 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Staiano have been few in recent times, Meridian is especially fortunate to host his performance as its first concert of 2008. Moe! Staiano has collaborated with many musicians including Ron Anderson (the Molecules, RonRuins, PAK), Tom Nunn, David Slusser, Karen Stackpole, Ches Smith, Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot), Caroline Kraabel & John Edwards (Shock Exchange), Gino Robair, Phillip Greenlief, William Hooker, Tom Dimuzio, Henry Kaiser, Terrie Ex (the Ex), Z'ev, Nurse With Wound, Mark Growden's Electric Pinata, Amy Denio, Cheer-Accident, and sfSound Group among others. Formally, Moe! was a member of two important bands: Vacuum Tree Head (formerly doing metal percussion and then playing trap set) and with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (doing metal percussion). Meridian Music: Composers in Performance celebrates new, traditional, and world music through monthly performances in the intimate setting of Meridian Gallery. Tom Bickley is the curator for this concert series. Please see our website for more information at www.meridiangallery.org. Hope to see you! http://www.myspace.com/moestaianomoekestra http://www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com/moe/ http://www.meridiangallery.org/MGMusic.htm ( M E R I D I A N G A L L E R Y ) Society for Art Publications of the Americas 535 Powell Street San Francisco CA 94108 info at meridiangallery.org www.meridiangallery.org 415-398-7229 phone --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080103/a2c36743/attachment.html From redcat at aarondrake.org Thu Jan 3 21:06:43 2008 From: redcat at aarondrake.org (REDCAT) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:06:43 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Bent 2008 - Call for work Message-ID: <065EAF02-B65F-4791-8906-04429AFB6084@aarondrake.org> The Tank is currently accepting proposals for: Bent 2008 : The Fifth Annual Circuit Bending Festival Festival Dates: New York Bent Festival - April 17th-19th, 2008. Los Angeles Bent Festival - April 24th-26th, 2008. Minneapolis Bent Festival - May 1st-3rd, 2008. Proposals: Proposal Deadline: February 5th, 2008 Participant Notification: February 15, 2008 This call is for all three festivals. Proposals to each festival must be submitted separately. In keeping with the expanding interests of the community, this year we are continuing to open the Bent Festival to performers and artists that create their own electronics as well as to those who hack, bend, modify and destroy them. We are currently seeking performers and artists to participate at each of the above locations and are specifically looking for submissions in these categories: Performers, Installation Artists, Artwork Submissions and Workshop Instructors. Please send all proposals and questions to the appropriate email address: Minneapolis Bent Festival - bentmpls at thetanknyc.org New York Bent Festival - bentnyc at thetanknyc.org Los Angeles Bent Festival - bentla at thetanknyc.org Proposals to each festival must be submitted separately. PERFORMERS Bent Festival seeks bands and/or solo artists who incorporate home built or circuit bent instruments or ideas in their performance. To have your work considered: Please email a short description of your act, along with a link to mp3s and photos if you have them. (Please do not send attachments larger than 1MB). INSTALLATION ARTISTS Bent Festival is looking for installation artists who can commit at least 15 hours to creating site-specific pieces of art at each of the venues during the duration of the festival. Each of the three venues (New York, Minneapolis and LA) are quite different but our goal is to have artists creating work for each of them. Installation artists will be provided with space, materials, electronic equipment and tools as we are able. To have your work considered: Please submit via email a one-page proposal of your installation idea along with examples of your past work. Please be prepared to commit to spending time in the installation space during the festival and be prepared for a shared and at times hectic work environment. No white walls here! ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS In addition to installation artists, we would like to have featured art work that fits with the spirit of the festival from people who might not be able to join us in person or who cannot commit to working in the space during the duration of the festival. To have your work considered: Please submit via email digital images or links of your work and a brief description. WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS Bent Festival is seeking workshop instructors to present on various topics. Topics in previous years have included: General circuit bending workshops for beginners and extremely technical, hands on workshops on a particular aspect or niche of the genre. To have your work considered: Please describe the subject you would like to lead a workshop on and provide a one-page description of that workshop, in addition include links or examples of your current and past work in the field. COMPENSATION Stipends for all festival performers, artists, and workshop leaders will be provided. We have a limited number of travel grants available as well. Please contact for more information. CONTACT INFO Each festival has its own submission email address, so please apply accordingly. To apply to multiple festivals, you must send your submission to each email address separately. Minneapolis Bent Festival - bentmpls at thetanknyc.org New York Bent Festival - bentnyc at thetanknyc.org Los Angeles Bent Festival - bentla at thetanknyc.org Thanks, Mike Rosenthal Managing Director The Tank http://www.thetanknyc.org http://www.bentfestival.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080103/874953c3/attachment.html From jorgepiaget at yahoo.com Fri Jan 4 14:16:49 2008 From: jorgepiaget at yahoo.com (Jorge Blank) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:16:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] January Core of the Coalman Shows Message-ID: <997133.50864.qm@web55701.mail.re3.yahoo.com> I have no idea what order things happen in though they end up having one, and so: Sunday 6th Helbaard! Den Haag, NL Ducktails Buffle In the Eye of Vision Core of the Coalman Jan 7,8,9 various undefined actions not yet determined as to their location or structure Thursday 10 Salon Bruit @k77 Lichtblick Kino Kastanienallee 77 Prenslaverberg Berlin, Germany Sunday 13 Hamburg, Germany Radio FSK Monday 14 at Occii in Amsterdam Amstelveenseweg 134 door at 21:00 XBXRX Core of the Coalman Silver Salts Friday 18 Udine, Italy at Edera Core of the Coalman Al:arm! Saturday 19 at SHOWCASE in Reggio Emilia, IT Al:arm! Core of the Coalman Sunday 20 at Lokomotive in Bologna, IT Above the Tree Core of the Coalman Monday 21 remains to be seen Tuesday 22 Milanos, It at showcase Core of the Coalman Above the Tree Wednesday 23 Senagallia, IT at Zabumba Core of the Coalman and mysterious other Thursday 24 Arrezos, It at Libreria Arrezo Above the Tree Core of the Coalman Friday 25 I think we are in Firenze Saturday 26 I think we are in Verona (sometimes I am not sure where I am or what I am doing) Sunday 27 Verona, It at Villafrancas Al:arm! Core of the Coalman Monday 28 Vienna, Austria Core of the Coalman Above the Tree others yet unknown (this is Marco Eneidi's series so I am very excited to be playing here but I havent alot of info yet because we just organized it, I believe it is located at Celeste and starts at 22:00 Jazzkeller im Celeste 18 Hamburgerstrasse 1-1050 Wien Wednesday 30 Prague, Czech Republic at 007 Strahov koleje UUJ Blok 7 Chaloupek?ho 7 169 00 Praha 6 Core of the Coalman Above the Tree you can hear Above the Tree who I am doing the entire Italian part of my tour + several dates at the end with athttp://www.myspace.com/bluerevenge1. You can hear my Jorge Boehringer Core of the Coalman here http://www.myspace.com/coreoggthecoalman Last.fm page http://www.last.fm/music/Core+of+the+Coalman http://www.myspace.com/opakptak and read it here http://opakptak.blogspot.com/ cheers! Jorge --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080104/1870e18e/attachment.html From liz_abet at yahoo.com Fri Jan 4 20:25:03 2008 From: liz_abet at yahoo.com (lizabet) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:25:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Tues. Jan. 8th @ TEMESCAL ARTS!!!! 8:30pm Message-ID: <360237.76697.qm@web32808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' A T T E N T I O N R E V E L O R S !!!!! Experimental Tuesday Series at Temescal Arts Presents: RTD3! MARYCLARE BRZYTWA! DAMON SMITH! JANUARY 8TH, 2008** 8:30 PM @ Temescal Arts (behind Lanesplitters) 511 48th St. Oakland $5 **Note. The First Tuesday series is actually on the second Tuesday of this month....blame those hangovers on New Years Day! Regular programming slot will resume in February. Some words: RTD3 - Rare appearance by this trio! Come on out! Hell, come on out for the whole shebang, should be a really great night!!! (wine, cookies, and new music all included) RTD3, with Doug Carroll (cello), Ron Heglin (trombone, tuba, voice), and Tom Nunn (homemade instruments) is thoughtful, introspective, often quiet, following subtle turns and nuances through sonic terrains of notable diversity. MaryClare Brzytwa (solo flute and electronics) MaryClare Brzytwa is a flutist, composer, aspiring rock star and ex catholic-school girl. She hails from the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Oakland, California. where she teaches Do-Re-Mi to dozens of future piano monsters right out of her home. MaryClare?s music takes listeners through noise, salsa, improvisation, microtonality, rock guitar licks, and laptop manipulations. She is the queen of B-bands: Bolivar Zoar, Byznich, and Bebe Donkey, which span out kitchfolk, electronic minimalism, and pseudo Christianic loungcore. She is 1/3 of the legendary all female free improvisation outfit: Slow, Children and has toured internationally in clubs, music festivals, flute gatherings, and academic institutions. In 2006, MaryClare earned her BA in Composition / Electronic Media from Mills College and has studied and/or collaborated with Robert Dick, Maggi Payne, Fred Frith, Angela Korogolos, Michiko Kawagoe, William Winant, Mochipet, Antoine Berthaiume, Joelle Leandre, and more. Damon Smith (upright bass and movement) Double bass, Improviser. Born Damon Jesse Smith on oct. 17th, 1972 in Spokane, WA. Did "freestyle bmx" bicycle riding from age 13 to 23. Started music in 1991, under the influence of Mike Watt (fIREHOSE & the minutemen) on fender bass. Lead several punk/art rock combos until 1994. Upon receiving Peter Kowald's landmark lp "Duos;Europa," Damon sold the fender bass and concentrated solely on double bass and free music. Damon's music is rooted in the tradition of "free jazz", with most of his professional experience coming from work with the orchestras and small ensembles of alto saxophonist marco eneidi, however, he is very interested in all the manifestations of free improvised music (jazz rooted or not!) around the world. His live and recorded efforts focus on continuing and expanding the possibilities of the double bass and "instant composition." His instrumental study focuses on classical technique and etudes, while using jazz as reference for pizzicato tone. Damon performs as a soloist and in every imaginable grouping all the way to large orchestra. He also collects recordings, specifically creative music, jazz and double bass music, and feels this is an important influence on his work ("my roots are in my record player"- evan parker). ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From ava.mendoza at gmail.com Fri Jan 4 23:25:17 2008 From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:25:17 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Thurs. 1/10- Tom Carter/David Daniell/Chen Santa Maria/Gregg Kowalsky/Ava Mendoza Message-ID: <317505170801042325p6cd7193bmc87d9c49f752fb01@mail.gmail.com> Club Sandwich Presents: Thursday January 10th @ Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut 671 24th Street, Oakland 8 pm $6 Solo sets by: Tom Carter David Daniell Ava Mendoza Chen Santa Maria Gregg Kowalsky Bios below: TOM CARTER Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, which he co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in 1991. Since 2002, Carter has also undertaken solo work and collaborations. His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal Brattleboro FreeFolk festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and musical excursions (on stage and tape) with Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, the MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower Recordings, and Double Leopards, among others. DAVID DANIELL "With his slow-moving, understated music, DAVID DANIELL makes a fine spokesman for the notion that anything worth doing is worth doing for a long, long time. Whether he's contributing moody strums and sculpted E-Bow drones to the guitar trio San Agustin or stringing computer-generated pings and bumps across gulfs of silence on Sem, his solo debut on his own Antiopic label, he develops his material patiently, the better to let you observe the sounds from every angle." --Bill Meyer in the Chicago Reader, 30 June 2006 GREGG KOWALSKY Gregg Kowalsky resides in Oakland, California where he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College. Kowalsky's compositions range from drone and noise pieces to meditative psychedelia, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. After his debut album, Through the Cardial Window (Kranky), Gregg started working with cassette tapes, sine oscillators, mixer feedback, contact mics, etc... His recent series of Tape Chants explores the acoustics where the performances occur by setting up cassette players around the space, using only the cassette players' speakers for amplification. Throughout the piece, Gregg moves around the space adjusting the amplitude of the players as a live mix. The first incarnation of Tape Chants was released in 2007 called Tape Chants A Million (Rootstrata). Kowalsky has had the opportunity to perform throughout Europe and the United States over the past several years. AVA MENDOZA says: I am a guitar player, composer, and electronic dabbler in Oakland, CA. I play improvised music/weird rock/original compositions. Improvised music was the first type of music I got vitally interested in as a classically-trained teenager, and I suppose any musical roots I have are in free improvisation. Some of my solo guitar compositions draw a lot from early country and blues music, sort of reworked (or mangled?) in my own way. Both in solo and ensemble contexts I like working with very tight, specific compsoitional ideas or riffs and then throwing musical monkey wrenches into them in performance--forcing them to self-destruct and intersect with free improvisation. I am an extremely curious person and love a lot of very different sorts of music. All of my playing is informed by my deep love for my cat, and for Screamin' Jay Hawkins. From pgsaxo at pacbell.net Mon Jan 7 10:24:03 2008 From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:24:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] First Tuesdays Temescal Message-ID: <756791.72304.qm@web81407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Experimental Tuesday Series at Temescal Arts Presents: RTD3! MARYCLARE BRZYTWA! DAMON SMITH! JANUARY 8TH, 2008** 8:30 PM @ Temescal Arts (behind Lanesplitters) 511 48th St. Oakland $5 **Note. The First Tuesday series is actually on the second Tuesday of this month....blame those hangovers on New Years Day! Regular programming slot will resume in February. Some words: RTD3 - Rare appearance by this trio! Come on out! Hell, come on out for the whole shebang, should be a really great night!!! (wine, cookies, and new music all included) RTD3, with Doug Carroll (cello), Ron Heglin (trombone, tuba, voice), and Tom Nunn (homemade instruments) is thoughtful, introspective, often quiet, following subtle turns and nuances through sonic terrains of notable diversity. MaryClare Brzytwa (solo flute and electronics) MaryClare Brzytwa is a flutist, composer, aspiring rock star and ex catholic-school girl. She hails from the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Oakland, California. where she teaches Do-Re-Mi to dozens of future piano monsters right out of her home. MaryClare?s music takes listeners through noise, salsa, improvisation, microtonality, rock guitar licks, and laptop manipulations. She is the queen of B-bands: Bolivar Zoar, Byznich, and Bebe Donkey, which span out kitchfolk, electronic minimalism, and pseudo Christianic loungcore. She is 1/3 of the legendary all female free improvisation outfit: Slow, Children and has toured internationally in clubs, music festivals, flute gatherings, and academic institutions. In 2006, MaryClare earned her BA in Composition / Electronic Media from Mills College and has studied and/or collaborated with Robert Dick, Maggi Payne, Fred Frith, Angela Korogolos, Michiko Kawagoe, William Winant, Mochipet, Antoine Berthaiume, Joelle Leandre, and more. Damon Smith (upright bass and movement) Double bass, Improviser. Born Damon Jesse Smith on oct. 17th, 1972 in Spokane, WA. Did "freestyle bmx" bicycle riding from age 13 to 23. Started music in 1991, under the influence of Mike Watt (fIREHOSE & the minutemen) on fender bass. Lead several punk/art rock combos until 1994. Upon receiving Peter Kowald's landmark lp "Duos;Europa," Damon sold the fender bass and concentrated solely on double bass and free music. Damon's music is rooted in the tradition of "free jazz", with most of his professional experience coming from work with the orchestras and small ensembles of alto saxophonist marco eneidi, however, he is very interested in all the manifestations of free improvised music (jazz rooted or not!) around the world. His live and recorded efforts focus on continuing and expanding the possibilities of the double bass and "instant composition." His instrumental study focuses on classical technique and etudes, while using jazz as reference for pizzicato tone. Damon performs as a soloist and in every imaginable grouping all the way to large orchestra. He also collects recordings, specifically creative music, jazz and double bass music, and feels this is an important influence on his work ("my roots are in my record player"- evan parker). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080107/7059f4cb/attachment.html From aotte80 at yahoo.com Mon Jan 7 11:41:31 2008 From: aotte80 at yahoo.com (Adria Otte) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:41:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Meridian Music Composers in Performance presents: Moe! Staiano, 1/9/08 Message-ID: <731235.34159.qm@web52507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Moe! Staiano, solo percussion Wednesday, January 9th 8:00 PM $10 general; $5 students/seniors (no one turned away for lack of funds) Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents a solo performance by Moe! Staiano on Wednesday, January 9 at 8:00 PM. Moe! Staiano is a percussionist whose use of found objects and ?prepared? instruments characterizes his unique style. Playing since 1995, Moe! has explored different drum sounds and implementation, looking to find new sounds and possibilities in percussion playing. Recently, besides conducting his large rotating orchestra, Moe!kestra!, he is one of two drummers in the post-punk band, Mute Socialite. As solo shows of Moe! Staiano have been few in recent times, Meridian is especially fortunate to host his performance as its first concert of 2008. Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street (b/t Sutter & Bush) San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 398-7229 www.meridiangallery.org --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080107/acc1670c/attachment.html From rentromus at yahoo.com Tue Jan 8 10:04:18 2008 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:04:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] LSG New Music Series 1/10/08 Message-ID: <635352.28704.qm@web53705.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ************************************* Outsound Presents LSG New Music Series @ LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY 1007 Market St. @ 6th St San Francisco, California USA ************************************* 8:15 pm: Matt Davignon - drum machine 8:45 pm: Kristin Miltner - computer/MAX 9:30 pm: Agnes Szelag - electronics/projections Matt Davignon is an experimental/ambient musician living in Oakland, California. Most frequently, he performs and records using a drum machine. By running it through an array of processing devices he a wide range of sounds - delicate wavering pitches, bubbling subharmonic beds and thundering squeals. His improvised music continuously evolves from sonic imitations of natural environments to things that are noticeably musical. www.ribosomemusic.com Kristin Miltner (K*M*T*V, miba) makes music primarily with computers. A great deal of it involves her incredible voice, and she is a great keyboard player as well. So one could say Miltner's music is completely digital (the fingers are digits) and yet very rich in an organic-ness that looks outward through the 0s and 1s to the vastness of natural coincidence. She most often performs live with versions of her custom software. She has designed this to scan sound files and live input, with varying degrees of random elements and varying durations). The software then allows her to instantly restructure the sounds into sequenced arrays of units (instantly meaning now, real time) of varying lengths (again, according the chance or purpose). This scanning idea is like imagining a giant octopus in a long thin hallway, up on the third floor of a long thin building with continuous windows on each side of the hallway. (To read more about the giant octopus simile, please visit Kristin's myspace page.) http://www.myspace.com/miltnerunit Agnes Szelag is a composer, performer and video/audio installation artist. Her work explores the cognitive and aesthetic relationship of sound and visual media in chosen environments. In performance and composition she creates interactive schemes that ride the line between composition and improvisation. Tonight Agnes will present music and visuals to be witnessed horizontally. www.aggiflex.com Cost : $6-10 ******************************************************************************** Jan 17 - 8pm Kaiser/Hsu Duo, Instagon, Phroq Jan 24 - 8pm: Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace (Santa Barbara) 9pm: Son of Mary Feb 7 - 8pm Karl Evangelista - solo guitar 9pm Polly Moller & CO Feb 14 - 8pm "Duology" Michael Marcus/Ted Daniel ******************************************************************************** Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit art organization that graciously provides venue support. For Gallery info tel: 415.255.5971; For booking email Rent Romus: rentromus at yahoo.com To get to the LSG New Music Series take BART to the Powell street station and walk a little over a block to 6th & Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th & 7th Sts. for more info visit: http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ http://www.bayimproviser.com/venuedetail.asp?venue_id=7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From jim at majornet.com Wed Jan 9 23:04:24 2008 From: jim at majornet.com (Jim Ryan) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:04:24 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Jim Ryan interview on the web Sat Jan 12th 2:30 Pacific Time Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20080109230310.00a1ed90@majornet.com> Taran's Free Jazz Hour will broadcast and stream an interview from France with Jim Ryan, leader of Forward Energy on Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 The show starts at 1:00 PM and the Interview at 2:30 PM Pacific Time (11:30PM Paris, 5:30PM New York, 4:30PM Central). To Hear the Interview 1) go to www.tfjhp.blogspot.com 2) click on "Live Broadcasts +" (green box in upper right corner, click the + sign) 3) click on "LISTEN" to Radio G Live This should make the sound come out of your computer speakers or whatever . . . 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She is an active performer, as well as an educator and native of Birmingham, Alabama. By networking with organizers and musicians from other cities, and through her work with the improvisor, she has been responsible for keeping improvised music alive in the South Eastern United States. In1996, she organized the first Birmingham International Improvisation Festival, which featured performers from Sweden, Russia, and Ukraine in concert and workshop, as well as a host of regional and national participants in music, theatre, and dance. LaDonna has created a style of improvisation on violin and viola that is uniquely her own. Alternating classical and extended techniques, she explores her instrument, painting scenarios and sound pictures as she plays. She has performed at practically every major improvisation festival and many of the New Music Festivals. She has toured Europe on numerous occasions, playing solo and in collaboration with local musicians. Her travels have taken her to the former USSR, Siberia, and Japan. In addition, she and guitarist, Davey Williams, have toured North America and Europe many times as Trans Duo. As musical partners, they maintain their own recording label, TransMuseq, and also co-edit the improvisor, the international journal of free improvisation, printed eleven editions, and now under construction in its revised world- wide-web edition. She was participant in the UCSD 1999 Symposium on Improvisation in LaJolla, CA. As a teacher, not only has she given many workshops on free improvisation throughout the U.S. and Canada to schoolchildren and college students, but for 15 years, she has taught violin to hundreds of children in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the Director of the Birmingham Suzuki Violin Association. This year, she took 24 students and 14 adults to Japan to participate in the 42nd National Suzuki Concert in Tokyo. The Suzuki Violinists also performed their own concerts in Nagano, and a Sister City International Friendship Concert in Hitachi. She is on the violin faculty of the Central Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute, and there she also teaches "improvisation." Her publications include: the improvisor,the international journal of free improvisation THOLLEM McDONAS pianist/vocalist/composer/improviser, recent recipient of the 2006 Meet The Composer grant from Washington DC, was born Feb. 23, 1967 in the San Francisco Bay Area of Irish and Cherokee descent. He is presently living in Prague. He began his musical training as a young child rigorously studying the keyboard repertoire of European composers from the renaissance to the 20th century. After graduating with degrees in both piano performance and composition he chose to become homeless for several years, opting to wander and live out of a backpack, rather than pursue a career as a concert pianist with a suit and tie. It is because of these dichotomies and rich, wildly disparate experiences that his music is so dynamic and appeals to such a wide variety of audiences. Thollem has just completed his Fall 07 U.S. tour for over seventy cities in eighty nights and will embark on his European tour starting in February 08. JESS ROWLAND is a multi-media performance artist and pianist. In 2004, she received a grant from the American Composers Forum to create a new multimedia piece based on John Ashcroft?s stint as a patriotic songsmith:John Ashcroft vs. The Space Librarians . Soon after, Jess hooked up with the experimental label Pax Recordings , and released a CD of solo piano improvisations, H.29, which was quickly followed by Scenes from the Silent Revolution ? a double disc set featuring a DVD of the multi-media improve works, and a CD of new musical material, and most recently her new CD The Shape of Poison from a set for works for the (insert Dance Company here) . Also notable: she played a Baloney Sandwich at the 2004 Big Sur Experimental Music Festival . She has also written puppet show musicals and musical theater for Dreamland Theater , including two full-length plays:The Truth About Teeth and So Long Differently Thinking Persons . There have been several releases of solo experimental electronics, including Elevator, and The Lifeboat is on Fire. SCOTT R LOONEY is interested in expanding the timbre possibilities of the piano, and using pianists such as Denman Maroney as a starting point, has forged a signature style using the inside and outside of the piano, plucking strings, using metal implements and other quick preparations, in combination to playing the piano normally. He has also developed a flexible, expressive voice with electronics using a computer setup which is as effective as his many piano textures are. Now living in Berkeley and Oakland, Scott has recorded and/or performed with a growing list of world class improvisers, among them being Oliver Lake, Frank Gratkowski, Wolfgang Fuchs, Jon Raskin (of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet), Joelle Leandre, Henry Kaiser, Gianni Gebbia, Joe Morris, Marco Eneidi, Jeb Bishop, and Paul Smoker, to name a few. He has played in numerous west coast festivals such as the Olympia Experimental Festival, Big Sur Experimental Music Fest, Line Space Line Festival in LA, and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. He recently toured Israel and Germany w/ saxophonist Ariel Shibolet and bassist Damon Smith, and is now collaborating with the Savage Jazz Dance company as part of the Atemu Aton Project. ******************************************************************************** Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. To get to the SFCMC take BART to either 16th or 24th Street Stations and walk a down Mission to 22nd. Capp Street runs paralell East of Mission St. There is a Parking garage close to 24th St & Mission for more info visit: http://www.outsound.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping From pamelaz at pamelaz.com Sun Jan 13 10:25:53 2008 From: pamelaz at pamelaz.com (Pamela Z) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:25:53 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] PZ Works TONIGHT, This Week, and This Month Message-ID: Here is a little news on the Pamela Z front including an extremely last-minute heads-up about some upcoming Z-related events in the Bay Area and beyond. I've been remiss about keeping in touch because of an insanely dense schedule of commissions, performances, travel, and composing deadlines, but some of those have resulted in a number of locally (Bay Area) presented works that are all occurring now and soon. In brief, I am currently in the midst of a one-month visiting artist residency at Centre College in Danville, KY, which continues until close to the end of this month, however, I am popping back (more than once!) for some Bay Area appearances. Here's a list: in tHe sPirit oF CAGE TONIGHT, Sunday January 13, 2008, 7pm at UC Davis with the Empyrian Ensemble, who will be performing my Cage-inspired work "Twenty Answers" at the Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Arts, UC Davis as part of an evening honoring Cage & Cunningham. -----DETAILS: Empyrean Ensemble 7 tonight Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Arts, UC Davis TICKETS: $29 general; $14.50 students and children INFORMATION: (530) 754-2787, www.mondaviarts.org (Here is an Sacramento Bee artical: http://www.sacbee.com/music/story/626100.html ) Still Life with Commentator THIS WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, January 16 & 17, 2008 8pm (PZ performing with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd and the cast of "Still Life...") "...with its uneasy resonances, holds up a fun-house mirror to our culture of information overload...the results are not just galling, but also often gripping." -New York Times -----DETAILS: Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd, Still Life with Commentator January 16 & 17, 2008 Wednesday & Thursday / 8:00 pm Pigott Theater TICKETS $40 (Adult) | $20 (Stanford Student) http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=VIJA Julie Queen's TEN DOLLAR DESTINY NOW THRU January 27, 2008 With composers Beth Custer, Will Hammond, Brook Hinton, Michael Becker, and Pamela Z, TEN DOLLAR DESTINY is an eye-popping, poetic song cycle of Julie Queen's multiple life-readings. This lyrical journey features a giant pop-up book set, 3D video projections, and a stunning variety of musical styles. -----DETAILS: Opened January 7th and continues Thursdays - Sundays through January 27th. All performances are at 8pm. Tickets are $30-15, sliding scale; general seating. To purchase, call 415/ 401-8081 or visit www.thickhouse.org. IN FEBRUARY: Amidst touring performances, residencies and workshops, I'll be in San Francisco to perform at the BANG ON A CAN Marathon at YBC on February 9th in the afternoon, and to teach a workshop at Intersection for the Arts, and LATER THIS SPRING Pamela Z's THE PENDULUM a new solo work for voice, electronics & video at ROYCE GALLERY (Details TBA) Please see my online calendar of Events at http://www.pamelaz.com/upcoming.html HAPPY NEW YEAR and Cheers, PZ -- Pamela Z Composer/Performer Contact info: Telephone: 415.861.EARS (415.861.3277) Mobile: 415.5PAMELA (415.572.6352) FAX: 415.861.FAKS (415.861.3257) (I forward my land line to my mobile phone when I'm travelling) pamelaz at pamelaz.com http://www.pamelaz.com http://www.myspace.com/pamelazcomposer Skype: pamelazed AIM: pamelazdotcom Snail Mail: Pamela Z Productions 540 Alabama Street Studio 213 San Francisco, CA 94110, USA shipping address (for packages larger than a 10" x 13" envelope): Pamela Z 2440 Sixteenth Street PMB #171, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA Pamela Z's CD "A Delay is Better" on the Starkland label is now available at http://www.amazon.com, http://www.starkland.com, and in stores near you. ...................................................................................................... From 21grand at 21grand.org Mon Jan 14 11:05:51 2008 From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah - 21 Grand) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:05:51 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Tues. 1/15 at 21 Grand - Greenlief/Boyce duo and Calvin Weston w/MCR Message-ID: Tuesday, Jan 15 2008 8:00 PM, $7-10 sliding scale -- 21 Grand 416 25th St. Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 444-7263 http://www.21grand.org 8 pm David Boyce - Phillip Greenlief saxophone duo 9 pm Monster Cock Rally, featuring G Calvin Weston Monster Cock Rally has been performing high energy improvised music for over ten years, and began a performing relationship with Calvin Weston last year. MCR has performed with Mike Watt, Greg Bandy, Dosh, and This moment in Black History, among other notable artists, and recorded numerous studio and live albums. Calvin Weston has been at the forefront of creative improvisation for over 30 years, and has performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Tricky, John Zorn, the Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer, James Carter, and Derek Bailey, among many other artists. Calvin is currently wrapping up a European tour with Vernon Reid (Living Colour) and Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Ornette Coleman), and has just released a disc on Tzadik with Marc Ribot and Trevor Dunn. From mperlmut at hotmail.com Tue Jan 15 00:58:36 2008 From: mperlmut at hotmail.com (Michael Perlmutter) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:58:36 +0000 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Zoyres live on KFJC 89.7 Thurs. at 9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Top of the New Year to everybody!Zoyres will be performing live on air at KFJC, 89.7 (Foothill Collegein Los Altos, CA) this Thursday evening starting at 9pm.Dial in to hear live performances, as well as some sneak previewbroadcasts from the new album (hopefully to be released inspring/summer). We also may have a chance to highlight some of theother groups our bandmembers play in (Squonk, North America, X-traAction Marching Band, etc.), as well as some recordings by artistsinfluential to us such as Naftule's Dream.Fret not if KFJC is outside of your receiver's range, as you canlisten online from http://www.kfjc.org/.Cheers and Ferments!************************************************Zoyres Eastern European Wild FermentMike Perlmutter -- saxes and clarinetLiam Staskawicz ? tromboneJonathan Russell ? clarinet and bass clarinetJosh Sirotiak - tubaEddie Pollard ? drumszoyres.monopod.netwww.myspace.com/zoyreshttp://youtube.com/profile?user=Zoyres _________________________________________________________________ Watch ?Cause Effect,? a show about real people making a real difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He recorded Stockhausen's music and has a bunch of releases on the Cold Blue label with concertos for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin and cello. Chas Smith (Los Angeles) is famous for building, composing for and playing his own titanium pedal steel guitar "Guitarzilla" as well as a sound sculptor working with metal in the very tradition of Harry Bertoia. He studied with Morton Subotnick, James Tenney or Harold Budd and did a bunch of electronic music on Buchla and Serge systems. His pedal steel music is layered complex drones. He does work as a welder and sculptor for large scale work with the likes of Paul Mc Carthy and Mike Kelley. Ulrich Krieger (Berlin, now Los Angeles) is one of the most radical sax players from Germany. He was the founder of the Zeitkrazter Ensemble and was the responsible of transcribing into notation Lou Reed's seminal "Metal Machine Music" for ensemble instruments. He did high-octane stuff alongside Zbigniew Karkowski or John Duncan with his saxophone quartet and is the interpret of choice for Phill Niblock's drone blocks since the mid eighties. He has recorded various volumes of John Cage's music for saxophones and plays live improv to the films of Stan Brackhage wih the group Text of Light. Marcelo Aguirre's (Buenos Aires, now Berlin) free form drumming and vocals focuse on sound. His solo act, Spastic Dementia, is loud blasting goregrind performances backed by concr???te tape constructions, with fast live drumming and distorted vocals. Has toured two times Europe with Michael Fink as a duo, and plays with Ulrich Krieger in the duo Sus Futuros, an improvised death metal/noise/feedback unit. Worked with Z'EV, John Duncan, John Hegre, Mattin, Campbell Kneale. His plays in the groups Onde (Belgium) and Compost (France). His most recent roject is the duo Abominations. From indent1 at aol.com Wed Jan 16 08:20:10 2008 From: indent1 at aol.com (indent1 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:20:10 -0500 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Brooklyn Concert In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CA2672CCFBADC8-1650-97C@mblk-d42.sysops.aol.com> Re:????IPR Concert 1.17.08 ? ?TOTEM Bruce Eisenbeil -guitar Tom Blancarte - acoustic bass Andrew Drury -drums, percussion Issue Project Room is a great space.??It features innovative music with an emphasis on multi-media events.??This is a performance space, not a bar, so all ages are welcome.???The doors open at 7:30pm.??TOTEM hits at?8pm.??One set. ??After TOTEM another quartet will perform.??This band, a collective ensemble that features New York and Philadelpia based musicians, features trombonist Daniel Blacksberg, violinist Katt Hernandez, bassist Evan Lipson and drummer Michael Evans. ?www.myspace.com/nytotem Who:??TOTEM What:??Cutting edge improvised music When:??Thursday 1.17.08 at 8pm, doors open at 7:30 Where:? ? Issue Project Room The (OA) Can Factory? 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor? Brooklyn, NY 11215 Telephone: 718-330-0313 ? For directions/transportation visit their website: ? http://www.issueprojectroom.org/ ?? Why:??music is the healing force of the universe ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thee Lamb Ov Instagon, a.k.a. Thee Mystic Master ov Space & Time... and thus far, remains to be such. INSTAGON invokes that subtle confusion of the unknown... you really dont have any idea what sort of performnace you are about to see when you go to see INSTAGON perform live (which by the way, if you missed it, is bascily ALL that Instagon does is perform LIVE.. studio happenings are very very rare).. you may see a BAND play, with other people you recognize IN the band... you may see a noise performance, you may experince accapella sound interaction... you may see people hitting metal with other pieces of metal... you might hear grunts, screams, kazoo's, saxophones, drums, guitars, keyboards, theremins, juice harps, [enter other instrument here], but you for sure will hear the rumbling bass guitar ov Thee Lamb ov Instagon, LOB. Francisco Meirino starts his music project Phroq in 1994. The music of Francisco Meirino explores the frontier between order and chaos, he works on the tension between programmed and accidental results. He has released more than 30 albums (cd, lp, cdr, tapes) on labels all around the world. Done and working on many live/release collaborations with great artists such as :Dave Phillips, Scott Arford, Lasse Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, Tim Olive, Mike Shiflet, Astro, Guilty Connector, Sten Ove Toft, Cindy Van Acker, Kasper T. Toeplitz... and played in Usa, Japan, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands .... Cost : $6-10 ******************************************************************************** Jan 24 - 8pm: Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace (Santa Barbara) 9pm: Son of Mary Feb 7 - 8pm Karl Evangelista - solo guitar 9pm Polly Moller & CO Feb 14 - 8pm "Duology" Michael Marcus/Ted Daniel ******************************************************************************** Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit art organization that graciously provides venue support. For Gallery info tel: 415.255.5971; For booking email Rent Romus: rentromus at yahoo.com To get to the LSG New Music Series take BART to the Powell street station and walk a little over a block to 6th & Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th & 7th Sts. for more info visit: http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ http://www.bayimproviser.com/venuedetail.asp?venue_id=7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From 21grand at 21grand.org Wed Jan 16 18:30:20 2008 From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah - 21 Grand) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:30:20 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Friday 1/18 at 21 Grand- Okkyung Lee with Corey Fogel, Raskin/Nishi duo & Wobbly Message-ID: Friday, January 18th - Okkyung Lee with Corey Fogel, Raskin/Nishi duo & Wobbly 8:30pm, $6-10 -- 21 Grand 416 25th St. Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 444-7263 http://www.21grand.org New York cellist, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, korean traditional music, noise with extended techniques and create her unique blend of music. Lee has performed, recorded, and collaborated on projects with a veritable who's who of East Coast avant-gardism (Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, etc.). Tonight she performs a duo with local percussionist, Corey Fogel. Also performing is Wobbly, the nom de joie of electronic musician, Jon Leidecker, whose longtime project, producing and compiling a retrospective CD of the seminal computer music group, League of Automatic Composers has recently been released on New World Records. Opening the show is a lovely duo between Oakland improvisers, Kanoko Nishi (koto) and Jon Raskin (saxophone). From ava.mendoza at gmail.com Wed Jan 16 20:03:03 2008 From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:03:03 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Kazue Sawai 1/19 @ Stanford Message-ID: <317505170801162003p196669fdrea8cc418b8910d7a@mail.gmail.com> Kazue Sawai Koto Concert Saturday, January 19, 8pm Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University Master Kazue Sawai will perform traditional and contemporary koto works include "Rokudan" by Yatsuhashi, Kengyo, "Unebiyama" by Yuji Takahashi, "Homura" by Tadao Sawai and more. Kazue Sawai Koto ensemble: >From Japan.....Mayumi Ikuta, Masayo Kasai U.S.A. ....Ryuko Mizutani (NY), Mitsuki Dazai(Oregon), Yuki Easter(San Diego) SF bay-area.....Shoko Hikage, Brian Wong, Kanoko Nishi Guest players: Peter Hill (shakuhachi), Shirley Muramoto (koto), Yoko Hirano-Itatani (koto) tickets: $10/general, $5/students; $9/seniors over 65 tickets can be purchased from Stanford Ticket Office (650) 725-2787, M-F 10am-5pm, Sat 12p-4p, or at the door www.music.stanford.edu From pgsaxo at pacbell.net Thu Jan 17 09:42:24 2008 From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:42:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] boyce - greenlief duo and monster cock rally at starry plough Message-ID: <737635.10092.qm@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Friday, Jan 18 2008 9:00 PM Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley Starry Plough Presents: 9 pm David Boyce - Phillip Greenlief saxophone duo Calling upon a variety of post-jazz sources for exploring free improvisation, this classic two-tenor saxophone duo (sans rhythm section) delivers a free-wheeling, melodic romp that juggles soulful noise and lyrical grooves. Come out and catch this new duo formed by two of the SF Bay Area?s most respected post-jazz tenor saxophonists. 10 pm Monster Cock Rally, featuring G Calvin Weston Monster Cock Rally has been performing high energy improvised music for over ten years, and began a performing relationship with Calvin Weston last year. MCR has performed with Mike Watt, Greg Bandy, Dosh, and This moment in Black History, among other notable artists, and recorded numerous studio and live albums. Calvin Weston has been at the forefront of creative improvisation for over 30 years, and has performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Tricky, John Zorn, the Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer, James Carter, and Derek Bailey, among many other artists. 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SIMM New Music Series 116 9th St. @ Mission, San Francisco 7:30 PM, donation $10 general $8 student/senior $5 artist kids under 12 free http://www.outsound.org *********************************************** Sunday, Jan 20, 2007 7:30 PM 7:30 Citta di Vitti Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone Lisa Mezzacappa - bass Jason Levis - drums 8:30 Steve Lockwood Quartet (Los Angeles) Ken Rosser - guitar Steve Lockwood - piano Dan Lutz - e-bass Billy Mintz - drums "As can be seen, Lockwood is no mean artist. His musical intellect and sense for drama, without being abstractly distant, are combined into an appealing set of songs that suggest perhaps as much classically influenced 20th century art music as jazz. -Russell Arthur Roberts: from L.A. Jazz Scene "As his titles..........suggest, the music conjures visuals, mirages of scenery that surround the audience. The listener derives his sense of wonder from his inability to analyze the entire scene at once; he must release the urge to breakdown, organize, and stereotype every sound and solo. - Nick Burns Steve Lockwood's influences range from Classical music (20th cent) and jazz, (Coltrane, Miles, and Monk) mostly during my youth. Then he met Meredith Monk and became her keyboardist he was able to explore post-modern/minimalist as well. His latest album "Equipoise" is an example of that mixture. "Latinesque" is even light and dreamy, while "Fly on the Wall" is certainly aggressive and free. He also enjoys poly-harmony which comes from his classical influence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ During November and December 2006, Phillip Greenlief composed 40 melodic fragments while watching the films L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, and Deserto Rosso, all films by Michelangelo Antonioni, featuring Monica Vitti. Early this year, he expanded those fragments into new compositions for trio. Phillip is currently joined by Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis, who work in the bass and drum manifesto "duo b". At the time of writing, they have toured around California, and are preparing to record a new CD in early January followed by a tour of the Pacific Northwest in March and a summer 2008 European tour. $10 gen/$8 student/senior/$5 artist/children under 12 free +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE MUSIC UNION HALL 116 9th Street @ Mission St., 1.5 blocks from Civic Center Street BART, San Francisco. Outsound presents...The SIMM Series is a musician run/audience funded music series now in it's eighth season bringing highly professional and truly adventurous music that would not normally be heard or supported by mainstream society. Outsound is an emerging non-profit presenting organization dedicated to presenting artists by artists. We ask that you contribute $10 in support of the artists. All Ages welcome, $5 minimum entry. Kids under 12 free. For series info tel: 415-905-4425; web: http://www.outsound.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From moestaiano1 at yahoo.com Thu Jan 17 21:35:24 2008 From: moestaiano1 at yahoo.com (Moe! Staiano) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:35:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Slydini, Monster Cock Rally & Phillip Greenlief/David Boyce Duo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <645194.76136.qm@web58707.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Calvin Weston and Monster Cock Rally Slydini, Phillip Greenlief with Thomas Doyle All happening at the Starry Plough this Friday the 18th of January 3101 Shattuck Ave. (@ Prince) Berkeley, California 510-841-2414 $10 21+ 8PM --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. 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He studied in Venice with Luigi Nono (1958-60) and at Cologne (1963). Beginning in the late 1960s, Lachenmann explored a new and innovative musical language. In works such as temA (1968), for flute, voice, and cello, and Air (1969), for orchestra and percussion soloist, he used instruments and voices unconventionally, producing new sounds and sound combinations in which all instruments were given equal weight. Lachenmann questions past musical assumptions in his many postserialist compositions and in his varied musical writings. Other works include the string quartet Gran Torso (1972), Mouvement (vor der Estarrung) (1984) for chamber orchestra, Serynade (2000) for piano, and the opera The Little Match Girl (2001). A well-known teacher, Lachenmann has been a mentor to many important younger composers. Lachenmann has referred to his compositions as musique concr?te instrumentale, implying a musical language that embraces the entire sound-world made accessible through unconventional playing techniques. According to the composer, this is music "in which the sound events are chosen and organized so that the manner in which they are generated is at least as important as the resultant acoustic qualities themselves. Consequently those qualities, such as timbre, volume, etc., do not produce sounds for their own sake, but describe or denote the concrete situation: listening, you hear the conditions under which a sound- or noise-action is carried out, you hear what materials and energies are involved and what resistance is encountered". His music is therefore primarily derived from the most basic of sounds, which through processes of amplification serve as the bases for extended works. His scores place enormous demands on performers, due to the plethora of techniques that he has invented for wind, brass and string instruments. From matt at sfsound.org Mon Jan 21 09:33:05 2008 From: matt at sfsound.org (matt) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:33:05 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Fwd: This Friday: Los Angeles Electric 8 @ Hillside Club, Berkeley References: <1564161c0801210900k1bfd31b2vae9e9f289022e9c3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <424E2841-E75F-4B36-8F5C-0D1118891551@sfsound.org> Begin forwarded message: > > My electric guitar chamber octet is performing in Berkeley this > Friday, the 25th. I hope that you can make the show given this short > notice. We'll be playing a variety of new and old music that I have > arranged for eight electric guitars?double string quartets, organ > works, and Indonesian gamelan pieces. The program will be: > > > Balinesa by Randall Kohl > Organ Sonata in F minor by Felix Mendelssohn > Domino Figures by Wayne Siegel > Octet, Op.11: Prelude & Scherzo by Dmitri Shostakovich > Ill Tempered Lancaran by Nathaniel Braddock > > > Please forward this to those you think would be interested. It's > unlikely that we'll bring this program up to the Bay Area again as > we are about to move on to new repertoire. Hope to see you there! > > > Los Angeles Electric 8 > Friday, January 25th, 8:00 PM > The Berkeley Hillside Club > 2286 Cedar Street > Berkeley, CA 94709 > (510) 845-1350 > > > you can read more at www.losangeleselectric8.com > > > > +:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+ > Ben Harbert > email: bharbert at ucla.edu > web: www.benharbert.com > www.losangeleselectric8.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information please visit www.colterfrazier.com or www.myspace.com/colterfrazier. And then, there is Son of Mary that peers into the depths electrowaves of wires and sounds spewing fourth the seething sounds of the masses left forgotten. Cost : $6-10 ******************************************************************************** Feb 7 - 8pm Karl Evangelista - solo guitar 9pm Polly Moller & CO Feb 14 - 8pm "Duology" Michael Marcus/Ted Daniel Feb 21 - 8pm Lords of Outland 9pm Eddie the Rat Double CD release show Feb 28 - 8pm Jolthrower, CJ Borosque and more noise ******************************************************************************** Outsound Presents is a emerging non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other things, are involved in running performance venues, recording labels, and other D.I.Y. endeavors. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit art organization that graciously provides venue support. For Gallery info tel: 415.255.5971; For booking email Rent Romus: rentromus at yahoo.com To get to the LSG New Music Series take BART to the Powell street station and walk a little over a block to 6th & Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th & 7th Sts. for more info visit: http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ http://www.bayimproviser.com/venuedetail.asp?venue_id=7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From damon at balancepointacoustics.com Wed Jan 23 21:18:53 2008 From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:18:53 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] 1/25 Raskin/Baker/Chan/Smith + Fraiser/Wallace References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <7AA6018D-E6F3-415F-841F-E256B4507A03@balancepointacoustics.com> Friday, Jan 25 2008 8:00 PM 1510 8th St Performance Space Iprovised Octopi Night at 1510 Charity Chan, Jon Raskin, Damon Smith, Jen Baker Fraiser/Wallace (San Diego) Music and grilled/fried/broiled/sauted/baked octopus,squid and many tantalizing tenticles. Price for shows with food-$10 Damon Smith http://www.balancepointacoustics.com http://myspace.com/smithdamon New solo project: http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080123/28f3b3af/attachment.html From matt at sfsound.org Fri Jan 25 09:52:53 2008 From: matt at sfsound.org (matt) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:52:53 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Sat: Helmut Lachenmann at Mills References: <00CEF0CC-07AC-4371-AB35-173991CF6A1A@sfsound.org> Message-ID: <2FEE4C9B-FAA9-4D44-A2FB-31CCEB3F0736@sfsound.org> HELMUT LACHENMANN Concert: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:00 pm Lisser Hall $12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com (Helmut is also giving a FREE LECTURE in Lisser, Thursday @ 7:30p) Concert Program: "Wiegenmusik" for piano "Ein Kinderspiel" for piano (Helmut Lachenmann, piano) "Gran Torso" for string quartet (Graeme Jennings, violin; Erik Ulman, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Hannah Adario-Berry, cello) "Allegro Sostenuto" for clarinet, cello, and piano (Matt Ingalls, clarinet; Geoffrey Gartner, cello; Christopher Jones, piano) "Toccatina" for solo violin (Graeme Jennings, violin) Helmut Lachenmann, the 2007-2008 Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence at Mills College, is one of the most influential European composers of the late 20th- and early 21st-centuries. He studied in Venice with Luigi Nono (1958-60) and at Cologne (1963). Beginning in the late 1960s, Lachenmann explored a new and innovative musical language. In works such as temA (1968), for flute, voice, and cello, and Air (1969), for orchestra and percussion soloist, he used instruments and voices unconventionally, producing new sounds and sound combinations in which all instruments were given equal weight. Lachenmann questions past musical assumptions in his many postserialist compositions and in his varied musical writings. Other works include the string quartet Gran Torso (1972), Mouvement (vor der Estarrung) (1984) for chamber orchestra, Serynade (2000) for piano, and the opera The Little Match Girl (2001). A well-known teacher, Lachenmann has been a mentor to many important younger composers. Lachenmann has referred to his compositions as musique concr?te instrumentale, implying a musical language that embraces the entire sound-world made accessible through unconventional playing techniques. According to the composer, this is music "in which the sound events are chosen and organized so that the manner in which they are generated is at least as important as the resultant acoustic qualities themselves. Consequently those qualities, such as timbre, volume, etc., do not produce sounds for their own sake, but describe or denote the concrete situation: listening, you hear the conditions under which a sound- or noise-action is carried out, you hear what materials and energies are involved and what resistance is encountered". His music is therefore primarily derived from the most basic of sounds, which through processes of amplification serve as the bases for extended works. His scores place enormous demands on performers, due to the plethora of techniques that he has invented for wind, brass and string instruments. Cost : $12 general/$6 seniors and students Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 510.430.2296 http://music.mills.edu/events m@ From ava.mendoza at gmail.com Sun Jan 27 21:33:31 2008 From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:33:31 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] TOMORROW 1/28- MUTE SOCIALITE, ETTRICK, LITTLE WOMEN Message-ID: <317505170801272133i11da7e38ta67e02259de42711@mail.gmail.com> 1/28 21 Grand 416 25th Street $5-10 8:30 MUTE SOCIALITE ETTRICK LITTLE WOMEN ETTRICK www.ettrick.org http://www.myspace.com/ettrick San Francisco's Ettrick is a self-destructive free jazz/black metal assault featuring two multi-instrumentalists rotating through every permutation of their drum and sax duo. In their brutal free improvisations, Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber explore the extreme sounds that can be wrenched from their instruments through brute force ? screaming through saxophones, throwing drums and other such impolite extended techniques. The doubled instrumentation provides a situation to explore playing contrasting and complimentary styles on like instruments. MUTE SOCIALITE www.myspace.com/mutesocialite Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs, and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal, polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world in either fury or love! LITTLE WOMEN http://www.myspace.com/littlewomensounds Quotes about Little Women....... "You guys make me want to vomit and take off my clothes at the same time." -Hira....... "I dont know what youre doing, but you need to do it quieter." -Short, bald NYU professor....... "This isn't a Mickey mouse operation." -Douglas Y....... "You've got that Harry Potter shit going on. You know, talking to the other side." -Shawn M...... "You're wiping out the whole floor."-NYU jazz chair David S....... "You know you guys are driving everyone crazy. "NYU jazz chair -David S....... "You guys are freaks. At least I don't cry into my drums." -Chris W...... "Deranged Psycho music." - Jason's mom ....... "Can you go to jail for shitting in public?" -Darius J From 21grand at 21grand.org Mon Jan 28 12:33:14 2008 From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah - 21 Grand) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:33:14 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Wednesday 1/30 at 21 Grand - "shamokin" trumpet player Peter Evans from NY and local talent Message-ID: Wednesday, January 30 Free Jazz Improv Company Night featuring Peter Evans 8pm, $7-10 -- 21 Grand 416 25th St. Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 444-7263 http://www.21grand.org Peter Evans (trumpet) joins local all-stars Henry Kaiser (guitar), Jon Raskin (saxophone), Damon Smith (contrabass), Weasel Walter (drums), and William Winant (percussion) for an evening of small and large group improvisation. As a performer, trumpet player, Peter Evans has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument. As one of the new kids in the New York down town scene, Peter Evans plays what other people might describe as good old free jazz. But as you listen more closely you hear one of the most versatile voices in modern music. Sometimes triumphant, sometimes ironic but always radical. He has played good old Baroque, good old roc k (with the drummer from rock band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and in contemporary ensembles like Alarm Will Sound. To do some name dropping: His latest cd was released on Evan Parker?s label and music magazine The Wire called it one of the 50 most essential recordings of the year. And as you know free jazz always sounds better live?? From thom at musclefish.com Mon Jan 28 13:52:50 2008 From: thom at musclefish.com (Thom Blum) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:52:50 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Concert at CNMAT Tues., 1/29, 8 pm: Earl Howard Message-ID: <479E4EB2.4010203@musclefish.com> CNMAT presents: Earl Howard (live electronics and saxophone) with guest David Wessel (live electronics) Tuesday, Jan 29 8:00 pm CNMAT $10 general, $5 students and seniors Earl Howard (b. 1951) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, saxophonist, synthesizer player and multi-instrumentalist. Mr. Howard is one of the pioneers of new music. He has been in the industry for over thirty years. Howard has performed with Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway, John Zorn, Georg Graewe, Mari Kimura, Mark Dresser, Yuko Fujiyama, Evan Parker, Thomas Buckner, George Lewis and many of the other most prominent musicians in his field. http://www.earlhow.com/ Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/ CNMAT is located at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA and is wheelchair accessible Map and directions: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/about/directions_cnmat -- Richard Andrews Associate Director Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) UC Berkeley (510) 643-9990 x300 From jfheule at gmail.com Mon Jan 28 15:34:21 2008 From: jfheule at gmail.com (jacob felix heule) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:34:21 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Ettrick, Mute Socialite & Little Women - TONIGHT Message-ID: <9c5cfa860801281534y9805e1atf1544f86440bc894@mail.gmail.com> TONIGHT! Club Sandwich presents... MUTE SOCIALITE ETTRICK LITTLE WOMEN Monday 1/28 (tonight) 8 PM (show ends by 11 PM !) @ 21 Grand (416 25th Street) $6-10 vegan and non-vegan egg salad sandwiches by Jessalyn & Juan LITTLE WOMEN (brooklyn) http://www.myspace.com/littlewomensounds Brooklyn's Little Women has a very genuine raucousness. also though there's a gorgeous sense of structure. the band--2 saxes, guitar and drums--works a lot with these sort of fanfare type themes, often with jagged, proggy rhythms. for the improvisations, the band atomizes, constantly splitting up into different mini groups. Members of Zs. ETTRICK (san francisco) http://www.myspace.com/ettrick brutal improv / free death / acoustic grind MUTE SOCIALITE (oakland) http://www.myspace.com/mutesocialite Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs, and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal, polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world in either fury or love! other upcoming shows with JFH (http://www.myspace.com/jacobfelix): Wed 1/30: Heule/Moe/Skaset @ kfjc.org 2pm! Fri 2/1: Allbee/Dryer/Heule/Lindsay w/ Hartsaw/Smith/Walter & Sophisticuffs @ 1510 8th St, Oakland Sun 2/3: You Will Taste the Teeth in Our Mouths w/ Ku/Dryer & Ozmadawn @ Hotel Utah, San Francisco From damon at balancepointacoustics.com Tue Jan 29 17:56:36 2008 From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:56:36 -0800 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Two Concerts with Peter Evans 21 grand 1/30 + Hemlock 1/31 References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <877DBEC6-3CE3-4559-870C-7A69B5E449D6@balancepointacoustics.com> Wednesday, Jan 30 2008 8:00 PM 21 Grand 416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland short, untimed sets featuring various combinations of the following musicians: Peter Evans (trumpet) - from NY and locals, Henry Kaiser, Jon Raskin, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter, William Winant Cost : $8-10 & Thursday, Jan 31 2008 9:30 PM Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF Thursday, January 31 9:30pm, $7 Peter Evans Quartet (w/ Weasel Walter, Damon smith, James Fei) Black Pearl Stepchild with members of Ettrick, Sword & Sandals, and Woman's Worth Cost : $7 http://www.myspace.com/peterevanstrumpet Peter Evans Quartet (w/ Weasel Walter, Damon smith, James Fei) Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. As a performer, Evans has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of improvisers; each band explores a specific concept or style as much as possible. Damon Smith http://www.balancepointacoustics.com http://myspace.com/smithdamon New solo project: http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Live on KFJC 89.7 with Nozmo King Listen live on www.kfjc.org February 5, 2008 8:00 p.m. - Matt Davignon & Les Hutchins duo 9:00 p.m. - Polly Moller & Co. 1510 Performance Space 1510 8th Street Oakland, CA $10.00 February 7, 2008 8:00 p.m. - Karl Evangelista, solo guitar 9:00 p.m. - Polly Moller & Co. Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street @ 6th San Francisco, CA $6.00 - $10.00 Thanks for listening! Polly Moller & Co. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.pollymoller.com ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.myspace.com/pollymoller ------------------------------------------------------------ From aotte80 at yahoo.com Wed Jan 30 11:23:56 2008 From: aotte80 at yahoo.com (Adria Otte) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:23:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Jen Baker solo at Meridian Gallery, 2/1/08 Message-ID: <315780.13744.qm@web52510.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Jen Baker, solo trombone Friday February 1, 8:00 PM $10 general; $5 students/seniors (no one turned away for lack of funds) Trombonist Jen Baker has been expanding the usage and sound potential of her instrument for many years. Her work as a classical/freelance musician commingles with her daring curiosity to explore new genres and musical expression that don't commonly involve the trombone. This has led her on a journey for similar artists with whom to collaborate, improvise, and/or commission. To this end, she has commissioned and performed numerous trombone solos that display a combination of extended techniques, theater, and otherwise challenging material. Recently she has been creating Lyrical Vibrations, songs that are partially composed/improvised, and have a haunting, chant-like quality. On February 1st, Jen will demonstrate her wide palette of solo literature with self-composed, commissioned, and other works. In addition to a set of Lyrical Vibrations, she will perform One-Sided Window, a collaboration with her pen pal in prison. Other work will include Patrick Muchmore's THS, a commissioned solo with electronics, and Three Pieces for Trombone by Giacinto Scelsi. Jen Baker is a classical and experimental trombonist whose creative identity has no boundaries. She has performed around the country in orchestras, brass quintet and as a soloist. Though she is still an active classical musician, she also performs new music, free jazz, and free improvisation. She received degrees in music from Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin Conservatory, and Mills College. Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street (b/t Sutter and Bush) San Francisco, CA 94108 415.398.7229 www.meridiangallery.org --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080130/b4e3de43/attachment.html