From rentromus at yahoo.com Thu Oct 1 13:39:58 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] SIMM Series 10/4/09 - 3rd Annual String Quartet Night Message-ID: <731691.68903.qm@web53705.mail.re2.yahoo.com> *********************************************** OUTSOUND Presents... SIMM New Music Series 116 9th St. @ Mission, San Francisco 7:30 PM, donation $10 general $8 stu/sen kids under 12 free http://www.outsound.org/ *********************************************** Sunday October 4, 2009 7:30pm 3rd Annual String Quartet Night with premi?re performances: Bill Noertker's Ariadne (a quartet in six movements) Annelise Zamula - flute Amber Lamprecht - oboe Ilana Matfis - viola Shain Carrasco - cello Dave Mihaly's the deneb quartet (music for strings, metal percussion, and bass drum) Enzo Garcia, Dina Maccabee, Charith Premawardhana, Dave Mihaly ***************************************************** Outsound Presents is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other You can also make a tax deductible donation by clicking this link below https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4207333 ******************************************************************************** THE MUSICIANS 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/ From rentromus at yahoo.com Thu Oct 1 14:02:37 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Makeout Room 10/5/09 Message-ID: <408593.12646.qm@web53703.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Monday, Oct 5 2009 8:00 PM The Makeout Room 3225 22nd St San Francisco, CA 94110-3006 The Monday Makeout presents: Monday October 5, 2009 FREE 8pm http://www.myspace.com/mondaymakeout NATHAN CLEVENGER GROUP (8:30pm) Kasey Knudsen, saxophones Sylvain Carton, reeds Aram Shelton, reeds Sam Bevan, bass Eric Garland, drums Nathan Clevenger, guitar LORDS OF OUTLAND (9:30pm) Rent Romus, alto + soprano saxophones, voice, electronics CJ Borosque, fx pedals Ray Schaeffer, 6-string electric bass Philip Everett, drums, autoharp, electronics MARCHES (10:30pm) Aram Shelton, alto & tenor saxophones Cory Wright, tenor & baritone saxophone Eric Perney, bass Jordan Glenn, drums Cost : FREE From 21grand at 21grand.org Thu Oct 1 19:15:07 2009 From: 21grand at 21grand.org (Sarah Lockhart) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:15:07 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] 23five night at 21g - saturday 10/3 Message-ID: 21 Grand | 416 25th St. | Oakland 94612 Saturday October 3rd 8:30pm, $6 Joe Colley (formerly Crawl Unit) Jim Haynes (Helen Scarsdale Agency) Maleficia (A.C. Way and Ilysea Sunderman) M.S. Waldron (irr.app.(ext.), NWW) James Kaiser (petit mal) live performances of epic proportions by East Bay exp/elec sound artists at 21 Grand. sponsored by 23five Incorporated. http://www.23five.org/ From publicity at newmusicworks.org Fri Oct 2 10:39:48 2009 From: publicity at newmusicworks.org (Sayaka Yabuki) Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:39:48 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] New Music Works presents Cabaret Politico (Oct. 10th) Message-ID: <20091002103948.tn2v1gy6ww8s8ok8@webmail.newmusicworks.org> "CABARET POLITICO," SATURDAY, OCT. 10TH, 8PM, KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER, SANTA CRUZ (http://www.kuumbwajazz.org/concerts/101009.htm[1]) New Music Works invites you to the first concert of its 31st season, "Cabaret Politico". CABARET POLITICO is an evening of stirring new chamber music and song set amid a politically-charged vaudevillian review that blurs boundaries life between theatre. The program builds upon a lilting protest song, "Farewell to Stromness", written 30 years ago, by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in his Yellow Cake Review. This song is historical for galvanizing a small seaport community in Orkney, Scotland to successfully thwart uranium mining in their city. Mezzo-soprano, Lori Rivera hosts the evening, singing songs from the Yellow Cake Review, along with didactic ditties by Frederic Rzewski and Tim Bell. Former SantaCruz Mayor, Ryan Coonerty, dancer, Arianna Lulu and actors Martin Kachuck and Tom Graves help bring the events of Orkney Island onto local terms. TICKETS: SantaCruzTickets.com or call 831.425.3526 https://www.santacruztickets.com/Online/seatSelect.asp?WSadmissions::admission::performance_idw39ED50-8B1D-439D-B260-8E13331576A7[2] WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO CABARET POLITICO! Tune into KUSP's On-Site program, hosted by John Seales, Friday, Oct. 2nd, 8-10 PM on 88.9FM. The featured performance will be New Music Works' 2009 Avant Garden Party. 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URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091005/0bf1a7be/attachment.html From rentromus at yahoo.com Mon Oct 5 15:27:31 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] LSG New Music Series 10/8/09 Message-ID: <891200.8972.qm@web53710.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ******************************** Outsound & Luggage Store Present The New Music Series 10/08/09 The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. @ 6th St San Francisco, California USA ******************************** Outsound Presents 8pm Damon Smith/Tony Dryer double bass duo 9pm Z_Bug David Leikam - conductor, mogue R., electric bass, hand drums, percussion. Zachary Morris - drums(et), percussion, electronics. Sheila Bosco - drums(et), percussion. Craig Latta - infrared theremin, laptop. Sean Price - modular synthesizers, laptop. Damon Smith'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 Tony Dryer has played bass guitar and toured extensively with rock groups including the Flying Luttenbachers, the Cold War, and Usurp Synapse. In recent years he has focused his attention on the acoustic double bass, and has recently completed a solo tour of the US supporting Ettrick. His trio with Jacob Felix Heule and Jacob Lindsay has a CD forthcoming on Creative Sources. z_Bug is the exploration through the audio consciousness of electro-rhythmic improvisation, Avant-Industrial Jazz. David Leikam and Zachary Morris met while studying music at CalArts in late 2004 with Wadada Leo Smith and have been collaborating on music of an electronic, improvisational, jazz style ever since, playing several live performances throughout the last five years. Landing here in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA in late 2006. Sean Price became present in 2006. Craig Latta and Sheila Bosco in 2007. ******************************** Outsound Presents is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer collective of explorative sound artists who, among other You can also make a tax deductible donation by clicking this link below https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?camd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4207333 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: outsoundorg 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/ ********************************** From td at pixar.com Mon Oct 5 16:17:03 2009 From: td at pixar.com (Tom Duff) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:17:03 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Shelton/Healy, Zimmerman/Carreira at Tom's Place, Tue Oct 6 Message-ID: <200910052317.n95NH31o025496@marvin.dynamic.pixar.com> On Tuesday, October 6 at 7:30pm, First Tuesdays at Tom's Place presents 7:30 Jacob Zimmerman (alto sax) and Michael Carreira (perc) 8:30 Aram Shelton (sax) and Trevor Healy (gtr, electronics) I hate writing copy about musicians we're featuring. It never adequately indicates what you're likely to hear. So without any further comment, here's clips of the artists playing at this show. Video of Aram Shelton and Trevor Healy at Bluesix: http://www.veoh.com/collection/singlespeed/watch/v13279220YYKfNwsp Jacob Zimmerman and Michael Carreira (mp3): http://www.jacobrexzimmerman.com/JacobandMikeImprov3.mp3 (found at http://www.jacobrexzimmerman.com/music.html) Tom's Place 3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley CA Directions: http://4-33.com/directions.html Information: http://4-33.com/tuesday/index.html Admission: donation. All proceeds go directly to the musicians. Doors open at 7:00. 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I'm playing first, followed by Krys and then Nick. -Cheryl http://www.allwaysnorth.com http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com Saturday October 10, 2009, 8pm Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613 $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students NICK DIDKOVSKY, KRYS BOBROWSKI, CHERYL E. LEONARD Breathtaking works located at the intersection of the natural world and new technologies. Nick Didkovsky performs new solo works for prepared electric guitar, electronics, and software. Krys Bobrowski's works feature everyday objects and invented instruments made from natural materials. Cheryl E. Leonard premieres three compositions for amplified natural objects and field recordings from Antarctica. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Margaret Rei Scampavia-keys, winds, vox, misc. www.myspace.com/grexsounds -Tribe of Shadows www.myspace.com/tribeofshadows *Flux 53 Theater* Friday, October 9, 2009 9pm 5306 Foothill Boulevard (Foothill at Fairfax), Oakland, CA $10 suggested donation, no one turned away _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091007/b4597d21/attachment.html From rentromus at yahoo.com Thu Oct 8 11:30:56 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Bloom Project Trinity Chapel 10/10, Berkeley, CA Message-ID: <534630.94466.qm@web53702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ************************************************************* October 10, 2009 8pm Trinity Chamber Concert Series Performing music from their comprovisational release Sudden Aurora Bloom Project is Thollem Mcdonas, piano & Rent Romus, alto saxophone ************************************************************* Where: Trinity Church, 2320 Dana Street (between Bancroft and Durant) Berkeley, CA 94704 When: Saturday October 10th 2009 7:30 PM doors, 8:00 PM music Cost: $12 General, $8 Senior/ Disabled/ Student No one will be turned away for lack of funds More information: For advance tickets call (510) 549-3864 www.trinitychamberconcerts.com http://www.virb.com/bloomproject Project Information Bloom Project is a spirited and colossal collaboration between international touring pianist Thollem Mcdonas, multi-saxophonist producer Rent Romus. Bloom Project features free improvisations as well as interpretations of numerous textual and graphical scores. The music is an organic construction and expression of combining disparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of refreshing immediacy, intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness. Guest recording and performing musicians have included instrument builder Steven Baker, drummer and found-object player Jon Brumit, trumpet and electronics artists Liz Albee, and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani. Discography 2009 - Sudden Aurora, Edgetone Records, EDT4083 2008 - Prismatic Season, (Live at the Sudden Sound Series Krannert Art Museum), Edgetone Records, EDT4068 2006 ? Bloom, Edgetone Records, EDT4083 About the Musicians THOLLEM MCDONAS, pianist/ composer/improviser, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area of Irish and Cherokee descent. He is currently touring perpetually, back and forth between Europe and the states, mostly as a soloist but also in collaboration with many other individuals and groups. He began his musical training as a young child rigorously studying the keyboard repertoire from the renaissance to the 20th century. After graduating with degrees in both piano performance and composition he decided to wander and live out of a backpack for several years rather than pursue a career as a concert pianist with a suit and tie. He has found a unique path that combines his many interests, experiences, concerns, and skills. His travels as a performer have covered much of the North American continent and Europe. He has performed extensively as a soloist as well with groups. He is a founding member of several innovative ensembles, and is responsible, in full or in part, for many albums of original music on several different vanguard labels. He was commissioned by The Limon Dance Company for a large-scale piece in commemoration of their 50th year anniversary. He is a recent recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Meet The Composer grant. Thollem has performed in theaters, art galleries, universities, elementary schools, concert halls, jazz clubs, rock clubs, festivals, warehouses, house concerts, streets, forests, the Shoshone Desert at the Nevada nuclear test site, on television, radio, in circuses, and riots. He has performed piano concertos with symphonies, played in West African drumming troupes, Javanese gamelan ensembles, and with hundreds of free improv groups all as well as working as an accompanist and a composer for opera and modern dance. It is because of these rich and wildly disparate experiences that his music is so dynamic and appeals to such a wide variety of audiences. Currently Thollem primarily plays his own comprovisations which he calls eccentriclect music, for people and everyone else. His music whispers/screams, "there are as many worlds in a life as there are lives in the world". RENT ROMUS alto and soprano saxophones, is a force spanning over twenty years of D.I.Y. music production, performance, and curation. He is heavily involved in stretching past the confines of standard music forms performing his original compositions and improvisations in a wide variety of musical settings. He is also focused in presenting and supporting the local experimental and avant-garde community at large with his grass-root philanthropic vision for total artistic self expression and freedom from generic branding. From his very beginnings as a student of Jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of music. From 1986 to present day Rent Romus has recorded and released twenty two explorative albums as a leader featuring a cross section of new up and coming musicians as well as seasoned veterans of the improvised arts that have included Jason Olaine, Steve Rossi, Chico Freeman, John Tchiai, Jonas M?ller, Stefan Pasborg, Toyoji Tomita, Dave Mihaly, Bill Noertker, CJ Borosque, Philip Everett, Ray Scheaffer, Paris Slim, Jesse Quattro, Scott R Looney, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Tobias Fischer, and most recently Thollem Mcdonas to name a few. As a producer and artist business activist Rent Romus founded Edgetone Records a label for all forms of music improvisation and experimentation in 1991. During his early years from 1988 - 1998 as a concert producer he was appointed Executive Director of Jazz in Flight in 1996. From 2002-04 he was the Director of Promotion for the SFAlt Festival, and at the turn of the new century in 2000 he founded Outsound Presents under which he is the Executive Director and a curator of The SIMM Music Series at the Musicians Union Hall as well as the long standing Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series both in San Francisco. In 2002 he started The Edgetone New Music Summit, a national experimental music festival held in the greater San Francisco Bay Area every summer now produced under the Outsound Presents banner which continues at the present. Press Quotes: "Thollem does what few can: He combines extreme imagination with terrific post-classical chops and an ability to communicate through melody." - Greg Burk, L.A. Times "Thollem has that rare gift of soulful equilibrium, which he alternates with digital dexterities that have few equals on the current scene." - Massimo Ricci, TouchingExtremes (Italy) Rent Romus - ?Romus has been central to the creative music world of the West Coast for a number of years, and he keeps stretching the boundaries of originality with each new release.? - Frank Rubolino onefinalnote.com/Cadence "With each piece McDonas creates a universe of its own...very original...a fresh voice." - Dolf Mulder, VitalWeekly (Holland) From rentromus at yahoo.com Thu Oct 8 13:46:42 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Trinity 10/10 Message-ID: <469730.16411.qm@web53706.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ************************************************************* October 10, 2009 8pm Trinity Chamber Concert Series Performing music from their comprovisational release Sudden Aurora Bloom Project is Thollem Mcdonas, piano & Rent Romus, alto saxophone ************************************************************* Where: Trinity Church, 2320 Dana Street (between Bancroft and Durant) Berkeley, CA 94704 When: Saturday October 10th 2009 7:30 PM doors, 8:00 PM music Cost: $12 General, $8 Senior/ Disabled/ Student No one will be turned away for lack of funds More information: For advance tickets call (510) 549-3864 www.trinitychamberconcerts.com http://www.virb.com/bloomproject Project Information Bloom Project is a spirited and colossal collaboration between international touring pianist Thollem Mcdonas, multi-saxophonist producer Rent Romus. Bloom Project features free improvisations as well as interpretations of numerous textual and graphical scores. The music is an organic construction and expression of combining disparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of refreshing immediacy, intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness. Guest recording and performing musicians have included instrument builder Steven Baker, drummer and found-object player Jon Brumit, trumpet and electronics artists Liz Albee, and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani. Discography 2009 - Sudden Aurora, Edgetone Records, EDT4083 2008 - Prismatic Season, (Live at the Sudden Sound Series Krannert Art Museum), Edgetone Records, EDT4068 2006 ? Bloom, Edgetone Records, EDT4083 About the Musicians THOLLEM MCDONAS, pianist/ composer/improviser, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area of Irish and Cherokee descent. He is currently touring perpetually, back and forth between Europe and the states, mostly as a soloist but also in collaboration with many other individuals and groups. He began his musical training as a young child rigorously studying the keyboard repertoire from the renaissance to the 20th century. After graduating with degrees in both piano performance and composition he decided to wander and live out of a backpack for several years rather than pursue a career as a concert pianist with a suit and tie. He has found a unique path that combines his many interests, experiences, concerns, and skills. His travels as a performer have covered much of the North American continent and Europe. He has performed extensively as a soloist as well with groups. He is a founding member of several innovative ensembles, and is responsible, in full or in part, for many albums of original music on several different vanguard labels. He was commissioned by The Limon Dance Company for a large-scale piece in commemoration of their 50th year anniversary. He is a recent recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Meet The Composer grant. Thollem has performed in theaters, art galleries, universities, elementary schools, concert halls, jazz clubs, rock clubs, festivals, warehouses, house concerts, streets, forests, the Shoshone Desert at the Nevada nuclear test site, on television, radio, in circuses, and riots. He has performed piano concertos with symphonies, played in West African drumming troupes, Javanese gamelan ensembles, and with hundreds of free improv groups all as well as working as an accompanist and a composer for opera and modern dance. It is because of these rich and wildly disparate experiences that his music is so dynamic and appeals to such a wide variety of audiences. Currently Thollem primarily plays his own comprovisations which he calls eccentriclect music, for people and everyone else. His music whispers/screams, "there are as many worlds in a life as there are lives in the world". RENT ROMUS alto and soprano saxophones, is a force spanning over twenty years of D.I.Y. music production, performance, and curation. He is heavily involved in stretching past the confines of standard music forms performing his original compositions and improvisations in a wide variety of musical settings. He is also focused in presenting and supporting the local experimental and avant-garde community at large with his grass-root philanthropic vision for total artistic self expression and freedom from generic branding. From his very beginnings as a student of Jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of music. From 1986 to present day Rent Romus has recorded and released twenty two explorative albums as a leader featuring a cross section of new up and coming musicians as well as seasoned veterans of the improvised arts that have included Jason Olaine, Steve Rossi, Chico Freeman, John Tchiai, Jonas M?ller, Stefan Pasborg, Toyoji Tomita, Dave Mihaly, Bill Noertker, CJ Borosque, Philip Everett, Ray Scheaffer, Paris Slim, Jesse Quattro, Scott R Looney, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Tobias Fischer, and most recently Thollem Mcdonas to name a few. As a producer and artist business activist Rent Romus founded Edgetone Records a label for all forms of music improvisation and experimentation in 1991. During his early years from 1988 - 1998 as a concert producer he was appointed Executive Director of Jazz in Flight in 1996. From 2002-04 he was the Director of Promotion for the SFAlt Festival, and at the turn of the new century in 2000 he founded Outsound Presents under which he is the Executive Director and a curator of The SIMM Music Series at the Musicians Union Hall as well as the long standing Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series both in San Francisco. In 2002 he started The Edgetone New Music Summit, a national experimental music festival held in the greater San Francisco Bay Area every summer now produced under the Outsound Presents banner which continues at the present. Press Quotes: "Thollem does what few can: He combines extreme imagination with terrific post-classical chops and an ability to communicate through melody." - Greg Burk, L.A. Times "Thollem has that rare gift of soulful equilibrium, which he alternates with digital dexterities that have few equals on the current scene." - Massimo Ricci, TouchingExtremes (Italy) Rent Romus - ?Romus has been central to the creative music world of the West Coast for a number of years, and he keeps stretching the boundaries of originality with each new release.? - Frank Rubolino onefinalnote.com/Cadence "With each piece McDonas creates a universe of its own...very original...a fresh voice." - Dolf Mulder, VitalWeekly (Holland) From steed at mills.edu Thu Oct 8 21:10:46 2009 From: steed at mills.edu (Steed Cowart) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:10:46 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] =?windows-1252?q?_Mills_Music_Now=3A_Iva_Bittov?= =?windows-1252?q?=E1_Concert_-_Oct_15_-_Mills_College?= Message-ID: <65821BEB5D22934E87F75D69F3474D1D10972C67B8@EXCHANGE02.mills.edu> The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present: Mills Music Now Thursday, October 15, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall IVA BITTOV? Czech violinist, singer, and composer To hear a sample recording of Iva Bittov?'s music, please go to: http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert3.php "The soul of a gypsy, the voice of a troubadour, and the mind of a genius." "One of those truly rare musicians capable of an artistic balancing act that maintains a nodding acquaintance with the musical rule book while having a passionate affair with non-conformity." ?Jazzwise, UK "? an innovative artist who shows how even one small body can transform a world of noise into stunning music." ?Los Angeles Times "Traces of Bittov??s life, from her formative years in tiny villages to her apprenticeship in a toy shop to her performances with an avant-garde theater troupe, creep into every shadowy corner of her music." ?L.A. Weekly Thursday, October 15, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com Free to Mills students, faculty, and staff Wheelchair accessible Iva Bittov?, the Czech singer and violinist, describes her work as "my own personal folk music." A charismatic performer with an established reputation both in Europe and Japan, Bittov? first toured North America as a solo performer in 1992. She returned in 1998 upon the release of her eponymous album on Nonesuch Records, selling out concerts in Boston, New York, and Berkeley. As much at home in classical music as in avant-garde and folk, she has sung the role of Donna Elvira in the Mozart opera "Don Juan in Prague" as well as performing songs by Leos Jan?cek. In 2005, she began collaborating with the Bang On A Can All-Stars, recording the CD Elida (Cantaloupe Music), and performing together at Carnegie Hall, in Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, as well as London and Prague. Other recent recordings are Mater by Slovakian composer Vladim?r God?r (ECM), Leos Jan?cek's Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs with the Skampa String Quartet (Supraphon), and Moravian Gems with bassist George Mraz. Since moving to the United States in 2007, Bittov? lives with her son Antonin in the Hudson River Valley, just a few hours from New York City. She now performs more frequently in the US and Canada, as a soloist as well as in collaborations with her fellow countryman Mraz, pianist Lisa Moore, clarinetist Don Byron, guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Hamid Drake, and the Wendy Osserman Dance Company. Iva Bittov? was born in Bruntal, in northern Moravia. Her father, a classical double bass player, relocated the family often. Bittov? attended violin and ballet classes as a child and also appeared in the Silesian Theatre of Zdenek Nejedly. As a teenager she attended a local conservatory and studied music and drama. Upon completion of school in Brno, she won a contract at the avant-garde Theatre On A String. She has since appeared in multiple television and film roles, including the award-winning film about Fred Frith, Step Across The Border, and Zelary, one of the most successful Czech movies in recent years, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film in 2003. She received a Czech "Oscar" and the Best Actress Award at the Syracuse International Film Festival for her starring role in the 2007 film Tajnosti (Little Girl Blue.) Reflecting on her life-long work as a performer, Bittov? has said, "I have found the way to myself and thus also to others. I understand there are many hearts in the world, and each beats differently." Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 http://musicnow.mills.edu Concert Line: 510 430-2296 From rentromus at yahoo.com Mon Oct 12 11:13:41 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] LSG New Music Series 10/15/09 Y2k9 International Live Looping Festival Message-ID: <210385.36020.qm@web53703.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ******************************** Outsound & Luggage Store Present The New Music Series 10/15/09 The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. @ 6th St San Francisco, California USA ******************************** Outsound Presents The EXPERIMENTAL SIDE of the Y2k9 International Live Looping Festival 8:00 Matt Davignon (USA) 8:35 Michael Peters (Germany) 9:15 Rick Walker & Thomas Dimuzio (USA) Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, composer, improvisor, mastering engineer, label proprietor, and music technologist residing in San Francisco, California. Inspired as much by John Cage as Led Zeppelin, Dimuzio melds sound, noise, and texture into a compelling musical experience. Cinematic and dramatic in nature, Dimuzio?s music is a sonic excursion that transports the listener to other worldly realms. ?His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert? brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.? (BBC) Dimuzio?s innovative use of live sampling and looping techniques furthers his fascination with sound and becomes evident at any one of his live performances. Whether taking signal feeds from a microphone out the window, shortwave radios, MIDI-controlled feedback, field recordings, circuit-bent instruments, and even other musicians, Dimuzio samples and recontextualizes sound in real-time through his custom-designed compositional environment. Much akin to a tactile musical instrument, Dimuzio?s performance system immediately integrates any sound source into his real-time compositions. For more than 30 years, Michael Peters has explored the world looking for new sounds. Most of his musical output veers from the mainstream and has been difficult to categorize. The renowned WIRE magazine has reviewed two of his albums in their "Outer Limits" section, which says it all. Michael's main instrument is the guitar - he studied with renowned guitarist, Robert Fripp and also is influenced by guitarists David Torn, Eivind Aarset, and Fred Frith. He extends the guitar using electronic effects, midi, and livelooping techniques. He has played in avant rock and open improvisational groups. ******************************** Outsound Presents is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer collective You can also make a tax deductible donation by clicking this link below https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?camd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4207333 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: outsoundorg 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/ ********************************* From aotte80 at yahoo.com Mon Oct 12 12:07:15 2009 From: aotte80 at yahoo.com (Adria Otte) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:07:15 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Doctor Bob, 10/14/09 Message-ID: <56272.61084.qm@web52512.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents? Doctor Bob Wednesday October 14th, 7:30 PM $10 general; $5 students/?seniors Doctor Bob is Bob Marsh (cello, voice, electronics) and David Michalak (lap steel guitar, electronics, Skatchbox). David brings a cinematic sensibility from his many years as a filmmaker, creating evocative sonic scenes while Bob uses various methods to create dadistic word pictures. They explore the farthest reaches of their instruments while providing bitter medicine for these times of socio-??politico-??economic dystopia. meridian gallery 535 powell street (b/t sutter and bush) san francisco, ca 94108 www.?meridiangallery?.?org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Inspired as much by John Cage as Led Zeppelin, Dimuzio melds sound, noise, and texture into a compelling musical experience. Cinematic and dramatic in nature, Dimuzio?s music is a sonic excursion that transports the listener to other worldly realms. ?His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert? brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.? (BBC) Dimuzio?s innovative use of live sampling and looping techniques furthers his fascination with sound and becomes evident at any one of his live performances. Whether taking signal feeds from a microphone out the window, shortwave radios, MIDI-controlled feedback, field recordings, circuit-bent instruments, and even other musicians, Dimuzio samples and recontextualizes sound in real-time through his custom-designed compositional environment. Much akin to a tactile musical instrument, Dimuzio?s performance system immediately integrates any sound source into his real-time compositions. For more than 30 years, Michael Peters has explored the world looking for new sounds. Most of his musical output veers from the mainstream and has been difficult to categorize. The renowned WIRE magazine has reviewed two of his albums in their "Outer Limits" section, which says it all. Michael's main instrument is the guitar - he studied with renowned guitarist, Robert Fripp and also is influenced by guitarists David Torn, Eivind Aarset, and Fred Frith. He extends the guitar using electronic effects, midi, and livelooping techniques. He has played in avant rock and open improvisational groups. ******************************** Outsound Presents is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer collective You can also make a tax deductible donation by clicking this link below https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?camd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4207333 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: outsoundorg 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/ ********************************* From steed at mills.edu Mon Oct 12 15:51:02 2009 From: steed at mills.edu (Steed Cowart) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:51:02 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] =?windows-1252?q?Mills_Music_Now=3A_Iva_Bittov?= =?windows-1252?q?=E1_Concert_-_Oct_15_-_Mills_College?= Message-ID: <65821BEB5D22934E87F75D69F3474D1D10972C67D8@EXCHANGE02.mills.edu> The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present: Mills Music Now Thursday, October 15, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall IVA BITTOV? Czech violinist, singer, and composer To hear a sample recording of Iva Bittov?'s music, please go to: http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert3.php See a video clip of Iva Bittov? here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEZg3TX1k_g&feature=related "The soul of a gypsy, the voice of a troubadour, and the mind of a genius." "One of those truly rare musicians capable of an artistic balancing act that maintains a nodding acquaintance with the musical rule book while having a passionate affair with non-conformity." ?Jazzwise, UK "? an innovative artist who shows how even one small body can transform a world of noise into stunning music." ?Los Angeles Times "Traces of Bittov??s life, from her formative years in tiny villages to her apprenticeship in a toy shop to her performances with an avant-garde theater troupe, creep into every shadowy corner of her music." ?L.A. Weekly Thursday, October 15, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com Free to Mills students, faculty, and staff Wheelchair accessible Iva Bittov?, the Czech singer and violinist, describes her work as "my own personal folk music." A charismatic performer with an established reputation both in Europe and Japan, Bittov? first toured North America as a solo performer in 1992. She returned in 1998 upon the release of her eponymous album on Nonesuch Records, selling out concerts in Boston, New York, and Berkeley. As much at home in classical music as in avant-garde and folk, she has sung the role of Donna Elvira in the Mozart opera "Don Juan in Prague" as well as performing songs by Leos Jan?cek. In 2005, she began collaborating with the Bang On A Can All-Stars, recording the CD Elida (Cantaloupe Music), and performing together at Carnegie Hall, in Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, as well as London and Prague. Other recent recordings are Mater by Slovakian composer Vladim?r God?r (ECM), Leos Jan?cek's Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs with the Skampa String Quartet (Supraphon), and Moravian Gems with bassist George Mraz. Since moving to the United States in 2007, Bittov? lives with her son Antonin in the Hudson River Valley, just a few hours from New York City. She now performs more frequently in the US and Canada, as a soloist as well as in collaborations with her fellow countryman Mraz, pianist Lisa Moore, clarinetist Don Byron, guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Hamid Drake, and the Wendy Osserman Dance Company. Iva Bittov? was born in Bruntal, in northern Moravia. Her father, a classical double bass player, relocated the family often. Bittov? attended violin and ballet classes as a child and also appeared in the Silesian Theatre of Zdenek Nejedly. As a teenager she attended a local conservatory and studied music and drama. Upon completion of school in Brno, she won a contract at the avant-garde Theatre On A String. She has since appeared in multiple television and film roles, including the award-winning film about Fred Frith, Step Across The Border, and Zelary, one of the most successful Czech movies in recent years, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film in 2003. She received a Czech "Oscar" and the Best Actress Award at the Syracuse International Film Festival for her starring role in the 2007 film Tajnosti (Little Girl Blue.) Reflecting on her life-long work as a performer, Bittov? has said, "I have found the way to myself and thus also to others. I understand there are many hearts in the world, and each beats differently." Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 http://musicnow.mills.edu Concert Line: 510 430-2296 From dmichalak at sbcglobal.net Mon Oct 12 16:15:57 2009 From: dmichalak at sbcglobal.net (dmichalak) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:15:57 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Doctor Bob At Meridian Gallery References: Message-ID: Wednesday, Oct 14 2009 7:30 PM Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street SF Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Doctor Bob. Doctor Bob is Bob Marsh (cello, voice, electronics) and David Michalak (lap steel guitar, electronics, Skatchbox). David brings a cinematic sensibility from his many years as a filmmaker, creating evocative sonic scenes while Bob uses various methods to create dadistic word pictures. They explore the farthest reaches of their instruments while providing bitter medicine for these times of socio-politico-economic dystopia. From td at pixar.com Mon Oct 12 16:20:49 2009 From: td at pixar.com (Tom Duff) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:20:49 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] John Butcher w Gino Robair & John Shiurba at Tom's Place, Tue Oct 13 Message-ID: <200910122320.n9CNKnQU014848@marvin.dynamic.pixar.com> On Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30pm, First Tuesdays at Tom's Place presents an evening with John Butcher (sax), with Gino Robair (pno, perc) and John Shiurba (gtr). John Butcher is one of the world's best improvising saxophonists. Wikipedia says: He has taken the concern with the manipulation of multiphonics (split tones and false notes) bequeathed by earlier improvisers such as Evan Parker in new directions: though his earlier albums could be busy at times, he has come increasingly to focus on creating rich, slowly-changing strata of sounds (layers of hums, buzzes and brittle metallic noises). That said, he is also capable of playing quite lyrically: on soprano, especially, he will sometimes leaven a passage of abstraction with bursts of pennywhistle-like melody. About his freely improvised playing he says "Some of the best bits come when you're playing near the edge of your control and knowledge. On the saxophone there's quite a thin line, physically, between getting a miserable squeak or a fabulous chord. When the music's working, I think it creates its own connections and shapes that are more interesting than ones you might have tried to consciously impose." Recordings: http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Listen.html Tom's Place 3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley CA Directions: http://4-33.com/directions.html Information: http://4-33.com/tuesday/index.html Admission: donation. All proceeds go directly to the musicians. Doors open at 7:00. From damon at balancepointacoustics.com Mon Oct 12 20:20:06 2009 From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:20:06 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Active Music Orchestra @ The Uptown, 10/13 References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Tuesday, October 13th. Active Music Series at the Uptown: 1st set at 9:20 SHARP. Oakland Active Orchestra featuring works by Greenlief, Smith, Ewing and Walter. Tom Djll, trumpet Darren Johnston, trumpet Aram Shelton, soprano & alto saxophone Aaron Bennet, alto saxophone Philip Greenlief, tenor saxophone Cory Wright, baritone saxophone Rob Ewing, trombone Marielle Jakobsons, violin Kristian Aspelin, guitar Lisa Mezzacappa, bass Damon Smith, bass Jordan Glenn, drums Weasel Walter, drums Basshaters Tony Dryer, bass; Jacob Felix Heule drums (1st set) Weasel / Damon + Damon Smith, Weasel Walter & Aurora Josephson (3rd set) 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/20091012/f35ce922/attachment.html From moestaiano1 at yahoo.com Tue Oct 13 00:05:30 2009 From: moestaiano1 at yahoo.com (Moe! Staiano) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Two shows this week/end! Message-ID: <773775.75903.qm@web59004.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Ola! I'll be performing in two shows this Friday and Saturday. Both will be really great ones (and short for my appearance, too)! Read as follows and check it out and tell your friends: ************************** Friday, 16th October, 2009 INTONARUMORI Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners Novellus Theater Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 700 Howard Street, San Francisco 8:00 p.m. ? I will be presenting a new piece for 6 Noise Intoners and 2 voices (performed by Dohee Lee and myself). Other works included by Mike Patton, Text of Light, Blixa Bargeld, Carla Kilstedt and Mattias Bossi with Moe! Staiano, Elliott Sharp, Ulrich Krieger, Ellen Fullman, James Fei, Luciano Chessa, John Butcher and Gino Robair, Pablo Ortiz, and the sfSoundGroup, featuring performances by members of the Magik*Magik Orchestra. Futurist sound artist Luigi Russolo constructed special hand-cranked instruments to realize an expanded field of orchestral sound. Called intonarumori (noise intoners), these instruments could produce noises ? explosions, howls, buzzes, hisses ? not usually employed in Western music. Luciano Chessa, a Bay Area-based composer and Russolo scholar, has overseen the recreation of 16 intonarumori and has curated this concert of original and newly commissioned scores. Part of Metal + Machine + Manifesto = Futurism's First 100 Years. ?www.sfmoma.org/events/1459 ? ************************** Saturday, 17th October, 2009 I'll be playing at the 13th annual NoiseFest. I'll be playing old metal percussion that will all be given away for free afterwards. (I ain't taking this shit back with me!) The festival will start on the 16th and run through the 18th on Sunday. My set is on Saturday and my set will be at 5:00PM. Here's the full details if you'd like to check me or any of the other acts playing: NORCAL NOISEFEST 13 OCTOBER 16-18, 2009 LUNA'S CAFE, 1414 16th Street (16th, 7PM) THE GREENS HOTEL, 1616 Del Paso Blvd. (17th & 18th, 1PM) SACRAMENTO, California performances scheduled by: BIG CITY ORCHESTRA (San Francisco) RUBBER O CEMENT (San Francisco) VERTONEN (Chicago,IL) XOME (Sacramento) INSTAGON (Sacramento) LORDS OF OUTLAND (San Francisco) NUX VOMICA (San Francisco) VANKMEN (Oakland) +DOG+ (Los Angeles) KAWAIIETLY PLEASE (Los Angeles) XDUGEF (Los Angeles) CJ BOROSQUE (El Cerrito) MOE! STAIANO (Manteca/Oakland) 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO (San Francisco) AL QAEDA (San Francisco) with special guest A.C.WAY FATHER OF THE FLOOD (Albuqueque,NM) ACTUARY (Los Angeles) IDX1274 (Cascadia,OR) vs. SMITE! (Sacramento) AUDIOEMETIC (Sacramento) CHOPSTICK (Sacramento) WE'VE COME FOR WHAT'S OURS (San Francisco) [featuring Mason Jones] CEREBRAL ROIL (Sunol!) UEM? (Los Angeles) GOHGER/AURAL ANTITHESIS? (Seattle,WA) PHOG MASHEEEN (Costa Mesa) SABRETEETH (Oakland) NOISEPSALM (Placerville) MEDICINE CABINET (Tracy) LIVER CANCER (Sacramento) SUPERZAPPER RECHARGE (Sacramento) KILL KILL KILL (Los Angeles) LACES (Oakland) JOLTHROWER (Sacramento) MUCKY THE DUCKY (Davis) BLOOD INTO WATER (San Jose) SUNKEN LANDSCAPES (Long Beach) THE TRANSHUMANS (Ventura) DENTAL WORK (Beulah,MI) SHREW FLORIST (Santa Rosa) RAVEN CHACON (Albuqueque,NM) SISSISTERS (UK) HYPNOTIC INJECTION (Sacramento) CHINAPAINTING (NY / MEXICO) AUBREY (Sacramento) DROUGHTER (San pedro) FITS + STARTS (Davis / Santa Cruz) [featuring Jen Boyd] LYCANTHROPE LEGIONS OF NOISE (Santa Cruz) INK ON SUIT (Sacramento) www.norcalnoisefest.com Hope to se you there! Moe! Staiano moestaiano1 at yahoo.com www.myspace.com/moestaianomoekestra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SIMM New Music Series 116 9th St. at Mission, San Francisco 7:30 PM, donation $10 general $8 stu/sen kids under 12 free http://www.outsound.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Sunday October 4, 2009 7:30pm 7:30 PM Jacob Zimmerman - alto sax and Mike Carreira - drums Duo 8:30 PM Go-Go Fightmaster CD release performance for Sound 1 Aaron Bennett - saxes and straw, John Finkbeiner - guitar and straw, Lisa Mezzacappa - contrabass, Vijay Anderson - drums & guest Aram Shelton - sax Now that the band can drink from the big girls cup, they will perform music from their new CD release "Sound 1" The 100th catalog release on the D.I.W.O. Artist run label Edgetone Records In May of 2008 Jacob Zimmerman graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Jazz Saxophone Performance. There he studied primarily with Anthony Coleman, Jerry Bergonzi, Joe Morris, John Mallia, and Allan Chase. He also rehearsed and performed in groups led by guest artists Roscoe Mitchell, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely, and Dave Holland. Previously, Jacob was a member of the award winning Garfield High School Jazz Band from Seattle, led by Clarence Acox. Jacob currently lives in the Berkeley, CA pursuing his Masters in Composition from Mills College, where he studies with Roscoe Mitchell, James Fei, and Fred Frith among others. Drummer Michael Carreira has spent the last several years busy playing pop music. He enjoys spending more time improvising. Go-Go Fightmaster is music that seeks only to be music and relevant in this era of violent expansionism and blatant disregard for the declining state of the planet. Go-Go Fightmaster does not seek to be the most modern, historical, punk/jazz/disco/dark/light/cool/whatever shocking, comforting, Spiritual, secular, or Avant-garde. Go-Go Fightmaster are lovers, not fighters and we do not engage in the form of dancing known as "Go-Go". Go-Go Fightmaster does not like cheese (except on crackers). Go-Go Fightmaster is the ideal band for your corporate event. Go-Go Fightmaster loves you. ---------------------------------------------------------- Outsound Presents is a non-profit volunteer collective THE MUSICIANS 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/ From jacobmakesnoise at yahoo.com Wed Oct 14 12:25:50 2009 From: jacobmakesnoise at yahoo.com (Jacob Lindsay) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] John Butcher + Jon Raskin 4tet @ Soja this Saturday 10/17 Message-ID: <920259.39182.qm@web58003.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Saturday, Oct 17 2009 9:00 PM Soja 2406 Webster, Oakland, between 24th & 25th streets (Near 19th St. BART, and one block from 21Grand) Soja Martial Arts presents an evening with reknowned U.K. saxophonist JOHN BUTCHER perfoming solo and in ensemble with the Jon Raskin Quartet - feat. Jon Raskin (saxophones), Liz Allbee (trumpet), John Shuirba (guitar), and Gino Robair (percussion). "In the hands of London improvisor John Butcher, the saxophone can sound like anything, from a peice of hollowed out brass baubled with pads and valves to a hermetically sealed feedback system, a minature sound enviroment teeming with ever-evolving note forms, or a huge echo chamber inflicting dub scale damage on every breath. .................." - "Mining Echoes" by David Keenan - focusing on the new Cavern with Nightlife CD. John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s. One of the premier saxophonists currently performing, his music ranges through free improvisation, various structurings, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and work with live electronics, amplification and feedback. He has toured and broadcast in Europe, Japan, Australia and North America, and was featured, playing solo, in the BBC TV programme Date with an Artist. Compositions include pieces for Chris Burn?s Ensemble, the Austrian group Polwechsel, the Australian ensemble Elision, the American Rova Saxophone Quartet, and "somethingtobesaid" for the 8-piece John Butcher Group. Highlights of Rova founding member Jon Raskin's early career include his '70s participation in new music ensembles directed by John Adams (San Francisco Conservatory of Music) and Dr. Barney Childs (University of Redlands). Before Rova, Raskin served as music director of the Tumbleweed Dance Company (1974-77), was a founding member of the Blue Dolphin Alternative Music Space and participated in the creation of the Farm- an art project that included a city farm, a community garden, Ecology Center, Dance and Theater companies and organized the creation of a city park. Highlights as a member of Rova include composing a collaborative work for SF Taiko Dojo/Rova, working with Howard Martin on the installation work Occupancy, composing music for Mr. Bungle/ Rova, organizing the 30 year Anniversary Concert of John Coltrane's Ascension, performing the music of Miles Davis at the Fillmore with Yo Miles! He also performs with the Jon Raskin quartet featuring Liz Albee on trumpet John Shiurba on bass and Gino Robair and in a duo with Kanoko Nishi on Koto. Soja Martial Arts is a community-oriented Martial Arts and Yoga studio in Uptown Oakland which provides a friendly and challenging environment to promote healthy minds and bodies, and invites the community to engage in a wide-range of activities, including our current series of New Music Concerts. www.sojamartialarts.com www.johnbutcher.org.uk www.jonraskin.com Cost : $6-$10 sliding scale donation __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From matt at sfsound.org Wed Oct 14 15:33:06 2009 From: matt at sfsound.org (matt) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:33:06 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] ! MUSIC FOR 16 FUTURIST NOISE INTONERS - Friday ! References: Message-ID: <14709B30-8B89-48C2-87EA-BC2C10FBE365@sfsound.org> MUSIC FOR 16 FUTURIST NOISE INTONERS Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard Street, San Francisco 16 October, 8:00 p.m. Futurist sound artist Luigi Russolo constructed special hand-cranked instruments to realize an expanded field of orchestral sound. Calledintonarumori (noise intoners), these instruments could produce noises - explosions, howls, buzzes, hisses - not usually employed in Western music. Luciano Chessa, a Bay Area-based composer and Russolo scholar, has overseen the recreation of 16 intonarumori and has curated this concert of original and newly commissioned scores. Compositions by Mike Patton, Text of Light, Blixa Bargeld, Carla Kihlstedt + Matthias Bossi, Ulrich Krieger, Ellen Fullman, James Fei, Theresa Wong, John Butcher, plus a piece by Elliott Sharp for intonarumori and Korean p'ansori singer (Dohee Lee), Luciano Chessa's L'acoustique ivresse, based on a sound poem by Luigi Russolo's friend Paolo Buzzi and featuring solo bass Richard Mix, a collective composition by sfSoundGroup, and Pablo Ortiz's Tango Futurista, inspired by Marinetti's passion for the primordial energy of the Argentinian tango. The program is completed by the first (!!!) modern live performance of the legendary fragment of Russolo's Risveglio di una citt?(1913) and of a 1916 Futurist piece for intonarumori by Buzzi, both presented in a brand new diplomatic edition by Chessa. Performances by John Butcher and Gino Robair; Luciano Chessa, Richard Mix, Gregory Moore; Dohee Lee, Ellen Fullman; Carla Kihlstedt, Mattias Bossi and Moe Staiano; Ulrich Krieger, Alan licht, DJ Olive; ensemble players from Magik*Magik Orchestra; sfSoundGroup; and Theresa Wong. Tickets and such: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1459 This concert is part of a wonderful program dedicated to Italian futurism: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1314 Oh, and don't miss the Banquet (!): http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1461 m@ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091014/fb245f3f/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: howler-use-for-web.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1995 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091014/fb245f3f/attachment.jpg From jfheule at gmail.com Sun Oct 18 15:18:02 2009 From: jfheule at gmail.com (jacob felix heule) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:18:02 +0200 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] BASSHATERS / SKASM European Tour, Fall 2009 Message-ID: <9c5cfa860910181518o69da9f27yf37037d3c01fa6d7@mail.gmail.com> BASSHATERS / SKASM European Tour, Fall 2009 20 oct, PRAGUE, brick bar music klub 22 oct, VIENNA, kellerstiege 23 oct, MESTRE, laboratorio villa franchin 24 oct, BOLOGNA, farm 25 oct, RAVENNA, csa spartaco 26 oct, ROME, mads 27 oct, FROSIONE, cantina mediterraneo 28 oct, senigallia? 29 oct, PARMA, veronika club 30 oct, GENOA, milk club 31 oct, zurich? 1 nov, LI?GE 2 nov, AMSTERDAM, occii w/ HAIR POLICE 3 nov, ROTTERDAM, worm w/ HAIR POLICE 4 nov ... ? 5 nov, ANTWERP 6 nov, DEN HAAG, vrijhaven 7 nov ... ? 8 nov, BERLIN, miss hecker 11 nov, BERLIN, wendel: Allbee/Majkowski/Dryer/Heule 13 nov, BERLIN, die remise: Basshaters ? oslo ? ? g?teborg ? 28 nov, OSLO, open form festival: Open Form Ensemble performs Pauline Oliveros help us fill in open dates and strike out question marks. e-mail jfheule at gmail.com. Basshaters (San Francisco) Basshaters is a duo utilizing double bass, drum set, and electronics to integrate acoustic free improv and electronic noise, two genres thriving in the San Francisco Bay Area. They use extended techniques to activate their large resonant instruments. Striving to match the fluidity of their acoustic music, electronics expand the timbral and dynamic options to new extremes. The duo seeks directness and intensity in execution; subtleties emerge from the bold statement of simple ideas. In addition to Basshaters, Dryer & Heule have released an album on Creative Sources with clarinetist Jacob Lindsay. They have a trio CD with saxophonist Jack Wright, and have performed live with diverse musicians such as Michel Doneda, C Spencer Yeh, Gino Robair, and Damon Smith. Dryer has toured with the Flying Luttenbachers and Usurp Synapse; Heule remains active with his brutal improv duo Ettrick. Tony Dryer: double bass, electronics Jacob Felix Heule: drums, electronics http://www.heule.us/basshaters http://www.myspace.com/basshaters http://www.heule.us http://www.myspace.com/tonydryerbass Skasm (Oslo) Skasm combines the qualities of acoustic and electronic sounds into a whole. Two electric guitars with a range from noisy sounds and feedback to pure tones, voice processed or pure scream, acoustic bass rumbling in low frequencies or high pitched frenetic chaos. Skasm builds the music from fractions or layers, in opposition to each other or built as a unison movement. Sometimes hazardous, sometimes most careful, but always with a focus on the present. Always open. The main focus is to keep looking for new meetings and new ways of building or maintaining whatever stream of music they have found. Skasm is based around the guitar and double bass duo of Haavard Skaset and Guro Skumsnes Moe. For this tour Harald Fetveit (guitar) will complete the trio. During the last four years they have toured Norway, the rest of Europe, and the US with bands like Art Directors, Peninsula Project, Bay/Oslo Mirror Trio, and Bak-truppen. Haavard Skaset, guitar Guro Skumsnes Moe, double bass, voice Harald Fetveit, guitar (November only) http://www.myspace.com/skasmpage http://www.myspace.com/gurosmoe If you wish to be removed from future mailings, reply to jfheule at gmail.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Using only a single turntable and a distortion pedal, the Taraval Technique creates a uniquely primitivist, retrogressive, and culturally savvy form of sonic expression. Distorted closed loops, howling scratches, and intentional vinyl damage form the basis of what can only be termed total media destruction. This is not music. This is but the experience of listening to the decay of obsolete ideas, the known and the unknown. The Taraval Technique turns recorded history inside out, records the results, and awaits your approval. Bizarre San Francisco art-rockers Moira Scar are a bit like a couple of 10-year-olds building a makeshift fort in their backyard out of snow, toys, and old garbage. Sure, it?s not quite inhabitable, it smells, and it?s freezing?but damn, it?s a pretty sweet fort. Touring behind their debut album Excerpts From The Holy Scumbrella, the duo of Saphoid and Pelvis abuse a wealth of instruments to concoct their own fractured take on psychedelic rock. Falsetto howls tumble over twitching analog synthesizer, fuzzy bass guitar, and off-kilter drumming, creating a wall of sound that is often as compelling as it is obnoxious. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outsound Presents is a on-profit volunteer collective organization 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: outsoundorg 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 and Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th and 7th Sts. for more info visit http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ava.mendoza at gmail.com Mon Oct 19 20:31:11 2009 From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:31:11 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Oct 22, 23, 24- Mendoza/Allbee/Rodriguez/Staiano- music/sound for Theater of Yugen In-Reply-To: <317505170910182001q7507e32fs81d9be2688b929f1@mail.gmail.com> References: <317505170910182001q7507e32fs81d9be2688b929f1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <317505170910192031q36401b5by15f471c4ec4ac8c3@mail.gmail.com> Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street @ 3rd October 22, 23, 24 8 pm These three nights are the premiere of Theater of Yugen's new play 'Dogsbody' at Yerba Beuna Center for the Arts. Liz Allbee, Jake Rodriguez, Moe Staiano and Ava Mendoza have worked really hard creating the music and sound. Attached is more info, or you can go to this link to buy tickets. http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id?03 About Theater of Yugen and Dogsbody: Known for their use of poetic text set to contemporary music, San Francisco?s venerable Theatre of Yugen creates a unique and imaginative fusion of traditional Japanese theater with a western sensibility that is at once ancient and avant-garde.YBCA is delighted to commission the world premiere of Dogsbody by award-winning playwright Erik Ehn and directed by Dijana Milosevic, founder of DAH Teatar of Serbia. Neither docudrama nor overt political propaganda, Dogsbody sheds light on the escalating practice of conscripting child soldiers during times of war. (Running Time: 105 minutes, no intermission; subject to change as it is a World Premiere) -- www.myspace.com/avamendoza http://www.bayimproviser.com/avamendoza -- www.myspace.com/avamendoza http://www.bayimproviser.com/avamendoza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091019/c649b0ab/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Music for multiple pianos Fred Frith: Impur (for twenty plus pianos) (2009 version) Morton Feldman: Piece for Four Pianos (1957) Meredith Monk: Ellis Island (1981), Folkdance (1996), and Phantom Waltz (1989) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Two Pianos, K. 448(1781) Jose Maceda: Sujeichon (for four pianos) (2002) Steve Reich: Piano Phase (for two pianos) (1967) With pianists Belle Bulwinkle, Chris Brown, Robert Schwartz, Regina Schaffer, and Shani Aviram, Chris Brasseur, Drew Ceccato, David Douglas, Jason Hoopes, Seth Horvitz, Gretchen Jude, Lona Kozik, Conner Lacy, Raplh Lewis, Peter Martin, Barton McGuire, Lucy Moore, Joseph Rosenzweig, Alexis Segel, Chris Skebo, Christina Stanley, Daniel Steffey, Ben Taylor Steed Cowart, conductor Friday, October 30, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students Free to Mills students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/alumni Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College) Wheelchair accessible Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 http://musicnow.mills.edu To subscribe to email Music Newsletter contact: concerts at mills.edu Concert Line: 510 430-2296 From ava.mendoza at gmail.com Tue Oct 20 21:32:16 2009 From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:32:16 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] contact for ivy room? Message-ID: <317505170910202132w271ea521nb883ae9aede9a157@mail.gmail.com> hellos, does anyone have contact info for whoever books the ivy room? i have someone named Ken at parasomnia at gmail.com but that might be out of date, not sure. thanks, ava -- www.myspace.com/avamendoza http://www.bayimproviser.com/avamendoza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091020/45bc9042/attachment.html From steed at mills.edu Wed Oct 21 15:41:14 2009 From: steed at mills.edu (Steed Cowart) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:41:14 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Bobi Cespedes concert - November 7 - Mills College Message-ID: <65821BEB5D22934E87F75D69F3474D1D23BE937FFC@EXCHANGE02.mills.edu> The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2009-2010 Bobi Cespedes, Afro-Cuban high priestess: staying connected, passing it on! with Marco Diaz, piano Saul Sierra, bass Julio Perez, bongo and timbales Sandy Perez, conga and bata Jose Roberto Hernandez, guitar Singer, dancer, percussionist, theater director, storyteller, teacher: Gladys "Bobi" Cespedes is a force of nature. Singing in three languages?English Spanish, and Lucumi, the mother tongue of the Cuban descendants of the Yorubas of West Africa?she weaves the tales of the Orisha-deities of the Yoruba pantheon in fluid word and gesture, and illustrates the poetic, reverent vision of God and nature that is her ancestral heritage. As a priestess and Iyan Ifa in the Yoruba-Lucumi spiritual tradition, she carries, unbroken, the cord of spiritual tradition and inspiration which joins the past with the present. For over forty years, Bobi has been directly involved in the preservation and teaching of Afro-Cuban culture and traditions. She also makes and plays a variety of authentic folkloric percussion instruments, including the Chekere, a beautiful beaded calabash gourd. For more details and sample audio and video recordings, please visit: http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert5.php Saturday, November 7, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students Free to Mills students, faculty,staff, and alumnae/alumni Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College) Wheelchair accessible Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 http://musicnow.mills.edu To subscribe to email Music Newsletter contact: concerts at mills.edu Concert Line: 510 430-2296 From steed at mills.edu Wed Oct 21 15:55:33 2009 From: steed at mills.edu (Steed Cowart) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:55:33 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Mills Music Now: CCM Composers with Stephen Vitiello concert - November 13 - Mills College Message-ID: <65821BEB5D22934E87F75D69F3474D1D23BE937FFF@EXCHANGE02.mills.edu> The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2009-2010 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC COMPOSERS, with special guest STEPHEN VITIELLO Photocells, crackle boxes, metal objects, burned out light bulbs, coincidences, Bay Area Rapid Transit, polyrhythms in quadraphonic space ? brave new worlds of music and sound. For more details and sample recordings, please visit: http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert6.php Friday, November 13, 8:00 pm Littlefield Concert Hall $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students Free to Mills students, faculty,staff, and alumnae/alumni Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College) Wheelchair accessible Mills College Music Department 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 http://musicnow.mills.edu To subscribe to email Music Newsletter contact: concerts at mills.edu Concert Line: 510 430-2296 Stephen Vitiello: New and old works for photocells, guitar, field recordings and forgotten loops. Chris Brown: Poly1 (2009) "Poly1" (2009), for live computer synthesis, explores polyrhythm in quadraphonic space. It is played using new homemade software called "Ritmos", which is an interactive metronome that can play in many different tempi and meters at once. John Bischoff: Sidewalk Chatter (2009) An analog "crackle box" circuit (made by STEIM in Amsterdam) is used as a sound-making input for triggering a digital audio response via laptop computer. As a performer plays the circuit by touching exposed metal traces, a computer program analyses peak loudness and pitch contours in the analog sound and generates its own synthesized voices based in part on that information. Thanks to James Fei for "crackle box" line-out mod. Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals 7/27/09 A continuation of my fascination with the sounds of metal objects, Glassy Metals explores the sounds of tungsten filaments in burned out incandescent light bulbs, magnetic (iron oxide) tape rushing across a head stack, small ball bearings, ball chains of various sizes, sheet metal, tiny gear motors, bikes, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit which permeates the sonic landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area), freight trains, and various other metal objects. Some sounds are used in their raw state; others, such as the BART train, which now sounds like the wind, are transformed beyond recognition. Selecting only small portions of the spectrums of several sources and layering them results in new constructs with constantly fluctuating details. The ending exaggerates these perturbations, as sources emerge from the texture and fold back in as if they are fluttering insects hovering close to us briefly, then flitting away, only to return later. Although several sources are cyclic, none are precisely so, nor are they synchronous with other sources combined in the layers, so apparent synchronous relationships occur briefly, then drift apart. Glassy Metals takes its title from non-crystalline (amorphous) metallic materials. Alex Ketley & Les Stuck: Theater-Irrelevant (2009) Theater-Irrelevant is a single mixed-media work that challenges the notions of site-specificity and aims to create a new work that is modular by design and free from the confines of creating and presenting work in a formal theater space. The piece consists of a distilled movement vocabulary, deliberately chosen for its effectiveness in a diversity of situations, venues and cultural contexts. This project has been generously supported by one of six Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Choreographer Collaboration Grants. Theater-Irrelevant is also supported by Headlands Center for the Arts and the Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), as well as The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. For more information visit: www.foundryprojects.org. Conception: Alex Ketley, Les Stuck Creation: Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, Andrea Flores, Kara Davis, Les Stuck, Malinda LaVelle, Joy Prendergast James Fei & Steven Vitiello Untitled collaboration From wobbly at detritus.net Thu Oct 22 02:14:40 2009 From: wobbly at detritus.net (Jon Leidecker) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:14:40 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] wobbly shows In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <542710B0-BEEB-11DE-9802-000D9347C6BE@detritus.net> four upcoming: 1 - The Anne McGuire Show, this Sunday, October 25th San Francisco Film Society Clay Theatre, 2261 Fillmore St., San Francisco An Anne McGuire film retrospective with a special performance by Freddy McGuire & Wobbly. Twisted songbird lounge collage pan-tonality, fourteen songs equals one song in today's modern times, and there's never such a thing as a wrong note when Anne's singing description - http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=8,38,106&pageid=1311 Anne interview - http://www.sf360.org/features/anne-anne-anne-mcguire-comes-alive 2 - Jon Leidecker, collage DJ set, November 6th opening for Terry Riley late night concert Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley ($10) DJ set begins 5-ish. Terry Riley's extended solo piano piece "Pipe Dreams" begins 9pm. Bring a cushion, blanket, or sleeping bag to make yourself comfortable on the gallery floor. A limited number of chairs will be available. Sleeping and dreaming is encouraged. 3 - Jon Leidecker - 'Variations' Lecture, November 7th with screening of 'R.I.P. - A Remix Manifesto' Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia Street @ 21st, San Francisco A lecture on the development of collage & sampling music in the 20th century, originally commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and premiered there earlier this month. Presented in conjunction with my ongoing podcast series available here: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/ 4 - Wobbly / Nate Boyce & Greg Zifcak, November 12th "Our Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine" Queen's Nails Gallery, 3191 Mission Street @ Valencia, San Francisco A multiple-speaker sound sculpture installation and solo exhibition by Jacqueline Gordon. All music will be improvised live in quadraphonic sound through the sculpture. http://www.jacquelinegordon.net/ http://queensnailsprojects.com/ -http://www.detritus.net/wobbly/ From rentromus at yahoo.com Thu Oct 22 11:32:33 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] New releases and performances from Edgetone Records Fall 2009 Message-ID: <13238.67725.qm@web53702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> New releases and performances from Edgetone Records Fall 2009 http://www.edgetonerecords.com also available on over 25 download services throughout the world Emusic, Itunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Amazon and many more! This release cycle celebrates the 100th release on the Edgetone Catalog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Nunn/David Michalak, T.D. Skatchit & Company Tom Nunn - skatchbox, David Michalak ? skatchbox Guest Artists Aurora ? voice, David Slusser ? Slussomatic, Chris Brown ? electronics, Toyoji Tomita ? trombone, Jon Raskin ? bari saxophone, Leif Shaleford ? viola, Karen Stackpole ? gongs ?Primal Utterance? ? that is the nature of skatch. Articulations of shaped noise arising directly from the gut through the application of combs to cardboard and objects attached thereto. From these most humble of materials comes a new universe of sound reminiscent of wind, seashore, trees rustling, birds singing, frogs croaking, dogs barking, cats fighting, tires squealing, motors running. The skatchbox is an organic ?synthesizer? of noise, but the noise is not synthetic; it is acoustic. With the simplest gesture, comb in hand, a rich complexity of sonic articulation arises effortlessly. Yet with study and practice, variegated techniques are developed in the use of the combs, themselves shaped so as to function most efficiently. Add to this the sophisticated talent of the guest improvisers presented here and one has a truly unique music. Genre/Style: Experimental Catalog# EDT4096 http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4096.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noertker's Moxie, druidh lacunae Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone and flute, Bill Noertker - contrabass, Jenny Maybee - piano, Jason Levis - drums, Jim Peterson - alto saxophone and flute, Dave Mihaly - drums, Rob Ewing - trombone, David Beck - baritone saxophone Bill Noertker, the druidh, paints musical portraits of the natural and supernatural world ? the mysterious beauty of the giraffe; the funky gait of the white elephant; the fantastic denizens of Frida Kahlo's bath; a flower blooming in the snow in the High Tatras; the proud yet clumsy birds of Athens; the tragedy of the Nevada desert. These portraits have intentional lacunae, blank spaces or missing parts, that are filled by the impressionistic and expressionistic musings of the inspired musicians of Noertker's Moxie. In the last decade, Bill Noertker has composed over 150 original pieces of music for jazz ensemble. His compositions point to the continuity between the jazz tradition and the avant-garde. His use of group improvisation and his attention to the individual voices of each of his band mates call forth the human element so sorely missing from much of today?s jazz. Genre/Style: Avant-Garde Jazz Catalog# EDT4095 http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4095.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, XV (The First Fifteen Years 1994-2009) (limited edition 2-CD set) Rent Romus - alto, soprano, and C-melody saxophones, voice, electronics, CJ Borosque- no-input pedals, trumpet, Ray Schaeffer - 6-string electric bass, Philip Everett - drums, autoharp, electronics The Lords of Outland is a rotating collective of ensemble members under the direction of saxophonist and producer Rent Romus. Throughout the Lords' fifteen year history in the spirit of free form experimentation its core roster has changed numerous times featuring guests John Tchicai, James Zitro, Kash Killion, and many others. The group currently features CJ Borosque no-input pedals and trumpet, Philip Everett drums, percussion and electronics, and Ray Schaeffer electric basses, lead by Rent Romus on alto, soprano, C-melody saxophones, voice, and electronics. Contained in XV are live public recordings covering a wide range of original jazz and improvisations many of which have never been released from 1994-2008 and, on disc two a new full length project recorded in 2009. Genre/Style: Avant-Garde Jazz Catalog# EDT4094 http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4094.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Go-Go Fightmaster, Sound 1 Edgetone is proud to present the 100th catalog release with Go?Go Fightmaster! Aaron Bennett - saxes and straw, John Finkbeiner - guitar and straw, Lisa Mezzacappa - contrabass, Vijay Anderson - drums Go-Go Fightmaster is music that seeks only to be music and relevant in this era of violent expansionism and blatant disregard for the declining state of the planet. Go-Go Fightmaster does not seek to be the most modern, historical, punk/jazz/disco/dark/light /cool/whatever shocking, comforting, Spiritual, secular, or Avant-garde. Go-Go Fightmaster are lovers, not fighters and we do not engage in the form of dancing known as "Go-Go". Go-Go Fightmaster does not like cheese (except on crackers). Go-Go Fightmaster is the ideal band for your corporate event. Go-Go Fightmaster loves you. Genre/Style: Avant-Garde Jazz Catalog# EDT4093 http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4093.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eddie the Rat, Food for the Moon Too Soon Peter J. Martin - (aka Pete Rat): conductor, lead vocals, sermonizing, piano, moog, guitar, birdcage, magazine rack, assorted odds 'n ends, Ronnie Camaro - electric bass, sparklers, Bill O' Mahony - electric guitar, Jesse Hix - contrabass, xylophone, jews harp, Warren Huegel - percussion, wine glasses, Brandon Foust - percussion, wine glasses Heather Bradley - lead vocals, Molly Tascone - vocals, Floyd Labar - vocals, Jeanette Labar - vocals, Dione Ardania- vocals, Vonn Scott Bair - vocals Eddie the Rat is the pseudonym for composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter J. Martin (aka Pete Rat) and the musical group who execute his compositions. Martin calls his music "head music for your feet." Inspired by everything from Indonesian gamelan, American music styles (Jazz, Blues, rock), and modern orchestral music, Eddie the Rat tries to bridge the gap between ritual, roots, and concert music. "Food for the Moon Too Soon" was the first CD to document Martin's journey from a solo electro-acoustic artist to the leader of a large performing group. Recorded live in 2001 at Artist's Television Access in San Francisco, the performance showcases a 12-piece ensemble in a nine-track song-cycle about death, consciousness, and insanity which masquerades as normality. The piece uses composed cyclical patterns which are conducted by Martin in an on-the-fly cut & paste performance. Genre/Style: Experimental Catalog# EDT4090 http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4090.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------- And! Coming in january 2010 Matt Davignon, Stein/Rosaly duo, Thollem Mcdonas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Upcoming Edgetone Artist Gigs Fall 2009 October 29 CD release sets from RENT ROMUS LORDS OF OUTLAND, EDDIE THE RAT Outsound Presents LSG New Music Series 1007 Market St. @ 6th San Francisco, CA 8pm $6-10 also with Headboggle November 1 NOERTKER'S MOXIE CD Release show for druidh lacunae Outsound Presents SIMM SERIES Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St. @ Mission San Francisco, CA 7:30 pm also with Reconnaissance Fly November 2 THOLLEM MCDONAS Mills College Ensemble Room Oakland, CA 7:30pm Free November 5 THOLLEM MCDONAS San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art Phyllis Wattis Theater 151 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 7pm w/ Martha Colburn and John Dieterich (Deerhoof) November 10 THOLLEM MCDONAS Festival Internacional de Puebla Puebla, Mexico With EstamosEnsemble November 12 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO Outsound Presents LSG New Music Series 1007 Market St. @ 6th San Francisco, CA 8pm $6-10 also with Mem1 November 12 THOLLEM MCDONAS San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art Phyllis Wattis Theater 151 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 7pm w/ Martha Colburn, John Dieterich, Jad Fair, Mike Evans November 16 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/Martha Colburn Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 7pm November 16 RENT ROMUS LORDS OF OUTLAND Ivy Room improv/experimental hootenanny & social club 860 San Pablo Ave Albany, CA 8pm November 20 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/BitahkizAyeli City Center New York, NY by invitation November 20 TOM NUNN/DAVID MICHALAK CD Release performance for T.D. Scatchit & Company SF Community Music Center 544 Capp St. @ 20th San Francisco, CA 8pm $15/$10 also with Aurora, and more TBA November 27-29 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/Germaul Barnes Sound/Movement workshop Gap, France November 28 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/BitahkizAyeli Centre Municipal Culture et Loisirs Gap, France December 1 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/Stefano Scodanibbio Syncronie Festival Milano Milano, Italy December 2 THOLLEM MCDONAS Jam Station Ravenna, Italy December 4 THOLLEM MCDONAS Terminal Macerata, Italy December 6 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/Nicola Guazzaloca ScuolaPopolareDiMusicaIvanIllich Bologna, Italy December 8 GO-GO FIGHTMASTER CD Release show for Sound 1 The Uptown 1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 7:30 pm December 9-20 THOLLEM MCDONAS w/Tzigoti (Waristerror Terroriswar) On tour in Italy - more information TBA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edgetone is an artist run label dedicated to a symbiotic relationship between artist and company by releasing music by musicians who are "self-producers", with a mind for business. Musicians who do not want to compromise their music to fit into a narrow definition of "commercially viable" and those that double their efforts to support their ideas and dreams define what Edgetone is all about. When you buy from Edgetone you are directly supporting the artist. Rent Romus, Edgetone Records From bischoff at mills.edu Fri Oct 23 10:21:18 2009 From: bischoff at mills.edu (John Bischoff) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:21:18 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] Bischoff, Atchley, and Colley @ Mindgaze Hut this Saturday Message-ID: Kenneth Atchley John Bischoff Joe Colley Interleaved solo works by Atchley and Bischoff plus a newly-fashioned duo entitled "Bell Field," and concluding with a solo set by the inimitable Mr. Colley. Saturday, October 24th 8 pm Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut 671 24th Street Apt B OAKLAND -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All sessions 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. < First Fridays: Monthly at OPCM [Oakland Public Conservatory of Music] FREE-JAZZ, FREE-IMPROV OPEN STAGE & OPEN MIC! Friday, November 6, 2009 Open to all musicians who embrace the sounds and spirit of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Cage, India Cooke, Roscoe Mitchell, Pharoah Sanders, Eddie Gale, Albert Ayler, Elvin Jones and so many others. Open also to vocalists, dancers, artists, photographers, poets, and others who want to join in/with the music. All sessions 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. < > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091026/57e05aa9/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OPCM latest improv flyer Nov. 09 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 40448 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091026/57e05aa9/attachment.obj From rentromus at yahoo.com Mon Oct 26 14:22:51 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] LSG New Music Series 10/29/09, SF Message-ID: <62475.90867.qm@web53711.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outsound & Luggage Store Present The New Music Series The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. at 6th St San Francisco, California USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outsound Presents Thursday October 29 8:00pmLords of Outland - XV CD release set 8:45pmHeadboggle 9:20pmEddie the Rat - Food for the Moon too soon re-release and Out Behind the 8-ball release set Eddie the Rat are a cast of musicians under the direction of composer, Pete Martin. They have been performing since the year 2000. Eddie the Rat music is "experimental" and "avant-garde" as it calls your head to see who is home. It is "roots music" as it drills your heart for sincerity and simplicity. It is ritual music as it invites your feet to dance and for you to be in your body. All at the same time. It's All Part Of The Ongoing Construct. The set will feature a sextet consisting of myself, Molly Tascone, Ronnie Camaro, Dan AKe, Ed Daranciang, and Perrish Headboggle is a self described "culmination of diverging unsound musical and accidental pursuits by one Derek Gedalecia." He studied Classical and Ragtime piano under noted Ragtime Revivalist Dr. Brian Dykstra. Influences may/not include "Bartok, Scott Joplin, and Morton Subotnick, Eno's Oblique Strategies, Andy Kaufman, and John Cage. Tonight: Head Boggle Acoustics in Auralsize (XV The First Fifteen Years 1994-2009) Rent Romus' Lords of Outland : broke from its 'straight-ahead' straight jacket in 1994 and through a series of transmogrification morphed into what you can hear today. Currently Culture of Pain and You Can Sleep When You're Dead! and The Pit are recorded results of this alchemy. The 'Lords' feature Rent Romus on saxophones/electronics and a current line-up of sonically disturbed sound artists such as CJ Borosque no-input pedals/trumpet, Philip Everett drums/percussion, and Ray Schaeffer electric-bass. Throughout the Lords' fifteen year history in the spirit of free form experimentation its core roster has changed numerous times featuring guests John Tchicai, James Zitro, Kash Killion, and many others. Contained in XV are live public recordings many of which have never been released on disc one from 1994-2008 and, on disc two a new full length project recorded in 2009. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outsound Presents is a on-profit volunteer collective organization 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: outsoundorg 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 and Market. Parking is best on Mission between 6th and 7th Sts. for more info visit http://www.outsound.org/ http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hylaster at gmail.com Mon Oct 26 21:05:44 2009 From: hylaster at gmail.com (chuck j) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:05:44 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] HALLOWEEN SHOW - Van Wissem, Haynes, Fei+Chuck duo, Kowalski at the Mindgaze Hut Message-ID: Join us for an intimate Halloween house concert at the Mindgaze Hut. This show will start at 8:00, so there will be plenty of time to make it to the parties. Costumes are encouraged. Creepy candlelit vibe will be provided. Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings made at airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and late Renaissance music. http://www.myspace.com/vanwissem Jim Haynes - http://www.onlandfestival.com/?page_id Analog electronics/feedback duo of James Fei and Chuck Johnson - http://www.jamesfei.com, http://www.cirrusoxide.com Gregg Kowalski - http://www.greggkowalsky.net/ $7-10 suggested donation. 671B 24th St Oakland, CA 94612 Best, chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091026/8ff90bb8/attachment.html From rentromus at yahoo.com Fri Oct 30 13:09:37 2009 From: rentromus at yahoo.com (Rent Romus) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NewMusicEvents] SIMM Series 11/1/09, SF Message-ID: <391705.99997.qm@web53704.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ---------------------------------------------------------- OUTSOUND Presents... SIMM New Music Series 116 9th St. at Mission, San Francisco 7:30 PM, donation $10 general $8 stu/sen kids under 12 free http://www.outsound.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Sunday November 1, 2009 7:30pm 7:30 PM Reconnaissance Fly presents movements from their long-form "spong cycle" entitled Flower Futures 8:30 PM Noertker's Moxie celebrates the release of their new CD, druidh lacunae Reconnaissance Fly presents movements from their long-form "spong cycle" entitled Flower Futures Polly Moller, Scorpio (and flute/bass flute/voice) Amar Chaudhary, Pisces (and electronics) Bill Wolter, Sagittarius (and guitar) Bill Noertker, the druidh, paints musical portraits of the natural and supernatural world - the mysterious beauty of the giraffe; the funky gait of the white elephant; the fantastic denizens of Frida Kahlo's bath; a flower blooming in the snow in the High Tatras; the proud yet clumsy birds of Athens; the tragedy of the Nevada desert. These portraits have intentional lacunae, blank spaces or missing parts, that are filled by the impressionistic and expressionistic musings of the inspired musicians of Noertker's Moxie. In the last decade, Bill Noertker has composed over 150 original pieces of music for jazz ensemble. His compositions point to the continuity between the jazz tradition and the avant-garde. His use of group improvisation and his attention to the individual voices of each of his band mates call forth the human element so sorely missing from much of today's jazz. Special release party price: CD plus admission $15 REMEMBER TO FALL BACK for daylight savings!!! ---------------------------------------------------------- Outsound Presents is a non-profit volunteer collective THE MUSICIANS 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/ From matt at sfsound.org Fri Oct 30 16:15:34 2009 From: matt at sfsound.org (matt) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:15:34 -0700 Subject: [NewMusicEvents] helloween show Message-ID: <702AB2BD-98ED-4DAD-A2B8-B6B06BFF43A0@sfsound.org> HELLOWEEN SAT OCT 31 ELECTRONIC PARLOR TRICK presents HELLBOUND Emigrate To The First Church ofthe Buzzard and Sell Yer Soul for the Promise of Strife, Agony, and the Pursuit of Shame!! A Mere $5 and a Helluvalotta Bureaucracy Gets Yer Tarred Soul into See:: ZEEK SHECK (w/ special guests carrie barclay, sarah lockhart, anti- ear, + m@) OMNIVOROUS SINSILLIUM SHARKIFACE ORHIMA +++++ INTERNATIONAL FREAKOUT A GOGO DJ'S <<>>BRACK ATTACK>>>BOBBY GANUSH>> ....@ THE FIRST CHURCH ofthe BUZZARD 2601 Adeline(enter on 26th st.) Oakland 9PM ..........$5.00 m@ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20091030/673bf8bd/attachment.html