Thursday, Dec 5 2013 8:00 PM
Next Now Guest Curation
Cartoon Justice, The Pascucci-Oppenheim Duo, Cloud Shepherd
Cartoon Justice performs live improvised accompaniments for three short kinetic video sculptures. They are an electro-acoustic collective improv ensemble characterized by their use of sparse and diverse musical grammars modulated by the tensions between a primal human emotive performance dynamic and a systems theoretic derived dynamical process structure. Current Members: Mika
Pontecorvo – flutes, voice, guitar, electronics, percussion. Kersti Abrams – Alto Sax, North-African Double Reeds, Flute. Greg Baker – Clarinet, electronics, percussion. Scott Benoit – Electric Cello. Nick Shalima - Drums. Elijah Pontecorvo – Electric Bass.
The Pascucci-Oppenheim is an improvising duo of cello and electronics. Their music explores a large range of timbre, with development of large, asymmetrical rhythmic structures. Both members compose and perform regularly. Oppenheim’s recent work has focused on laptop-based improvised music and developing a performance practice for group electronic/acoustic free improvisation. He’s is a member of several bay-area improvising ensembles including Architect/Enchantress, the Joshua Marshall Quintet, and the Andrew
Weathers Ensemble. Crystal is a performer with the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Lisa Mezzacappa’s String Band, Opera Wolf and performs with Aaron Bennett’s Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra, and the Oakland Active Orchestra.
Cloud Shepherd is freely improvising quartet whose music emerges from drone, dark-ambient, and ritualistic sources; they have performed recently at the Meridian Gallery (SF), the Jazz School (Berkeley), Berkeley Arts, and the Musicians Union Hall (SF). Cloud Shepherd is: Andrew Joron – theremin. Brian Lucas - electric bass and pedals, Joseph Noble – reeds, Mark Pino – drums
Thursday, Dec 12 2013 8:00 PM
8:15 pm Jack Hertz
8:50 pm Roro (Amsterdam)
9:30 pm Ti Femme (Amsterdam)
Jack Hertz works with real and artificial sounds to create intangible techno-organic impressions between music and noise. Jack has worked with many artists over the 30 years he has been playing. He has released more than 35 albums on netlabels around the world and receives regular air play on many radio stations.
Roro is a drummer who experiments with free percussion sounds. Besides playing in improv group Dagora he plays with different musicians and solo. Roro tries to find the energy of space and participants while remaining open to the environment and acoustics. lately roro has been lucky enough to have been making sonic waves of liberty with gems like: Anne la Berge, Peter Quistgard, Jaap Blonk, James Harrar, Yedo Gibson, Marshall Allen (of the sun ra arkastra), Dagora, Ti Femme, Dylan Carlson (of earth), Eugene Chadbourne, Geoff Leigh (of the henry cow), Peter Zincken, Frankie Vis, Ludo Mich, City Hands, Raoul van der Weide, Sunburned hand of the man, Eric Thielemans, Mik Quantius, John Moloney (of thurston moore’s new band), Cathy Heyden, Daevid Allen (of gong/soft machine), Alfredo Genovesi, Arvind Ganga, and many more…..
Ti Femme a the solo project. Rituals in voice, harmonica, tape, found sounds, accordion, keyboards, and fx. Storytelling from the in between places through chant and repetition.
Ti Femme has toured and collaborated with Amsterdam noise/jazz improvisers Dagora and berlin based musician Wouter Jaspers, and has toured throughout europe.
Thursday, Dec 19 2013 8:00 PM
8pm Joshua Marshall - solo tenor saxophone
9pm Dave DeFilippo - algorithm and gesture improvised computer music
Joshua Marshall is a performer, composer, and improviser living inOakland, CA. His work involves abstract narrativity in musical form, systematic extensions of improvisatory practice, advanced studies in saxophone technique, and interactive performance with digital media. He has studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, Butch Rovan, I.M. Harjito, and Steve Adams of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. In addition to performing solo saxophone sets, Joshua has played with Opera Wolf, Ikue Mori, Poles of Interest, the Andrew Weathers Ensemble, Modest Machine, and MDK. His playing has been featured in festivals and conferences nationwide, including Providence Pixilerations events and the 2010 International Computer Music Conference. Joshua graduated from Brown University, earning a B.A. through the nationally renowned MEME program, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Music at Mills College.
<a href=”http://davedefilippo.bandcamp.com/album/spin-control”>spin control by dave defilippo</a>
Dave DeFilippo’s project makes use of software and touch sensitive controllers to compose thoughts both somatic and not, about ‘the gesture’ and its double, ‘the program.’ Gestures, as blocks of sensation formed by aesthetic practices, function as quasi-conversational periodic structures that make music convincing, convincing because they reference a body that acted. Programs in many cases, like the presets and audio units in Ableton Live, territorialise and transform what were body motions into models for efficiencies of sonic production and reproduction. Idealized and most times homogenized messages containing specific-affective instructions about how to be in body encapsulate as industrial standards, returning as radio-songs and returning as things becoming more and more similar to technology- ourselves. The hope is to momentarily dislodge this great event of feedback we find ourselves in, by playing a synth/system that relies on loops of feedback and self-analysis to re-stabilize itself after being pressed to perform by gestures.
Thursday, Dec 26 2013 8:00 PM
8pm Slither Syndicate with Wolfgang Chan/Andre Custodio
9pm TBA