Thursdays 8-10pm
Admission $6-10 sliding scale
All ages welcome, no one refused for lack of funds.
Thursday, June 5 2014 8:00 PM
8:15 pm ryan p. jobes
8:45 pm SkullKrusher
9:15 pm Instagon mixer set
ryan p. jobes is a sound artist currently living in Oakland, CA. Ryan’s compositions engage disparate sound worlds through alternate tuning systems, sound sculpture, gamelan, noise, and transcendent folk music.
Skullkrusher is Philip Everett creating dark explosive improvised soundscapes and noise loop sculptures with analog and digitally processed electro-acoustic 36 string lap harp, xlarinet, brass snare drum and Gong.
Instagon is an invoked musical entity that is called upon by the deamon rider Lob and whomever he has asked to undertake this task with him for the current excursion.. have no doubt, this is a magickal invokation ritual to bring forth the deamon of jam and garage jazz itself…Instagon…and it happens with or without the knowledge of the players involved, only the deamon rider, Lob, has the reins of this sonic creature and he alone guides it to be his servitor.
Thursday, June 12 2014 8:00 PM
8pm Jaroba/Kevin duo
Percussion, home built instruments, soprano sax and bass clarinet
9pm Ritwik Banerji/Joel Wanek - bass
The Jaroba/Kevin duo pursues sound which reference various histories of adventurous music as well as the sounds of objects and energies in everyday environments. Beginning between Davis and Sacramento, Jaroba and Kevin played music in an apartment. They both moved to San Francisco and now play music in a garage and occasionally for other ears in various public settings. They play improvised music on instruments to blow and spit into and instruments to hit and scrape.
Ritwik Banerji is an improvising saxophonist and designer/mentor/student of Maxine, an autonomous software-based musical agent. He is currently a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley in ethnomusicology. His research interests focus on the development of artificial improvising agents which would “pass for” human improvisers of post-jazz styles. In this project, Maxine serves as co-ethnographer, allowing for the explicitation of an improviser’s values, expectations, and aesthetics of real-time musical interaction. Maxine appeared in early 2009 as a being, deeply inspired by Banerji’s work with children in Chicago. Like one would hope of a child, this project focuses on the creation of a social agent, finding ways through sound to make its presence known, while respecting and enhancing the presence of others. Recently this project has more strongly engaged the issue of astromusicology, or the real-time musical diplomacy between human sound makers and the spectral bodies of Maxine.
Thursday, June 19 2014 8:00 PM
8pm David Katz - solo voice
9pm Doug Carroll - solo cello/found sound
International cellist and composer, Doug Carroll expands into new sound domains with the use of electronic processing and creative thought. Carroll’s compositions for electronic cello and tape feature the spontaneity and drama of a live performance combined with the richness and diversity of the taped material. His solo improvisations have received international acclaim for their stark originality and musical sensitivity. Additionally, he has composed for a variety of multimedia events, including modern dance, theatre, film, and video, as well as collaborations with visual artists. He studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lou Harrison, and Anthony Braxton. He has an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College and a BA in Music from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Other studies include the Darmstadt International Course for New Music and the Royal Conservatory at the Hauge, Netherlands.
Thursday, June 26 2014 8:00 PM
8pm Wei Zhongle (Chicago)
experimental/nu trance
Rob Jacobs - Vocals, guitar, John McCowen - Clarinet, Sam Klickner - Drums
9pm Christopher Luna Ensemble
Nava Dunkelman, percussion, Jacob Pek, guitar, Aprille Tang, electronics, Jeniffer Wilsey, percussion, Christopher Luna, keyboard/conduction, Rachel Condry, clarinet
The music included in this cycle originated from a collection of sounds that were recorded in different locations (the city, a studio, the woods, etc.). The process of transcription and analysis of these sounds brought awareness of the way in which their harmony, rhythm, density, dynamics and timbre relate to each other. In the process of translation from field recording to instrumental music there is a transformation that occurs due to notation, acoustics, and esthetics. Our objective is to bring these sounds to music (are they music already?), sometimes as faithfully as possible, other times using them as starting points for improvisational and compositional development, establishing a direct connection to their original form. We imagine this transformation as transmigration (in sanscrit, Jatyantara-parinamah): the characteristic traits of a sound are detached from their source and born into a new form (the composition, the musician and the instrument), adding to it a new layer of existence and at the same time keeping the essence of its previous source.