NEW MUSIC SERIES

THE LUGGAGE STORE, 8PM

$6-10 SLIDING SCALE

NO ONE REFUSED FOR LACK OF FUNDS

EVERY THURSDAY

Thursday, Sep 14 2006 8:00 PM

Set1: Satellite
Steini Gunnarson - guitar/laptop
Liz Meredith - viola/electronics
Travis Johns - bass/laptop

Set2: Leif Shackelford - viola/electronics/video

Set3: French guitarist David Fenech

Five Facts about Satellite:
* Oakland-based trio consisting of Liz Meredith, Steini Gunnarsson and Travis Johns.
* Generally characterized by quiet improvisations and an extensive, yet subtle integration of electronics into their performances.
* Formed in early 2006 at Mills College.
* Each member plays a string instrument of some sort. Just not in the way you would expect them to play it.
* All originally hail from at least three time zones east of here.


Five Facts about Leif Shackelford:
* Originally from St. Paul, Mn. recently transplanted to SF.
* Performs on various combinations of viola, electronics and video.
* Also has been known to perform on other instruments such as junkyard percussion and electric tailpipes.
* Graduate from the Oberlin Conservatory’s TIMARA Program.
* Frequent collaborator and member of the Shinkoyo Collective (www.shinkoyo.com)

David Fenech has been an active composer, performer, and improviser for over ten years in france. His works include acoustic, electronic, tape, and digital media, including sound installations and film scores. As a soloist, david fenech plays guitar and ukulele as well as small instruments like toy piano and xylophone.
Born in july 1969 (at the same time men were walking on the moon), david received a guitar for his 10th birthday and never ceased making music since then.
After creating the musical collective peu importe in grenoble in 1991 (free improvisation and songs - many gigs in Europe) his music has shifted to more personal and strange areas, mainly using voice as an instrument.

Thursday, Sep 21 2006 8:00 PM

8pm Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel
Steini Gunnarson - guitar/laptop, Aram Shelton - sax/laptop
9pm rev.99 (NYC)
99 Hooker's multi-media collective based in New York City will be screening and performing recent work with local luminaries and memebers from NYC.

The duo of Steini Gunnarson and Aram Shelton. Steini from Iceland playing guitar and processing via Pd, Aram from Florida by way of Chicago playing wind instruments and processing via MSP. Their music is improvised and balances between the acoustic realm and the electronic, the electronics tend to blur the line of what is acoustic and what is not. An exploration of the mix between warm and cold climates.

Thursday, Sep 28 2006 8:00 PM

8pm: Quiet American (Aaron Ximm)
9pm: Alessandro Bosetti

Sound artist Aaron Ximm works with field recordings. Since 1998, his Quiet American project has focused on constructing new soundscapes from the recordings he collects during travel. His work emphasizes the fragile, the subtle, the intimate, and the lovely.

Composer, saxophonist and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. His work explores the relationship between sound anthropology and composition, focusing on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, with field research and interviews often creating the basis for his abstract compositions. Bosetti's productions have been featured in live performances, on radio broadcasts and on experimental label recordings. As a saxophonist, he has developed an original instrumental language that incorporates extended techniques and noises, and is strongly influenced by electronic music. Bosetti has performed all over Europe and in the USA and Japan. He lives and works in Berlin.
Here's an interview about his new work "African Feedback"
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/behind_scenes_africanfeedback.asp

Thursday, Oct 5 2006 8:00 PM

8pm Pushing Air
live looping solo acapella with Diana Thompson
9pm Oluyemi Thomas solo

Pushing Air is a San Francisco-based, solo vocal, live-looping project blending high-diva vocals, jazz-based improvisation, beatboxing and extended vocal technique. Conservatory-trained and bebop-schooled vocalist Diana Thompson writes and performs all parts, from vocalizing drums and bass to singing lead vocals and harmonies. Borrowing techniques from scat singing and extended vocal technique, Diana uses non-English words and syllables to focus keenly on groove-making.
As a founding member of the experimental voice and electronics ensemble Rex Brulée, Diana worked heavily in improvisation, rhythm and extended vocal technique. She also began exploring the creative possibilities of working purely with voice and technology.
Using digital looping, Diana sings each part and layers them together live on stage. Each performance is mixed with transitions between songs, emulating the continuous flow of a DJ/Producer set.

Thursday, Oct 12 2006 8:00 PM

Jason Robinson (San Diego) & Michael Dessen (San Diego)
plus guests

A night of collaborative sonic association

Thursday, Oct 19 2006 8:00 PM

Y2k6 live looping festival - San Francisco night

Artists tbd

Thursday, Oct 26 2006 8:00 PM

Duck & Cover - an evening of radical reinterpretations of popular songs. A co-presentation with 21 Grand.

Thursday, Nov 2 2006 8:00 PM

8pm The Flip Quartet is a composition by Polly Moller which will be brought to life by Suki OKane, Lucio Menegon, Theresa Wong, and Moe! Staiano. The four improvisers will explore the four cardinal directions (north/east/south/west) and their medieval elemental correspondences (earth/air/fire/water) using objects, instruments, and text.

9pm Tom Heasley solo tuba/electronics

Thursday, Nov 9 2006 8:00 PM

SURGE & CONVERGE I:
ELISE BALDWIN
CLAY CHAPLIN
MILTON CROSS
KADET KUHNE

Two artists from Los Angeles and two artists from San Francisco
come together for an evening of improvisation, performing both
solo and collaborative sets in a continuous current of sonic banter.
Curated by Kadet.

Elise Baldwin:
Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco, 
where she recently completed her MFA in Electronic Music at Mills 
College. When not indulging her interest in pyrokenesis or reading 
compulsively in the bath, E can be found cooking up aurally hazardous 
byproducts in her studio or building software instruments for video 
manipulation. She has spent much of the past decade as a sound designer 
and recording engineer, as well as composing for theater, film, live 
performance, and audio installations. Active in the Bay Area 
experimental music scene, she focuses on solo and collaborative 
intermedia performance, appearing recently at the ARTSfest 2004, E.S.P. 
Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival 2003 and the National Queer Arts 
Festival. She is a Harvestworks Artist in Residence for 2006 and 
recipient of the 2004 Frogs Peak Award for Experimental Music. 
(clattertrap.com)

Clay Chaplin:
Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser and video artist from Los 
Angeles who explores audio visual improvisation with computer 
instruments and networked systems. He uses computers and custom 
electronics as musical and visual instruments which can of capture, 
process, play back, or generate sounds and images in real-time. Clay is 
continuing development of his wireless, interactive instrument named 
'Stupid Thing' which, through a connection with the body provides 
mobility and physicality to his performances. During his career, Clay 
has worked on many projects involving experimental music, video, dance, 
computers, and related technology. His works have been performed 
internationally including performances at the Los Angeles County Museum 
of Art, the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, the Lincoln 
Center Out-of-Doors Festival, the Sonic Circuits Festivals, the Piano 
Spheres concert series, the Santa Fe Electronic Music Festival, UCSB's 
Cultural Turn Conference, UCSD's Time-Forms Media Festival, the 
Ex-Static Concerts in Sydney, the Korean Electro-Acoustic Society 
concerts in Seoul, the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists in 
Toronto, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, the International 
Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong, the Baltimore Composers Forum 
concerts, the CEAIT Electronic Music Festivals, and the Electronic 
Music Threshold concerts. Clay is currently the Director of the 
Computer Music and Experimental Media studios at the CalArts School of 
Music where he teaches composition, audio recording, and digital video. 
(music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin/)

Milton Cross:
Milton Cross (who also goes by Tony) has been playing the violin since 
the age of 4. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Curtis 
Institute, and the Aspen Music School. He has performed, recorded 
and/or toured with Tarentel, No Name Trio, Laughingstock, Dielectric 
Drone All-Stars, John Vanderslice, Alfred, and many others. Milton has 
composed and performed soundtracks for several films, including Frozen 
Angels (Sundance, 2005, with co-composer and longtime co-conspirator 
Zoe Keating), Oregon (South by Southwest, Seattle International, 
Odense, Berlin, Taos Talking Pictures, and Sci-Fi Channel), Uncovering 
Glen Canyon (Taos Mountain, Flagstaff, Durango and Santa Fe Film 
Festivals) and Alfred (Cannes, 1999 and ResFest, 1998).
Other activities include field recording (he has presented work at the 
Field Effects series in San Francisco), writing (published a few times 
in McSweeney's Internet Tendency), and working as a Soundscape Monitor 
in Muir Woods. Milton lives in San Francisco but grew up in New York 
and Michigan. He has twice completed the swim from Alcatraz to San 
Francisco. (miltoncross.com)

Kadet Kuhne:
Kadet Kuhne is a media artist based out of Los Angeles whose work 
includes music composition, filmmaking and installation. Kadet’s fever 
for combining audio and video began over a decade ago when she started 
shooting and soundtracking underground films. Kadet has two solo CD 
releases, Seismic and Thin Air, and is featured on numerous 
compilations including Women Take Back The Noise and MONO:POLY. As an 
award-winning filmmaker, she has nine film and video shorts that are 
screened worldwide, and designs interactive, audiovisual installations 
for galleries and museums. Past exhibitions and performances include 
the Museum of Art Lucerne, LACMA, Musees de Strasbourg, MOCA -LA, San 
Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, REDCAT. The LAB, The Weisman Art 
Museum, The CEAIT Festival, Highways Performance Gallery, New York 
Underground Film Festival and The Knitting Factory. Since graduating 
with an MFA in Music Composition & Integrated Media at CalArts, Kadet 
has moved into teaching at UCSD and owns a Post-Production Sound 
studio, Audible Shift, where she designs and mixes for cinema, 
commercials, video games and music releases. (tektonicshift.com)

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Thursday, Nov 16 2006 8:00 PM

8pm Wade Matthews solo
9pm Wade Matthews plus guests tba

American improviser, composer and author, Wade Matthews, has been living in Madrid, Spain, since 1989. Besides his solo concerts, he performs in duo with Toulouse-based dancer Valérie Métivier and with Norwegian percussionist, Ingar Zach, as well as one-offs with innumerable improvisers in concerts and festivals throughout the world (New York, Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Montevideo, Los Angeles, Oslo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Toulouse, etc.). Recent activities include two performances at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Annual Festival of the International Society for Computer Music, and at the Reina Sofía Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid.

Electronic music influences all of his work, including his purely acoustic use of woodwinds, which he approaches as acoustic synthesizers, emphasizing the nature of sound as matter unto itself rather than as simply material from which to generate phrases. He is especially interested in the permeability of sound and sonic discourse to its surroundings and has extensively explored numerous aspects of site-specific improvisation, both musically and in his essays. His electronic work is generated purely through the use of synthesis, with no recourse to sampling, a decision based not so much on aesthetic criteria as on a particular sense of how he wants musical process to interface with instrumental praxis.


Matthews earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in New York, where he studied composition and electronic music with Mario Davidovsky, writing his dissertation on improvisation guided by electronic sounds. Previous studies include woodwinds with Joe Allard at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 2003 he received a commission from the French Government (Commande d'Etat) to create a work exploring the possible relations between acoustic instruments and various techniques of phonography. The work, titled Lieux, was premiered at the festival Rencontres de Musique et Quotidien Sonor in southern France in May, 2004.

Thursday, Nov 23 2006 8:00 PM

Today, the Luggage Store Gallery brings a cornocopia of extreme lowercase music directly to your home. (No need to go the gallery.) Tonight's performers resemble meat, beets (without manifestos), cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and an unexplicable quartet of green beans/marshmallows/black olives/cheddar cheese.

Audience participation is required. Place your ear in the turkey. (Wash your ear first, for sanitation.) Slurp at the cranberry sauce and marvel at the organic slurping sounds. Carve a graphical score in the mashed potatoes. This means something.

Thursday, Nov 30 2006 8:00 PM

9pm - darph/nadeR

darph/nadeR (or d/n) began as a side project in 1999, when Jared Butler and myself (Cory Thrall) decided to join forces as a duo. originally calling ourselves 'cosmonaut', we started by making songs on an old Mac using the program Sound Edit 16 (this was one of a very few releases done on computer - after this album our focus shifted to live instruments - synth, guitar, percussion, bass, as well as field recordings, voice, a little computer stuff here and there, drum machine, samples, more.......). after completing a whole album of songs made with SE 16 (1999's "...and now, a word from our sponsors..."), it was shelved and never released, due mostly to lack of funds (a handful of CDr copies of this album were actually made, without cover art, and given to a few friends). in mid 1999, we decided that there were too many other projects called 'comsonaut' (duh!), so we searched for a new name. after watching "Hardware Wars" (a late 70's "Star Wars" parody) for the millionth time, we finally found one. the character Darph Nader, the unintelligible "naughty person" and parody of Darth Vader, hit home with both of us instantly - here was a character whose communication was completely distorted and not understood. we thought back to how our music was being received by people, our friends, all who heard it and our other noise project, the noise rock band 'drinking coffee from counselor troi's head' - they couldn't understand it, or it just "wasn't their thing". we began to really relate to this character made completely out of farce, a point not to miss when thinking of d/n's early works and attitude. so, the name of our project was changed to 'darph/nadeR' (the additives are there just for the way it looks when typed out, the shape of the word all together), and this change was made final with the recording of our first released album, 1999's "A: Stereo Tape System Vol. One", which was the first release on our record label we had just started (samsa records), and was a one-sided c90 limited to 12 copies. these were all given out to friends for free. the end of 1999 brought about our 2nd release, the one-sided c90 "this should be our space one", which was also released by samsa, but to a run of 8 copies that were also distributed among friends for no cost. "this should be..." was the first d/n release to have a guest star in the line-up - Diana Morales, who would later become the most active d/n guest, having recorded the most music with us than anyone else. on December 31st, 1999 we played our first live set as d/n at a New Years party. "it sounds like some kind of destruction", the host had said.....
now firmly planted in 2006, we have come "full circle" in a way with the release of "galaxy" (our 4th Infinite Sector album, with a physical CDr release - featuring a 13 minute 'bonus song' - coming from Krakilsk), which is a return to earlier sounds mixed with the ideas of the past few years, and with some new ones added in. we feel we have learned a lot over the years, especially about what we're capable of, and we feel secure with our sound now, free to do as we please. and, we're still learning.

Thursday, Dec 7 2006 8:00 PM

Featured artists from:
The WOMEN TAKE BACK THE NOISE compilation

Thursday, Dec 14 2006 8:00 PM

8pm: Thea Farhadian - electronics
9pm: Eddie The Rat, CD Release performance "Once Around The Butterfly Bush"

Eddie the Rat began in 2000 as an avant- (something) group led by composer/multi-instrumentalist, Peter J. Martin. Beginning as a one-man electro-acoustic experiment, Eddie the Rat evolved into an ensemble of up to 15 musicians. The current quartet has been performing actively for the last year and a half.
Eddie the Rat creates what they call "head music for your feet." Inspired by Indonesian gamelan, American & European folk, and modern classical music, Eddie the Rat plays a musical form which is all their own and tries to bridge the gap between ritual, roots, and concert music.

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Dan Ake - Lobro, Spike, 2x6
Ronnie Camaro - bass, vocals
Peter J. Martin - piano, cajon (left foot), bass drum (right foot), vocals, Balinese gangsa, Long- Boy, Proto
Molly Tascone - vocals, recorder, glockenspiel, steel drum, triangle

Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the San Francisco area. Her work includes electronic music, sound art, video, and performance. She studied Arabic classical music in New York City and in Cairo, holds an MA from San Francisco State in Interdisciplinary Arts and is currently working on her MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College.

Thursday, Dec 21 2006 8:00 PM

8pm saifir
9pm X A M B U C A

X A M B U C A is... control out of control... time inside and outside of space...the next phase of evolution...the next planet... the last GOD...the utterance that Mayan Shamans would use to describe the end of time...the prehistoric word for Enlightenment... an onomatopoeia made by small furry animals before permanent hibernation... when insects splat on dirty glass in cold weather...the sum total of whetever is equal to and opposite of...null...infinite...none of the above...all that is below.

GESTALT SCREAMS FROM IMAGINARY PEOPLE, DICENTRA
and AIR BORNE PATHOGEN are all current releases

Chandra Shukla a.k.a. X A M B U C A Has previously played in/performed/recorded with Scribble Seven (Nurse With Wound),Genesis P-Orridge: Psychic TV / Splinter Test/ Thee Majesty, Tipsy, Vaccuum Tree Head, Thrasher Qawwal, Bachir Attar, Scarab, Qaballah Steppers, DiViD

saifir = Todd R. Mellors
In 1980 (10 y/o): He was an only child growing up in a middle class neighborhood of Los Angeles. Todd began to experiment with old telephone equipment that his father pillaged from the General Telephone Electric bone yard; in conjunction with a Casio MT-40, a dusted 2 speed reel to reel, and a few boom boxes for room multi tracking. Parsing though his folks 78 collection, Todd found some interesting material to manipulate and work with. He didnt share his work with anyone fearing it might be to weird and unacceptable. Being just 12 years old at this point..(lets just say all the other kids were playing stick ball).
In 1989 Todd moved up to San Jose, CA. Not knowing a soul, he discovered a college radio station KFJC 89.7 F.M. This ended up being the doorway to new friends, project partners, and fresh new ideas. Coming from the L.A. punk scene(circa 83-89), Todd played drums for a few local San Jose bands that never got any official gigs except a few backyard parties.
Wanting something new...In 1991 Saifir met Gustavo Lanzas. They started a DJ duo know as Team 2000: T2K. They played ambient DJ mixes along side knobs, faders, and analog synths at Raves and other all night parties. After a while the Rave scene dwindled and the duo stopped working together.
Todd continued working, but under the solo act known as saifir.
In 1994 Todd went back to school. It was there were he met Gustavo Pastre of Big City Orchestra, and solo project name Symplx. The two really hit things off creatively and started to work on experimental/noise together. From circuit bent toys, rewired fx, tape loops, and half broken synths. Todd and Gustavo recorded a whole shoe box full of cassette tapes, including the summer stint on the Pilar of Plastic Radio Access, KZSU 90.1 F.M. Stanford University.
All this time of music/noise projects, from 1992-2002 Todd was a DJ on the side. He didnt promote his self for gigs. He had a day job. DJ-ing for Todd was kind of a side project and a networking gateway.
In 1998 Todd meets Mark Camp. The two worked together around the valley at various companys including Digidesign and Apple Computer. Mark and Todd are known as Saifirnout: A combination of both of their monikers. They have played various venues like the infamous DNA lounge in San Francisco, to private parties up in Grass Valley. They released a single on a Max Music compilation titled Cal Drum and Bass. Mark and Todd are currently working on a studio record. Due to conflicting schedules the record is currently on hold.
During Todds employment at Digidesign (98-2004) he met Larry Thrasher of Psychic tv, joining his Qawwali group knows as Thrasher Qawwal and Party. Todd and Larry continue their Qawwali-esque projects, mixing ambient/noise elements among other things. The duo are know as Lone Star Mystique: spaghetti western dub cooked up Qawwali style. Stay tuned for up and coming shows. www.saifir.com

Thursday, Dec 28 2006 8:00 PM

8pm: So Long Flatfoot
9pm: Myrmyr (tentative)

Thursday, Jan 4 2007 8:00 PM

CJ Borosque HarshNoise.com CD Release performance of "They"
Guest performers TBA