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NEW MUSIC THURSDAYS
FEBRUARY 23, 2006
8PM, $6-10 sliding scale
no one refused for lack of funds
The luggage store celebrates with a double CD Release Party featuring:
"We Are" and "Reverberations from Spring Past"
EMILY HAY (Los Angeles)
MARCOS FERNANDES (San Diego)
ROBERT MONTOYO (San Diego)
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE (San Francisco)
RENT ROMUS (San Francisco)
See the comprehensive Bay Area Improviser site for more information
on this and other music events in the Bay Area
Emily Hay is a flutist, vocalist and pianist who extends the
traditional pre-conceived capabilities of her instruments. Her approach
to music incorporates the complexities of contemporary classical
technique with the spontaneity of free improvisation resulting in
startling interpretations of sound and intense ensemble interaction. As
a performer of the flute, alto flute, piccolo and ethnic reeds, she
emits unusual tone colors and soaring rhythmic structures augmented by
electronic manipulation. Her vocalizations range from primal to
operatic, including whimsical word play and lyrics from the stream of
consciousness.
Hay is an active member of the Los Angeles and "left coast"
music communities, performing and collaborating in avant garde,
alternative art rock, free improvisation, electro-acoustical and
contemporary classical ensembles such as U Totem, The Motor Totemist
Guild, The 5 UU's , Otherparts, I Am Umbrella, Adam Rudolph's Go
Organic Orchestra, The Emily Hay Collective, The Rich West Ensemble,
The Jeff Kaiser Okodektet and The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. She is a
featured artist on Cuneiform Records, Recommended Records, Nine Winds
Records, Meta Records, pfMentum and Dragnet Records. She has toured and
performed extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the United States
with concert highlights at the Bimhuis/Amsterdam, the Ottomat/Italy,
New Music America Festival/Montreal, Art Rock Festival/Frankfurt,
Kulturni Dom/Yugoslavia and the Reithalle/Switzerland.
Emily is also a paralegal for the entertainment law firm of
Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman &
Cook, LLP where she specializes in music and motion picture contracts
and copyright law and represents top name clients from all facets of
the music industry. She has worked in entertainment business and law
for over 15 years and supervised and produced numerous film and
television soundtracks while working for film production studios such
as Tri Star Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. Emily Hay co-hosts the alternative college music radio
program, "Trilogy", on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles, transmitted from Loyola
Marymount University (and at www.kxlu.com). The show features
avant-garde, free jazz/improvisation, world, contemporary classical and
experimental electronic music, and includes by live performances and
guest interviews. Hay was formerly the Music Program Director for the
Beyond Baroque Foundation where she booked and promoted live
experimental music events by performers such as Fred Frith, Tom Cora,
John Adams, and David Moss and curated the 1992 New Music Across
America Festival in Los Angeles. Born in rural Virginia, Emily Hay received a BFA in music
from Bard College in New York and an MFA in music from California
Institute of the Arts. Emily Hay studied musical improvisation with
Karl Berger, Dave Holland and Roswell Rudd, flute with Samuel Baron,
Claude Monteaux, Julius Baker, James Walker and Patricia Spencer, piano
with German Diaz and Chet Swiatkowski, composition and theory with Joan
Tower, Mel Powell, Benjamin Boretz, Luis Garcia-Renart and Eli Yarden
Robert Montoya
Robert Montoya has been active in the
San Diego music scene for the past two decades as a percussionist,
improviser and sound artist. In recent years, Montoya's work has
focused on sample-based computer and electronic music which can be
heard on the recent Trummerflora compilation, Rubble1 (Accretions 2004)
and in his ensemble projects Wormhole with lomg-time collaborater
Marcos Fernandes and mrlectronic with Lisle Ellis and Fernandes. He is
a founding member of Trummerflora, a musicians collective dedicated to
creative music. A Tijuana native, Montoya has performed in Japan, Hong
Kong, Mexico and the U.S. He has performed and/or recorded with members
of Trummerflora, the Nortec Collective, George Lewis, Le Quan Ninh,
Mike Keneally, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Rent Romus, Eric Glick Rieman,
Michael Dessen, David Gould , Scott R. Looney and Ultra 7
MARCOS FERNANDES
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