Home Exhibitions & Events 2006-03-09: New Music: W.F. COLLINS, JIM RYAN, P. EVERETT, RAY SCHAEFFER
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2006-03-09: New Music: W.F. COLLINS, JIM RYAN, P. EVERETT, RAY SCHAEFFER |
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NEW MUSIC THURSDAYS
March 9 2006 8:00 -10PM
($6-10 sliding scale (no one refused for lack of funds)
8pm: Originally from rural New England, William Fowler Collins
(b.1974) has been based in San Francisco, CA since 1992. His music
explores and synthesizes both musical and extramusical elements.
Improvisation, field recordings, electric guitar, laptop computer,
processed recordings, microcassette tape recorders, and home-made
electronic devices all play roles in the creating, performing, and
recording of his music. He recently graduated from Mills College where
he studied with Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Alvin Curran, and Chris Brown.
Collins currently plays electric guitar (and occasionally
laptop/electronics) in both solo and group contexts.
9pm: Everett, Ryan, Shaeffer (e.r.s.). is a recently formed trio of veterans from the canons of
traditional
and free jazz, folk rock, advanced classical (Stockhausen, Partch,
Feldman, etc.), the west coast improv world, Gothic pain, and science
fiction . . . a diverse background infused with imaginative intuition
of the need for an intelligent musical response to the absurdities of present-day living.
Philip
M. Everett began playing Drums and Percussion at the age of 13,
learning the basics while playing in orchestras and marching bands. His
first professional gig was at age 17. He has been performing in varying
musical contexts for over 35 years while taking time to study with
George Marsh and Eddie Moore. His main musical influences are Sun Ra,
Harry Partch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sunny Murray, and Anthony Braxton.
Literary influences include H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe and Philip
K. Dick
Ray
Schaeffer - fretless 6 string , fretted 8 string electric basses and
effects. Has performed in a diverse array of ensembles from full
orchestra to folk rock bands, and experimental improv groups going back
to the 70s.
Jim Ryan
- alto/tenor sax & flute. Started playing during the early '70's
when the free jazz explosion hit Paris. He returned from Paris and
worked on the east coast during the '80's, and has formed several
groups of his own (Forward Energy, The Left Coast Improv Group, &
Subjects of Desire) in the Bay Area since the mid-90's.
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