8pm Jaroba
Percussion, home built instruments, soprano sax and bass clarinet
9pm Ritwik Banerji/Joel Wanek
saxophones/bass/maxine
The Jaroba pursues sound which reference various histories of adventurous music as well as the sounds of objects and energies in everyday environments...
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.
Cost: $6-10 sliding