8pm:
The Norman Conquest9pm:
Earth BlindNick Obando - saxophone, Michael Dale - keyboard,
Aaron Levin - drums
The Norman Conquest [TNC] (b. 1980, Tulsa, OK) is a composer, performer, and improviser of music influenced by the art of sound recording (and vice versa). Feedback is a constant source of musical, psychological, and philosophical inspiration for TNC.
TNC spent his formative years in rural Kentucky exploring 4-track recording as a vehicle for his songs and sonic experiments. He honed his recording abilities at Middle Tennessee State University, from where he received his B.S. in 2003. TNC then received his M.F.A. from Mills College in 2006.
TNC performs as a sound manipulator and vocalist in Cosa Brava (with Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, & Shahzad Ismaily), Art Bears Songbook, & Dokuro (with Agnes Szelag).
TNC has performed all over the western hemisphere in such venerable places as: the FIMAV Festival (Victoriaville, Quebec), the Musique Action Festival (Nancy, France), KFJC (radio broadcast of a 24 Hour Drone), the Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco, CA), the Trinity Chamber Concert Series (Berkeley, CA), Music for People & Thingamajigs, & at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.
Earth Blind is an electroacoustic trio dedicated to the generation of superterrestrial sound via saxophone (Nick Obando), keyboard (Michael Dale), and drums (
Aaron Levin). Drawing from the traditions of Free and Spiritual Jazz along with more modern forms of Electronic, Rock, and Experimental music, they are as likely to be found in a locked groove as a Jazz freak-out or expansive ambient texture. Their energetic and often hypnotic improvisations have garnered comparisons to Electric Miles.
Cost: $6-10 sliding scale