~~SoundSpeak~~
8:10 pm
Jakob Pek, poetry, guitar
8:40 pm CJ Borosque poetry, electronics
9:25 pm
Elizabeth Costellowith Sheila Bosco
Jakob Pek is a musical artist based on the west coast of North America. A multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and poet; a son, brother, lover, grandchild, and friend; born in B.C., Canada, raised in Las Vegas, NV, and based in Oakland, CA.
Jakob’s deepest musical influences come from diverse realms of the musical world. On the one hand, the great finger-style guitarists of the last century have deeply inspired and guided his musical direction (Lenny Breau, Ted Green). On the other, musical artists who have pushed to the frontiers of musical exploration—the outer limits of musical perception—have also had a profound impact on Jakob’s musical life (Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Collette McCaslin is a San Francisco Bay Area based player of the Cornet, noisician,abstract artist, and writer.
In her youth she explored plunder-phonics as a means of expression “composing” tape works comprised of snippets of radio static, college radio and death metal.
As a teenager she was heavily influenced by her family to explore the realms of jazz, she played the saxophone at Cabrillo College. Her own interests diverged however, when she began working with guitar.Her first album "Machine" is a layered work of looping...
At some point in the last ten years she started working with analogue FX boxes and doing feedback based electronics. With that setup she has played in numerous situations. Including "Lords of Outland" where she interacts with other musicians, live, with a feedback based instrument. As well as headlining at NorCal Noise Fest many years in a row...
Later, she began playing the Cornet...which is currently her favorite instrument. She plays in Forward Energy, Lords of Outland, and various improvisational Orchestras...
Elizabeth Costello(with Sheila Bosco) writes for UC Berkeley during the day and for you at during the darker hours, but she is always secretly working on poetry and fiction. She was a finalist for the William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley fiction contest and the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and has taught in the MFA in writing program at the University of San Francisco and at SF Juvenile Hall. She’s published a poetry and prose in various places, and has poetry forthcoming in the Crab Orchard Review. Last year she performed in hOpphomage, a dance theater piece inspired by the work of visual artist Dennis Oppenheim. She deals with musician envy by collaborating on projects with percussionist/video artist Sheila Bosco and with Laurie and Jennifer Hall of Ruby Howl. She served as emcee for the Bernal Yoga Literary Series, where she once had the pleasure of successfully removing blood stains from the carpet .
Cost: $6-10