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Prélude/Introit, 8pm: Bob Marsh & Evangel King
Bob Marsh and associates have made many multimedia interpretations of Bob's graphic scores in the rhizomic window/door/river project.
Bob Marsh (cello) and Evangel King (dance) perform one of the most beautiful of these fascinating pieces in a short site-specific realization designed specifically for the Berkeley Arts Festival space.
Statement from Bob Marsh: "window/door/river began as a graphic response to a dance class with Anna Halprin a couple years ago. It seemed to resemble some of my graphic music compositions. The four panels reminded me of windows, or maybe they were doors. Maybe they were all aspects of the life of a river. I decided to send this window/door/river composition to various friends, near and far, asking them to create any kind of interpretation they might desire. Various types of realizations can be found at http://windowdoorriver.bandcamp.com/
Six months ago I began working with dancer/choreographer Evangel King on this project, exploring the variety of meanings, literal and metaphorical, of windows, doors and rivers. In the end we decided to work within the contexts of actual windows and doors, letting the river portion be the river of life that flows around us at all times"
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Set 1, 8:20pm:
Henry Kuntz & Envision Ensemble
A rare appearance by a daring pioneer of joyously unbounded, infinitely free jazz.
Henry Kuntz has blazed many trails in realizing the intersection of world musics (esp. from Latin America and Indonesia) with a ritualistic & shamanistic quest for joy and sonic freedom in a "festival time" outside of clock time.
The Envision Ensemble (an outgrowth of the earlier Opeye Orchestra) moves toward an advanced improvisational archetype, one in which multiple independent events may occur while the musicians simultaneously create an experiential musical whole.
Joining will be special guest
Dan Plonsey, who has made a career out of being mathematically impossible.
Line-up:
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Henry Kuntz: sax, violins, gamelan, percussion, ringleader
— Brian Godchaux: violin, viola, mandolin
— John Kuntz: ukulele, guitar, mandolin, percussion
— Esten Lindgren: contrabass, pocket trumpet
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Dan Plonsey: saxes
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Set 2, 9:15pm: Tom Duff & his Wire Machine
In another rare appearance, Bay Area master Tom Duff will install and perform/operate Wire Machine, which takes Alvin Lucier's seminal composition/installation Music on a Long Thin Wire and runs with it.
Almost 40 years ago, new music explorer Alvin Lucier designed and assembled an embodied musical process from a long wire, clamps, tables, speakers, an amp, an oscillator, microphones, and a powerful magnet.
Impresario, master of digital graphics & electronic sound art, and creator of Duff's Device, Tom Duff has re-imagined, re-realized, and radicalized this original scenario on various occasions, e.g. the notorious 5-day performance on sfSoundRadio in 2011 and the site-specific realization for the Soundwave (5) festival at Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands in 2012.
Tom will use his expanded version of Lucier's kit to perform his piece Lucier, Golomb, Gray, exploring the effects of useful information encoding schemes on a vibrating electromechanical system and its listeners.
You won't know what hit you, but your chakras will be thoroughly cleansed (losslessly, and without spurious outputs). Come if you dare...
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