7:30PM C.O.M.A. The California Outside Music Associates
John Vaughn - saxophones, Dax Compise - drums
8:30
K BandJulie Herndon - piano, Josh Marshall - tenor saxophone, and Stephanie Neumann - saxophone
"...intense and incisive...C.O.M.A. at times evoke the Revolutionary Ensemble, of Leroy Jenkins, Sirone and Jerome Cooper." - Edoardo Chagas, Jazz e Arredores
C.O.M.A. The California Outside Music Associates, is a collective of improvising musicians from central California dedicated to music of the moment. As the demiurgic inklings of the COMA collective came together the autoschediasms became alimentary...Being both introspective and temerarious simultaneously, the music itself became expiatory.
K band is a collective featuring Julie Herndon (piano), Josh Marshall (sax), and Stephanie Neumann (sax). Together they create and dissolve structures and songs with improvisation, electronics, and occasional found objects.
Julie Herndon is a composer and performer working with internal/external space through improvisation, text, graphics, and electronics. She holds a M.A. in Music Composition from Mills College and a B.A. in Music from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her work has been included in festivals and concerts in the US and Europe at venues including soundSCAPE, Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve, Hot Air Festival, and Zen Mountain Cloud Center. She lives in Oakland and is an active pianist, vocalist, choir director, and teacher.
Joshua Marshall is an Oakland-based saxophonist and composer/improviser. His work involves architectural innovation, narrativity, systematic improvisatory practice, and live digital media. His music has been featured in festivals and conferences nationwide, including Providence Pixilerations events, the 2010 International Computer Music Conference and 2013's Outsound Summit. Joshua graduated from Brown University, earning a B.A. through the MEME program, and holds an M.F.A. in music from Mills College.
Stephanie Neumann recently graduated from Mills College with a Masters Degree in Music Composition. In the past, she was a sound designer and engineer for many Miani University-Oxford and Guest Theatre productions, has attended The Recording Workshop, and continues to stay involved in the audio world. Stephanie has also won several composition awards and has experience writing anything from popular music as a singer-songwriter to may different types of contemporary pieces. She continuously works on electroacoustic music, dealing with the psychoacoustics between live instruments and recorded soundscapes. Stephanie is also an active performer, primarily on saxophone, voice, and steel pan.
Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale