Bring the magic of music into your new year and bless your ears with this:
BEARD = WIZARDS
Eric Glick Rieman: prepared rhodes & Dan Gottwald’s Analogous Ensemble: playing massive original sculptural instruments
@ Turquoise Yantra Grotto
Fri. Jan 9, 8-10 pm
32 Turquoise Way SF
$10-15
Eric Glick Rieman, Composer and Improviser
Performing on a variety of instruments, including the prepared/extended Rhodes electric piano, as well as piano, melodica, celeste, organ, Waterphone, and toy piano; SF Bay Area composer/improviser
Eric Glick Rieman performs improvised and previously structured music in several settings, both solo and in groups. He has performed with the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble in Oakland, CA, USA since 1999, and received an MFA from Mills in Electronic Music and the Recording Media in 2001. Rieman writes for piano, Rhodes electric piano, and ensembles.
ericglickrieman.com
Dan Gottwald is a sculptor, instrument builder, video/installation/performance artist and composer. His work focuses largely on the tactile and the sonic as temporary events.
His work has been shown and performed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, California.
Gottwald holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of New Mexico (where he ended up making music) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College (where he mostly makes sculptures).
“My interest in touch is derived from sound and my interest in sound from touch. These driving forces in turn influence my love of the visual aspects of form and performance.
In order to hear a sound we need a body to be touched by the rarified molecules of vibrating matter we understand as sound. In order to make a sound we need a body to affect matter.
A musical instrument is mid-way between these conditions. It is the thing to touch and it is the thing that makes sound. To take these aspects of form and create something new to explore is my attempt to broaden the field of creative and performative experience. I relish the challenge of making a form inviting, responsive and durable enough to be that kind of interface.
Whether it is an audience allowed to interact with a piece, the result of a piece acting on an audience or regularly independent media acting together, it is the point of contact, the action of touch and repercussions of those interactions that I find compelling.
I believe in blurry lines and I enjoy playing in those material and conceptual spaces where it becomes difficult to classify or discern one thing from the next.”
Visit dangottwald.com for more information
Pet the Tiger is an inventors collective that plays in a wide variety of idioms exploring new timbral dimensions through extended techniques. For this event PTT will be
David Samas, Dan Gottwald and
Eric Glick Rieman.
soundcloud.com/pet-the-tiger
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The Turquoise Yantra Grotto is a house concert series for avant improvisers and invented instrumentalists with a focus on ethno-modernism and extended techniques. We hold a monthly event which is part concert, part art opening and part social club, near glen canyon in San Francisco.
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Cost: $10-15