Studio Grand
3234 Grand Ave, Oakland
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1) Jim Ryan
Poet, writer, philosopher and musician, Jim Ryan is an original member of the exploratory family of artists of the 20th century. Ryan has performed with the likes of Rent Romus, Marco Eneidi, Eddie Gale, and Donald Robinson, and has led the longstanding Forward Energy ensemble and numerous other groups. A veteran of the beat generation, the European expatriate free jazz scene in the 60's, and critical creative music communities in the Bay Area and Washington D.C., Ryan's uncanny, powerful poetry and forceful improvisation are inimitable and truly unique.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/52/jim-ryan

2) Teddy Rankin-Parker (Solo)
Teddy Rankin-Parker is an American cello player based in Oakland, CA, who specializes in New Music, Improvisation, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. He performs extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe with various solo and ensemble projects.
https://soundcloud.com/teddy-rankin-parker

3) Grex
Grex (Karl Evangelista-guitar/vocals, Rei Scampavia- keys, vocals, Robert Lopez-drums) has been called “completely original” (Eugene Weekly) and "true genre-warping music" (KFJC), a "near- seamless blend of modern jazz, indie rock, and blues rock" (Tiny Mix Tapes). The band's fun, endlessly surprising sound has drawn comparisons to English Prog Rock (King Crimson, The Cardiacs), jazz (Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock), and noise rock (Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground). Grex has participated in performances with the likes of Fred Frith, Tony Levin, Zeena Parkins, and Hafez Modirzadeh, and has presented at festivals nationwide, including the Switchboard Music Festival (SF), Sonic Circuits Festival (DC), and the United States of Asian America Festival.
http://www.grexsounds.com/

4) Moe! Staiano Ensemble
Moe! Staiano is an experimental composer, drummer, percussionist, songwriter and multi-instrumental performance artist who has been at the forefront of the Bay Area improvisation scene for over a decade.
Moe! is composer and conductor for Moe!kestra!, a large ensemble avant-garde orchestra, fronts post-punk no-wave band Surplus 1980 and also performs innovative solo percussion shows. For this performance will be an inter-changable conducted composition of repetitive notated bars that changes every time with the same theory of conducting musicians in and out of different musical phrases in different keys, pitches, tempos, etc. Originally premiered at the Active Music Festival of a small ensemble of 12+ players, it had a second performance of four (4) pitched percussion players. This time will include six (6) guitar players using the same compositional ideal. Guitarist include Steve Kirk, John Schott, Karl Alfonso Evangelista, Drew Wheeler, Wally Scharold, and Alee Karim, as conducted by Moe! Staiano.
http://www.moestaiano.com/

Cost: $10-15 sliding scale or more!

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