Second Act
1727 Haight St. SF
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Biggi Vinkeloe Roughtet
Saxophonist, flutist, and sorceress of avant/jazz wind energy, Biggi Vinkeloe, arrives from her home in Sweden to reprise a long-standing collaboration with a "roughtet" of Bay Area masters to include: Don Robinson, described by Coda Magazine as a "percussion Dervish"; laptopist/pianist Joe Lasqo, who studied classical music in India and computer music at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley/CNMAT; and dazzling bass virtuoso, Scott Walton; with animated visuals spontaneously composed by Megan McKearney.
http://www.biggivinkeloe.com/ | http://www.joelasqo.com/ | www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=14 | www.ninewinds.com/Artists/walton.html | http://omuaart.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5npZBN1nVs

John Bischoff
Every sleeper wave begins as a subtle sizzle at the horizon, far off until the instant it takes your feet. For more than forty years, John Bischoff has been a musical Poseidon, once swept away his audiences are content never again to make shore. Lauded for his pioneering solo constructions in real-time synthesis and for his development of computer network music, Bischof was a founding member of The League of Automatic Music Composers as well as The Hub. With major retrospective releases on Tzadik and New World Records, he is the subject of Douglas Kahn's "A Musical Technography of John Bischoff" published in MIT's Leonardo Music Journal and is currently Associate Professor of Music at Mills College in Oakland.
https://soundcloud.com/johnleebischoff

Unpopular Electronics (feat. Gino Robair)
Caught in alligator clips, wrestling like Laocoön in a nest of patchcord cables, it's really the audience ends up ensnared when master percussionist Gino Robair merges with his Serge modular. Robair has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. He is one of the "25 innovative percussionists" included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001), as well as a founding member of the Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain. His opera, I, Norton, based on the life of Norton I, Emperor of the United States, has been performed throughout North America and Europe.
http://www.ginorobair.com/video.html

Heartworm
This performance will hail the record release of Heartworm's new album, pried at last from long years in the master's grip. 20 year veteran of subterranean music, Brandon Yahiro-Taylor, has recorded and performed in a dizzying array of styles, from freeform minimalism to harsh noise to breakcore to experimental metal to indie rock to ambient and musique concrete. On the east coast he founded the seminal net label slum.org before moving to San Francisco in 2003 where he became active with the 5lowershop soundsystem crew, organizing events throughout the bay area.
https://soundcloud.com/heartworm

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