Amy X with Bro Fist
Amy X Neuburg will present a solo set of dynamic sonic wonders from her delicious repertoire, including improvisations on toys & gadgets, and selections from her new interpretation of "Song Drapes" by the late Jerry Hunt.
Bro Fist is the insane brainchild of Jason Berry (Vacuum Tree Head) and
Amanda Chaudhary (CatSynth). BF will be presenting a live score for footage of captured digital compression errors joined by Amy X.
Bro Fist: Jason Berry (brains),
Amanda Chaudhary (keys and nobs),
David Samas (inventions), Ian Saxton (things that make sound) &
Amy X Neuburg (voice)
@ Turquoise Yantra Grotto
Saturday May 30, 8-10 pm
32 Turquoise Way sf ca 94131
$10-15
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Amy X Neuburg creates irreverently genre-crossing works for voice, electronics, chamber ensembles, bodies, and funky gadgets. An early innovator in the use of live looping technology, she has performed her ‘avant-cabaret’ songs at diverse venues around the world, including the Other Minds and Bang on a Can festivals, the Berlin Poetry Festival, the Wellington and Christchurch jazz festivals (NZ), and the Warsaw Philharmonic concert hall. As composer she has written for the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Del Sol String Quartet, Pacific Mozart Ensemble chorus, and many others. As vocalist she toured and recorded with Robert Ashley’s operas and has premiered numerous works by contemporary composers. Her many grants and honors include Arts International, the Gerbode Foundation, and the Alpert/Ucross prize.
Jason Berry is a bandleader and producer, artist and animator. He has led the band Vacuum Tree Head since 1989. Many musicians in the SF Bay Area and NYC new music scenes have passed through this band's ranks. JB has also appeared on record or onstage with The Molecules, Ron Anderson's PAK, Moe!Kestra, Psychic TV, and Chandra Shukla's Xambuca.
Amanda Chaudhary is a composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music. Her solo work involves experimenting with innovative sounds via analog synthesis and custom software with computers and mobile devices as well as folk and toy instruments. Her other ensemble projects include Reconnaissance Fly, an art-pop band and composers collective; and Surplus 1980, a Bay Area post-punk band.
David Samas is a composer, cosmologist, poet, painter, performer, philosopher, farmer and father of 4. He has a BFA from the SF Art Institute in conceptual art and studied poetics at the New College of California. As a young man he performed with the SF Boys Chorus, the SF Opera and the SF Symphony with which he won a GRAMMY for the “best classical recording” of 1994. He also makes sacred geometry amulets and talismans, is an excellent cook, and self publishes small editions of hand bound art books.
Ian Saxton is an experimental percussionist and theatrical activist with a background in computer music and a deep passion for complex polyrhythms. He completed a music BA at UC Santa Cruz with David Cope, a Computer Music MA at UC San Diego with Miller Puckette, and worked closely with David Wessel while in the Music Composition PhD program at UC Berkley before leaving in “protest” over the corporatization and militarization of public education and arts research. He was the founding drummer for Cash Pony and long time percussionist for Sun Hop Fat, both Bay Area bands who traverse the ethno/prog/jazz/white-boy-funk/rock fusion space.
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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, and part social club, and part art opening, near Twin Peaks in San Francisco. The Turquoise Yantra Grotto is home to many unique invented instruments including the Zen Industrial Gamelan (or grand metalliphone), the Gamelan Piano, and several sonic paintings, as well as instruments by Bart Hopkin and Tom Nunn.
Cost: $10-15