Keys Without Locks
Join us for an evening of keyboard works in disparate genres
Matthew Goodheart (extended technique)
Thomas Dimuzio (electronics)
Katy Luo (classical pianist)
Fri. June 26, 8pm, $10-15
Turquoise Yantra Grotto, 32 Turquoise Way, SF
A native San Franciscan, Matthew Goodheart has an international reputation as an improviser, composer, and sound artist. Following an early career as a free-jazz pianist, he has created a wide spectrum of works that explore the relationships among performer, instrument, and listener. His work ranges from large-scale microtonal compositions to open improvisations and immersive sound installations – all unified by the analytic techniques and performative methodologies he has developed to bring forth the unique and subtle acoustic properties of individual musical instruments. Goodheart’s approach results in a “generative foundation” for exploring issues of perception, technology, cultural ritual, and the psycho-physical impact of acoustic phenomena.
His work has been featured throughout the US, Canada, and Europe in such festivals as MaerzMusik, The International Spectral Music Festival, June in Buffalo, Klappsthulfest, Jazz Ao Centro, The Illuminations New Music & Arts Festival, and many others. He has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Wadada Leo Smith, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Glenn Spearman, Gianni Gebbia, Vladimir Tarasov, Jack Wright, and Cecil Taylor, and works frequently with the new music ensemble sfSoundGroup. He was recently Fulbright scholar in Prague, writing new music for the quartertone pianos created for Alois Hába in the 1920s, and was awarded the 2014 Berlin Prize in Music Composition. He currently a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, and will begin a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University in the Fall.
Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, composer, sound designer, mastering engineer, label proprietor, and music technologist residing in San Francisco, California. Inspired as much by John Cage as Led Zeppelin, Dimuzio's music is like a sonic excursion that transports the listener into other worldly aural realms. “His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert… brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.” —Peter Marsh, BBC
Long regarded as a musical pioneer for his innovative use of live sampling and looping techniques, Dimuzio has earned a deserved reputation worldwide as an avant-garde sound artist in touch with the aesthetic pulse of time and technology. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything, Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his various releases include everything from 'modified 10 speed bicycle' and 'resonating water pipe' to short-wave radios, loops, feedback, samplers, synthesizers and even normal instruments such as guitar, clarinet and trumpet. Dimuzio's eclecticism bespeaks a career equally informed by a profound dedication to his craft and collaborations with friends, artists and technologists alike.
“Attending a
Thomas Dimuzio performance is like lying underneath a web of freeway bridges with your eyes closed; blocking out all visuals except the brief daggers of light that flicker with each passing car. There is a sense of probable dread—metal, wooden or cigarette debris from the vehicles could fly off and injure you—but also one of hypnotized calm, thanks to the amplified hum of Michelin and Goodyear against greased concrete.” —Cameron MacDonald, Pitchfork Media
Dimuzio's recordings have been released internationally by ReR Megacorp, Asphodel, RRRecords, No Fun Productions, Sonoris, Drone Records, Record Label Records, Odd Size, Seeland, and other independent labels. Among his collaborators are Chris Cutler, Dan Burke, Joseph Hammer, Anla Courtis, Nick Didkovsky, Due Process, Voice of Eye, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly and Negativland.
http://www.thomasdimuzio.com
http://www.gench.com
Katy Luo, pianist, originally from the Bay Area, recently returned from New York City where she has resided for the past 14 years. Katy’s performing experience ranges from the works of the classical masters performed on period instruments to the works of Cage, Ligeti, Schnittke, and other contemporary composers. Known for her innovative programming, Katy has presented programs such as the horn trios of Brahms and Ligeti at the Staller Center for the Arts, and a collection of dance suites by Bach, Albeniz, Schoenberg, and Cage at the Bloomingdale School of Music. Past concerts have also included: “Tradition Begins, Tradition Ends”, which showcased the music of Bach and Stockhausen, “Recompositions”, a re-appraisal of pre-existing musical styles in the works of Henze, Berg, and Dwarka, and “Remaking the Past”, which explored modern masters in the role of arrangers and included works by Stravinsky, Bach, Mozart, Arvo Part, and Dominico Gallo.
Katy’s past collaborations have included a performance of the Shostakovich Piano Quintet at the 2011 Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival with the New York City Ballet, the Sunday recital series at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with members of the Boys Choir of Harlem, and a program of saxophone music from 1930s Berlin at the Goethe Institute with Christian Biegai. A Haydn aficionado, Katy is currently involved in a self-directed film project of the complete book of Haydn’s Piano Sonatas. Each film will be of a live performance of a single Sonata in a non-conventional performance space. The first film was shot at the Bowery Mission in lower Manhattan.
Katy is an alumna of the Young Musicians Program, a community outreach music program at the University of California at Berkeley. Her passion for and commitment to community organization led to her involvement formerly at the Boys Choir of Harlem and at the Bloomingdale School of Music, where she was both Resident Teaching Artist and the Director of A4TY (Album for the Young): Student New Music Project — a program she founded to provide children the opportunity to compose original compositions for fellow young musicians and to premiere works written by living composers. Katy is currently on piano faculty at the Crowden Center for Music in the Community in Berkeley, and the Community Music Center in San Francisco.
Katy holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Katy's principle teachers have included Jacqueline Chew, Monique Duphil, Haewon Song, and Gilbert Kalish.
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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