Doors 7:30 / Music 8
$5-$15 sliding donation
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Fred FrithFred Frith is a songwriter, composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist best known for the reinvention of the electric guitar that began with Guitar Solos in 1974. He learned his craft as both improviser and composer playing in rock bands, notably Henry Cow, and creating music in the recording studio. Much of his compositional output has been commissioned by choreographers and filmmakers, but his work has also been performed by Ensemble Modern, Hieronymus Firebrain, Arditti Quartet, Robert Wyatt, Bang on a Can All Stars, Concerto Köln, and Rova Sax Quartet, among quite a few others. Fred enthusiastically records and performs all over the place with icons of contemporary music, younger players you may never have heard of, and everyone in between. He is currently leading the Gravity Band, Eye to Ear (his film music group), and Cosa Brava, whose second CD—The Letter—was released to critical acclaim in 2012. Fred teaches at Mills College in Oakland California and at the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland. He is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s award-winning documentary film Step Across the Border.
www.fredfrith.com
RACHEL AUSTIN
I love finding the links between sound and narrative—the abstract sounds we hear so often in improvisation and the words that lace my head when filled with sound. Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, I lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland for 12 years, where I worked and toured as an experimental vocalist and songwriter. My work has recently taken on an obsession with the sublime with impulses toward narrative, noise and computer interventions. I’m most inspired by the work of Miranda July, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julia Easterlin, Werner Herzog, Björk and David Bazan.
rachelaustin.bandcamp.com
Theresa WongI am a cellist, vocalist, composer and improviser actively exploring the intersection where music meets with the creative spirit of experimentation, improvisation and the synergy of multiple disciplines. Bridging areas of music, dance, theater and visual art, I am interested in finding the potential for transformation in each work for both the artist and receiver alike. I have shared my music internationally at such venues as Fondation Cartier in Paris, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Fabbrica Europa in Florence Italy, Unlimited 21 Festival in Wels, Austria and at The Stone in New York City and have been awarded artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, Montalvo and Civitella Ranieri. I am also the recipient of grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, American Composers Forum Subito Program and Meet The Composer. I currently live in Berkeley, California.
theresawong.org