Amy Reed and
Collette McCaslinFirst set
Amy and Collette are are two women with very integrated approaches to music, especially improvisation. Their duo corresponds to a logic of magical thinking that is formed by deeper subconscious stirrings. Together, their percussive and subtle sounds wind in and out of synergy, sometimes clashing, sometimes relating in sublime synchronicity.
Collette on percussion and wind instruments (trumpet, flutes etc;) calls to mind meditations of a deliberate nature.
Amy Reed on Guitar has the delicate ringing string technique that reminds of us that a guitar can sound like many bells all sounding in quiet but determined intent.
They will play a set of freely improvised music.
Second set
Adam Adhiyatma and Kaori Suzuki
Adam Adhiyatma is a clarinetist, guitarist, electronic composer and improviser from Singapore. They are interested in formal, mystical and ritual uses of sound. They like to think about voices; multiple voices issuing from the same body, hydras, the ensuing confusion, and the ensuing ecstasy. Adam's work is [noisy, architectural, lyrical, angry, rhythmic, highly dissonant, very loud, very quiet.] It is connected by an investment in music's social, political and mystical (bodily) power, a history in jazz, rock and experimental music (even though it seldom sounds like any of those things), as well as a deep curiosity about the phenomena that are composition, listening, and improvisation.
Adam performs, programs and composes electronic music under the alias thumbthumb.
http://adamadhiyatma.com/
Kaori Suzuki (b. Japan) is a composer of electronic music based in Oakland, CA. As a solo performer she explores modes of immediacy and the habitable nature of sounds through synthesis and programming,often using analog systems, location recordings, and custom machines.
Having spent several years in the Pacific Northwest as an educator and developing her experimental building project, Magic Echo Music, she currently resides back in Oakland to pursue an MFA in electronic music at Mills College. She has performed and presented at various venues including the Chapel Performance Space for Wayward Music Series (Seattle), Brava Theater Center (SF), Mix NYC (NYC), BAMPFA (Berkeley), and Debacle Fest (Seattle)
8pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave.
Cost: $6-10 sliding