8pm Steuart Liebig - electric bass/effects
9pm zBug
zBug is the premiere industrial jazz unit based in San Francisco, CA that presents structured improvisational compositional music sets, based on architecture.
David Leikam — NS Design CR6 cello, Moog synthesizers, piano, Sheila Bosco — drums, keyboard, Timothy Orr — drums, percussion, Sean Price — modular synthesizer, electro-beats
When prompted to talk about himself in the third person, electric bassist/composer Steuart Liebig will tell you that he has been playing and writing music for a long time.
It’s probably more interesting to see what other people have said about him:
“To say only that he plays bass would be misleading. As an improviser, he commands a shocking array of effects. As a composer, he can create rigorous but liberating frameworks for wide-open jazz on one hand and harmonica honk on the other. And mainly, he hears everybody else, assimilates it all and kicks it to another level.”
“A major concern of Steuart Liebig’s is space; acknowledging it, defining it, dividing it up. If anyone can be funky without necessarily grooving, it’s bassist Liebig, a master of the unexpected cosmic event.”
“Liebig is equally at home charting lunar terrain as he is in the pocket.”
“. . . nonpareil rethinker of electric bass . . . “
“Steuart Liebig’s bass isn’t a bass, it’s a giant alien creature in the heaving throes of partition.”
One of his recent focuses has been attempting to develop different techniques and timbral resources that are outside the normal practice of his instrument.
For the 12 May concert, he plans on dividing his set into smaller subsets of miniatures for electric bass that utilize some of these explorations.
You can read a fuller biography here: http://stigsite.com/biography.html
For a partial discography, go here: http://stigsite.com/discography.html
Cost: $6-15 sliding