Active Music Series:
- Jupiter Blue (members of Sun Ra Arkestra)
- Thea Farhadian/
Tim Perkis duo
- Kim Nucci/Dmitri Glickman
Jupiter Blue
"What powers your ship?" Sun Ra's single smiling answer: "Music." From the Arkestra's engine room, Jupiter Blue's tone scientists D.Hotep and Jupiter Girl emerge to reveal elements and precepts of another kind of language, another tomorrow, learned through years of discipline to be given freely in the present for all who can hear. Hotep's own, ARP (Akimbo Research Projects), develops through-composed and free-improvised performance based on sonification of pitch-sets derived from elemental particles. Expect the never expected as electronics, electric guitar, celestial vocals, percussion, and violin call forth shadows of unseen worlds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8nOjoMyfFM&feature=youtu.be
Kim Nucci & Dmitri Glickman
Nucci and Glickman arrive at the Uptown by hovercraft after Nucci's successful residency at ACRE in Wisconsin where she developed visual as well as sound art concepts. Nucci and Glickman first collaborated in Bennington, VT and have reunited in Oakland, around the experimental and noise scenes in the East Bay. Glickman is a music educator, composer and improviser and Nucci works in education and is a visual/sonic artist. Nucci and Glickman spend their days chasing after their cat Spooky that keeps hiding and running away. This show is dedicated to Spooky.
Tim Perkis (electronics) & Thea Farhadian (violin)
Duo Sample:
https://soundcloud.com/perkis/skywriter-farhadian-perkis
Tim Perkis has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting installation works and recording in North America,Europe and Japan. His work has largely been concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interaction.
In addition, he is a well known performer in the world of improvised music, having performed on his electronic improvisation instruments with hundreds of artists and groups, including Chris Brown, John Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Frank Gratkowski, Luc Houtkamp, Yoshi Ichiraku, Matt Ingalls, Joelle Leandre, Gino Robair, ROVA saxophone quartet, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith and John Zorn. Ongoing groups he has founded or played in include the League of Automatic Music Composers and the Hub -- pioneering live computer network bands -- and Rotodoti, the Natto Quartet, Fuzzybunny, All Tomorrow's Zombies and Wobbly/Perkis/Antimatter.
He has taught at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the California College of the Arts (CCA); has been composer-in-residence at Mills College in Oakland California, artist-in-residence at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, and designed musical tools and toys at Paul Allen's legendary thinktank, Interval Research. In 2013 he was a resident fellow at the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Research (IMéRA) of the University of Aix-Marseille in France.
http://perkis.com/_site/index.html
https://soundcloud.com/perkis
Thea Farhadian is a performer/composer based in San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin. Her projects include solo violin and interactive electronics, acoustic improvisation, solo laptop, radio art, and video. Her solo pieces for violin and electronics combine a classical music background with extended technique and digital processing using the program Max/MSP.
Her work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Issue Project Room, and Alternative Museum New York City, Galerie Mario Mazolli, Sowieso, and Quiet Cue in Berlin, the Room Series, and Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project at Bimhaus in Amsterdam. .
Thea is a former member of the Berkeley Symphony orchestra where she played under Kent Nagano for ten years. She has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College.
http://theafarhadian.com/
https://theafarhadian.bandcamp.com/album/tectonic-shifts