2nd Annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ!Summer is here. So why don't you get away from that West-Bay Fog, come over to sunny Berkeley and join us to hear dozens of the Bay Area's best-known practitioners of adventurous, improvised, non-standard music. We will have plenty of charcoal on hand, so bring a slab of meat or any other items for yourself or others to consume, get food poisoning, and listen to some damn-fine music!
Brought to you by ACME and by the Transbay Calendar, this FREE event was a ton of fun last year.
Expect this year to be even better. Hope to see you there!
[program order subject to change]
1pm sfSound Duo [improvised compositions and composed improvisations]
Matt Ingalls - clarinet, David Bithell - trumpet
Mixed Signals [electronics & things trio]
Alan Brightbill, Tom Bickley, Tom Duff
Guided Improv Workshop Ensemble Elizabeth Albee - trumpet, Per Bloland - trumpet, Michael Cook - reeds
Andrew Raffo Dewar - soprano sax, Ernesto Diaz-Infante - acoustic guitar, Andrew Doe - electric guitar,
Jason Gibbs - bassoon, Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, Scott R Looney - electronics
3pm Marco Eneidi [solo saxophone]
Emergency String Quartet Bob Marsh - cello, Jef Hobbs - violin, Damon Smith - bass Headloss [a skronk combo]
064 - guitar/computer, Wendy Bauer - vocals, Bruce Fraser- bass,
Alan Phillips - keyboards, Chris Broderick - reeds, Otto Huber - drums 5pm Jessica Loos [improv voice/poetry]
Tri-Cornered Tent Show [experientialist electroacoustic sound]
Phillip Everett - contraption,
Ray Schaeffer - electric fretless bass,
André Custodio - nord micromodular and darbuka
Phil Gelb [shakuhachi]
7pmIan Yeager [solo guitar]
Brassiosaurus Tom Djll - trumpet,
Ron Heglin - trombone/tuba,
Toyoji Tomita- bass trombone
Dark Muse [ethereal alchemy & voice flow]
Dan Plonsey's Garbaggio Truckio Fantastico "It's All in Good Fun (you assholes)"
An opera, a mockery: of everyone, from top to bottom of the music
world, including performers, composers, reviewers, presenters,
theorists, audience. 9pm John Shiurba's Double Nickels Andrew Raffo Dewar - soprano sax,
John Ingle - alto sax,
Elizabeth Albee - trumpet,
Tom Djll - trumpet,
Adam Lane - bass,
Eli Crews - bass,
Myles Boisen - guitar,
John Shiurba - guitar,
Thomas Scandura - percussion,
Garth Powell- percussion
Joseph Zitt [experimental vocalization and sound
poetry]
Reel Change [improvisations to silent films]
David Michalak - lap steel, Andrew Voigt - winds, Tom Nunn - electroacoustic soundboards, Joe Sabella - Tuba, Samples and Adam Hurst - Cello