Bob Marsh Link to home page : Bob Marsh  Biography: Bob Marsh performs regularly on violin, cello, piano, vibraphone, flute, electronics, and uses extended vocal techniques. He is the leader of String Theory, Out of the Blue Chamber Ensemble, the Quintessentials, the Robot Martians, the Illuminated Orchestra, Opera viva and the Che Guevarra Memorial Marching (and Stationary) Accordion Band; and member of Aaron Bennett's Nonet, Jim Ryan's Left Coast Improv Group, the Abstractions, the Moe!chestra and the Cornelius Cardew Choir
Education:
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1974
Master of Arts, Humanistic Clinical Psychology, Merrill-Palmer Institute, Detroit, 1981
Classical guitar with Carl Bernstein (Detroit, 1967)
Vibraphone (San Francisco, 1970)
Classical Piano, Grosse Pointe Conservatory of Music, 1973
Address: 475 43rd Street
Richmond, CA 94805
Phone: 510-932-9268
Email: laoze@myrealbox.comUpcoming Events: Makeout Room 3225 22nd St
San Francisco, CA 94110Monday, Jul 6 2009 8:00 PM The Monday Makeout presents:
The Spirit Moves Us: Jim Ryan, reeds and flute / Bob Marsh, cello / Spirit, percussion
Admiral Ted Brinkley and Friends
Community Music Center 544 Capp Street
Btwn 20th and 21st
SFSunday, Jul 19 2009 7:00 PM The Outsound New Music Summit
TOUCH THE GEAR EXPO
Come and experience this hands-on experience of sound producing gear and instruments!
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The Kick off event to one of the most comprehensive new, fun, and experimental music festivals on the West Coast!
Ever wanted a closer look at the gear on stage? Wish you could try it yourself? Touch the Gear is Outsound’s free public event that allows audiences to roam among the artists and their sonic inventions, asking questions, making noise and learning how these often one-of-a-kind set-ups work. It’s a hands-on, family-friendly environment that demystifies the technology while inspiring the creativity.
Presenting Artists:
Amar Chaudhary - Tablet, Laptop
Bob Marsh - Inventions
Cheryl Leonard - amplified natural object instruments
CJ Borosque - noise pedals
Conure - electronic gear
Crank Ensemble - hand crank instruments
Dan Ake - Inventions
Ferrara Brain Pan - oscillators
Jim Kaiser - homemade contact mic and etc
Lx Rudis - cd dj, synths, etc
Philip Everett - Pedals, effects, bitterman
Richard Waters (who invented the waterphone)
Rick Walker - Looperlative live looping systems
Steven Baker - Inventions
Thomas Dimuzio - electronics for modifying and generating sounds
Tom Duff - drum pad-controlled software instrument
Tom Nunn - new "Scratchbox" instruments
Travis Johns - homebrew electronics
more TBA!
Presented in the friendly San Francisco Community Music Center, you too can touch the gear and explore the incredible worlds of creative sound making!
Brought to you by Outsound Presents
Kingman's Ivy Room 860 San Pablo Ave
near Solano Ave
AlbanyMonday, Aug 10 2009 9:00 PM jimzeen productions presents • Monday, August 10, 2009 at Kingman’s Ivy Room, Solano&San Pablo, Albany, CA, 9pm . . . NO COVER = FREE . . . BUT BUY DRINKS!
Three Sets 1) Go-Go Fightmaster (4tet), 2) Ava, Devin, & Weasel(Ava's Thrash Jazz Band),
3) The Spirit Moves Us (Trio)
Go-Go Fightmaster is a band: Aaron Bennett saxes&straw, John Finkbinder guitar&straw, Lisa Mezzacappa contrabass, Vijay Anderson drums. Go-Go Fightmaster is music that seeks only to be music and relevant in this era of violent expansionism and blatant disregard for the declining state of the planet. Go-Go Fightmaster does not seek to be the most modern, historical, punk/jazz/disco/dark/light/cool/whatever shocking, comforting, Spiritual, secular, or avant garde. Go-Go Fightmaster are lovers, not fighters and we do not engage in the form of dancing known as "Go-Go". Go-Go Fightmaster does not like cheese (except on crackers). Go-Go Fightmaster is the ideal band for your corporate event. Go-Go Fightmaster loves you.
Ava Mendoza plays guitar, Devin Hoff plays upright bass, Weasel Walter plays drums.
***Ava’s main band is 'Mute Socialite'. She is also a composer, and electronic musician living in Oakland, CA. She plays improvised music, weird rock, and original compositions. Improvised music was the first area of music in which she became vitally interested as a classically-trained teenager. ***Devin Hoff Contrabassist and composer, has played thousands of shows around the world, everything from punk clubs to major jazz festivals, left-wing benefits to barn dances, and has appeared on dozens of records, radio and television programs. He is currently a member of:
Good For Cows, Redressers, Odessa Chen, Nels Cline Singers, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Red Rosa, John Schott’s Typical Orchestra, and the Ben Goldberg School; and has recorded and/or wroked regularly with: Carla Kihlstedt, Vijay Iyer, Xiu Xiu, Jewlia Eisenberg, Scott Amendola, Carla Bozulich, Howard Wiley, Graham Connah, Bill Stewart, Arnoldo Garcia, Hugh Ragin, and many more.
***Weasel Walter descended on the Planet somewhere in the Midwest (aka The Heartland) sometime in 1972 and has always been very weird . . . only the drums and the Flying Luttenbachers saved him from eternal incarceration in middle America. He now lives in Oakland, CA but goes to other places too, to play with other famous weirdos.
The Spirit Moves Us is a trio of veteran improvisers flowing to the East Bay from the midwest (Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, & St. Paul, MN) through r&b, jazz, and avant experimental groups. Eastbania (San Francisco’s East Bay Area) has been home to them for many years now, and they have worked together frequently in various configurations. Spirit on percussion is considered by local and national aficionados as an original master of the free form jazz genre. Bob Marsh has brought the cello to an awesome freshness and versatility, and Jim Ryan on flute, saxophones, kalimba, & spoken word has performed regularly throughout the country and locally with his Forward Energy bands. For CDs by these players, go to www.edgetonerecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/gogofightmaster
http://www.myspace.com/karenstackpole
http://www.myspace.com/avamendoza
http://devinhoffplatform.com/
www.myspace.com/weaselwalter
http://www.myspace.com/theSpiritmovesus
CDs on which Bob Marsh appears:
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