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: Community Music Center 544 Capp Street
Btwn 20th and 21st
SFFriday, Dec 5 2008 8:00 PM DOCTOR BOB CONCERT SERIES Operation #1: Doctor Bob and Pamela Z
DOCTOR BOB is a project of avant cellist and vocalist Bob Marsh and nouveau lap steel player and film maker David Michalak. They play songs for a dark and turbulent world ranging from scary to the surreal. This show will feature new material from their upcoming release called, “Chance” as well as songs from their “Dark Times” CD on Edgetone Records. Andre Custodio will join the duo on drums and percussion.
Pamela Z composer, performer, sound artist and extended vocalist will feature some new works for voice, electronics, and video.
SOME QUOTES
about Doctor Bob
"What can be said with an agreeable amount of certainty is that their musical endeavors as “Doctor Bob” are light years from anything that is currently being recorded, released, performed or even thought about anywhere on this planet." ~ Tobias Fischer, Tokafi
"This disc is just more proof that it is indeed possible to achieve an unsettling musical vision with a minimal set of tools, provided one has an overabundance of demented vision." ~ RKF, Dead Angel
"Take a warped little ride with Doctor Bob...like some weird hybrid of Captain Beefheart and Zeit era Tangering Dream." ~ Pete Pardo, Sea of Tranquility
about Pamela Z
“…a vocalist who mixes street instincts with vestiges of operatic singing and other between-style sounds, a gifted improviser and manipulator of delay loops building up layers of sound. ~ Josef Woodard
"Pamela Z is a wonderful performer. She was wired up like a suicide bomber. I couldn't quite make out which wires led to where but every time she moved a part of her body she triggered a sound bite…Her voice is beautiful and her range is broad..." ~ Kenneth Goldsmith WFMU
THE ARTISTS
Doctor Bob
David Michalak
plays a Fender lap steel guitar and an assortment of odd percussion instruments. While he is more commonly known as a filmmaker (50 films with original soundtracks since 1971), the visual art side of him seeps inherently into his performances and compositions characterized by shimmering passages, abstract snapshots and haunting representations of natural elements. Besides Doctor Bob, David plays in his instrumental ensembles Reel Change and Ghost In The House.
Bob Marsh
is a well seasoned improviser whose work has involved shaping sounds, words, images and ideas. Since his arrival on the west coast, multi-instrumentalist and composer Marsh has been busy with several projects: String Theory, Che Guevarra Memorial Marching (and Stationary) Accordion Band, Robot Martians, the Quintessentials, and others. He currently is active with cello, accordion, violin, voice, vibraphone and electronics.
Andre Custodio
is a SF bay area native Drummer/Sound Designer who studied with Brian Fergus, Bob Danielson and Karl Perazzo. He currently teaches and performs in the San Francisco Bay Area and has recorded with Rudis/Custodio/Diaz-Infante, Tri-Cornered Tent Show, and Say Bok Gwai.
Pamela Z
is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing and sampling technology. Processing her live voice through “MAX MSP” software on a PowerBook, she creates solo works that combine operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, and sampled concrète sounds. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Temescal Arts Center 511 48th Street
between Shattuck and Telegraph
OaklandSunday, Dec 14 2008 6:00 PM The Left Coast Improv Group is a total improvisatory ensemble with no director, no conductor, no scores, and no hierarchy. It's rhizomatic for sure following lines of flight and intensities within over and around the body without organs, i.e. Deluzian. The regular players are: Doug Carroll cello, Michael Cooke bassoon, Ron Heglin trombone & voice, Jeff Hobbs clarinet cornet violin , Scott R. Looney piano & electronics, Bob Marsh violin and other things, Tom Nunn hand-built electro-acoustic instruments, Jim Ryan flute horn & small percussion, and Karen Stackpole gongs and percussion . . . they are likely to play other things as well. Eponine Cuervo-Moll has also worked with us doing body movement.
CDs on which Bob Marsh appears:
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