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Sat 2/4 8:00 PMTemescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland] THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN do you dare to be in experiments in experience/participation performance? The Underground Hit! Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations are encouraged.) ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH FOR THIS?
with Sister Fucker, Slaughter High, & Free Ricky Sunday, February 5
Sun 2/5 12:00 PMBerkeley Art Museum [Woo Hon Fai Hall 2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 9] Join Land and Sea in celebrating the sun! The Bay Area's own Tealchemy erects a temporary tea house in our gallery, dispensing "drinkable art" to accompany the musical experiences. Come toast cups of liquid gold as we celebrate Cha Dao, the Way of Tea. Listen to virtuoso violinist and composer Jennifer Curtis, who studied at both Mills and Juilliard, play solar compositions on her violin. Finally, "psychedelic minimalists" Date Palms (Gregg Kowalsky and Marielle Jakobsons) ease us gently into the afternoon.
Sun 2/5 4:00 PM Herbst Theater [401 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA ] On Sunday, February 5 at 4:00 PM, at the Herbst Theater in the Civic Center in San Francisco, Thomas Buckner, baritone, and accompanying artists will perform a program of contemporary music including works by Robert Ashley and Annea Lockwood's "In Our Name", a piece using texts by prisoners in Guantanimo prison. For tickets: Four Seasons Arts, http://www.fsarts.org or 510 845-4444.
Sun 2/5 7:00 PMTrapezoid Gallery @ California College of the Arts [8th St & Hooper St San Francisco, CA 94107 (building with the scrolling sign)] Brooklyn-based saxophonist and multi-media performer Matana Roberts and Oakland-based artist and performer Jacob Wick meet for one set of duo improvisations in the Trapezoid Gallery at the California College of the Arts. Monday, February 6
Mon 2/6 8:00 PM Makeout Room [22 St at Mission, SF] The Monday Makeout presents: KNUDSEN-ARKIN-COLEMAN TRIO (Kasey Knudsen, saxophone / Michael Coleman, keyboards / Jon Arkin, drums) ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET (Steve Adams /Jon Raskin /Bruce Ackley / Larry Ochs) JORDAN GLENN GROUP (Rent Romus, reeds / Karl Evangelista, guitar / Michael Coleman, keyboards / Jason Hoopes, bass / Jordan Glenn, drums) Wednesday, February 8
Wed 2/8 7:30 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] The Universal Flute: A Concert of Contemporary American Music for the Shakuhachi Performed by Ralph Samuelson
This program features compositions for the Japanese bamboo flute, shakuhachi, by American composers, including works by Henry Cowell, Elizabeth Brown, Richard Teitelbaum, and Barbara White. Thursday, February 9
Thu 2/9 8:00 PM NEXT NOW 3 : El Valenciano Restaurant & Bar [1153 Valencia St SF] NEXT NOW 3 : the eclectic improvised musics of Jayn Pettingill's VERB ensemble w/Lisa Mezzacappa,Vijay Anderson,Matt Plummer, Mika Pontecorvo's CARTOON JUSTICE w/Miyakawa,Abrams,Baker, Levin,Pontecorvo, and PLUMMER/ZIMMERMAN/SWANAGON trio w/Plummer, Jameson Swanagon, Jacob Zimmerman ... Friday, February 10
Fri 2/10 8:00 PMThe Marion Green Black Box Theater at the Fox Theater [530 19th Street, Oakland, CA 94516] Was It a Dream I Loved is a new full length dance theater performance from Oakland based artist collective "this sweet nothing", co-founded by Sonsheree Giles, Heike Liss, and Caroline Penwarden. The three protagonists will be joined by dancers from AXIS Dance Company, as well as guest artists Lisa Bufano, Amy Lewis, Rebecca Gilbert, Janet Das, John Carnahan, Kevin Atkinson, Alicia Ruth, Damon Waitkus, Aram Shelton, Noah Phillips, Jim Kassis, and Jason Hoopes. Saturday, February 11
Sun 2/12 12:00 AMKZSU 90.1FM, Stanford University [540 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305] The Day of Noise is a 24-hour marathon of live music from experimental, noise, and all things interesting/beautiful/unique artists. (Sunday; 12AM-11:59PM, Pacific Time) featuring Brian B James; Kurt James Werner; The Voice of Doom; Feast and Friends; Bad News; Peter Nyboer; David Leikam; Joe Straub; David Slusser; Bill Orcutt; Jessica Rylan; zBug; Frank Rothkamm; Ernesto Diaz-Infante; Negativwobblyland; Jon Leidecker; Peter Conheim; Danny Paul Grody; En; Aloonaluna; Matt Ingalls; John Ingle; Matt Davignon; Abode; Thomas Dimuzio; Megabats; Thea Farhadian; White Pee; The Lickets; Vulcanus 68
Sun 2/12 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30pm Jack Wright - solo saxophone 8:30pm Emergency String (X)tet Thursday, February 16
Thu 2/16 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] The difference between Wright and Rong Jack Wright - saxophones Bob "Rong" Marsh - Sonic Suit #1 Kinji Hayashi - butoh dance
"When two legends of american improvised music decide to share with us the space of a moment, their passion for the duo, we can only be curious, then won over."---From Sebastian Moig, writing for Jazzosphere no. 19 (a French publication) Friday, February 17
Fri 2/17 8:00 PMMeridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF] Leslie Ross will present an evening of solo works created for a micro-microphoned bassoon. Fifteen microphones are placed right at tone holes of the instrument and the signals routed to speakers placed around the room. This set up takes apart the sound of the instrument, each microphone differentiating and picking up slightly different timbre and frequency nuances which when sent to multiple speakers creates a thickly textured listening environment. This is particularly true with multiphonics which are used extensively in most of the pieces. Pitches and phrases blending in and out of these multiphonics are often further supported with the use of circular breathing. Saturday, February 18
Sat 2/18 8:00 PM 784 65th St. [784 65th St., Oakland (2 blocks from Ashby BART)] The Angelicals - Michael Dale (Saxophone), Karl Evangelista (Guitar), Bob Marsh (Cello); plus The Notables - Jack Wright and Jacob Lindsay (Reeds). Sunday, February 19
Sun 2/19 3:00 PM Club 475 (house concert) [475 43rd Street (corner of Barrett) Richmond, CA 94805] Jack Wright, saxes; Bob Marsh, bass and voice; Spirit, percussion. Old friends, new setting.
Sun 2/19 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30 Forward Energy CD release set of The Awakening Jim Ryan saxophones, Rent Romus saxophones, CJ Borosque trumpet, Scott R. Loney piano, Eric Marshall bass, Timothy Orr drums 8:30 Emily Hay voice/flutes, Motoko Honda piano, Brad Dutz drums Tuesday, February 21
Tue 2/21 9:00 PMUptown [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland] The Oakland Active Orchestra returns to the Uptown. Large group improvisations and compositions by Bennett, Schott, Shelton, and more! Featuring Hillary Overberg, violin; Emily Packard, viola / violin; Aram Shelton, alto sax & bass clarinet; Aaron Bennett, baritione saxophone & flute; Cory Wright, tenor sax & clarinet; Darren Johnston, trumpet; Theo Padouvas, trumpet; Rob Ewing, trombone; John Schott, guitar; Mark Clifford, vibraphone; Kim Cass, bass; Doug Stuart, bass; Jordan Glenn, percussion. Thursday, February 23
Thu 2/23 9:30 PM Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut [671 24th Street, Oakland, CA 94612] An evening of improvisational music with local musicians in different configurations welcoming Joe Straub back to the San Francisco Bay Area from Berlin, Germany featuring Joe Straub, Jason Hoopes, Karl Evangelista, David Leikam, Jordan Glenn, Sarah Howe Friday, February 24
Fri 2/24 8:00 PMCNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley] Open Sound West: Addleds (Kyle Bruckmann - oboe/English horn; Tony Dryer - double bass; Jacob Felix Heule - percussion; & Kanoko Nishi koto), Lewis Jordan and Music at Large http://www.lewisjordan.com/music_music_at_large.html
Music at Large is a performance series dedicated to interdisciplinary and multicultural productions. Lewis Jordan has collaborated with musicians, poets, dancers and actors for over 30 years, focusing on creative structures for improvisation. Music at Large features Lewis Jordan (saxophone, poetry), India Cooke (violin), Karl Evangelista (electric guitar) and Marshall Trammell (drums).
Addleds. The quartet of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/English horn), Tony Dryer (double bass), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion) and Kanoko Nishi (koto) -- explore timbral and textural extremes of distended instrumental technique via improvisation and open-ended compositional strategies. Their music tends towards a brutalist minimalism as informed by the noise underground as by recent developments in the field of free improvisation. Saturday, February 25
Mon 2/27 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland CA] JOZEF VAN WISSEM The sublime Dutch master of the baroque lute presents a lecture entitled The Liberation of the Lute. He will demonstrate a "swan neck" baroque lute which was especially built for him. Van Wissem is renowned for his ability to appropriate the Renaissance and Baroque lute in the context of contemporary experimental music. By cutting and pasting classical pieces, reversing melodies, and adding electronics and processed field recordings, he is able to bridge the language of 17th century music with that of the 21st century without compromising the timbre and resonance of traditional lute playing techniques. Tuesday, February 28
Wed 2/29 8:30 PM Subterranean Art House [2179 Bancroft Way Berkeley CA 94704 (between Shattuck and Fulton)] Brooklyn-Bay Area creative jazz double header!
Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day (from Brooklyn!) Nate Wooley - trumpet Matt Bauder- tenor saxophone Chris Dingman -vibraphone Garth Stevenson - bass Harris Eisenstadt - drums, compositions
Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone John Finkbeiner, electric guitar Vijay Anderson, drums Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass MARCH 2012 Thursday, March 1
