8:00pm Inertia
Alex Jenkins, Dyne Eifertsen - trombone
8:45pm Charles Celeste Hutchins - laptop
9:15pm
Joey Molinaro - solo violin/electronics
Relentlessly-touring composer, violinist, and fiddler Joey Molinaro first gained attention as a member of the seven-piece experimental chamber-grind outfit "Basilica." As an acoustic or electric solo artist, he conjures a torrent of riffs over a two-boot foot percussion flurry. His set often includes seventeen Discordance-Axis-inspired songs, overdriven poetry, and glitched-out electronics. Joey is "based”" in Brooklyn/ Pittsburgh.
Charles Céleste Hutchins was born in San Jose, California in 1976, and lives in London, England. He is a member of the board of directors of Other Minds, an organisation that produces an annual festival in San Francisco.
Hutchins attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Maggi Payne and acquired a love for the sound of analog electronics. In 1998 he graduated with a dual B.A. in music and computer science. In 2005, Charles graduated from the M.A. program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he studied computer music and Supercollider with Ron Kuivila and improvisation with Anthony Braxton. Following that, he attended the year long course at CCMIX in France and then the Sonology course at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands. He has just completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham in England, where he studied with Scott Wilson.
He has performed in North America – in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Canada and Connecticut – and in Europe- in England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Austria. His music has been played on European and American radio.
He is exploring using his computer to do things that his analogue synthesiser cannot do, including just intonation and granular synthesis. His most recent work has concentrated on live laptop performance, especially in an ensemble setting.
After college, Alex Jenkins spent two months in India, working on an independent ethnology project. It was during this period that he became interested in Tabla. Subsequently, Alex spent the remainder of his time there, studying North Indian Classical music and Tabla technique.
Returning to the U.S., Alex expanded his musical education by spending two years in the Percussion Studies program at California State University, studying under Dan Kennedy. He also had the privilege of studying with the great Tabla Guru, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music in San Rafael, Ca. Alex continues to perform and record regularly, around California and beyond, playing a variety of music (on both Drum set and Tabla) including, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Fusion, Indian Classical and just about everything in between.
Cost: $6-10