Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sun, Jul 15 2007 12:30 PM

21 Grand
416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland
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In conjunction with 21 Grand's 7th anniversary celebration, the 7th annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ is an all-day marathon music and BBQ extravaganza. Admission is free, but we'll pass the hat for the benefit of the Transbay Creative Music Calendar. We'll have a couple of charcoal grills out in the alleyway for your gustatory pleasure (BRING STUFF TO GRILL!) and a double load of the Bay Area's best creative musicians inside for your listening pleasure.

If you are unable to attend, you can listen to a live internet stream, provided by sfSoundRadio.

Schedule (subject to change!):

TimePerformer
12:30The Transbay Circulation Desk
Folding, labeling, stamping and skronking with the Transbay Calendar staff: Matt Davignon, Tom Duff, Matt Ingalls, Aurora Josephson, David Slusser
1:00womans worth
matthew grothman, alto, wilson drozdowski, trumpet, randylee sutherland, drums; dense yet melodic improvised outbursts with a strong focus on dynamics and form.
1:30Recursive Heretics
Scott R. Looney uses his laptop to process Aaron Bennett's saxophone, resulting in a creative feedback loop of rare improvisational beauty.
2:00Polly Moller & Company
Guitarist Grant Gardner and bassist Jim Carr have come to Oakland from New Jersey and Kentucky, respectively just to do Polly Moller's bidding. The result should be poetry, flutistry and otherworldly atmospheres.
2:30Cornelius Cardew Choir
The Bay Area's own community new music chorus performs new works and Avant Garde classics
3:00Jonathan Segel
3:30Davignon/Brumit
Matt Davignon, drum machine, Jon Brumit, drums
4:00David Slusser project
4:30jay korber & mikey yeda duo
guitar+drums
4:50Heule/Dryer duo
Jacob Felix Heule, Tony Dryer
5:15The Dark Side of Genius
Funk/Psychedelic/Fake Jazz improv
6:05SOPHISTICUFFS
loud crazy abrasive improvised music: Jeremy Kearney, tenor sax, Alan Anzalone, saxophones, Micaela Petersen on, drums
6:30Generally Midair
electro-acoustic chamber ensemble: Pauline Oliveros [via the net], Joe Zitt (electronics and voice), Scot Gresham-Lancaster (electronics), Adria Otte (violin), Beau Casey (electronics), Margot Bevington (voice), Thea Farhadian (electronics), Bob Marsh (cello), Tom Bickley (electronics), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi).
7:00Amar Chaudhary
solo digital
7:30RTD3
Ron Heglin, trombone, Tom Nunn, homebrew percussion, Doug Carroll, elec cello
8:00Dr. Bob
David Michalak, Bob Marsh, drummer: Cautionary surgical music and video (incl. Man Ray's DADA film masterpiece Return To Reason)
8:30Mute Socialite
Alee Karim, Bass, Ava Mendoza, Guitar, Moe! Staiano, Drums, percussive guitar, Shayna Dunkleman
9:00Tim Thompson
interactive video+music: theme music and title sequence graphics from a 70's TV action series gone horribly wrong.
9:30Jorrit Dijkstra (Netherlands)/Phillip Greenlief (Oakland)
saxophone duo: Improvised explorations into the sonic possibilities of the saxophone
10:00The Whassuptet
Gino Robair, Matt Ingalls, John Shiurba, Tim Perkis, Tom Djll+ maybe one Very Special Guest; re-enacting the 1878 Siege of Cleveland, employing 10-penny nails, unpeeled bananas, and a live crow
BONUS!SL Morse - Albert Camus - "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Sarah Lockhart and Suki O'Kane, morse code drumming about death/absence of God, lifting weights, success and failure, scheduled at their leisure in the afternoon in front of God's Gym.



Cost: free
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008
Invented Instruments , at the High Zero festival September 22nd 2012 , Baltimore Maryland
Scott R. Looney, Lisa Mezzacapa, and Donald Robinson at Berkeley Arts Fest space - May 31, 2014
A 2024 festival performance in Albuquerque.
Brown Slusser plays Mind and Time (Ornette COleman)