8pm 'unknown white male' bass clarinet, flutes and saxes
9pm Animal Vegetable Television
Ron Chornow - Conga, Djembe, Doumbek, Pegasus Metallophone, Found Objects, Clarinet
Gary Schwantes-Saxes, Electric Guitar, Bamboo Flutes, Loops/Electronics
Concerning one Unknown White Male: The artist in question has laboured greatly of late, busking for untold hours in our city's public transit stations in the effort to hone his chops to a razor sharp efficiency and impact, and for this concert he will valiantly attempt to perform utterly live 'n' spontaneous unaccompanied improvisations on the bass clarinet, alto/sopranino saxophones and flutes. Will he scale the astral heights of unbridled musical invention and virtuosity? Or
will he flounder aimlessly in hackneyed noodling and tediously insufferable wankery? Come see for yourselves!
Gary Schwantes has toured and recorded 2 CDs with North Carolina based Hip Bones. He is founder of Ultra World X-tet, and has performed with S.F. Guzheng Music Society, Klezmania, Pam Tillis, Lou Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, John Cipolina and Hank Ballard. He has composed music and done sound design for Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, Fisher-Price, Mattel, Broderbund, Fujitsu, Mickey Hart, Craig Baldwin, Dimensions Dance Theater, ACT, and S.F. Legion of Honor Museum among others and released a CD with Chinese composer Gang Situ. www.garyschwantes.com
Ron Chornow has been a percussionist for over 20 years and recently has added the clarinet. He is a veteran of many Punk, Industrial and Alternative Bands such as Forms of Things, Samsara, Color Failure, Dinosaur Lullaby, Lots of Trees, New Assault and Krank. In addition to traditional percussion instruments, Ron likes to create unusual sounds with objects originally intended for other purposes.
"Animal, vegetable, television. These are some of the basic elements we use to create and inform our music, as well as 3 staples of our daily diet. Given this Input, experience has shown that our expected Output encompasses noise constructions, delicate sustained melodic textures, and urban tribal improv."
Cost: $6-10