Wed 8/27 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Prélude/Introit, 8pm: Bob Marsh & Evangel King
Bob Marsh and associates have made many multimedia interpretations of Bob's graphic scores in the rhizomic window/door/river project. Bob Marsh (cello) and Evangel King (dance) perform one of the most beautiful of these fascinating pieces in a short site-specific realization designed specifically for the Berkeley Arts Festival space.
Set 1, 8:20pm:
Henry Kuntz & Envision Ensemble
A rare appearance by a daring pioneer of joyously unbounded, infinitely free jazz and world music for a new world. The Envision Ensemble (an outgrowth of the earlier Opeye Orchestra) moves toward an advanced improvisational archetype, one in which multiple independent events may occur while the musicians simultaneously create an experiential musical whole. Also joining will be special guest
Dan Plonsey, who has made a career out of being mathematically impossible.
Line-up:
Henry Kuntz, Brian Godchaux, John Kuntz, Esten Lindgren,
Dan PlonseySet 2, 9:15pm: Tom Duff & his Wire Machine
In another rare appearance, Bay Area master Tom Duff will install and perform/operate Wire Machine, which takes Alvin Lucier's seminal composition/installation Music on a Long Thin Wire and runs with it on his enhanced version, The Wire Machine (last seen at Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands as part of Soundwave (5)).
Tom will use his expanded version of Lucier's kit to perform his piece Lucier, Golomb, Gray, exploring the effects of useful information encoding schemes on a vibrating electromechanical system and its listeners.
You won't know what hit you, but your chakras will be thoroughly cleansed (losslessly, and without spurious outputs). Come if you dare...
More... Wed 8/27 8:00 PM El Rio [3158 Mission St
SF]Delirious Summer: Grex, Spring (Vancouver, BC),
Moe! Staiano with Surplus 1980
-Summer musics converge, fuse, and ignite in a one-time meeting of three great RIO ensembles: Delirious Summer features a rare visit from Vancouver-based avant prog ensemble Spring, Bay Area art rock/post-jazz trio Grex's first show back from a smashing national tour, and local great
Moe! Staiano's angular, explosive Surplus 1980
Show at 8PM
Grex:
Karl Evangelista (gtr/vox), Rei Scampavia (keys/vox),
Robert Lopez (dms)
Spring: Joseph Hirabayashi (vox/gtrs, etc.), Elliot Langford (Gtrs/Vox/Electric Sitar/pno), Ridley Bishop (b/vox/saxes), Kevin Romain (dms, vintage cymbals, vox, etc.)
Surplus 1980 Moe! Staiano (gtr/vox), Bill Wolter (gtr), Melne Twf (gtr),
Amanda Chaudhary (keys),
Thomas Scandura (dms)
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