Fri 10/10 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Switchboard Presents
Redshift Ensemble: Quintet featuring Jeff Anderle (clarinet), Jill Heinke (flute), Andi Springer (violin), Rose Bellini (cello), and Kate Campbell (piano)
Aaron Novik’s Cosimo Lissy (
Jordan Glenn, drums;
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass;
Mark Clifford, vibraphone;
Kasey Knudsen, alto sax; and Aaron Novik, clarinets) performing new work by Aaron about parallel universe comic book realities, using Spam lyrics and constantly shifting meters.
More... Fri 10/10 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue
Berkeley]Set Ø, 8:00pm: Metropolitan Butoh (都風舞踏), veteran Bay Area butoh performers Ronnie Baker, Molly Barrons, Christina Braun, & Martha Matsuda.
"Mission Fu (ミッション譜) is the title of our ongoing exploration of images from the urban landscape, in the Mission District, Oakland, Detroit and other cities where have lived… For the Berkeley Arts Festival, we'll engage with the local landscape to create time-based art; a Berkeley Fu (バークレー譜)."
Set 1, 8:20pm:
Henry Kuntz & Envision Ensemble. A rare appearance by a daring pioneer of joyously unbounded, infinitely free jazz.
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Henry Kuntz: sax, violins, gamelan, percussion, ringleader
— Brian Godchaux: violin, viola, mandolin
— John Kuntz: ukulele, guitar, mandolin, percussion
— Esten Lindgren: contrabass, pocket trumpet
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Dan Plonsey: saxes
Set 2, 9:15pm: NY-based British vocalist, composer & electronic sound artist Viv Corringham plays Berkeley Arts Festival as part of her NorCal tour, joined by a Transbay multimedia consort of Deep Listening practitioners & neogaku kaiju:
— Viv Corringham: voice, electronics
— Joe Lasqo: laptop, keyboards, objects
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Jennifer Wilsey: percussion
— Wind choir:
Nancy Beckman: shakuhachi,
Tom Bickley: EWI wind synthesizer / contrabasss recorder,
Ron Heglin: tuba / trombone
— Video artist: Bill Thibault
Program may include various types of improv games based on sonic grammars, deviant sample-melting, mnemo-narrative field recordings, and intermedia moiré of words, utterance, sound, motion, memory, image & music.
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