Bay Area Improvisers Network
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Bay Area Improvisers Network
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Jacob Lindsay Biography: Clarinetist Jacob Lindsay was born, lives, and performs in Oakland, California. Although he works in many genres, he focuses on the continuum following the U.S. free jazz movement spawned in the 60's, moving through European non-idiomatic free-improvisation, and globally into its current incarnations. Jacob has participated in the SF Bay Area realization of this continuum since 1995 beginning with early collaborations with bassist Damon Smith.Jacob works with the full range of clarinets from Contrabass to Ab Piccolo. He combines traditional approaches to the instruments with new approaches based on pragmatic, pre-fabricated methods of sound production and structure. Jacob has studied clarinet with Ben Goldberg, Jim Freeman, and Mark Brandenburg. He holds a BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz. His early musical education also involved study and workshops with bassist Lisle Ellis. During this time he performed with many groups including regularly with Ben Goldberg's Brainchild and Marco Eneidi's American Jungle Orchestra. More recently he has perfomed with numerous musicians within the Bay Area and beyond, including Wolfgang Fuchs, Aurora Josephson, Scott R. Looney, Kyle Bruckmann, Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule, Philipp Wachsmann, Martin Blume, Boris Baltschun, Serge Baghdassarians, Gino Robair, Phillip Greenlief, Ava Mendoza, and Weasel Walter. In addition to duties as clarinetist, Jacob has also served as composer and conductor for projects such as Ives and Our America, Shut Up is the New Avant-Garde, and the Jacob Lindsay Double Ensemble. Work-In-Progress: YellowcakeJacob Lindsay - Ab, Bb, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets Scott R. Looney - Electronics Gino Robair - Percussion/Analogue Synth "In common are the trio's unusually broad palette of sounds from their respective instruments, quick ears, and iconoclasm. Where they really excel is in their ability to augment or finish each other's phrases, and to find and blend complementary sounds...an absolute delight of careening sounds, drama and good humor." -David Slusser, Transbay Calendar Electronics and percussion have the capability of being the most wildcard elements in improvised music as the instruments themselves are mutable. Yellowcake was formed with the intention of expoiting the mutable nature of it's instrumentation, as well as encouraging the surprising contributions of each individual through a process of continual evolution in performance. Dryer/Heule/Lindsay Tony Dryer - Double Bass Jacob Felix Heule - Drums and Percussion Jacob Lindsay - Ab, Bb, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets The trio of Dryer/Heule/Lindsay was formed to explore musical territories made prominent in recent years emphasizing quiet and static musical structures. The trio seeks to relate to these new territories through pragmatic application of improvisation and compositional structures, rather than through stylistic imitation. Also of note is the trio's adherance to purely acoustic sound production in a music typically dominated by electronics. Lindsay/Mendoza/Smith/Walter Jacob Lindsay - Ab, Bb, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets Ava Mendoza - Guitar Damon Smith - 7-String Ergo Bass Weasel Walter - Drums and Percussion The quartet of Lindsay/Mendoza/Smith Walter explores the rock-idiomatic instrumentation of electric guitar, electric bass, and drums, as pitted against clarinets within the context of pan-idiomatic collectively improvised music. Selected Discography: 2002, "BOAT" Solo Bb and Bass Clarinet, Artship Recordings Disc 42 2002, "the unstable qualities of three" (bpaltd 101): Aurora Josephson, Jacob Lindsay, Damon Smith 2003, "Zero Plus" (bpa 007): Martin Blume, Aurora Josephson, Jacob Lindsay, Damon Smith, Philipp Wachsmann. 2004, "The Happymakers" (bpa 008): Wolfgang Fuchs, Jacob Lindsay, Damon Smith, Serge Baghdassarians, Boris Baltschun. 2007, "Yellowcake" (BRD057): Jacob Lindsay, Scott R. Looney, Gino Robair 2008, "Jus" (bpa 013): Jacob Lindsay, Ava Mendoza, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter Related Sites: www.balancepointacoustics.com www.aurorarising.com www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/ www.rastascan.com www.myspace.com/mryellowcake Email: jacobmakesnoise@yahoo.com Upcoming Events: 21 Grand 416 25th St @BroadwayNear 19th Street BART Oakland Thursday, Jul 24 2008 8:30 PM William Hooker (percussion) and Damon Smith (bass) perform live music to the film, Symbol of the Unconquered by Oscar Michaux + the quintet of: Liz Allbee, Aurora Josephson, Jacob Lindsay, Weasel Walter, William Winant CDs on which Jacob Lindsay appears:
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