Bay Area Improvisers Network

Outsound Presents in association with Luggage Store Gallery The New Music Series

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The longest standing experimental music series in the Bay Area, currently presented by Outsound Presents..., the The Luggage Store Gallery and bay area improvisers/sound artists Rent Romus and Matt Davignon. Operating since 1991, the series and has weathered the times through the auspices of the Gallery owners (Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith) itself being stable and safe for new music to flourish. The mission of the series under Outsound is to present a wide variety and cross section of sound artists each week running through every genre of experimentation.

Admission $6-10 sliding scale. All ages welcome, no one refused for lack of funds. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit corporation funded by the City of San Francisco, grants, and your contributions. For Gallery info (Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm), call Laurie Lazer at 415-255-5971.

BOOKING
Please contact Rent Romus for booking and all other inquires.

****BOOKING POLICY FOR PERFORMERS***
Experimental musicians (new sonic, improvised, noise, electronic, lowercase, avant-jazz, outrock, 21 century compositions, and sonic art) who are interested in performing as part of the Thursday night series at The Luggage Store Gallery are invited to contact the Outsound.org Collective for further information. The series is booked 2 to 3 months in advance and artists should be prepared to submit a recording for consideration.

SERIES FAQ
Outsound Presents...The Luggage Store Gallery Music Series is an artist-run/grass-roots DIY effort. It is not currently a funded series. We book 2 to 3 months in advance. We are unable to provide guaranteed payment, guest passes, hotel accomodations, transportation, acoustic piano, or a sound person. However, we do offer a space to play (usually 2 groups per evening), free advertising, and a percentage from the door: 70% goes to the artists (divided equally by the groups) and 30% goes to the gallery. Realistically, very little money is made and we volunteer our time. We do have a simple PA system (a mixer and two speakers), a few tables, chairs, etc. Musicians should plan to bring any microphones, music stands, instrument cables, movie projectors etc. that they might need. Setup begins at 7pm. Each Thursday's programming runs from 8 to 10 pm, usually with the first set starting at 8:10 and the second set starting at 9:10.
The series is located 1 block from the Powell Street BART station, and several San Francisco buses stop right outside. If you are driving to our space, please email us for advice on where to unload and park.

We are also happy to have volunteer help with the series (setup chairs, curtain, lights, or make/distribute flyers etc.) please contact us at Outsound.org above. Thanks!

We also want to thank with great joy the past artist-curators and volunteers of this series:
Ernesto Diaz-Infante
Sean Rooney
Steev Hise
Scott Looney
Matt Ingalls
Damon Smith
Bob Boster
Melissa Metrick
Jon Brumit

(send us a note if you had presented at the series over the past 16 years, we'd love to hear from you)

Past performing artist sample list @ the
LSG New Music Series:
Past performers have included such eclectic artists as Cecil Taylor, Miya Masaoka, Alan Silva, Carl Stone, Biggi Vinkeloe, Joe McPhee, Janet Feder, Peter Kowald, Henry Kaiser, Fred Frith, Gino Robair, Koji Asano, Andrea Neumann, Axel Dorner, Kitundu, Pamela Z, Wolfgang Fuchs, Amy Denio, Jason Kahn, Eddie Prevost, Karen Stackpole, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Gianni Gebbia, Karen Borca, Oluyemi Thomas, Saadet Turkoz, Yasuhiro Otani, Eddie Gale, Jim Ryan, Dina Emerson, Burton Green, Jane Rigler, Jack Wright, Assif Tsahar, CJ Reaven Borosque, Glenn Spearman, Danielle DeGruttola, Bob Marsh, Shoko Hikage, Bob Ostertag, Xome, Randy Yau, Stimbox, Kaffe Matthews and countless others both local and international.

Directions : 1.5 blocks from the Powell Street BART station

Link to home page : Outsound Presents in association with Luggage Store Gallery The New Music Series

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, Jul 10 2008 8:00 PM

8pm: Alicia Byer - clarinet
9pm: Trio:
Cheryl Leonard - natural-object instruments and prepared viola
Felix Macnee - drums and found objects
Cliff Neighbors - guitar, found objects, paper

Alicia Byer is a composer, improviser, bassoonist and clarinetist based in the Bay Area. Her inspirations include nature, culture, and everything in-between. Her teachers have included Cecil Taylor, Meredith Monk, Fred Frith and Beth Custer. Her favorite color is orange.

Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer, performer, improviser and instrument builder. Leonard’s works explore subtle textures and intricacies of sounds, and often involve playing found natural materials as instruments. She also enjoys collaborating across artistic disciplines and creating site-specific compositions and instrument/sculptures. Cheryl has been awarded grants from ASCAP, American Composers Forum, and Meet the Composer, and residencies at the Djerassi Program, Villa Montalvo, and Oberpfalzer Kunsterhaus. Her works have been featured on KQED TV's Spark, CBS's Evening Magazine, and in Tim Perkis's documentary film Noisy People. Cheryl is currently developing works inspired by the Oakland Estuary in collaboration with visual artist Rebecca Haseltine, and preparing to make music in Antarctica this fall on a grant from the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program. http://www.allwaysnorth.com

Felix Macnee comes from a long line of artists and musicians, all of whom annoyed their families with constant tapping, humming, and doodling. He has been playing drums for a little while now, and he thanks his godfather, jazz drummer Myron Cohen, for all those lessons. Felix is also an accomplished visual artist. http://www.felixmacnee.com

Cliff Neighbors has been making underground experimental and electronic music and sound design since 1981. Much of the work publicly attributed to him was actually done by someone else. Work that he did perform was often credited to other people, or not at all. He claims to have recorded, produced and performed various forms of sound art for radio, theater, film, dance, gallery and literary events, parties, pranks, and demolitions. Past affiliations include Mad Scientists, Deathranch, Big City Orchestra, Crawling With Tarts, Ham On Rye, Moving and Storage/Crash Burn and Die, The Haters, Peoplehater and Edgar Winter's White Trash.

Thursday, Jul 17 2008 8:00 PM

8pm Kris Tiner (LA)/Donald Robinson duo
9pm TBA

KRIS TINER is active on the West Coast as a trumpet player, composer, and improviser. His music has been described as "extraordinarily inventive" by Signal to Noise, and Cadence Magazine calls him "a really compelling voice." He has performed at concert venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe and appears on over 35 recordings. His own projects have been released on the Clean Feed, pfMENTUM, Nine Winds, and Evander Music labels. In addition to numerous interdisciplinary collaborations involving dance, poetry and spoken word, visual art, film, and animation he has recorded music for radio, television, and motion picture scores and his trumpet playing
has been heard on MTV and Comedy Central. His primary musical projects include the Empty Cage (formerly MTKJ) Quartet and TIN/BAG, a duo collaboration with Brooklyn guitarist Mike Baggetta. Kris is a regular member of the Industrial Jazz Group and the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet, and he has performed and/or recorded with a broad range of creative musicians including Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Gerry Hemingway, Nels Cline, Ken Filiano, Kraig Grady, Jeff Kaiser, G.E. Stinson, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe LaBarbera, Lukas Ligeti and Phillip Greenlief. A California native, Kris holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from California Institute of
the Arts. He has lectured on both music and visual art, and currently directs the jazz program and teaches courses in jazz and American popular music at Bakersfield College.

Described as a 'percussive dervish' (Coda) DONALD ROBINSON is a
technical master of the drums. He is a stalwart of the of San
Francisco bay area avant-garde jazz scene, playing and recording with many of the area's improvisational players, from saxophonists John Tchicai, Marco Eneidi and Larry Ochs to koto player Miya Masaoka and pianist Matthew Goodheart, and with prominent visitors like Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, trumpeter Raphe Malik and Canadian pianist Paul Plimley. Much of this work has featured the combination of Robinson and bassist Lisle Ellis as rhythm section: 'the best bass-drums tag team on the scene' (Jazz Times). His longest musical association, dating from the 1970's, was with the late tenor
saxophonist Glenn Spearman. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1953, Robinson first studied classical percussion at the New England Conservatory. During the early 1970's he served his musical apprenticeship in the jazz world of Paris, studying with Kenny Clarke and playing with Alan Silva, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake and Bobby Few among many others. He first played with Spearman as a duet partner during this period in Paris, an association which continued through various configurations and many recordings until the saxophonist's death in 1998. Robinson is currently playing in many configurations with a broad range of musicians throughout Europe and the US.

Thursday, Jul 24 2008 8:00 PM

No performance at LSG come to the
Edgetone New Music Summit

Thursday, Jul 31 2008 8:00 PM

8pm Laces Ellery Royston/Sarah Elena Palmer
A is a signal processing duo using dulcimer and voices

9pm Ronald Rose

A is a signal processing duo using dulcimer and voices
Dulcimer - Ellery Royston
Ellery Royston is a composer living in Oakland. She has a BA from Mills College in Electronic Music Composition, teaches knitting, and her favorite thing right now is to play music with Miss Sarah Elena Palmer.
Voices - Sarah Elena Palmer
Sarah Elena Palmer is a singer, composer, and poet living in Oakland. She has her BA in Music from Mills College. Her musical heroes are also her friends.

Thursday, Aug 7 2008 8:00 PM

8pm Nick Lyons & Lorenzo Sanguedolce duo(NYC)
9pm Sound for the Organization of Society

Nick Lyons is an improvising alto saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY since 2005. He graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory in 2004 with a Bachelor of Music degree and relocated to San Francisco, where he performed as a freelancer until returning to New York City in January 2005.
Recently, Nick has performed throughout the Northeastern US with his trio, the Adam Caine/Nick Lyons Duo, and with, among others and in various formations, pianist Connie Crothers, tenor saxophonist Lorenzo Sanguedolce, bassist Adam Lane, pianist/vocalist Kazzrie Jaxen (formerly Liz Gorrill), and bassist Ken Filiano.
Nick has recorded several projects and plans to release duo albums with Adam Caine and pianist Carol Liebowitz in 2008.


Sound For the Organization of Society is a creative music ensemble founded in New Orleans in 2004. The group plays original music by all of its members, and presents works which equally balance composition and improvisation. The music draws from a variety of traditions and musical styles: jazz, classical, the avant-garde, and various ethnic musics. The unusual instrumentation of the band mirrors variety of its members, who hail from various cities across the U.S. and Europe and have wide-ranging backgrounds from classical composition and performance to rock and free jazz. These disparate styles and the unique instrumentation lead to a distinctive and intriguing group sound. The band was originally organized in 2004 for a concert at Loyola University New Orleans. After several succesful performances, planning began for an album, but the project was interrupted by Hurricane Katrina, which scattered the band members across the country. They were able to reconvene in May of 2006 in New Orleans to record “India and Africa”, their first album, which will be released in June 2007. Although the band members are once again dispersed around the country, a second recording project is currently being organized.

Thursday, Aug 14 2008 8:00 PM

8pm Point of Contact
Ellen Weller/Bob Weller (San Diego)
plus special local guests more info TBA
9pm: Tanja Feichtmair with Damon Smith & guests

Thursday, Aug 21 2008 8:00 PM

8pm: Benjamin Bracken
9pm: Jackson Emmer

Thursday, Aug 28 2008 8:00 PM

8pm: Thea Farhadian - laptop
9pm: Iron dog (from Brooklyn)

Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Bay Area. Her work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Alternative Museum and Issue Project Room in New York City, Raumschiff Zitrone in Berlin, and the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Thea studied Arabic classical music in New York City and in Cairo, Egypt. She has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music at Mills College.

Iron Dog is an electro-acoustic duo, featuring Stuart Popejoy on bass guitar and Sarah Bernstein on violin and vocals, also performing as a trio with a rotating cast of percussionists. From the starting point of shifting textures and tonalities in acoustic improvisation, Iron Dog has evolved to include distorted electronic soundscaping, focused composition, voice and spoken word. www.irondogmusic.com

Thursday, Sep 11 2008 8:00 PM

+DOG+ plus TBA...

About Dog
formed in osaka in '90. moved to boston in '93. moved to california in '97. now making hell noise in ventura county and all around CA and the world. includes members of expando brain,instagon,eckankore,final solution,cement,zorkhus, kawaiietly please,astronovaz and other great bands.

Thursday, Sep 18 2008 8:00 PM

The 11th Annual Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival
Artists TBA

Thursday, Sep 25 2008 8:00 PM

8pm Cartoon Justice
9pm TBA

Thursday, Oct 2 2008 8:00 PM

Barn Owl (SF)
Pillars and Tongues (Chicago)
(+ 1 more band)

Thursday, Oct 16 2008 8:00 PM

Music by the Eyeful
(more details to follow)

Thursday, Nov 20 2008 8:00 PM

Music by the Eyeful
(more details to follow)

Thursday, Dec 18 2008 8:00 PM

Music by the Eyeful
(more details to follow)

Thursday, Jan 8 2009 8:00 PM

The Full Moon Concert Series - Cold Moon
artists TBA