VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY 8:00 PM
Bob Marsh cello •
Jim Ryan flute • Eli Wallace keys
Virtual Assembly is a chamber trio that doesn't know what it’s going
to play before it plays. But when it plays, the problem of all the
capacities and ideas it has within turns into live music. Before that
the music is not actual, it’s virtual; yet real . . . i.e., concentrated in the assembly like the dream of a butterfly in the cocoon.
Bob Marsh is a veteran multi-instrumentalist and master cellist active
on the Bay Area experimental scene since the turn of the century.
Jim Ryan has also been performing in the Bay Area for many
years.
Eli Wallace is a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory
of Music with a Masters of Music and lives in Berkeley.
“The reality of the virtual consists of the differential elements and
relations along with the singular points which correspond to them.
The reality of the virtual is structure.” Gilles Deluze Difference and
Repetition.
ONE NIGHT BAND STAND 9:00 PM
Expands the VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY improvisational aesthetic; actualizing the problematic with additional forces and instruments:
Rent Romus saxes,
David Michalak lap steel gtr, Bob Marsh cello,
Tom Nunn nunnstruments,
Jim Ryan trumpet & processed kalimba, Eli Wallace piano
*Bob Marsh considers the cello as one of his primary instruments. He has worked in sax/cello duo with Jack Wright for over 20 years.
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David Michalak is well known his films and his perennial group 'Ghost in the House' as well as his lap steel work with Bob Marsh in the group 'Dr. Bob.'
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Rent Romus is a master of the saxophone and perhaps the strongest promoter and supporter of Bay Area Experimental Music. He organizes and puts on over 70 shows a year, as well as a week-long festival in mid-Summer.
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Tom Nunn is a master builder and player of original instruments. His treatise 'WISDOM OF THE IMPULSE' (concerning the nature of free improvisation) is available FREE in PDF format on the web.
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Jim Ryan has been playing a kalimba from Tanzania since 1972 and has
been struggling to gain proficiency on trumpet for the past 2.5 years.
*Eli Wallace has been composing, teaching, and gigging in the Bay Area since his return with a Masters in Music from the New England Conservatory.
Cost: 10-20 sliding
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Green Alembic at Berkeley Arts 5-17-14
Invented Instruments , at the High Zero festival September 22nd 2012 , Baltimore Maryland
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on