T.D. Skatchit with guest
Dean Santomieri plus
Bryan Day solo
T.D. Skatchit -
Tom Nunn &
David Michalak - skatchboxes, inventions, lap steel, percussion
Dean Santomieri - voice
T.D. Skatchit will premiere 2 pieces from the "Skatch Art" project and other new work plus The lowercasing of Isabel Sands by Dean.
Bryan Day will open the show playing his own musical inventions.
Tom Nunn has designed and built over 200 instruments since 1976, representing three basic types: space plates, electroacoustic percussion boards, and skatchboxes. He has performed extensively throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years, as well as in other parts of the U.S., Canada, Europe, and New Zealand, both as soloist and with other musicians. Tom currently works with T.D. Skatchit, RTD3 and Ghost in the House
Since 1971
David Michalak has written, directed and produced over 50 films with original soundtracks and released CDs with Ghost in the House, Reel Change, T.D. Skatchit, Tom Waits and Doctor Bob. He has also collaborated with The Kate Foley Dance Company, Club Foot Orchestra, Butoh dancer Kinji Hayashi and others.
Dean Santomieri has been working with electronic music and musique concrete since 1971, as well as creating multi-image pieces. He has employed live electronic music, slides and video, story-telling, costumes, and props in his many Bay Area performances. CD releases include The Boy Beneath The Sea and Redblue with Thea Farhadian.
Bryan Day is a improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Day’s work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems in nature to those in contemporary society. He has toured throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Mexico, performing both solo as Sistrum and Eloine and in the Shelf Life and Seeded Plain ensembles.
Cost: $10.00 donation