Monopiece (Oakland TOUR KICK OFF)
Seiyoung Jang w/ Josh Allen and Aaron Levin (East Bay)
Zollinger Talesfore, Jr. Duo (East Bay/South Bay)
Doors at 8PM. Music sometime around 8:45PM. Ask a punk for the address (patricktalesforejr@gmail.com). $10 suggested donation. There will be snacks, drinks, and somehow there is always a pizza that appears. One time someone brought salami...
Painter, Makeup Artist, and Art Teacher, Lydia Von C, will be presenting and selling some of her work.
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MORE INFO ON MONOPIECE:
nathan corder
matt robidoux
timothy russell
monopiece began at mills college in roscoe mitchell's improvisation workshop in 2017. each of our performances is an occasion to collaborate with a new featured member.
BUY THEIR NEW RECORD FEATURING JAAP BLONK HERE: https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/monopiece-jaap-blonk/
"The improvising trio Monopiece lists its instrumentation as guitar, percussion, and electronics, but electronics describes far more than one third of its texture, since both guitar and percussion are amplified and electronically processed. On this release they are joined by the Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk in recording spontaneously generated music, edited and subtly processed to reflect the communal nature of its creation without interrupting the strong, improvised narratives of each piece.
In improvised music, the interaction between musicians usually plays a primary role in the musical story that unfolds, made clear to listeners since each player is associated with the familiar sound of their instrument. Perhaps this is why electronics dominated improvising ensembles are so rare; and when there is an electronics player present they are often relegated to the role of creating novelty, rather than interacting within the vocabulary that more standard instruments share. Nevertheless, electronic ensembles have been active, if on the fringe of free improvised music since the 1960s, exemplified by groups like Electronica Musica Viva (MEV) and AMM, whose music favors long pieces with slowly evolving textures where the interaction between players is often obscured.
Monopiece’s music by contrast features much shorter pieces made up of clearly delineated conversations between sonic streams, sometimes identifiable with recognizable instruments but always relying on the ability to make quick changes of timbre and texture in shaping real-time compositions. Jaap Blonk’s contribution to this character is a perfect fit, bringing an embodied voice into the mix, but one which can leap quickly from tones and phonemes to noises of seemingly electro-mechanical inspiration. His voice provides the corporeal focus of these hallucinatory, electronic songs.
-Chris Brown"
supporting groups include a trio organized by Seiyoung Jang with Joshua Allen on tenor saxophone and Aaron Levin on drum set and a duo featuring Patrick Talesfore, Jr. on drum set and Marc Zollinger on guitar.