CHRISTINA BRAUN +
Tom Nunn +
Dean Santomieri(in the large chapel)
CHRISTINA BRAUN (dance) and
Tom Nunn (original invented instruments "Skatch Box" and "Crustacean") have performed together in Bay Area festivals for over a decade. For this concert, they present two new duo pieces.
Dean Santomieri performs original stories for voice with live looping and effects and joins Christina to close the concert with a short improvisational piece for dance and guitar.
CHRISTINA BRAUN is a lifelong dancer and considers
Tom Nunn her improvisation mentor. Her choreography has been presented the Center for New Music, the International Butoh Festival Thailand, the West Wave Dance Festival, and the Asian Art Museum among other festivals and museums. Christina has been working in collaboration with composers since 2002. As SF Butoh LAB, Christina has produced Butoh dance symposia, performances, and workshops to strengthen a culture of peace with collaborative art practices.
Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with experimental musical instruments since 1975, always with a focus on recycled/re-purposed materials, to create a unique voice in improvised music. He has participated in several festivals such as the High Zero Festival in Baltimore, AK07 in New Zealand and Sound Symposium in Newfoundland.
Dean Santomieri (spoken word / electric guitar) Regularly performs solo or with other performers, variously as guitarist or narrator of his own short fiction. Stylistically his guitar playing is most closely associated with the modern classical avant-garde and is characterized by a loose compositional framework that allows for improvisatory explorations. Since 2011 he has been playing and recording with violinist Thea Farhadian, in the Santomieri-Farhadian Duo. Dean has also been associated with the groups: Donkey Boy; Malcolm Mooney & the 10th Planet; I Franzen; Ghost in the House and the Cornelius Cardew Choir.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Invented Instruments , at the High Zero festival September 22nd 2012 , Baltimore Maryland