Mosswood Sound Series
3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland
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CHRIS JONAS: MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS
(with Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, & JASON LEVIS)
HEADBOGGLE
HALLIE SMITH

Visiting from Santa Fe, New Mexico, composer and saxophone player CHRIS JONAS presents MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS with three musicians central to the creative music world of the Bay Area: reedist Cory Wright on baritone sax and clarinets, with long-standing rhythm section Lisa Mezzacappa on bass, and JASON LEVIS on drums. MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS explores the music and video created by Chris Jonas has created over the past two years winter camping alone for weeks in very remote Sonora Desert places, including Arizona's Barry Goldwater Missile Range and at Trump's Border Wall that cuts across the granite Tinajas Altas. This collection of music and videos are in the midst of touring worldwide in 2023 with shows in Chicago, Berkeley, Santa Fe, Tel Aviv, Rome, Bologna and Siena.

HEADBOGGLE explores the lower octaves on the 92-key Bösendorfer piano live to a new Headboggle synth / electronic pop backing. A special performance prepared and mixed for the evening's event over the past few months.

HALLIE SMITH presents "Akerselva," a drone based solo violin improvisation that uses an audio responsive laser level performance tool to diffract light. The work takes as a starting point icy and fragile harmonics which use bow pressure, bow speed, and pow placement for control.

Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale

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