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OUTSOUND NEW MUSIC SUMMITFusion vs Fission (Ski Lodge Room)GINO ROBAIR'S RADICAL DIVINATION, NORMALWAYS W/FRED FRITH, HOOK & WIRE, SUNG KIMThe Bay Area's New Music FestivalAdvance Tickets @EventbrightGino Robair's Radical Divination 4:00 PM
Papermakers: Michelle Wilson/ Gino Robair | Krys Bobrowski - Gliss Glass, Kelp Horn | Kyle Bruckmann - Oboe, English Horn | Tom Djll - Trumpet, Electronics | Cheryl Leonard - Natural-Object Instruments | Karen Stackpole: Gongs, Skatchbox
Gino Robair’s Radical Divination is a structured improvisation for two papermakers and music ensemble (5 players). Using divination as a metaphor for the creative act, the piece models methods of augury (e.g., astrology, cards, scrying, etc.) where the musicians interpret graphic scores and aspects of the performance environment based on a unique set of variables that change over the course of the event. Inspired by prompts and environmental elements (sound, light, color), the graphic scores are interactively created by the papermakers with recycled materials during the 45-minute performance. At the end of the concert, audience members are invited to take pieces of the newly made paper home with them. Since its 2023 premiere at BAMPFA, the piece has been staged nearly a dozen times in Europe.
Gino Robair is a composer/performer and visual artist whose work explores how nonstandard notations influence interpretive performances across different media. He has recorded with Tom Waits, Thurston Moore, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, and John Butcher, among others; and performed with John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Wadada Leo Smith, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, and the Club Foot Orchestra. Currently, Gino is completing a PhD at UC Davis that focuses on papermaking as a form of embodied choreography, resulting in ephemeral memory-objects that carry traces of their materialization which can be used as resources for interpretation within a performance context.
normalways 3:00 PM
Fred Frith - inventions | Sudhu Tewary - inventions | Jordan Glenn - percussion/inventions
With bricoleur extraordinaire, Sudhu Tewari at its axis, Normalways is the blending of two thirds of the rhythm band flatways and the duo Normal. Sudhu’s home-made instruments are augmented by fellow flatways bandmate Jordan Glenn and the second half of Normal, Fred Frith. This is the first outing for these three who (in pairs) share a deep musical history.
Hook & Wire 2:00 PM
Dana Jessen – bassoon, compositions, Kyle Bruckmann - oboe/English horn, electronics, compositions Danishta Rivera – voice, electronics Lisa Mezzacappa - bass Jordan Glenn – percussion
Hook & Wire is a quintet founded in by Dana Jessen, with her New Music double reed comrade Kyle Bruckmann, in order to strengthen ties with the Bay Area’s vibrant Creative Music community during her frequent trips to town. With the two both contributing modular, open-ended compositions for improvisers, the group careens across aesthetics of textural electro-acoustic noise, polyrhythmic propulsion, spacious delicacy, and rollicking free play. The alchemy of doubled double reeds with one of our region’s more ubiquitous crack rhythm sections and the wild card of Rivera’s electro-acoustic brujería amounts to a delightfully oblique take on a “jazz” combo. Their name is a nod to the legendary Amsterdam-based post-punk band Dog Faced Hermans – a major shared touchstone for the two co-leaders musically, politically, and personally.
Sung Kim (plays at doors open and between each set) 1:30 PM
inventions, voice
Sung Kim is an architectural woodworker and experimental musical instrument builder living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His works are hybrids based loosely on historically obsolete and indigenous musical instruments. His instruments combines acoustic vessels and analog circuitry to create infinite, controllable tones. Some include those that can be bowed made from wood with animal-hides (deer, rabbit etc) and bodies with 24 strings including some that look like a bass sitar merged with Wolverine's adamantium spine (16 strings), and wooden boxes with oscillators that emitted a mix of pinging bleeps and droning, resonating strings. There are even some that emulate incredibly simple guitars, like bass banjo, with just three strings with oversized tuning pegs like buckteeth.
DOORS:* 1:30 PM, Music 2:00 PM (Preset by Sung Kim)*
$25 General, $16 Senior 62+/Youth under 27, Festival Pass $85, Matinee/Night Aug 1 Pass $40
DETAILED SCHEDULE:
https://outsound.org/summit/schedule/Cost: $16/$25