Larry Ochs,
Ben Davis,
Darren Johnston,
Lisa Mezzacappa - Subconscious Life
Ben Davis - cello
Darren Johnston - trumpet
Lisa Mezzacappa - acoustic bass
Larry Ochs - tenor and sopranino saxophones
Larry Ochs has been creating this kind of improvised music in the Bay Area since 1977, when he and his life partner Lyn Hejinian moved to Berkeley. He has also been a member of
Rova Saxophone Quartet since 1977, a music group with which Ochs has spent most of the last 47 years performing worldwide, with an emphasis on evolving rules-based compositions and structures for improvised music. Ochs also partnered with guitarist
Henry Kaiser and initiated the record label Metalanguage Records in the late 1970s, releasing records by Rova Sax Quartet and other artists in those early years, with sporadic CD releases continuing to this day.
... Subconscious Life began its musical journey locally in 2023 with freely improvised sessions in
Lisa Mezzacappa's studio, and Ochs very much looks forward to seeing how it develops through this decade. Tours outside the Bay Area will be forthcoming in late 2026 and 2027. For a look at Ochs' other touring bands over the decades, please visit: www.ochs.cc
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.