Ezekiel Talbot
Polly Moller (Flute/Voice) with Will Grant (electronics) and Jim Carr (Bass Guitar)
Peter NyboerEzekiel Talbot performs a combination of improvised and composed music, and particularly explores the hinterland between the two. Just about anything can happen when he combines guitars, voice, toys, homemade electronics, found objects, and computer. Raised in the Seattle area, he's performed around Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently resides, and every show is unique. What stays consistent is the way he uses his diverse background in Northwest rock, free improvisation, contemporary classical, industrial noise, heavy metal and various cultural traditions to move among the frontiers of any box you try to put his music in. It's often a delicate web - of electric and acoustic, otherworldly and urban, humorous and serious, traditional and experimental - that creates a tension in his music. Sometimes this tension bursts into a high energy/noise-oriented conflation, other times it subsides into a psychedelic lullaby. The sonic result, rather than upsetting or trying to shock the listener, is something strangely familiar, yet provocative.
Performance artist Polly Moller revels in her ambient, Celtic, and new-wave influences as well as her classical flute training and her background in the avant-garde. Since 1995, she's recorded three solo albums and performed in diverse venues all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
Peter Nyboer is an audio and video artist and programmer living in Oakland, CA. Recent work has been focused on creating commercially available applications for audio and video mixing using Cycling74's Max/MSP. He has started to focus more on playing live music using his "Girl" loop mixer, playing in large and small improvisation ensembles in the Bay Area. With source material such as answering machines, analog synthesizers, poorly-played clarinet, and thrift-store records, Peter makes sense of this sonic diaspora by processing it with similar effects, introducing rhythmic structure, and finding related tangents among the samples' native sounds.
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Cost: $6-10