8pm The Robot Martians
Bob Marsh - electronics (Airsynths, loops, processed voice)
Matt Davignon - drum machine, samplers, tablecore electronics
9pm
Phillip Greenlief/Theresa Wong Duo
"
Phillip Greenlief is a reedman versatile enough to achieve anything except peace in Palestine" - Greg Burk, LA WEEKLY
“Well-grounded and inventive…a gifted saxophonist” – Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times
Phillip Greenlief (saxophones, clarinet, voice) and Theresa Wong (cello, voice) explore the dynamics of new composition and improvisation in the intimacy of the ever challenging (and most satisfying) duo setting. Their performance illuminates the expressive possibilities of the saxophone and cello while exploring how human voices and text can interact with those instruments. The duo performs compositions that they have created individually and collectively, and also features new works by John Shiurba and John Hanes.
The Robot Martians spew out improvised, entirely electronic music that is completely coherent / somewhat coherent / neutral / somewhat not coherent / not at all coherent. Bob Marsh is (frequently) a cellist, accordion player, tap-shoer, and extended vocalist. He's the founder of the Che Guevara Memorial Marching (and Stationary) Accordian Band and the Emergency String Quartet. "Whatever the medium of his music, it carriers a distinctive charge of gibberish from the ID, a kind of subliminal fragmenting of voices which recalls states of consciousness on the verge of sleep," says John Berndt of Baltimore.
Matt Davignon is an arrhythmic drum machinist, with a past in playing prepared instruments, turntable and household objects. He's also in the duo Multiple Rock&Roll Society.
Cost: $6-10