DroneShift
Doors: 6:30pm
Show: exactly 7:00pm to 11:00pm
$8-12 sliding scale
Sick of wanky guitar solos, unintelligible lyrics, cheesily programmed beats, and hard-to-figure-out highbrow ideas? Overreact by coming to DroneShift, where over 40 musicians will present four hours of continuous long tones and unusual textures that wouldn't develop anywhere else!
With a wide variety of musicians from different bay area experimental music communities playing 4 to 10 at a time in overlapping shifts, the music will gradually evolve from lovely all-acoustic moments to sheets of peeling noise and back with many points in between. At times, it will sound like several different instruments are contributing to a single, complex, unique note.
All the funds will go to 21 Grand, a venue that has made huge efforts to provide a place for unusual shows like this one. The current space is going to be turned into condominiums, so we're trying to raise funds for them to move into another space nearby.
Since the music goes nonstop for 4 hours, it will be perfectly normal to get up and walk around while the musicians are playing.
Currently, the musicians are:
Mara Arrowood - Laptop/Sampler
Elise Baldwin - Laptop www.clattertrap.com
Tom Bickley - Recorder/Software www.metatronpress.com/artists/tbickley
Jorge Boehringer - viola
Amar Chaudhary - Graphics Tablet/Laptop www.amar-music.info
Che Chen - Acoustic Guitar/Electronics
Ronnie Cramer - Laptop www.cramer.org
Matt Davignon - Drum Machine/Accordion www.bayimproviser.com/mattdavignon
Ernesto Diaz-Infante - Acoustic Steelstring Guitar http://www.paxrecordings.com/ernesto
Thomas Dimuzio - sampler/electronics www.gench.com
Tom Duff - Computer www.4-33.com
Dina Emerson - Voice/Wine Glasses www.bayimproviser.com/dinaemerson
Christopher Fleeger - Powerbook/Controllers www.acousmatic.com
William Fowler Collins - Guitar/Electronics http://www.wfowlercollins.ath.cx
Larnie Fox - Reed Organ http://www.infoflow.com/larnie
Eric Glick Rieman - Prepared Rhodes Piano http://www.accretions.com/artists/eric.asp
Lance Grabmiller - Laptop www.praemedia.com
Will Grant - E-Mu UltraProteus www.greyotter.com
Phillip Greenlief - Tenor Sax www.evandermusic.com
John Hanes - Floor Tom www.purelovepower.com
Jeff Hobbs - violin/upright bass/clarinet
Craig Latta - Voice/Circular Whistling www.netjam.org
Bill Leikam - Conch www.leikam.com/bill/cave/
Norman Long - no-input mixer, contact mic, minidisc
Bob Marsh - Accordion www.bayimproviser.com/bobmarsh
David Michalak - Lap Steel Guitar www.eye-fullfilms.com/
Kristin Miltner - Laptop www.paxrecordings.com/miba
Polly Moller - Flute/Bass Flute www.silverwheel.com
Nihil Communication - Synth http://myspace.com/nihil
Suki O'Kane - electric guitar, sampler, quadraverb http://zoka.com/noodles
Tim Perkis - portable "acousticish" setup www.perkis.com
Mike Perlmutter - Alto/Tenor Sax, Clarinet
Joel Pickard - Pedal Steel Guitar www.hatfarm.com
Steve Polta - Feedback/VU Meter
Gino Robair - Cymbals www.bayimproviser.com/ginorobair
Rent Romus - Zitherod http://edgetonerecords.com/romus.html
Jeff Schwartz - Bass www.geocities.com/jeff_l_schwartz
Jonathan Segel - Electronics/Violin www.magneticmotorworks.com
David Slusser - Electric Sax www.breathears.com
Moe! Staiano - Bowed Metals www.moestaiano.com
Liam Staskawicz - Trombone
Allen Whitman - Treated Bass www.zoka.com/noodles
Aaron Ximm - Field Recordings/Oscillators www.quietamerican.org
Michael Zellner - Midi Wind Synth & Effects http://zoka.com/noodles
Schedule posted at: http://www.4-33.com/Droneshift.bmp
Cost: $8-12
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on
Ernesto Diaz-Infante (electric dulcimer guitar) performing at Woodstockhausen in Boulder Creek, California, on August 30th, 2025.
Brown Slusser plays Mind and Time (Ornette COleman)
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008
Nihil Communication (Andre Custodio). Videotaped by M. Trucco at the Musician's Union Local 6 in San Francisco.