Club Sandwich Presents:
Thursday January 10th
@ Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut
671 24th Street, Oakland
8 pm
$6
Solo sets by:
Tom Carter
David Daniell
Ava Mendoza
Chen Santa Maria
Gregg Kowalsky
Bios below:
TOM CARTER
Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, which he
co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in 1991.
Since 2002, Carter has also undertaken solo work and collaborations.
His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal Brattleboro FreeFolk
festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and musical excursions
(on stage and tape) with Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, the
MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower Recordings, and Double
Leopards, among others.
DAVID DANIELL
"With his slow-moving, understated music, DAVID DANIELL makes a fine
spokesman for the notion that anything worth doing is worth doing for
a long, long time. Whether he's contributing moody strums and sculpted
E-Bow drones to the guitar trio San Agustin or stringing
computer-generated pings and bumps across gulfs of silence on Sem, his
solo debut on his own Antiopic label, he develops his material
patiently, the better to let you observe the sounds from every angle."
--Bill Meyer in the Chicago Reader, 30 June 2006
GREGG KOWALSKY
Gregg Kowalsky resides in Oakland, California where he completed a
Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at
Mills College. Kowalsky's compositions range from drone and noise
pieces to meditative psychedelia, which are highly influenced by the
thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his
life. After his debut album, Through the Cardial Window (Kranky),
Gregg started working with cassette tapes, sine oscillators, mixer
feedback, contact mics, etc... His recent series of Tape Chants
explores the acoustics where the performances occur by setting up
cassette players around the space, using only the cassette players'
speakers for amplification. Throughout the piece, Gregg moves around
the space adjusting the amplitude of the players as a live mix. The
first incarnation of Tape Chants was released in 2007 called Tape
Chants A Million (Rootstrata). Kowalsky has had the opportunity to
perform throughout Europe and the United States over the past several
years.
AVA MENDOZA says:
I am a guitar player, composer, and electronic dabbler in Oakland, CA.
I play improvised music/weird rock/original compositions. Improvised
music was the first type of music I got vitally interested in as a
classically-trained teenager, and I suppose any musical roots I have
are in free improvisation. Some of my solo guitar compositions draw a
lot from early country and blues music, sort of reworked (or mangled?)
in my own way. Both in solo and ensemble contexts I like working with
very tight, specific compsoitional ideas or riffs and then throwing
musical monkey wrenches into them in performance--forcing them to
self-destruct and intersect with free improvisation. I am an extremely
curious person and love a lot of very different sorts of music. All of
my playing is informed by my deep love for my cat, and for Screamin'
Jay Hawkins.
Cost: $6