7:30 Left Coast Improv Group
Doug Carroll cello,
Michael Cooke bassoon,
Ron Heglin trombone & voice, Jeff Hobbs clarinet cornet violin ,
Scott R. Looney piano & electronics, Bob Marsh violin and other things,
Tom Nunn hand-built electro-acoustic instruments,
Jim Ryan flute horn & small percussion, and
Karen Stackpole gongs and percussion
8:30
Lukas Ligeti (NY) - solo electronics
Lukas Ligeti was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied at the Vienna Music University. Upon completing his studies there, he spent 1994-1996 as a visiting scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. Since 1998, he has lived in New York City.
Oblivious to categorizations such as "classical", "pop", etc., his main interests include areas such as cultural exchange, polyrhythms/polytempo structures, and non-tempered tunings, and his music ranges from the through-composed to the free-improvised.
As a drummer, he has played and/or recorded with artists such as Henry Kaiser, Raoul Björkenheim, Michael Manring, Gianni Gebbia, Daniel Carter, Benoît Delbecq, John Tchicai, Pyrolator Kurt Dahlke, Elliott Sharp, Jim O'Rourke, Robert Dick, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Rupert Huber, Ned Rothenberg, etc., and performs solo concerts on electronic percussion.
Left Coast Improv Group is rhizomatic for sure following lines of flight and intensities within over and around the body without organs, i.e. Deluzian. The regular players are:
Doug Carroll cello,
Michael Cooke bassoon,
Ron Heglin trombone & voice, Jeff Hobbs clarinet cornet violin ,
Scott R. Looney piano & electronics, Bob Marsh violin and other things,
Tom Nunn hand-built electro-acoustic instruments,
Jim Ryan flute horn & small percussion, and
Karen Stackpole gongs and percussion . . . they are likely to play other things as well. Eponine Cuervo-Moll has also worked with us doing body movement.
Cost: $10 $8
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Green Alembic at Berkeley Arts 5-17-14
Invented Instruments , at the High Zero festival September 22nd 2012 , Baltimore Maryland
Scott R. Looney, Lisa Mezzacapa, and Donald Robinson at Berkeley Arts Fest space - May 31, 2014
Open Ended by Michael Cooke is a very versatile work that is composed live before your eyes and ears. Based on Rova‘s Radar techniques, Open Ended is less of a composition and more of a color or tool palette. It is an ever-growing collection of rules and games for the performers that are triggered by hand signals by the conductor/composer. The conductor/composer then composes the piece live using these hand signals to guide the performers. The ability to compose with what happens in the moment, in real time, is what is required to produce this piece. This similar to the “Soundpainting” language was created by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York in 1974. Open Ended has no set instrumentation and can be played by any number of performers. It also has no set length; the piece could last 5 minutes or 24 hours.