The Left Coast Improv Group is a total improvisatory ensemble with no director, no conductor, no scores, and no hierarchy. It's 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 or less
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.