Outsound Presents7:30 PM Steven Baker - Inventor of sonic drone instruments & Dan Ake - Inventor of sonic percussion instruments
8:30 PM
Paolo Angeli, (Barcelona) - 'Giant' Sardinian prepared guitar
Paolo Angeli is "known best as an experimental guitarist, with his 'Giant' Sardinian guitar -- which has a large mechanical claw stuck to the side of its body (to pluck counter melodies), piano-like hammers operated by pedals (to strike the strings), extra strings crossing the main strings at right angles with yet another set of sitar strings mounted on the body, a rope, a viola bridge -- which holds yet more strings -- and thirteen pickups and microphones which can separately amplify all the elements, sending them to different parts of the stereo picture." - Forced Exposure
"Extraordinary player - extraordinary instrument. Paulo plays a highly modified and treated Sardinian Guitar - in many styles, some of them apparently impossible. Innovative techniques, a deeply musical sensibility and a rich, occasionally baffling, palette of sounds." Jazz Loft
Steven Baker was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He earned a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1983. He moved to Los Angeles in 1988 and to the San Francsico Bay Area in 2002 where he currently lives and works in Pacifica California. Steven has worked on projects collaboratively and solo in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, and across the United States. Steven's main instrument is known as The Ring. Recently Steven played his other instrument the bowed bellows on tracks of the Rent Romus and Thollem McDonas recording project “Bloom”, and will soon work with Thollem and Rent on other CD projects. In 2005 he lent his oil well head bell tree to CWRK Music Company to record samples to be used as part of a public interactive music installation in Hong Kong.
Between mowing the grass and stringing wire in impossible situations, Dan Ake brings his 30+ years as a resident of San Francisco and a veteran of the SF Art wars, both visual and aural, to the Eddie the Rat line up. Mr. Ake has designed, built and plays a number of instruments employed by EtR including LoBro, Spike, 2X6, and the Long Boy. His approach is to "Start stupid and learn by doing in an attempt to maintain his musical virginity." Open 24/7 are words to live, work and suck by. Mr. Ake is adept at all three but not stuck in any one.
Cost: $10/8