Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF
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8pm: Lance Grabmiller (laptop) with Sebastian Krawczuk (ashbory bass)
9pm: George Chen

Sebastian Krawczuk:
A free improvising sound artist in transition from Washington, DC to California, playing the electric upright bass with sound processors. Krawczuk has recently expanded his domain in modular synthesizers and computer music. Sebastian is a seasoned player, participating in a series of music improvisation workshops in Baltimore (MD), in the Minijax and Electric Possible events in DC. He is a former member of the 10 String Trio, Mystery Shopper, the Asher-Krawczuk Duo and is currently involved in projects to include: Outdegree - an "intra-development" experiment, a soundtrack contribution to Dual Nature, a film by Andreas Guskos, and collaboration with Vildhjarta – a progressive metal band from Sweden. Past influences include punk, metal and free-improvised sounds while performing with bands in Szczecin, Poland, such as Baby Blue Eyes, Felicite Pueros and STUCKONCEILING.

Lance Grabmiller is a San Francisco-based laptop musician, with musical roots in IDM and industrial music, but who now specializes in processing sounds of live musicians and/or environmental noises. He is 1/3 of the band Shudder (with Kyle Bruckmann and Phillip Greenlief). http://www.praemedia.com/lancegrabmiller.html

George Chen is a freelance writer and musician living in Oakland, CA. Music projects include Chen Santa Maria, KIT, Common Eider King Eider, and running the record label Zum (http://zumonline.com). Other multimedia collaborations include working with video artists Nate Boyce and Detritus Projects for Illuminated Corridor. Along with Virgil Porter he helped produced the cable access show Burn My Eye. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, The Wire, and The Stranger.

Cost: $6-10

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