Saturday, April 25th, 8pm
Soja
2406 Webster, Oakland
(near 19th St. BART and one block from 21 Grand)
2 duo sets:
Thea Farhadian (electronics) and
Tom Bickley (recorder)
Aram Shelton (reeds) and Kanoko Nishi (koto)
$6-$10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Bay Area. Her work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Alternative Museum and Issue Project Room in New York City, Raumschiff Zitrone in Berlin, and the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. In 2002, she co-founded the Armenian Film Festival in New York City and currently is one of the curators for the film festival in San Francisco.
Tom Bickley listens to the world always hoping to hear more and more fully. He plays and teaches recorder, and composes and performs using recorders, electronics and voice. He grew up in the semitropical soundscape of Houston, sojourned in Washington, DC (studying music, religion, and information science) and came to the Bay Area as a composer in residence at Mills College. Musical influences in his life include Gregorian chant, Landini, Lou Harrison, John Cage, John Coltrane, and the natural environment. His work has received support from Meet the Composer, the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, and the Meredith Foundation.
Aram Shelton is a multi-instrumentalist on saxophones and clarinets, a composer & improviser, and creates electroacoustic music through computer-based electronics. While the music he makes is spread across a variety of aesthetic lines, it is related by the importance of improvisation to develop material and express musical individuality. He moved to Chicago in the spring of 1999 to play creative jazz and improvised music in many settings, including the groups Dragons 1976, Arrive, and Rapid Croche. Shelton moved out west to study electroacoustic music at Mills College in Oakland, California. In California the groups Flockterkit, Ton Trio, Son of Gunnar Ton of Shel, the Shelton/Healy duo, the Pink Canoes, and Settled represent his music. He maintains his connections to Chicago through the groups Dragons 1976 (Multikulti), Arrive, Rolldown (482 Music), and Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens (Delmark).
http://www.aramshelton.com/about.html
http://theafarhadian.com/
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/tbickley/
www.sojamartialarts.com
Cost: $6-$10