Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF
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Outsound Presents
The Experimental Side of the Y2K-X 10th Anniversary International Live Looping Festival
8:00 Chris Rainier (Australia)
8:40 Krispen Hartung with Rent Romus (USA)
9:20 Andreas Willers (Germany)

Chris Rainier is a traditionalist-experimentalist exploring the creative possibilities of the lap steel guitar, utilizing various preparations, multiple bows, loopers and other electronic processing to expand the sonic palette of the instrument. His past performances have included collaborations with north and south Indian classical musicians, trio improvisations providing soundtracks to silent films and vintage cartoons, as well as resurrecting the sound of pre-world war II electronic instruments for the Guggenheim exhibition at the national gallery of Victoria.

Krispen Hartung's 30-year musical background is an experimental and continuously evolving road trip marked by many excursions and detours - from flute, classical guitar, progressive rock, and
world-beat, to fusion, traditional jazz, and free improvisation. However, Hartung's musical identity and artistic direction came to fruition when, in 1993, he began using the laptop computer
to process the sound of his guitar, either by looping it in creative ways or by radically altering its
tone. During the last few years, Krispen has been recording and performing primarily electro-acoustic and free improvisation music, focusing more on the tonal character of the guitar, accompanied by laptop processing with Cycling 74's MAX/msp. He has produced 15 CD projects, including his most recent live improvisational project "On the Frindge" with Robert Sterling (percussion). He plays a custom mini jazz archtop guitar built by luthier Bobby Warrren from the San Juan Island, USA.

"Andreas Willers style is well-rounded; especially attractive is his classical guitar work where we can hear his fine touch most clearly. He also possesses an unusually wide intervallic sense, rarely does one hear a guitarist who sounds so much as if hes listened to Eric Dolphy." Chris Kelsey (CADENCE Mag., USA)
He has has played and/or recorded with Paul Bley, Louis Sclavis, Enrico Rava, Bob Stewart, Marvin Smitty Smith, Dave Liebman, Trilok Gurtu, David Murray, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte, Mark Feldman, Jim Black, Steve Argüelles, Dominique Pifarély, Marc Ducret, Anders Jormin, Tom Rainey, Phil Haynes, Lauren Newton, Rita Marcotulli, Elvira Plenar, Kent Carter, Petras Vysniauskas, Gabriele Hasler, Frank Köllges, Matthias Schubert, E.L. Petrowski, Theo Jörgensmann, Uwe Kropinski, Jörg Huke, Volker Schlott, Dieter Manderscheid, Lu Hübsch, Claudio Puntin, Dieter Ilg, Hans Lüdemann, Dirk Raulf. Frank Schulte a.o., the Duo Ullmann/Willers, the groups Out To Lunch, Minimal Kidds, Jazz Baltica Ensemble.


Cost: $6-10

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