Ben Goldberg + DILLON VADO + TIM BULKLEY
FILMS BY David Michalak, STEVE MOBIA, ARTHUR GANSON

Clarinetist Ben Goldberg joins DILLON VADO (vibraphone) and TIM BULKLEY (drums) in a set of trio improvisations. Sound knowledge and awareness from planet Neptone. The practice of remembering what you can't forget. Come have a listen; you won't believe your ears. Or else, you will believe your ears but there might be something else you don't believe. Or maybe nothing at all.


EYE-FULL FILMS presents a set of experimental films by David Michalak, STEVE MOBIA, and ARTHUR GANSON, including the premiere showing of Michalak's Still Movin'.

PROGRAM

David Michalak - "Life Is a Serious Business" (1983, color, B+W, 8 min.)
George Kuchar in dual roles as Instructor and hopeless nebbish attempts to instruct himself out discouragement. The dialogue has been appropriated from a “How to Overcome Discouragement” instructional record. Music by Dean Santomieri

ARTHUR GANSON - "Machines" (various shorts 1978-2004, color, B+W, 6 min)

STEVE MOBIA – "Nudge" (2012, color, 8min.)
a pinball percussion piece that features the sounds of vintage pinball machines, scored by Steve and performed by members of the Composers Orchestra.

David Michalak - "Still Movin’" (2025, color, 6 min)
Nature’s beautiful abstractions present themselves through a car window. World premiere! Soundtrack by Dr. Bob

David Michalak - "The Secret Opera" (2025, color, B+W, 13 min.)
Grum, an opera singer played by Bob Marsh searches for the key to love & art attempting to perform in spite of aphonia, inner demons and a ghost that has been haunting and dooming performances in the decaying Opera House. Soundtrack by Dr. Bob.

David Michalak - "Regenbogen" (1998, color, 4 min.)
an animated rainbow, soundtrack by Reel Change

plus a surprise film!
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FREMAKAJO
SOCIAL STUTTER

Fred Frith (bass/viola) has been a dauntless explorer, improviser, and collaborator in the half-century since he made that breakthrough. From leaving Henry Cow to start Art Bears, from leaving England to enlist in a hyperactive New York improvisational circuit that led him to join Naked City and launch his own Massacre, Frith has situated his extended techniques and handmade instruments in dozens of different contexts. A longtime teacher at California’s Mills College, he brings another new band, FREMAKAJO. He has tapped intertwining Bay Area circles to build this quartet, with curious and playful drummer Jordan Glenn joining exploratory saxophonist Kasey Knudsen and stylistically globetrotting accordionist MARIÉ ABE.

SOCIAL STUTTER, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist BETH SCHENCK, blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Solos emerge from the natural order of intricately written lines that, although begin simply in structure, twist and distort themselves into surprisingly complex shapes and forms. Unlike traditional saxophone quartets, most compositions call for two altos, tenor, and bari, which leads itself to denser harmonic territory and a uniquely homogenous sound. Masters of texture and nuance, the quartet has a keen awareness of how to support and push one another's creative boundaries. Social Stutter is comprised of some of the Bay Area's most unique voices: Kasey Knudsen, Raffi Garabedian, Cory Wright and BETH SCHENCK.
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