Ben Goldberg 3-Day Residency

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The festival will take place at the lovely Wyldflowr Arts space in Oakland, and will run from October 23 through October 25. Shows begin at 6:30 with a solo set, and the first band goes on at 7 pm. Here’s what we’ve got planned:


Thursday October 23 Wyldflowr Arts
INVISIBLE GUY (Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)
Ben Goldberg’S GLAMOROUS ESCAPADES plays Porch Concert Material

(Spencer Hoefert, Will Bernard, Mat Muntz, Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)


Friday October 24 Wyldflowr Arts
THINGS THAT MOVE (Nate Brenner, Tim Bulkley, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)
ARCHIMEDES LULLABY (Andrew Conklin, Kasey Knudsen, Nate Brenner, Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)


Saturday October 25 Wyldflowr Arts
INSECT LIFE (Ben Davis, Raffi Garabedian, Danny Lubin-Laden, Ben Goldberg) with special guests Myra Melford and Hamir Atwal
Ben Goldberg’S BRAINCHILD (everyone)
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Ben Goldberg 3-Day Residency

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Thursday October 23 Wyldflowr Arts
INVISIBLE GUY (Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)
Ben Goldberg’S GLAMOROUS ESCAPADES plays Porch Concert Material

(Spencer Hoefert, Will Bernard, Mat Muntz, Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)


Friday October 24 Wyldflowr Arts
THINGS THAT MOVE (Nate Brenner, Tim Bulkley, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)
ARCHIMEDES LULLABY (Andrew Conklin, Kasey Knudsen, Nate Brenner, Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)


Saturday October 25 Wyldflowr Arts
INSECT LIFE (Ben Davis, Raffi Garabedian, Danny Lubin-Laden, Ben Goldberg) with special guests Myra Melford and Hamir Atwal
Ben Goldberg’S BRAINCHILD (everyone)
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Ben Goldberg 3-Day Residency

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Thursday October 23 Wyldflowr Arts
INVISIBLE GUY (Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)
Ben Goldberg’S GLAMOROUS ESCAPADES plays Porch Concert Material

(Spencer Hoefert, Will Bernard, Mat Muntz, Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)


Friday October 24 Wyldflowr Arts
THINGS THAT MOVE (Nate Brenner, Tim Bulkley, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)
ARCHIMEDES LULLABY (Andrew Conklin, Kasey Knudsen, Nate Brenner, Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal, Ben Goldberg)


Saturday October 25 Wyldflowr Arts
INSECT LIFE (Ben Davis, Raffi Garabedian, Danny Lubin-Laden, Ben Goldberg) with special guests Myra Melford and Hamir Atwal
Ben Goldberg’S BRAINCHILD (everyone)
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ROOTSTOCK ARTS presents:

Kjell Nordeson, solo percussion
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duo B. vs. Liberty Ellman
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Jason Levis, drums
Liberty Ellman, guitar

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duo B., the San Francisco Bay Area improvising and composing ensemble of percussionist Jason Levis and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, is a musical think tank of grand schemes and impossible scenarios. For close to 20 years, the ensemble has developed and refined its singular approach to improvisation and composition, through cross-disciplinary projects with film, collaborations with improvising instrumentalists at home and abroad, study of repertoire by like-minded composer-improvisers, and immersion in the improvised-composed musical worlds of masters Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill, and others.

Guitarist, composer, and educator and engineer/producer Liberty Ellman has performed and or recorded with a host of creative artists including Joe Lovano, Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, Butch Morris, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Nels Cline, Nicole Mitchell, Stephan Crump, Jonathan Finlayson, Okkyung Lee, and Ches Smith, among others. Ellman is perhaps best known for his long tenure in Henry Threadgill's groundbreaking ensemble, Zooid, which has recorded several critically lauded albums. As a composer and bandleader he has produced several critically acclaimed recordings including: Orthodoxy (Red Giant Records), Tactiles, Ophiuchus Butterfly, Radiate, and Last Desert (Pi Recordings).

Kjell Nordeson is a jazz drummer and a classical percussionist. As a performer of improvised music and jazz since the early nineties, he has played over 1200 concerts in altogether twenty-six different countries. Kjell is featured on over fifty CDs as a member of ensembles in the field of jazz, improvised music, and contemporary music. His musical collaborations include musicians such as Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brötzmann, Barry Guy, Stefano Scodanibbio, Joe Morris, William Parker, Mark Dresser, Lisa Mezzacappa, Larry Ochs, and many others. He is a member of the Bay Area music ensemble sfSound, and his solo percussion album "Walking with Mirabeau" was released to critical acclaim on Not Two Records in 2017.

on his solo percussion project, Walking with Mirabeau:

My drum set and the vibraphone are two remarkably different musical environments. My drum setup, on one hand, has evolved gradually through the years of my practice as an improviser. Cymbals, bells, skins, and wood in various formats and shapes are placed and organized in an idiosyncratic musical environment that is distinctly my own. The vibraphone, on the other hand, is an extremely standardized instrument, characterized by a merciless lack of flexibility in timbre and pitch. If I were to describe my bond with these instruments in emotional terms, I would say that my relationship to the drum set is like a deep friendship, where we adjust to each other, grow, and evolve together. My body is very much in tune with the tactile responses from skin, wood, and metal. My bond to the vibraphone, on the other hand, is more of a love-hate relationship. The unambiguous pitch and timbre of the vibraphone, along with its predictable and uniform envelope of sound, create in me an urge to move forward, musically speaking. It is as if the quality of the sound makes it hard to find a satisfying resting point. The drum set and the vibraphone become, in my mind, two diametrically opposite members of the percussion family. As an improvising musician, I find them both indispensable.

Count Mirabeau spoke to his fellow generals in a speech that is said to have changed the outcome of the French Revolution. Asked about the speech afterwards, he admitted that when he started speaking, he had not been sure how to end it. He trusted his ability to compose whilst speaking; he improvised.
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Chris Brown's "Geryon" concert at Wyldflowr Arts

Thu, Nov 6 @ 7:00PM Wyldflowr Arts, 809 37th St., Oakland, CA

Pianist/electronicist/composer Chris Brown will be leading this group involving himself, his new electronic "Geryon" instrument (which records individual participants, mixes their sounds, and spits them back out in aleatoric fashion), and other musicians: Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Ben Davis- cello, Ron Heglin- voice, and Lorin Benedict- voice.
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