Review of my Thursday night SoundSpeak performance

I can always count on Amar to post gig reports.  I am definitely never performing in those jeans again!

YouTube clips of the Genesis premiere, 2/25/10

Thanks to Amar, whose stationary video camera got pointed at the action and turned on.

Part 1



Part 2

In duo with Moe! Staiano this Thursday in SF

So, I am artistically immersed in found text, especially spoetry.

There's a new "form" of spoetry going around lately, which I'm sure represents the latest innovation that will get the spammer's message past email filters.  It builds on a spoetry form from last year -- words randomly arranged in groups of two or four -- and now features not just random words, but words divided in random places.  The result is words divided into smaller unrelated sound units.

I've collected four of these spoems and I'll be performing them for the first time this Thursday, April 8th at the Luggage Store Gallery.  Joining me will be mad genius percussionist and found objects artist Moe! Staiano.  He's played in my Flip Quartet a couple of times, but we have never improvised together before, and I feel like he's the guy to help me squeeze maximum Dadaist meaning out of the new spoetry form.

Please join us at 8:00 p.m.  The gallery is located at 1007 Market Street near 6th Street.  Admission is $6 - $10 sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds.

Storm Moon 2010 at the Luggage Store Gallery, SF

Another month, another moon, another Full Moon show at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street, San Francisco.  The Storm Moon is all about electric guitars.  Guitars gather and release the storm!

Here's the program:

8:00 PM - Joshua Churchill + Paul Clipson, solo guitar/electronics & Super 8 film

Joshua Churchill and Paul Clipson create collisions of sound, light, and image spanning the spectrums of light(ness) and dark(ness), ethereal and austere, using electronic and acoustic musical instrumentation and Super 8 film, respectively. The element of chance plays a major role in their continually evolving collaboration explores as each artist simultaneously presents densely layered and textured abstract collages within their respective media without premeditations.

9:00 PM - Peter Kolovos (Los Angeles), solo guitar

(I heard Peter Kolovos at the 2009 Outsound New Music Summit.  It was like being thrown against the wall and throttled.  I really wanted to hear him again, to make sure it wasn't a dream, so I invited him back.  Do bring earplugs, or take some of the free ones we give out at the door.)

Peter Kolovos’ performance will coincide with and channel the peak of the Storm Moon's energies.

PERFORMER BIOS:

Joshua Churchill is a San Francisco-based cross-disciplinary who works with sound in the context of immersive site-specific art installations and a number of solo and collaborative experimental music and noise performances including solo noise project T/R and doom/drone/noise trio Riqis.

Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations. His Super 8mm films are shot and largely edited "in-camera", in an improvised manner that brings to light subconscious preoccupations in the hope of allowing for un-thought, unexpected visual elements to reveal themselves.

Peter Kolovos has forged one of the most distinctive sound languages to emerge out of today's avante/out sound underground. Using and electric guitar he creates music that is constantly shifting and fiercely physical. Think volume, texture and immediacy rather than melody, structure or repetition. Swirling vortexes of sound. Every performance and recording is different and never repeated - each is innevitably tied to the unique qualities of every moment and circumstance.

Kolovos has performed throughout the U.S. and has released recordings under his own name as well as his group Open City. His solo LP 'New Bodies' was released in 2009 to strong reviews and received mention in writer's best of the year lists in the Wire and the Village Voice. He lives and records in Los Angeles.

A very happy 18th birthday...

to Murphy Soren, the most wonderful parrot ever.

Excerpt from last month's premiere

Clyde was there to record the Genesis premiere at the Luggage Store Gallery on Feb. 25th.  Now you can listen to (and download for free!) a 4:35 excerpt from that performance.  Click here!