Saturday, March 28, 2009
The Flip Quartet on Amaranth Radio
Click here and hit the play arrow to hear Amaranth Radio from Seattle. JC Combs will treat you to the sounds of many living composers. The May 16, 2007 live recording of my Flip Quartet, featuring John Hanes, Suki O'Kane, Karen Stackpole and Moe! Staiano, is a part of it.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Gig report from Amar
Click here to read Amar's perspective on our Ivy Room trio performance. I thought it went well too.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Upcoming solo performance in SF (May 17)
Just now confirmed is my solo set on an upcoming night of Pamela Z's Royce Gallery series, ROOM. I attended an installment of this series some months back and it was MOBBED, so you MIGHT wanna order tickets ahead of time. There is a ticket-buying link on the page.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Chaudhary/Moller/Zbyszynski Monday night, 11:00 p.m.
If you find yourself wide awake at 11:00 p.m. on Monday, March 16th, you can come to the Ivy Room in darkest Albany to hear a trio set featuring me, my bandmate Amar Chaudhary, and Michael Zbyszynski. I've never played with Michael before, and I have no idea what he's going to do. High-risk improv behavior!
It's the Experimental Hootenanny, located at 858 San Pablo Ave, Albany, California. The show starts at 9 pm, and we go on at 11 pm. There's no cover and comfortable relaxed lounge surroundings.
It's the Experimental Hootenanny, located at 858 San Pablo Ave, Albany, California. The show starts at 9 pm, and we go on at 11 pm. There's no cover and comfortable relaxed lounge surroundings.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Storm Moon concert Thursday night in SF
My Full Moon Concert Series which I'm curating for Outsound Presents and the Luggage Store Gallery continues this Thursday night with the Storm Moon. At 8 pm (ish) we have Ronnie Cramer, visiting from Denver, and at 9 pm (ish) Lumper/Splitter. The gallery is located at 1007 Market Street at Sixth Street, San Francisco and admission is $6.00 - $10.00 sliding scale.
Denver, Colorado artist/musician/filmmaker Ronnie Cramer has been active in the arts community for over thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and other venues across the country, his music has achieved airplay on over 100 radio stations nationwide and his award-winning films have been screened at festivals around the world. He has also been featured as a guest lecturer on art and media at numerous museums and universities.
Lumper/Splitter is the mind-meld of two obsessive soundhounds -- Joe Rut and Lucio Menegon -- who alternately describe each other as "being from another planet" or "separated at birth." You decide: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
Lumper/Splitter create sonic tapestries using every tool at their guitar-centric disposal -- effects manipulation, looping, amplified objects, found sound, and even some honest guitar playing. Improvising compositions based on their environment, every performance is different. Their excursions sometimes sound like Martians invading New Jersey but are often soothing and occasionally neurotic.
THE PROGRAM:
Ronnie will premiere his 20-30 minute film, "Storm Moon", and perform its accompanying score. The constantly shifting images and music are designed to represent the calendar as we sweep winter aside and prepare for a fresh start in the spring.
INTERMISSION
Lumper/Splitter will attempt to answer the musical question, "What the fuck is a storm moon?", possibly in the key of G.
Denver, Colorado artist/musician/filmmaker Ronnie Cramer has been active in the arts community for over thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and other venues across the country, his music has achieved airplay on over 100 radio stations nationwide and his award-winning films have been screened at festivals around the world. He has also been featured as a guest lecturer on art and media at numerous museums and universities.
Lumper/Splitter is the mind-meld of two obsessive soundhounds -- Joe Rut and Lucio Menegon -- who alternately describe each other as "being from another planet" or "separated at birth." You decide: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
Lumper/Splitter create sonic tapestries using every tool at their guitar-centric disposal -- effects manipulation, looping, amplified objects, found sound, and even some honest guitar playing. Improvising compositions based on their environment, every performance is different. Their excursions sometimes sound like Martians invading New Jersey but are often soothing and occasionally neurotic.
THE PROGRAM:
Ronnie will premiere his 20-30 minute film, "Storm Moon", and perform its accompanying score. The constantly shifting images and music are designed to represent the calendar as we sweep winter aside and prepare for a fresh start in the spring.
INTERMISSION
Lumper/Splitter will attempt to answer the musical question, "What the fuck is a storm moon?", possibly in the key of G.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Quickening Moon concert Thursday night in SF
My Full Moon Concert Series which I'm curating for Outsound Presents and the Luggage Store Gallery continues this Thursday night with the Quickening Moon. At 8 pm (ish) we have Theory Garden, and at 9 pm (ish) the VoxMaids. The gallery is located at 1007 Market Street at Sixth Street, San Francisco and admission is $6.00 - $10.00 sliding scale.
Theory Garden has been in various forms of gestation since 2005, led by Mika Pontecorvo with a varying cast of players exploring a range of improvised music from dark psychedelic rock to free improvisation to abstract electro-acoustic music. For the Quickening Moon performance Theory Garden will incorporate guitar, cello, flute, percussion, sax, trumpet, bass, and vocals and live signal processing via laptop computers.
VoxMaids is made up of JoJo Razor and Cynthia Weyuker, two veteran story-telling vocalists who use various instruments and loop boxes to create garden theater. The story of the VoxMaids is considered neo-folk story music, played out in moments of insanity and beauty. Lately they have begun the arduous task of combining music, performance, film, improv and ritual together to create a fertile ground for the source, or what they like to call Searching for the Voice of the Third. With the precision measurements of alchemists, Cynthia and JoJo aim to create a soundscaped foundation on which the Voice of the Third may not only be heard but seen. With this combination it insures that no two performances are alike and instead breathes life into the moment, not only for the performers but for the audience.
THE PROGRAM:
1. Theory Garden - Kuu (Moon)
Kuu, like other pieces conceived and performed by Theory Garden, is built on an evolving set of dynamic sonic processes architected by Mika Pontecorvo. This process architecture serves as both a ambient soundscape for the individual players improvisations and as a means of modulating the players' work.
For the purposes of this performance the primordial rhythmic relationship between the moon and the life forces it influences will be derived by looking at stages of gestational development at the time of the Quickening Moon and using that relationship to modulate the performance timbral and rhythmic structure. This will be accomplished by using the birthday and month of both the performers and audience to drive the generative processes of the electronics.
INTERMISSION
2. VoxMaids - The Quickening Moon
The Quickening Moon finds the VoxMaids asleep in the dark under the illuminated dark sky. Video projections change throughout the performance ritual, from darkness to twilight. Soundscapes provide a place for: the breath, the calling voice, for improv and ritual.
Song 1 ~ Winter
The Earth Ritual Weaving (bones)
video projections: darkness, texture, mercury
soundscapes: earth, roots, dormancy
performance ritual: physical weaving
Song 2 ~ Electricity
The Water Ritual Phoning (blood)
video projections: darkness, velvet,
soundscapes: earth, roots, dormancy, drums
performance ritual: movement
Song 3 ~ MerryGoRound
The Air Ritual (lungs)
video projections: darkness, movement, patterns
soundscapes: breath, wind, bells, chimes, didgeridoo, accordion
performance ritual: the breath
Song 4 ~ The Beast
The Fire Ritual (heart)
video projections: twilight, engines, pounding, noise
soundscapes: energy, guitar, saw, rake
performance ritual: vocalization
Song 5 ~ Haunted Opera
The Awakening of the Will
Theory Garden has been in various forms of gestation since 2005, led by Mika Pontecorvo with a varying cast of players exploring a range of improvised music from dark psychedelic rock to free improvisation to abstract electro-acoustic music. For the Quickening Moon performance Theory Garden will incorporate guitar, cello, flute, percussion, sax, trumpet, bass, and vocals and live signal processing via laptop computers.
VoxMaids is made up of JoJo Razor and Cynthia Weyuker, two veteran story-telling vocalists who use various instruments and loop boxes to create garden theater. The story of the VoxMaids is considered neo-folk story music, played out in moments of insanity and beauty. Lately they have begun the arduous task of combining music, performance, film, improv and ritual together to create a fertile ground for the source, or what they like to call Searching for the Voice of the Third. With the precision measurements of alchemists, Cynthia and JoJo aim to create a soundscaped foundation on which the Voice of the Third may not only be heard but seen. With this combination it insures that no two performances are alike and instead breathes life into the moment, not only for the performers but for the audience.
THE PROGRAM:
1. Theory Garden - Kuu (Moon)
Kuu, like other pieces conceived and performed by Theory Garden, is built on an evolving set of dynamic sonic processes architected by Mika Pontecorvo. This process architecture serves as both a ambient soundscape for the individual players improvisations and as a means of modulating the players' work.
For the purposes of this performance the primordial rhythmic relationship between the moon and the life forces it influences will be derived by looking at stages of gestational development at the time of the Quickening Moon and using that relationship to modulate the performance timbral and rhythmic structure. This will be accomplished by using the birthday and month of both the performers and audience to drive the generative processes of the electronics.
INTERMISSION
2. VoxMaids - The Quickening Moon
The Quickening Moon finds the VoxMaids asleep in the dark under the illuminated dark sky. Video projections change throughout the performance ritual, from darkness to twilight. Soundscapes provide a place for: the breath, the calling voice, for improv and ritual.
Song 1 ~ Winter
The Earth Ritual Weaving (bones)
video projections: darkness, texture, mercury
soundscapes: earth, roots, dormancy
performance ritual: physical weaving
Song 2 ~ Electricity
The Water Ritual Phoning (blood)
video projections: darkness, velvet,
soundscapes: earth, roots, dormancy, drums
performance ritual: movement
Song 3 ~ MerryGoRound
The Air Ritual (lungs)
video projections: darkness, movement, patterns
soundscapes: breath, wind, bells, chimes, didgeridoo, accordion
performance ritual: the breath
Song 4 ~ The Beast
The Fire Ritual (heart)
video projections: twilight, engines, pounding, noise
soundscapes: energy, guitar, saw, rake
performance ritual: vocalization
Song 5 ~ Haunted Opera
The Awakening of the Will
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