Long Night's Moon concert this Thursday in SF

The last Full Moon concert of the year will be the Long Night's Moon, on December 3. It features John Hanes and the 60 x 60 2009 International Mix. Come to the Luggage Store Gallery at 1007 Market Street near 6th Street, on Thursday December 3rd at 8 PM. Admission is $6-$10 sliding scale, but no one's turned away for lack of funds.

PROGRAM AND PERFORMERS:

8:00 PM: John Hanes, also known as Organ of Qwerty, has been making music in the Bay Area for 30 years. He is currently playing in a number of ensembles, including Myles Boisen's Past Present Future, Phillip Greenlief's Citta Di Vitti, Marié Abe's O,Pomelo, and an un-named laptop duo with Rova's Steve Adams. John's piece for the Long Night's Moon concert will be an attempt to celebrate the promise of light inherent in the darkest night and the rhythm of the turning of the year.

INTERMISSION

9:00 PM: The 2009 60x60 International Mix is a recording containing 60 works from 60 different composers. Each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration sequenced together to create a one-hour performance. Highlighting the work of a great many up-and-coming composers, 60x60 testifies to the vibrancy of contemporary composition by presenting the diverse array of styles, aesthetics and techniques being used today.

Debuting in New York City November 2003, 60x60 started as an electroacoustic "tape" concert with its 60 short electronic works synchronized with an analog clock to mark the passage of each minute. Since then 60x60 has received thousands of audio submissions from more than 30 countries around the world, produced radio shows, collaborated with multimedia (including dance, video, sculpture, and photography) and released several audio albums on CD.

The 2009 International Mix features one-minute (or less) recorded works by 60 composers from all over the world, played continuously with a projected clock as accompaniment.

A couple of new video clips

These are new to me, anyway! Dancers are interpreting my one-minute pieces in two different presentations of the 60 x 60 Dance project, both at Galapagos in New York City.

Here's "Kissing a Woman", danced to on April 7, 2009:



And here's "Cold Blood", danced to on September 8, 2008.

Siberian Crane Whistle

Siberian Crane Whistle
Originally uploaded by Dill Pixels

I can't help but post this, because it is so very cool. It is by my uber-talented beau, Tom Djll.

Gig report from Amar

I'm so glad he likes blogging. Click here!

Mourning Moon concert this Thursday in SF

The Mourning Moon will be waning on Thursday night, November 5th, when the Mourning Moon concert takes place at the Luggage Store Gallery. You're invited to contemplate death and rebirth with Andrew Raffo Dewar (Alabama), his friends, and his music...featuring the composer on soprano saxophone plus Kyle Bruckmann, Gino Robair, and John Shiurba.

The Luggage Store Gallery is upstairs at 1007 Market Street at 6th Street, San Francisco. The show starts at 8 pm and admission is $6.00 - $10.00 sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. The series is sponsored by Outsound Presents.

PROGRAM:

8 PM: Piece for For Four Instruments (2002), dedicated to Earle Brown

INTERMISSION

9 PM: new work for quartet

COMPOSER BIO:

Andrew Raffo Dewar (b.1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, improviser, and woodwind instrumentalist. Since 1995 he has been active in the music communities of Minneapolis, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and performing his work internationally. He has studied with saxophonist/composers Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton and Phillip Greenlief, composer Alvin Lucier, trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, and has also had a long involvement with experimental and traditional Indonesian music. Dewar has been noted as "having the rare ability to translate his knowledge into something beautiful" (Foxy Digitalis). The 2008 debut recording of his music on Porter Records was described as "absorbing" (Dusted Magazine),"enshrouding" and "evoking something unnatural and plugged-in" (Bagatellen), as well as "musical rainfall" and "absolutely essential listening" (Aquarius Records). According to Paper Cuts zine, "Dewar’s music is not a watered down copy or even a respectful imitation of other musical forms; it’s his own thing."

In addition to leading his own ensembles and performing in collaborative groups with known and unknown musicians from around the world, Dewar performs with and appears on several recordings by the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet and the Bill Dixon Orchestra. Dewar is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts in New College at the University of Alabama.

Reconnaissance Fly this Sunday night in SF

This Sunday night, November 1st, at 7:30 p.m., Reconnaissance Fly will take the stage opening for Noertker's Moxie at the Musicians' Union Hall, 116 9th Street at Mission Street in San Francisco. It's the CD release party for Noertker's Moxie and we're playing the opening set.

Who or what is Reconnaissance Fly? It's a band of composers in the midst of co-creating a long-form work. Our first project, Flower Futures, will be a multi-movement “spong cycle” based entirely on spoetry – the deliciously powerful results of robot efforts to evade your spam filter. Some movements are written out, some are improv frameworks, and all celebrate the poetic gifts of the Internet.

Here are the bios of the band members:

Polly Moller (Scorpio) is a composer, performer, improviser, performance artist, curator, and writer based in Oakland, California. Her current passions are found text, extended techniques and improvisation on flute and bass flute, found and/or toy instruments, and composition drawing upon spirituality, ritual movements, and the occult. Polly is currently working on a solo piccolo piece commissioned by Amy Likar of the Oakland East Bay Symphony, and preparing for the Feb. 25, 2010 premiere of her piece Genesis for 12 improvisers.

Amar Chaudhary (Pisces) is a longtime composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music, as well as a developer of advanced software for sound synthesis and music composition. Amar had his music performed internationally and has received several honors for his musical work. He remains actively involved in local electronic and experimental music in the San Francisco Bay Area, and performs regularly, both as a solo artist and in groups, including the ensemble Reconnaissance Fly. His recent music involves experimentation with new sounds and sound-synthesis/processing techniques and new modes of musically expressive performance, free improvisation, combination of disparate elements and styles, and incorporating folk and toy instruments into electro-acoustic music. In addition to his musical work, Amar maintains a deep interest in modern and contemporary art in several media as a creator, consumer and supporter.

Bill Wolter (Sagittarius)is a guitarist, composer, and sound engineer working in the SF Bay Area. His music hovers around experimental rock, jazz, noise, new music, and all areas in between. A restless collaborator who constantly seeks the most diverse and challenging musical experiences, Bill performs and collaborates frequently with a wide range of musicians, artists, and dancers. Recently Bill has been working on musical game design for Guitar Hero videogames, as well as composing music for modern dance, and playing with a jazz organ trio organ-ma-tron. Bill has worked with the Bay Area jazz/rock/prog bands Slydini and Inner Ear Brigade, and has collaborated with other performance ensembles such as sfSound, Moe!kestra and Double Vision. Recently, Bill received the Wurlitzer Foundation composition residency in Taos, New Mexico.