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Mon16Dec2013
Free Reed Vibrating Society
8pmBerkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue
BerkeleyIsometric harmonics with the expanded version of the Che Guevara Memorial Marching (and Stationary) Accordion Band which features a variety of accordions, melodicas, harmonicas, kaans, maybe a chang etc. played by Melissa, Michael, Michael, Rent, CJ, Sandra, Sarah, Thomas, Nancy, David, Dave, Cindy, Me, Ron, Alexandra and Bob Marsh, the instigator.
Plus or minus one or two.
We will play a long version of “The Long and Short of It” as well as a free improvisation.
The Emergency String (X)tet shares the bill.
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Wed11Dec2013
Daniel Popsicle
8pmBerkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue
BerkeleyAfter a six month hiatus in the freezer, Dan Plonsey’s Daniel Popsicle returns to Berkeley Arts with reprise of works from New Monsters. I’ll be playing a regular drum set in an irregular fashion, and attending the other two nights of Plonsey’s Beanbenders Retrospective.
John Schott solo opens. Don’t miss that.
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Sun08Dec2013
listening on the eights
Following my playing on the nines for a full year (November 2012 – October 2013), I’m now listening on the eights: a monthly sonic capture of the foregrounds, backgrounds, and patterns that shape my work.
For eight minutes on the eighth of each month, I’m pausing with intention.
This is the second edition. Join me directly or subscribe via RSS or iTunes.
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Sun01Dec2013
the big, bright light of sweet, narcotic noise
5-7pmubRadio Salon
live on the interwebs at dfm.nu
live on the air in amsterdam, the netherlandsThe return of Strangelet, the noise project of Lucio Menegon with me, Michael Zelner, and no input with Nina and dAS of bXyg crXgYty oArXcHsTxRa
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Sun10Nov2013
inkBoat: Without Us (work in progress)
3:30pmTenderloin National Forest
509 Ellis Street
San Francisco[ directions ]
The second outing of “Without Us,” inkBoat’s latest performance work in progress. I’m doing radio experiments and seeking the acoustic properties of natural materials, bolstered by the musical artistry of Dylan Bolles, Jason Ditzian, Edward Schocker and Dohee Lee.
Directed and performed by Shinichi Iova-Koga with Dana Iova-Koga, Peiling Kao, Janet Das, Ian Smith-Heisters, Martha Coates, Sophia Colemenarez, Nadia Oka, Jeanie Tang, and Trey Donavan.
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Fri08Nov2013
listening on the eights
After playing on the nines for a full year (November 2012 – October 2013), I’m now ready to be listening on the eights: a monthly sonic capture of the foregrounds, backgrounds, and patterns that shape my work.
For eight minutes on the eighth of each month, I’m pausing with intention. It’s a start.
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Wed23Oct2013
corringham + lasqo + o'kane :: ima
8pmBerkeley Arts Festival
2133 University Avenue
BerkeleyReturning with bass drum/implements to a 6-verse mini-renga-kai, improv games, AI-driven reactive soundscapes, deviant sample-melting, and deepening confusion between words, utterance, sound, and music. All with Joe Lasqo (electronics) and Viv Corringham (voice).
Also on the bill: IMA, the duo of Jeanie-Aprille Tang (鄧恬怡) & Nava Dunkelman (ナヴァ・ダンケルマン), bringing fierce focus on the NOW MOMENT to their powerful deep-soundspace explorations.
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Wed09Oct2013
Playing on the Nines: Octoplayer + 1
6:30pmExplorist International
3174 24th Street, San FranciscoJoining Thad Povey and Mark Taylor with their Octoplayer, an invented instrument featuring eight turntables on a single spindle and a major amount of coincidence. Expect one more turntable playing not just records.
Thanks to the Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival for scooping us up in their inventive week of… music, people, and thingamajigs!
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Mon07Oct2013
Renga-kai (連歌会) Project
8pmCenter for New Music
55 Taylor Street
San FranciscoThe West Bay Edition of playing the big drum with implements in Joe Lasqo’s and Patti Deuter’s concatenation of Cage’s 2-piano piece, Two² and Renga, via the traditional Renga, in which poets at an alcohol-soaked party improvise verses in form 5-7-5-7-7, generally in sets of 36 verses, riffing off each other.
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Sat05Oct2013
Renga-kai (連歌会) Project
8pmBerkeley Arts Festival
2133 University Avenue
BerkeleyPlaying the big drum with implements in Joe Lasqo’s and Patti Deuter’s concatenation of Cage’s 2-piano piece, Two² and Renga, via the traditional Renga, in which poets at an alcohol-soaked party improvise verses in form 5-7-5-7-7, generally in sets of 36 verses, riffing off each other. No way. Sake. Yes way.
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Thu03Oct2013
That Shining Sound
8pmArtists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San FranciscoConvening with Jeremy Rourke and Ammo Eisu for an evening of expanded cinema. Jeremy is in the projection. I am in the drum, projecting, with special guest Peter Conheim.
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Fri20Sep2013Sat21Sep2013
VAK: Song of Becoming
8pmYerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San FranciscoChanting and moving with the chorus in Ann Dyer’s monumental work that calls on ancient yoga philosophies to create an immersive sonic experience at an intersection of art and mindfulness. Now that I write that, I realize this is my debut as a chorus girl. Think singular sensation.
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Fri20Sep2013Sat21Sep2013
VAK: Song of Becoming
8pmYerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San FranciscoChanting and moving with the chorus in Ann Dyer’s monumental work that calls on ancient yoga philosophies to create an immersive sonic experience at an intersection of art and mindfulness. Now that I write that, I realize this is my debut as a chorus girl. Think singular sensation.
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Fri13Sep2013
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival: Moe! Staiano and Ensemble
8pmBrava Theater Center
2781 24th Street (at York)
San Francisco[ tickets ]
Playing percussion in Moe! Staiano’s new work My Frustration of You Elevates to This (2013), a work loosely based on previous performances by Duo Pisano (Moe! with Alan Anzalone) on audio generators from low frequences to high, with frequencies ebbing off each other, causing painful results to the audience as intended.
Also on the program: Raven Chacon and Éliane Radigue / Laetitia Sonami
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Mon09Sep2013
Playing on the Nines: John Shiurba's 9:9
7pmBerkeley Arts Festival
2133 University Avenue
BerkeleyJoining guitarist John Shiurba in an evening of nine-based music that features both CD releases and performance of his 5×5+4=9/9. This iteration includes five drummers working with five objects each (Jordan Glenn, John Hanes, me, Gino Robair, Thomas Scandura, Moe! Staiano) and four hollow body guitarists (Myles Boisen, John Finkbeiner, Shiurba, John Schott).
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Fri16Aug2013
Solvitur Ambulando (Premiere)
7:30pmBerkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Woo Hon Fai Hall
2626 Bancroft Way
2625 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph
Directions / ParkingSolvitur Ambulando (it is solved by walking) is a residency collaboration with performance artist Sasha Hom, Thingamajigs Performance Group and Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive. This L@TE performance premieres a new multimedia work, and culminates Thingamajigs’ residency with words, art, and music inspired by issues in international adoption, while more broadly engaging ideas of travel, labyrinths, and “walking meditation.” The performance will literally move through the atrium gallery space during the course of the evening.
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Sun11Aug2013
Shapeshifters Cinema: Kadet Kuhne
8pmTemescal Arts Center
511 48th Street
OaklandJoining Kadet Kuhne on the Drum Set of Radical Scale Relationships in an improvised live score. Part of an evening of Kadet performing new scores for videos by herself, Paul Clipson, Krystof Pesek and Alba G. Corral.
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Sat10Aug2013
Right Window Gallery: Amy Rathbone
3pm - 5pmRight Window Gallery
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street, SFProcessing the sound of Amy’s new installation in the Right Window Gallery at ATA. Expect tiny, jurassic electronics.
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Fri09Aug2013
Playing on the Nines: Solvitur Ambulando (Nomadism)
6:30pmBerkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Woo Hon Fai Hall
2626 Bancroft Way
2625 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph
Directions / ParkingSolvitur Ambulando (it is solved by walking) is a residency collaboration with performance artist Sasha Hom, Thingamajigs Performance Group and Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive.
With a pre-concert discussion “Forms of Travel,” TPG is inviting like-minded Bay Area talents to join them in presenting new music, readings, and other performances on the subjects of nomadism and dislocation, belonging and disconnection.
This L@TE performance is the second of three showing work in progress.
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Sat27Jul2013
Inhale. Exhale. Repeat.
12:00am - 2:00amTemescal Art Center
511 48th Street
OaklandYou read that right: Midnight to 2am. Joining members of Thingamajigs Performance Ensemble in Dandelion Dancetheatre’s monumental 24-hour work “Inhale. Exhale. Repeat.” which commences on Friday the 26th at 7pm and continues until the following day as a participatory performance exploring breath, slowness, Shabbat, cyclical time, community ritual, sleep and dreams.
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Fri26Jul2013
Solvitur Ambulando (Locating)
6:00pmBerkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Woo Hon Fai Hall
2626 Bancroft Way
2625 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph
Directions / ParkingSolvitur Ambulando (it is solved by walking) is a residency collaboration with performance artist Sasha Hom, Thingamajigs Performance Group and Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive. “Locating” is a L@TE performance, the first of three showing work in progress, involving graphical scores and texts displayed on the surfaces of BAM/PFA’s cavernous and angular atrium gallery. Part musical notation and part poetry, the installation will transform the environment into a collaborative map.
I’m composing with Edward Schocker, Dylan Bolles and Sasha for these three trios:
- Lisa Mezzacappa, Gino Robair & John Shiurba
- Nava Dunkelman, Jakob Peck & Joshua Marshall
- Zachary James Watkins, Kaori Suzuki & Marshall Trammell
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Sat20Jul2013
ARA Gut Seasonal Rituals
4pmYerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San FranciscoThe first of Dohee Lee’s four seasonal performances drawing from MAGO, the multidisciplinary performance installation integrating music, dance, animation, ritual and Korean shamanism. I’ll be playing monumental percussion and jurassic electronics with Dohee and Adria Otte, with Bada Saekki, a new Korean percussion group featuring Saeun Kim (Skim), Miriam Yoon Louie, Adria Otte, Codie Otte, Yeri Shon and Liz Suk.
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Tue09Jul2013
Playing on the Nines: Wayne Grim
6:00pmpiers 15/17
san francisco[ directions ]
Reconvening with Wayne Grim to sonify the public space using the heavens above and the earth below.
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Sun07Jul2013
Student Work
4pmStarry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705Playing drums in an afternoon of music and storytelling with Daniel Popsicle, the large creative ensemble led by composer Dan Plonsey and Bay Area K-12 educators sharing stories from the classroom
free show | all ages | food & bar | homework assistance for math students K thru postDoc
Composer and high school math teacher Dan Plonsey has set his students’ essays to music, creating a hilarious and heartbreaking song cycle played by his legendary big band. Joined by Bay Area teachers ready to share tales of the classroom, this off-beat First Sundays afternoon combines homework assistance, storytelling, and live performances by Daniel Popsicle from the Student Work oeuvre, with its post-apocalyptic sound evocative of Thai brass bands, Indian wedding bands, ironic Dutch bands, Sun Ra Arkestra, Braxtonian creative music orchestras and junior high bands. Includes a couple pop quizzes for the audience.
Homework Assistance starts at 4pm
Music & Storytelling starts at 4:45pmhttp://
myrelationshipwithmath.tumb lr.com/
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Sat15Jun2013Fri21Jun2013
Thingamajigs Performance Group at InkGround
Petrolia, California
TPG‘s week-long residency at the home of Inkboat’s Dance on Land program. We’ll be creating new instruments built into the fabric of this rural arts space, working ranch, and interstitial landscape where the Mattole River meets the Pacific Ocean, and performing for the community.
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Sun09Jun2013
Playing on the Nines: Vedic Chants and Sargam Soundscapes
5-7pmubRadio Salon
live on the interwebs at dfm.nu
live on the air in amsterdam, the netherlandsIt’s time to rock it with the Hindu goddess of speech, who, as you know, shreds.
Joining members of the biggee citae orchestrae and members of the VAK choir, that 108-voice ensemble of yogic chanters, with Angela Coon (Toychestra), Ann Dyer, Joy (She Mob), Mantra Plonsey and others TBA.
Expect sruti boxes, harmonia and gongs, along with vowel spirals, Vedic chants, sargam soundscapes and brahmari pranayama.
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Sun02Jun2013
Student Work
4pmStarry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705Playing drums in an afternoon of music and storytelling with Daniel Popsicle, the large creative ensemble led by composer Dan Plonsey and Bay Area K-12 educators sharing stories from the classroom
free show | all ages | food & bar | homework assistance for math students K thru postDoc
Composer and high school math teacher Dan Plonsey has set his students’ essays to music, creating a hilarious and heartbreaking song cycle played by his legendary big band. Joined by Bay Area teachers ready to share tales of the classroom, this off-beat First Sundays afternoon combines homework assistance, storytelling, and live performances by Daniel Popsicle from the Student Work oeuvre, with its post-apocalyptic sound evocative of Thai brass bands, Indian wedding bands, ironic Dutch bands, Sun Ra Arkestra, Braxtonian creative music orchestras and junior high bands. Includes a couple pop quizzes for the audience.
Homework Assistance starts at 4pm
Music & Storytelling starts at 4:45pmhttp://
myrelationshipwithmath.tumb lr.com/
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Sat01Jun2013
we / customize Closing Party
11am - 5pmOakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street, Oakland
directionsConvening with jurassic electronics with Thingamajigs Performance Group for a re customization of the priorly we customized Ikea table as part of the closing party for this exhibition.
Also on the bill:
11am and 12pm
Tim Phillips and the CMT Creates Music Collective
amazing instrument builders and performers1pm and 2pm
TPG Musically Render The Ikea Table One Final Time3pm and 4pm
Toychestra!
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Thu09May2013
Playing on the Nines: Gregory Scharpen
3-6pmEast Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
4695 Telegraph Ave Oakland
(510) 547-6470Joining sound artist Gregory Scharpen in a performance ideally suited to our joint temperament: sitting among the shelves at East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, creating a site-specific soundscape drawn from the objects around us.
free admission
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Wed08May2013
Meridian Music Composers in Performance: Edward Schocker
7:30pmMeridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San FranciscoJoining Edward Schocker with Yun-kyong Jin, Jean Ann, Giacomo Fiore, Brian Baumbusch and Wayne Grim in Edward’s evening of works written in alternate tuning systems and a variety of non-Western performance practices: Dodecachordon, which explores the treatment of musical modes through drones produced from multiple electric guitars, and Sijo -“time being” pieces, which challenge our perception of pulse.
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Sun05May2013
Student Work
4pmStarry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705Playing drums in an afternoon of music and storytelling with Daniel Popsicle, the large creative ensemble led by composer Dan Plonsey and Bay Area K-12 educators sharing stories from the classroom
free show | all ages | food & bar | homework assistance for math students K thru postDoc
Composer and high school math teacher Dan Plonsey has set his students’ essays to music, creating a hilarious and heartbreaking song cycle played by his legendary big band. Joined by Bay Area teachers ready to share tales of the classroom, this off-beat First Sundays afternoon combines homework assistance, storytelling, and live performances by Daniel Popsicle from the Student Work oeuvre, with its post-apocalyptic sound evocative of Thai brass bands, Indian wedding bands, ironic Dutch bands, Sun Ra Arkestra, Braxtonian creative music orchestras and junior high bands. Includes a couple pop quizzes for the audience.
Homework Assistance starts at 4pm
Music & Storytelling starts at 4:45pmhttp://
myrelationshipwithmath.tumb lr.com/
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Sat20Apr2013
Improvisation #317
8pmKUNST-OFF arts
One Grove Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
USA
[map]Phone: (415) 777-0172
with Shinichi Iova-Koga as part of
Sonic Body Series
Performance Improvisation, Body+ sound relationship:
4 local and international group of choreographers and musicians meet for an evening of improvisation, creating spatial interaction and sonic abstraction in between the sound and the body.Including performances by
Christine Bonansea + Jean Bender + Charlotte Benedittini
Title:μN
http://www.christinebonansea.com/
http://jeanbender.blogspot.com/
http://www.machinehybride.org/ ALTERNATIVA/Kathleen Hermesdorf + Albert Mathias
Title: ‘X’
http://www.la-alternativa.us/ Christian Burns
Title: Score from Unmaking
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Fri12Apr2013
L@TE: Carbon Song Cycle
7:30pmBerkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Woo Hon Fai Hall
2626 Bancroft Way
2625 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph
Directions / ParkingCarbon Song Cycle is Pamela Z‘s new work in collaboration with video artist Christina McPhee. I’ll be on percussion joining Theresa Wong (cello, voice) and Dana Jessen (bassoon).
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Tue09Apr2013
Playing on the Nines: Jubilith Moore
7pmChappell R. Hayes Memorial Observation Tower
Middle Harbor Shoreline Park
2777 Middle Harbor Road
OaklandJoining performance artist Jubilith Moore in a performance of the Chu No Mai.
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Fri05Apr2013
] MA [
7:30pmBerkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Woo Hon Fai Hall
2626 Bancroft Way
2625 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph
Directions / Parking] MA [ is a new work I’m wrangling for Thingamajigs Performance Group in response to the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive exhibition Silence. Using concepts from Japanese Noh theater, where silence is a central aesthetic driver, our performance will focus on the space between the notes, distances between parts, and a musical vocabulary of invisible actions.
Joined by durational artists from Dandelion Dance Theater and other special guests, ] MA [ takes Zeami’s famous pronouncement as its single instruction:
senu tokoro ga omoshiroki
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Fri05Apr2013Sun07Apr2013
inkBoat: Without Us (work in progress)
8pmCounterpulse
1310 Mission Street (near 9th)
San Francisco
(415) 626-2060advance tickets $15 / $17 / $20 available here
The first outing of “Without Us,” inkBoat’s new performance work in progress. I’m doing sound design, seeking the acoustic properties of natural materials in this glacial, water-based installation at the heart of this piece, bolstered by the musical artistry of Dylan Bolles, Jason Ditzian and Dohee Lee.
Machines fail and decay.
Are we sinking?
Directed and performed by Shinichi Iova-Koga with dancers Dana Iova-Koga, Peiling Kao and musicians Dohee Lee, Suki O’Kane, Dylan Bolles and Jason Ditzian.
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Sat09Mar2013
Playing on the Nines: Dylan Bolles
7pmGreen Valley Village
13024 Green Valley Road
Sebastapol
directionsJoining performance artist Dylan Bolles in a performance on found instruments collected in an edge-ecosystem, part of a day-long open rehearsal for Thingamajigs Performance Group and an evening concert featuring special neighborhood guest Jesse Olson.
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Fri08Mar2013
Biggs + O'Kane + Schocker
8pmTurquoise Yantra Grotto
32 Turquoise Way, San Franciscoemail TurquoiseYantraGrotto@hotmail.com for reservations and address
additional details on facebook
A new trio of the long-time talking and the just-now playing: composer and visual artist Betsey Biggs, composer and arts educator Edward Schocker and… me convene in the Grotto with Raub Roy (Horaflora) and Eric Glick Rieman
$10 – $15 sliding scale
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Sat09Feb2013
Temporality
Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613Information: 510.430.2164
Directions: 510.430.3250
Email: museum@mills.eduTemporality is a new volume from Stephen Ratcliffe’s poetry cycle, featuring the Thingamajigs Performance Group, Shinichi Iova-Koga and special guests accompanying Stephen as he reads out 1,000 poems written over 1,000 days. We talk about it here.
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Fri11Jan2013
Benefit for Jay Korber: Gino Benefit Large Ensemble + Moe! Staiano Korpercussion
8pmBerkeley Arts Storefront
2133 University Avenue
BerkeleyI swore to Polly Moller on December 9, 2012 that I would never play the Berkeley Arts Festival storefront ever again. Then Phillip Greenlief put together a benefit for local musician Jay Korber, who is recovering from a very serious accident and I thought… well… I can explain that to Polly Moller.
8pm set: large ensemble conducted by Gino Robair. I’ll be playing either an accordion or some jurassically crappy electronics through a pignose amp because I like to give Gino something to consider… or ignore.
Second set: large ensemble conducted by Moe! Staiano. I’ll be playing percussion.
If you can’t make this gig, please click to give. Jay needs our help. Any amount helps.
And this has got to be my all-time favorite concert video that features Jay and Jacob Felix Heule. I try to be like this every day.
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Wed09Jan2013
Put A Fork In It
7:30pmThe Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: 415 398 7229
Fax: 415 398 6176
Email: info@meridiangallery.orgA new work for double trio of percussion and electronics. I’m instigating and performing with Anna Wray, Moe! Staiano, Lance Grabmiller, Gretchen Jude, and Zachary James Watkins. Details are here.