The Kitchen
Leftovers from 1999 and before
most recent Leftovers


EVENTS from 2000


  • Music At the Anthology
    Music At The Anthology's 2001 season commissioning program and call for scores

    GUIDELINES FOR MATA MID-WINTER FESTIVAL 2001

    Materials for submission must include:

    1. Two recordings of samples of recent work
    MIDI tapes will not be accepted

    2. Scores to accompany the above recordings
    unless scores are impertinent

    3. A biography or resume

    4. A list of works

    5. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission
    if you wish to have your materials returned otherwise they will be discarded.

    Receipt deadline: June 1, 2000

    GUIDELINES FOR THE COMMISSIONING PROGRAM

    All the materials listed above are required

    Applicants must be under 40 to be considered

    The commission fee will be a minimum of $1500.00
    Copying costs may be included.

    A commissioned work will be approximately 10 minutes in duration

    Composers are expected to attend the premiere of their work

    Receipt deadline: June 1, 2000.

    Please include a sentence in your cover letter specifying if you would like
    your works to be considered generally for the fesitval in the event that you
    are not chosen to be a commissionee.

    Music At The Anthology
    P.O. Box 2932
    Church Street Station
    New York, NY 10008
    matanyc@aol.com



  • Masterpieces of 20th Century Multi-Channel Tape Music

    Low Memorial Library at Columbia University, New York City, USA
    July 14, 2000

    This concert is sponsored by the Columbia University Computer Music Center and the Lincoln Center Music Festival. Further information is available on the web.



  • 9:00 Dimetrodon Collective: Deaf Funeral (Andy Sykora +)
    10:00 Provisional Riviera
    11:00 Crispus N-tet

    Dimetrodon at holly matter
    The best in L.A. New Music at holly matter - at its new location:
    710 N. Heliotrope Drive
    Los Angeles, CA 90029
    the phone number remains : 323.666.0303
    Every Other Wednesday

    Admission - $6, two for $10



  • sound structures
    renditions of experimental compositions from 1967-2000

    thursday, 15 july
    friday, 16 july
    7:30pm

    (the same program will be repeated both nites)
    at the new college theatre on valencia street between 18th and 19th streets

    donations will be accepted to continue the sound structures series, but no
    one will be turned away

    please forward this announcement to any and all who may be interested, and
    feel free to be in touch regarding possible future sound structures events.
    write to: cory@withitgirl.com


  • Synthèse 2000: 30th Festival International des Musiques Electroniques de Bourges

    Bourges, France
    Friday June 9 to Sunday June 18, 2000

    The festival will represent a large international professional platform open to trends and styles of today. We hope to meet
    you during this event and will keep you informed of its programme through the internet. Further information is available
    by email and on the web.



  • Electronic Soundwaves: Japanese Frequencies

    Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    June 17, 2000 at 9pm

    Japanese Frequencies is a program of contemporary Japanese music. Part of the Holland Festival, the Paradiso program consists of two parts. The first part of the evening is devoted to new work by various composers and performers, such as Sachiko M, Aube, Nobukazu Takemura and Ryoji Ikeda, who collaborates with graphic artist Carsten Nicolai. The DJs and VJs will then present a dance night.

    More information is available by email or on the web.




    Saturday, June 17th, Sunday June 18

  • Steve Reich and Musicians perform the west coast premiere of "Hindenburg," with video by Beryl Korot. Part of the San Francisco Symphony's American
    Mavericks series. At Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco), $12-$52.



    Wednesday, June 20th

  • New World Symphony makes its Bay Area Debut, performing Earle Brown's "Cross Sections and Color Fields," Steven Mackey's "Tuck and Roll" and Charles Ives' "Symphony No. 2." Part of the San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks series. At Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco), $12-$52.



    Thursday, June 21st

  • New World Symphony: From Adams to Zappa. Includes John Adams conducting his "Shaker Loops" and "Grand Pianola Music." Also, Conlon Nancarrow's "Study No. 6" and Frank Zappa's "Dupree's Paradise." Part of the San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks series. At Davies Symphony
    Hall (201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco), $12-$52.




  • Troika Ranch: The Chemical Wedding

    Here Art Center, 145 6th Avenue, New York City, USA
    June 16, 17 & 18, 2000 at 8pm

    "Since forming their dance theater company Troika Ranch in 1993, artistic co-directors Mark Coniglio
    and Dawn Stoppiello have been creating dynamic live performances that combine dance, music,
    thater, and interactive digital media ..."

    Further information is available by telephone to (212)647-0202, by email, and on the web.



  • Peter Brotzman Tenet:
    High-energy free jazz delivered by sax/reeds man Brotzman.

    At the Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell, San Francisco, 415-885-0750), 8:00 p.m.,
    $16.


    Wednesday, June 7th

  • The San Francisco Symphony presents "Meet the Mavericks:"

    music of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Milton Babbtt, Morton Feldman,
    John Cage and Terry Riley. Part of the American Mavericks series. At Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco),
    $12-$52.


    June 4th 2000 7 PM

  • WADADA LEO SMITH AND NEW DALTA AHKRI (2nd set)
    Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet, flutes, percussion
    David Philipson: bansuri
    William Roper: tuba
    Mark Trayle: electronics
    Harumi Makino Smith: poetry
    Naoyuki Oguri: dance

    WE ARE NOT MAILMEN (1st set)
    Arthur Jarvinen: analog electronics, voice
    Eric Barber: tenor + soprano sax

    Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center
    2225 Colorado Blvd.,(just west of Eagle Rock Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA
    (easily accessible from the 2 and 134 freeway)
    $10 (students, seniors half price)
    Information + directions 626-795-4989 (tel)
    Information of the concerts at the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center
    can be obtained by visiting the Lira Productions web site.


  • VIRTUAL MOTION in San Francisco
    foolsFURY Ben Yalom, Artistic Director
    presents
    VIRTUAL MOTION a one-man "hyper-opera"
    written, composed and performed by DAVID RODWIN

    June 1-3 & 8-10, 2000 Thurs.-Sat. @8PM
    Venue 9 252 Ninth St. (& Folsom)

    Tix: $12-15 (Thursdays, Students and Seniors - $10 ) info/reservations:
    415.289.2000




  • The Composer as Performer

    Dia Center for the Arts, 548 W. 22nd St., New York City, USA
    Wednesday, June 7, 2000 at 7pm

    Composers Lukas Foss, Steve Mackey and Joan Tower will discuss and perform their work sharing the stage with the St. Luke's Orchestra musicians. Program includes Lukas Foss' 'Capriccio' for cello and piano and 'For Toru' for flute and string quartet; Steve Mackey's 'Grundge' for solo guitar and 'Physical Property' for guitar and string quartet; and Joan Tower's 'Tres lent' for cello and piano, and 'Petrouschskates' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. More information is available by phone to (212)594-6100.



  • John Michael Doyle and Ron Heglin (movement and music),
    and Adam Lane's "Musical Genius",
    at the Luggage Store Gallery (1007
    Market St. at 6th, San Francisco, 415-255-5971), 8:00 p.m., $6-$10.



  • Electronic Soundwaves: Boerman, Haydn and Obrecht

    Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Tuesday, June 13, 2000 at 8:15pm

    As part of the Holland Festival, composer Jan Boerman presents works in which his electronic works are mirrored by
    classical compositions. After Boerman's 'Kringloop I', the Radio Symfonie Orkest, directed by Jaap van Zweden, plays
    Joseph Haydn's 'Oxford' Symphony. Jacob Obrecht's 'Sub tuum praesidium confugimus', performed by the Vocaal
    Ensemble Currende, wil follow Boerman's 'Kompositie 1972'. "Boerman chose the works of 18th and 15th-century
    composers because he felt a certain kinship with them. He and Obrecht share the Golden Ratio as a guiding principle;
    with Haydn, the binding factor is more instinctive. Boerman describes Haydn's music as light and optimistic, but
    profound, and hopes that these qualities can also be ascribed to his Kompositie 1972."

    More information is available by email or on the web.




  • June in Buffalo: From Feldman to Felder . . .and Beyond

    University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York State, USA
    June 5 - 15, 2000

    Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, June in Buffalo will offer an expanded series of concerts featuring many of the most prominent and respected composers active today including George Crumb, Donald Erb, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, David Felder, Lukas Foss, Bernard Rands, Charles Wuorinen, Augusta Read Thomas, Nils Vigeland, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, and Harvey Sollberger. A short talk by the featured composers of the evening will precede all evening concerts. Two specific concerts will highlight an individual composer; Philip Glass will be featured on Wednesday, June 7 in a concert culminating in a showing of the film Koyaanasquatsi, and Steve Reich will be featured on Tuesday, June 13. All events are open to the public, and will take place on the Amherst (North) Campus of UB. A variety of passes and individual tickets will be available for purchase by calling Phil Rehard at the music department, (716)645-2921.

    For more information, email or visit the website.



  • Gassmann Electronic Music Series 1999 - 2000 presents Amy Knoles

    Concert Hall, University of California at Irvine
    Wednesday, May 31, 2000 at 8pm

    Amy Knoles, percussionist, performs 'Men in the Cities'. For her interactive computer music she uses an
    array of samplers, synthesizers, acoustic percussion instruments, electronic drums, and MIDI mallet
    instrument. She has worked with John Cage, Quincy Jones, Steve Reich, Morton Subotnick, and Frank
    Zappa. At 1:30pm she will demonstrate the technology she uses and will discuss the interpretive challenges
    and rewards of performing with computers. More information is available on the web.



    Thursday, June 1st, 8pm

  • John Bischoff
    and
    The Bran Pos

    Two solo sets of electroacoustic improvisations mark the debut of the
    strictly Ballroom concert series. John Bischoff (faculty at Mills
    College) is a founding member of computer network bands The League of
    Automatic Music Composers and The Hub. Jake Rodriguez (aka The Bran
    [Another plight of medic's] Pos) is a self-described "processed
    voice/electronics DSP aggressor Dada marksman" based in San Farncisco.

    At CCRMA (640 Lomita Drive, Stanford University).
    $5-$10 admission (sliding scale; all proceeds directly to the artists).

    More information, location, and directions on the web




  • Beyond Music presents
    Sunday, May 28, 8:00pm

    (from NY)Stephen Vitiello
    &
    (from LA)Brandon LaBelle

    @
    BEYOND BAROQUE
    681 VENICE BLVD.
    VENICE CA 90291
    310-822-3006
    $7

    Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and sound artist from New York. Over the last 12 years, he has collaborated with musicians, including Pauline Oliveros, Frances-Marie Uitti, Scanner, Rebecca Moore, as well as visual artists such as Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Jem Cohen. Recent sound installations include PS 1, New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. His CD, The Light of Falling Cars (JDK) was called "one of the highlights of the year so far," in the British magazine The Wire. His most recent CD, "Scratchy Marimba" will be released April 6 by Sulphur (Beggar's Banquet).

    Brandon LaBelle is a sound-artist from Los Angeles, and will be presenting a work using the performance space of Beyond Baroque as an instrument. By attaching small motors to objects in the space, the resonant tones will be amplified and used as sonic material.



  • Resistance Fluctuations 2000 (May 30 - June 1) reminds Los Angeles that it
    is building a tradition in which important new music created here can be
    heard along side important new music from other places.




  • Sound Compound at The Lab
    Saturday, May 27, 2000
    835 South Spring Street
    Downtown L.A. 90014
    213-689-4725

    9:00 Consolidated Lint (Marc Levinthal / Albert Ortega / Rick Potts - Electronic Improvisations by way of Dimetrodon Collective, Solid Eye and The Oud.)

    10:00 Guns, Books and Tools (Formed in 1989, the trio Guns Books and Tools, plays a variety of styles, with a current focus on songs with a more familiar structure with vocals. Members Brian Christopherson; drums, Jeremy Keller; guitar and Drew Vonah; bass, play in various other groups, among them, Saccharine Trust, Bratty and Jackass and Front BC.)

    11:00 Ema - 3 (This LA based electronic duo birthed in late '98 bringing forth their electro sounds to our guitar dominated club scene. Sans the techno / dance mix approach to synth music singer synth god Dennis Carlin (Leaving Trains, Helpful Nuns) and Trains roadie Fred M. borrow early electronic and traditional rock. Look for their web page due out in July 2000, early work courtesy of Electro Labs Recording Dev.. )

    Admission $7.00
    Secure Parking/Bar
    http://home.earthlink.net/~mlev/sndcmpnd.html
    http://home.earthlink.net/~mlev/dmthollymatter.html
    (If you don't wish to recieve these notices, drop me a line and I will cheerfully delete you!)



  • Title Rainbow Realm: A Jouney in Colour and Sound Place

    Liverpool Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool, UK
    February 17 - May 31, 2000 from 10am to 5pm

    An exhibition of interactive installations and sound sculptures by Peter Jones and Lawrence Casserley, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley, Johannes Bergmark, Helmut Lemke, Kaffe Matthews, Will Menter, Dan Knight, Matt Rogalsky, Urban Strawberry Lunch. On certain days there will be performances by the artists. More information is available on the web.



  • Alex Cline, percussion; Jeff Gauthier, electric violin; GE Stinson, guitar, performing music from their new CD "The Other Shore."

    May 27, Sat 8 pm.

    Spruce Street
    Forum, $15/10. (619) 295-0301, or on the web



  • BIG SUR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2000

    Saturday and Sunday, May 20th and 21st, 1-8pm.
    Schedule details will be posted as they become available.

    Tickets available now by calling 831-667-2574
    Thursday - Sunday 11 - 6.

    The festival will bring together a diverse line-up of adventurous modern music: electronica, experimental improv, and ambient music from New York, Tokyo, Seattle, LA, Big Sur and San Francisco. (Some links by artists' name to check further...

    Featuring performances by:


    $10 dollars for a one-day pass
    $15 for a two-day pass.

    For information or tickets, call (831) 667.2574,
    email: bsxmfest@excite.com.



  • May 24, 2000 - Bongo Lesson!

    The EAR Unit’s infectious good humor brings the Millennium Season to a close with an “anything goes” concert of Spoken Word from Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, Lindsay Vickery and others to the made- in -LA Screenwriters’ Blues ,the new hot Ultra Lounge Music and a set of “how to” instructionals. Bongos and parrot shirts not included.



  • Western Wind celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the premiere of
    Lisa Bielawa's 'Machina Mundi' for six voices and digital audio on Sunday, May
    21st at 4:00 P.M. at the Church of Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, 86th Street
    and West End Avenue. Western Wind will also be singing works written for
    them by Bobby McFerrin, Robert Dennis and Michel Camilo, in addition to some
    16th-century works.

    Gala reception: Parlous Irish Pub, 86th St.
    Concert tickets: $20 reserved section, $15 gen'l admission, $12 st/sen
    Concert and gala: $100 (Patron - special seating) and $50
    The Western Wind: (212) 873-2848 or info@westernwind.org

    The broad range of texts used in the Bielawa piece are largely by either
    Medieval philosophers or modern-day physicists, all of whom are contemplating the
    origin of the universe. The audio CD part is comprised of the Western Wind's
    own voices, subject to a wide range of processes, singing settings of the "
    Sicut erat..." ('As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world
    without end') by an equally broad range of sources, from Mozart, Bach and
    Schubert to Gregorian Chant, Leonin and Monteverdi.



  • EARJAM
    a two night, two day music and sound performance festival featuring 40
    LA solo artists and groups.

    when: May 19, 20, 21, 2000

    where: Side Street Projects' new LIVE performance space at 425 S. Main
    St. 2nd floor, downtown L.A.

    EARJAM brings together a cross-section of L.A.'s aural artists for a
    sonic journey through a diverse range of musical genres and sonic
    experiences-from experimental free jazz to accoustic/electronic hybrids,

    from trombones, saxophones and guitars to computer-driven wireless
    instruments producing an unexpected array of musical compositions. From
    classically-trained vocalists to ones with "noisy clothes", from
    experimental funk to microtonal ambiences, from a mini-opera excerpt to
    a noise/beat improv collective to a world music trio, from hand-made
    invented percussion instruments to pop accordions, mouth harps, and a
    hurdy gurdy, to the obsolete technology of a Theremin. Be prepared to
    sample the sounds of L.A.'s innovators, artists whose work is well-known
    and others you have never encountered before.


    EARJAM was conceived and produced by sound performance and visual artist
    Jacki Apple, the former producer/host of the Soundings radio show, with
    the goal of bringing together a dispersed and diverse community and
    introducing audiences to the vast array of L.A. music. Also
    participating on the Earjam production team are Ulysses Jenkins, Kraig
    Grady, Julie Adler, Mark Trayle, Clay Chaplin, Brandon LaBelle, John
    Lathan, and Craig Arteaga-Johnson.

    TICKETS: $15 for a four event festival ticket; $6 for single events.
    Reservations recommended. Call (213) 620-8895. For further information
    contact: Craig Arteaga-Johnson (213) 620-8895 / (213) 620-8896 FAX /
    sidest@ix.netcom.com or Jacki Apple (310) 836-2771 / jaworks@sprintmail.com



  • Different Trains
    is teaming up with the Ensemble Green for its fourth and final concert of the 1999-2000 season with music by Joseph Brennan, Tom Hiel, Steven Hoey, Shaun Naidoo, Patricio da Silva, and Donald Davis.


    Zipper Concert Hall
    Colburn School for the Performing Arts
    200 South Grand Ave,
    Los Angeles, CA 90012

    $10 all ages

    FMI (626) 585-0247 or (323) 665-7326

    Music samples in MP3 format are now live at:
    http://www.differenttrains.org


    Fri 4/28/00 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
    Jazz
  • AACM 35th Anniversary Festival, night 3 of 5:

    Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) all-brass tribute to Lester Bowie with George Lewis (trombone), Ameen
    Muhammad (trumpet), Steve Berry (trombone), Ike Jackson (trombone), Bob Griffin
    (trumpet), Malachi Thompson (trumpet), Gerald Powell (tuba)
    Eight Bold Souls (Edward Wilkerson Jr. (reeds), Mwata Bowden (reeds), Robert Griffin
    (trumpet), Isaiah Jackson (trombone), Gerald Powell (tuba), Naomi Millender (cello),
    Harrison Bankhead (bass), Dushun Mosley (drums)) with guest Oliver Lake (alto sax)


  • San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

    Cellspace, 2050 Bryant St., San Francisco, California, USA
    May 5 - 7, 2000

    This event, which is designed to raise the local, national and international profile of the Bay Area as an important center for new electronic music and sound art, will feature three nights of performances, audio installations and panel discussions showcasing the work of many of the Bay area's most prominent electronic sound artists. Scheduled to perform are Pamela Z, Miya Masaoka, Alvin Curran, Kenneth Atchley, Carl Stone, Laetitia Sonami, Donald Swearingen, Steev Hise, Dan Joseph, sensorChip with installations by sponge (Chris Salter, Laura Farabo and Sha Xin Wei), Ed Osborn and Paul DeMarinis. Among the works to be presented are a performance of Pamela Z's 'Excerpts from Gaijin' for voice, electronics and BodySynth*; the Bay Area premiere of Alvin Curran's 'Endangered Species' for Disklavier and sampler; De Marinis' interactive sound installation 'Still life with Guitars'; the Bay Area premiere of Sonami's 'Conversation with a Light Bulb' with the lady's glove, electronics and light bulbs; Atchley's 'recast' for array and electronics; an encore performance of Masaoka's 'Bee Piece' for 3000 live bees and koto; Swearingen's 'The Elements' for laser harp and MIDI jacket, Stone's new Powerbook composition 'Flint's'; Joseph'spolitically-charged sampler work 'GOT GUNS'; Osborn's installation 'Recoil', and the media collective sponge's installation,'sauna#1'.

    On Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, doors open at 8:30pm and performances begin at 9pm. On Sunday, May 7 doors open at 730pm with the performance at 8pm. Festival passes and event tickets can be purchased by calling Dan Joseph at (510)832-6512. More information is available by phone to (415)398-7229 or by email or on the web.


  • Subtropics Festival

    Miami, Florida, USA
    March 25 - April 29, 2000

    South Florida's showcase of the best in experimental and innovative music and sound art features artists from Canada, Israel, Florida and the United States who explore the development of new instruments; stretch the normal limits of traditional instrument performance; and expand the boundaries of musical culture, form and function.

    Subtropics Y2K will begin with its annual Subtropics Marathon featuring leading figures of Florida's experimental avant-garde music scene, including Kristine Burns, Orlando Garcia, Drew Kraus, David Manson, Gustavo Matamoros, Armando Rodriguez, David Rogers, Julio Roloff, Alfredo Triff, and many more. The Y2K edition continues with concerts featuring such guest artists as living jazz legend Sonny Rollins, sound artist Ellen Band, saxophonist Jon Gibson, and Israeli vocalist Victoria Hanna. A highlight of this year's festival is the presentation of Furacan Caribe, an all-star ensemble of Miami based artists that includes Adrian Castro, David Font, Marty Galagarza, Mike Kernaham, Richard LeGuerre and Alfredo Triff, led by composer Luckas Ligeti. Subtropics takes place at venues on Miami Beach, Downtown Miami and Coral Gables.

    More information, calendar of events, tickets, artist information, etc. is available by phone to (305)981-0600 or on the web.



    APRIL 8, 22 and 29

    Choreographer, ILAAN EGELAND, will present her latest dance comedy, with
    live music by the ecclectic pop duo, Bright Blue Gorilla,

    in........

  • The 3rd Annual One Person Show Festival

    at:
    2100 Square Feet Theater,
    5615 San Vicente Blvd. at Hauser

    SATURDAY DANCE MATINEES 2 pm

    Eight Los Angeles Choreographers take the stage (all 2100 sqft of it).

    PLUS...... the Opening Night Gala, April 6th @ 8pm hosted by LILY TOMLIN

    (323)655-TKTS call for reservations.
    advance tickets are $10 until April 5th otherwise it's $15; Gala ($25)



    Sat 5/13/00 9:30 @ Empty Bottle
    Jazz/improv
  • Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, night 3 of 4:




  • Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo

    Roulette, 228 West Broadway, New York City, USA
    Saturday, May 6, 2000 at 9pm

    'Drifting 2000': glitter gulch/near here/back and forth/ticket booth/ambiguity/ice cap/echoes pan pacific/eye candy/YES. An exploratory sound and light work for treated guitar, tape, voice and manipulated film projections. Various "fields" of sound and image blur and collide. Lost reflections. Future memories. Loud dreams. An archaeology by Leah singer (images and projections) and Lee Ranaldo (guitars, loops & tapes, texts). More information is available at (212) 219-8242 or on the web.



  • Gisela and David Gamper

    Roulette, 228 West Broadway, New York City, USA
    Sunday, May 7, 2000 at 9pm

    See Hear Now brings the immediacy of improvised music performance to the domain of imagery by mixing traditional instrumental performance with sound transformations using new and emerging technologies. Photographer Gisela shapes projected images using a high resolution mixing and projection system merging the sonic and the visible creating an environment which transcends each medium. The duo will be joined by guitarist Geoff Gersch of Straylight fame. More information is available at (212) 219-8242 or on the web.



  • Ian Body at the Gathering

    The Cathedral, 38th and Ludlow, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Saturday, May 6th, 2000 at 8pm

    UK electronic musician Ian Boddy will perform as part of The Gathering Concert Series. Gatherings are live concerts featuring musicians from the ambient, electronic and space music worlds. More information is available by phone to (610)734-1009 or on the web.



  • NNeng

    DVTV, 87 Lafayette (at White St.), New York City, USA
    Monday, May 8, 2000 at 8pm

    Broadcast performance. "This is what TV should be!! Okay, we will settle for Cable! The anti-narrative trio NNeng performs and outputs eye-popping and ear-tickling realtime cinema. Brian Moran creates subtly shifting soundscapes with classic analog synths, mini samplers, drum machines, noise toys and short wave radio while Benton Bainbridge and Nancy Meli Walker shoot, process, layer and synthesize the visual counterpoint via video. Come see the show or stay tuned to your TV coming soon to Manhattan Cable." More information is available at (212) 219-8242 or on the web.



  • Zeena Parkins and Janine Higgins

    Roulette, 228 West Broadway, New York City, USA
    Friday, May 12, 2000 at 9pm

    'Arch': "The subjective surface generates images of the topography; the luminous surface reinforces the sense of beyond. A kaleidoscopic examination of the body and the city. Electric harp, processors, multiple projections, cameras: a live music/live video duet. Parkins continues her sonic research on her one-of-a-kind harp, while Higgins employs a video mixer as a performance instrument, blending in live video imagery. While we hear Parkins' mesmerizing sounds produced on her electric harp and sampler, Higgins mixes abstract visuals, quotes and real-time images of Parkins. The music triggers images, images trigger the music. In other words, truly interactive...a 40-minute trance." - - Koen VanDaele, curator, City of Women Festival.



    The Mills College Music Department presents

  • CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE
    Fred Frith and Steed Cowart, directors

    Tuesday, April 25
    8:00pm
    Concert Hall

    Music by Fred Frith, Christian Wolff, Jorge Boehringer,
    Eric Glick-Rieman, Jonas Muller

    Mills College
    5000 MacArthur Blvd.
    Oakland, CA

    Admission is FREE.



  • John Cage Memorial Barbeque
    New music for electric guitars composed by Randy Nordschow

    Featuring The Guitars of Wrath with special guests Fred Frith and Sharon
    Cheslow.

    Saturday, April 29th at 8:00pm

    Mills College Concert Hall (music building)
    5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland CA

    * free admission *

    for information email: randyn@sirius.com



  • Static Illusion Music Series
    848 Community Space
    848 Divisadero St., San Francisco

    Sunday, APRIL 30
    7:30 PM, sliding $6-$10

    and every last Sunday of the Month for the year 2000

    Music features different themes each month

    The Static Illusion Series presented by 848 Community
    Space and saxophonist/producer Rent Romus, continues
    with the N-MUSIC ENSEMBLE, a 7 member group dedicated
    to the performance of new and experimental music,
    presents:
    old and new compositions by matt ingalls,
    including: "marbles", "y2k", and "f(Ear)"
    IN SURROUND SOUND!
    , followed by the Finno-Urgic destiny, a series of new
    experimental compositions relating to the great north
    of Rent's ancestry



  • David Tudor's 'Virtual Focus'

    Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
    March 9 - April 16, 2000

    In late 1990 David Tudor was commissioned to make a "Tudor table" as a permanent part of a private art collection. He responded with a version of 'Virtual Focus', which had been performed for the first time earlier that year as accompaniment for the Merce Cunningham dance 'Polarity'. The piece is a typically complex arrangement of about two dozen commercial and homemade electronic devices, including modified radar and sonar rangers which create sound through reflections off a hanging sculpture by Jacqueline Matisse Monnier. After a performance by Tudor at a private party, the 'Virtual Focus' table remained on view but unplayed. Now the piece will be shown and performed in public for the first time as part of "Sounds&Files," an exhibition at the Kuenstlerhaus Vienna which "reflects the electronic music of the present and its cultivation." Rogalsky will make a performance with the table as part of the exhibition opening, and it will remain on display until the show closes April 16.

    More information is available on the web. Information is also available at another website.



  • Laetitia Sonami

    DVTV, 87 Lafayette (at White St.), New York City, USA
    Monday, April 24, 2000 at 8pm

    A broadcast performance of 'Why _ dreams like a Loose Engine (autoportrait)'. Live electronics controlled by the lady's glove with a text by Melody Sumner Carnahan. A woman's fluctuating states of mind as she rides a train are juxtaposed with the last gasps of mechanical times. More information is available at (212) 219-8242 or on the web.



  • Video Commune: The Video Collaborations of Nam June Paik

    Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA
    Through April 26

    On the occasion of The Worlds of Nam June Paik, a major retrospective exhibition on view through April 26 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Electronic Arts Intermix and the Guggenheim Museum have taken a cue from Paik's own working process by inaugurating a joint Web site with the goal of bringing Paik's collaborative video heritage to public attention.

    Video Commune: The Video Collaborations of Nam June Paik draws from EAI's extensive documentation of the artist's single-channel tapes to present an interactive view of Paik's collaborations with other artists, dancers and musicians. Featuring images, tape descriptions and biographies for over twenty-five artists, including John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Charlotte Moorman and Shigeko Kubota, Video Commune celebrates the rich historical and artistic collaborations that have been a vital part of Paik's pioneering career.

    Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a nonprofit media arts organization that distributes a major collection of video and new media by artists, from the 1960s to the present. The EAI Collection of over 2500 titles by 175 artists is available through the EAI Online Catalogue.

    The Video Collaborations can be viewed on the web.




  • NNeng

    Roulette, 228 West Broadway, New York City, USA
    Friday, May 5, 2000 at 9pm

    '...[>meen<>green<]. . .\audio/vision\. . .-|wipe|-|it|-...'. NNeng creates real-time anti-narrative cinema: an intense and intuitive synthesis of sound and image. Brian Moran creates subtly shifting soundscapes with classic analog synths, samplers, drum machines, noise toys and short wave radio while Benton Bainbridge and Nancy Meli Walker shoot, process, layer and synthesize the visual counterpoint. More information is available at (212) 219-8242 or on the web.



  • Steven Schick, percussion, in "Beyond Bang on a Can," a concert of 20th century music, including works by Fredric Rzewski and Vinko
    Globokar.

    Sat May 6, 3 pm.

    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito, 1036 Solana Drive, Solana Beach, $10/5/free. (760) 042-3950



  • Downtown Ensemble: Christian Wolff and Larry Polansky Live!

    Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St., New York City, USA
    Monday, April 17 at 8pm

    Program includes Polansky's ' Thetherball' and 'Killing Time', Wolff's 'Exercises', and Barbara Benary's 'Barang I, II, IV'. Performers are Margaret Lancaster (flute, piccolo), Daniel Goode (clarinet, voice), William Hellermann (acoustic guitar), Larry Polansky (electric guitar), James Pugliese (percussion), Joseph Kubera (piano), and Peter Zummo (trombone). Guests are Mary Ann Haagen, Christian Wolff, Jody Diamond and Douglas Repetto.

    More information is available by phone to (212)925-6684.



  • Interpretations: Joan La Barbara / Morton Subotnick

    Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City
    April 13, 2000 at 8pm

    Joan La Barbara ("voice is still the original instrument") performs amplified voice and percussion with
    performers (on tape): Polly Tapia Ferber, hand drums, tar, dumbek; Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, cello; Joan La
    Barbara, voice, percussion, computer, electronic keyboard, synthesizer;Kristina Melcher, gender; and
    Gaylord Mowrey, bowed pianos.

    Morton Subotnick's music ("for an imaginary ballet and echoes from a silent city") is performed by The
    Locrian Chamber Players (Emily Wong George, Jonathan Faiman, piano; Craig Hesselink, cello; Katie
    Lansdale, Calvin Wiersma, violin; David Macdonald, computer; Dan Panner, viola; and William Trigg,
    percussion.

    Box Office: 212-501-3330
    Tickets: $10 / $7 TDF/V
    Information: 212-627-0990



  • BOB OSTERTAG: "YUGOSLAVIA SUITE"

    Fridays and Saturdays March 31, April 1, 7 and 8 8:00 pm
    Tickets $10 General, $8 Langton members, students, and seniors

    "Truly powerful political art is rare, but this is some." -- Cadence

    San Francisco - New Langton Arts presents world-renowned pioneer of digital music Bob Ostertag. Ostertag performs the West Coast premiere of "Yugoslavia Suite", a multi-media concert he toured in the Balkans justweeks after the war. " I do not think that it falls to art to pass judgement, but rather to open new windows for reflection, to help us contemplate more deeply and see things from new angles," saya Ostertag. With this modus operandi, he uses live performance, digital sampling and video imagery of computer games, US military training programs, actual footage of bombings in the Balkans, and images from American television to explore the experience of war from numerous perspectives. Lighting and video designer Richard Board accompanies Ostertag. This event is co-produced with Bob Ostertag.

    Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 Langton members, students, and seniors.
    New Langton Arts is located at 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco.
    For reservations call 415 626 5416.

  • Louis Goldstein

    Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, California, USA
    Monday, April 3, 7:30 PM

    Louis Goldstein performs Morton Feldman's masterpiece of pure piano sound, 'Triadic Memories' (1981). The hour and a half length piece, which has been likened to a granite monument, will be preceded by an illustrated talk which will include slides of Abstract Expressionist art and Central Asian rugs. Mr. Goldstein is a Professor of Music at Wake Forest University where he has been a member of the Music faculty since 1979. More information is available by phone to (510)430-2331 or by email or on the web.


  • Lydia Kavina Theremin Concert

    Cooper Union, East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue, New York City
    March 24, 2000

    This will be Lydia Kavina's New York debut. Time to be announced. More information is available by email.
  • George Crumb
    Sat 3/25/00 8:00 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

    night 2 of 2: George Crumb with Ensemble Noamnesia (featuring Gene Coleman (leader, bass clarinet)) and guests
    Barbara Ann Martin (soprano), James Freeman (conductor) performing music by Crumb ("Ancient Voices of Children",
    "3 Early Songs", others)



  • Phill Niblock
    Sat 3/25/00 10:00 @ 6ODUM (2116 W. Chicago)
    Experimental/classical
    Lampo (312/666-4412) presents: Phill Niblock with guests Jeb Bishop, Kevin Drumm, Fred Lonberg-Holm; compositions
    to include "Hurdy Hurry", "3 to 7 - 196", "A Trombone Piece", "Guitar Too, For Four"; video: "The Movement of People
    Working"



  • The Robin Cox Ensemble

    Saturday, March 25th at 8pm
    Museum of Latin American Art, downtown Long Beach, 628 Alamitos Ave.

    $7.50 museum members/students, $10.00 general admission
    Reservations: 562/437-1689

    The ensemble will be performing its mix of percussion and string music by Robin Cox drawn from avant-garde and jazz traditions. We&Mac226;ll also include music by Leslie Hogan, Steve Reich, and two modern dance collaborations performed with choreographer Stephanie Nugent.   With your concert admission, you may come early and see the stunning collection of visual art housed at this wonderful new museum.

    More information on the web.



  • Interpretations: Alain Kirili

    Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City
    March 30, 2000 at 8pm

    Alain Kirili, sculptor. The Sound of Sculpture. With Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, and Sabir Mateen,
    saxophone, blacksmith; Mathew Shipp, piano, blacksmith; Roswell Rudd, trombone, blacksmith; Thomas
    Buckner, Djénéba Koné, voice, anvil; Mark Dresser, William Parker, bass, anvil; Maria Mitchell, dance,
    anvil; and Leroy Jenkins, violin, anvil.

    Box Office: 212-501-3330
    Tickets: $10 / $7 TDF/V
    Information: 212-627-0990


    Saturday, March 25th
  • The qit Stop/Delivery Room's one-year anniversary:

    (557 Howard St. between 1st and 2nd, San Francisco), 9:00 p.m., $6-$10 sliding scale.



    Sunday, March 26th

  • The Scott Amendola Band:
    Todd Sickafoose (acoustic bass), Eric Crystal (sax), Scott Amendola (drums), and special guest John Schott
    (guitar) at The Jupiter (2181 Shattuck at Center, Berkeley, 510-THE-ROCK), 8:00 p.m., free.



    Saturday, April 1st
  • At The qit Stop/Delivery Room:

    Gebbia/Smith/Powell have a CD out on Rastascan Records.
    (557 Howard St. between 1st and 2nd, San Francisco), 9:00 p.m., $10.



    Wed 3/29/00 10:00 @ Empty Bottle
    Jazz

  • Roswell Rudd/Steve Lacy Quartet



    Thu 3/30/00 10:00 @ Empty Bottle
    Experimental/improv
  • Voice Crack (Andy Guhl and Norbert Moslang (cracked everyday electronics))



    ON FRIDAY 3/24 - AT CHAMBER ARTS HOUSE IN BERKELEY (2924 Ashby)
    CONCERT at 8:00 (all welcome, donation suggested)

  • Pianist DANA REASON will begin with a new solo piano piece entitled
    Circles (Feb. 2000) by Dana Reason. This piece explores the cyclical
    nature of life with all it's variant compensations. Also featured on the
    concert are performers PHILIP GELB shakuhachi, JIM RYAN flute and HUGH
    LIVINGSTON cello.

  • Jennifer Hymer

    Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, California
    Monday, March 13, 7:30 PM

    Pianist Jennifer Hymer returns to Mills from Germany to present a concert of new works for
    piano and electronics. Featured compositions include 'Zwei Studien' by Dieter Schnebel (piano and
    live electronics), 'Le Tombeau de Messiaen' by Jonathan Harvey (piano and tape), 'Sparks' by
    Chris Brown (piano and computer system), 'A Song and a Prayer' by Steven Clark (piano and live
    electronics), and 'Ear-Walking Woman' by Annea Lockwood (amplified piano). More information
    is available by phone to (510)430-2331 or by email or on the web.




  • The McLean Mix: The Ultimate Symphonius 2000 & Inside the Time Machine

    Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
    March 13, 14, 15 all day and March 16 evening

    With a consortium sponsorship from The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Williams
    College, Hamilton College, and Missouri Western State College, 'The Ultimate Symponius'
    employs creative sound, video, multiple slides, and virtual media stations, using excerpts from the
    musics of the past 2000 years blended with original music and video from the McLeans. The work
    allows for a variety of participation from musicians, dancers, artists, and others. More
    information is available by email or on the web.

    Inside the Time Machine is The McLean Mix's premiere concert event, involving "virtual" live
    video, audio and video processing, virtuoso performance, and even a humorous work using live
    music boxes in a highly unusual setting.

    Further information on this concert is available by email.



  • Different Trains
    is teaming up with the Ensemble Green for its third
    concert of the 1999-2000 season with music by Joseph Brennan, Tom Hiel, Steven Hoey, Steven L. Mosko, Patricio da Silva, and Jude Weirmeir.

    World Premiere's include Joseph Brennan's "Blue-Gray" for clarinet and
    piano, and Stephen L. Mosko's "Darling" for solo Bass. Also on the
    program is Tom Hiel's "The Affirmation" for String Quartet, Steven Hoey's
    "SpectraLines" and "Coloratura" for small chamber ensemble, Jude
    Weirmeir's "Circular Garden" for small chamber ensemble, and Patricio da
    Silva's "Para Clarinete."

    Zipper Concert Hall
    Colburn School for the Performing Arts
    200 South Grand Ave,
    Los Angeles, CA 90012

    $10 all ages

    FMI (626) 585-0247 or (323) 665-7326 or on the web



  • Moving Target Series

    New Langton Arts 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th)
    San Francisco, CA
    March 16-17, 2000, doors open 7:15, shows at 8 p.m.
    $8-10, sliding scale
    For reservations or more information: 415/487-0585

    Thursday, March 16, 8 p.m.


    Friday, March 17, 8 p.m.


    Moving Target Series comes to New Langton Arts Thursday, March 16 and Friday,
    March 17 for two exciting evenings of shows. The first evening features
    saxophonist Jon Raskin, member of the highly acclaimed local saxophone
    quartet ROVA, with bassist George Cremaschi, member of many local ensembles,
    including the Beth Lisick Ordeal; the duo combine wide-ranging backgrounds
    and long years of experience into a music that is at once modern and old
    fashioned, avant-garde and traditional, composed and improvised.
    Violinist/creative improv musician Carla Kihlstedt of the Tin Hat Trio and
    Charming Hostess returns from a European tour. "Two Foot Yard" is her new
    experiment, both in using violin and voice simultaneously, and in turning
    bite-sized ideas into songs. Internationally known dancer, actress, mime and
    author Ruth Zaporah makes a solo appearance to present her unique brand of
    performance, which she calls Action Theater. Finally, instrument-builder
    Oliver DiCicco brings his experimental music group Mobius Operandi to perform
    an improvisational set on DiCicco's strange and fascinating instruments.

    The second evening of Moving Target features the poetic visuals of
    experimental filmmaker Konrad Steiner. Also appearing are KPFA host and poet
    Jack Foley with his wife Adelle, who together perform intricate, multi-voiced
    poetry that plays within and pushes the boundaries of experiments pursued by
    language poets such as Jackson MacLow. Dominique Zeltzman,
    dancer/choreographer and longtime collaborator with choreographer Kathleen
    Hermesdorf, presents a new solo work. Woody Woodman (also known, sometimes,
    as pianist Greg Goodman) makes a very rare sojourn away from his legendary
    Finger Palace in the East Bay, bringing his arch-collaborator Igor Finger.
    Woodman's playful performances are similar in spirit to fluxus plays and
    "happenings" from the '60s, and his hilarious take on Noh Theater (No-Noh,
    1993) is just one example of his irreverent sense of humor.




  • OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL VI
    Guest Artistic Director: Carl Stone
    March 16 - 18, 2000

    CONCERTS
    March 16, 2000
    8:00 p.m.
    Theater Artaud
    450 Florida Street, San Francisco

    Peter Garland: The Three Strange Angels (1972-73)
    William Winant, bass drum and bullroarer
    Peter Garland, piano

    David Lang: Memory Pieces (1992-97)
    Aki Takahashi, piano

    Leroy Jenkins: Solo Improvisation for Violin and Viola (2000)
    Leroy Jenkins, violin and viola

    Annie Gosfield, Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (world premiere,
    commissioned by OtherMinds) (2000) Onyx Quartet and Reddrum


    March 17, 2000
    8:00 p.m.
    Theater Artaud
    450 Florida Street, San Francisco

    Jacob ter Veldhuis: String Quartet #3 ("There Must be Somewhere Out
    of Here") (U.S.
    premiere) (1994)
    Onyx Quartet

    Hyo-shin Na: Rain Study (1999)
    Thomas Schultz, piano

    Peter Garland: Bright Angel - Hermetic Bird (1996)
    Aki Takahashi, piano

    Hyo-shin Na: Blue Yellow River (world premiere) (2000)
    Ji Young Yi, kayageum
    Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
    Richard Worn, double-bass

    Christian Wolff: Burdocks (1970-71)
    The Wolff Band


    March 18, 2000
    9:00 p.m.
    Justice League
    628 Divisadero Street, San Francisco

    Hamza el Din: A Selection of works for Oud and Voice (various)
    Hamza el Din, oud and vocals

    Robin Rimbaud aka scanner: Electro Pollution (2000)

    Paul D. Miller aka D.J. Spooky (that Subliminal Kid): Synchronia (2000)



    ARTIST FORUMS

    Both Artist Forums take place at
    George Coates Performance Works
    110 McAllister, San Francisco

    March 18, 2000
    11:00 a.m.
    "The 21st Century String"
    Panelists: Hamza el Din, Joan Jeanrenaud, Miya Masaoka, Ji Young Yi, and others
    Moderator: Sarah Cahill


    March 18, 2000
    2:00 p.m.
    "Cultural Identity and Music in the Post-Modem World"
    Panelists: Annie Gosfield, Paul D. Miller, Robin Rimbaud, Eddie Def and others
    Moderator: Herman Gray



    TICKETS: Festival passes: $40 and $30 for students and seniors with
    valid ID. Individual ticket prices: $16 and $12 for students and
    seniors. Call the Theater Artaud Box Office at (415) 621-7797. For
    more information call (415) 934-8134 or visit the website.



  • Noe Valley Music Series at Noe Valley Ministry announces a very special
    evening of music by the
    STEVE LACY/ROSWELL RUDD QUARTET
    (with Jean-Jacques Avenel on double bass, John Betsch on drums), touring in support of their NEW
    ALBUM "Monk's Dream" (review and notes follow).

    Saturday, March 18 --- TWO SETS -- 7:30 and 9:30 pm, doors open at 7 pm

    $16 advance, $18 at the door

    at Noe Valley Ministry 1021 Sanchez @ 23rd St.

    call (415) 454-5238 for concert information

    Tickets are available through Bass ticket outlets, charge by phone @ (510)
    762-BASS
    Streetlight Records in San Francisco, (415) 282-3550
    Shambhala Booksellers, Berkeley (510) 848-8443
    Maximum Music in San Rafael, (415) 454-9262

    This is Lacy's first major-label release in many years, and this will be his
    only Bay Area show with Roswell Rudd this year.



  • Alvin Curran, composer/performer "Music is not Music"
    Saturday, March 18, 2000
    CalArts Walt Disney Modular Theatre, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia 8:00 PM Fresh from Italy and California, the new music of innovative American composer Alvin Curran includes works for chorus
    and instrumental ensembles, voice, sampler, and midi piano with texts based on the well-known Norton Lectures by John Cage.
    $7 general/$3 alumni/$2 students and seniors.
    For Information call: (661)253-7800 or (818)362-2315



  • Other Minds Presents
    5th Anniversary!!
    OPUS415 NO. 5, Bay Area New Music Marathon
    Produced by the Common Sense Composers' Collective
    Sunday, March 19, 1pm - 11pm


    Theatre Artaud
    All Day Pass $18/$13 students/seniors
    Tix: Artaud Box Office - 415/621 7797, OR BUY ONLINE: www.ticketweb.com
    Info: 415/285 8680 or
    www.commonsense.org
    (for complete shedule and detailed info)




  • CalArts New Century Players
    Tuesday, March 21, 2000 -Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, 8:00 PM The lively and virtuosic New Century Players return Under the Green Umbrella with a rich menu of explorations in musical languages. The NCP with conductor David Rosenboom and soloists Jacqueline Bobak, soprano, Stuart Fox, guitar, Mark Menzies, violin, and Bryan Pezzone, piano, perform Iatiku by Ruth Lomon, Invocation (setting of excerpts from 13th Century Persian poet Farid ud din Attar's "Conference of the Birds" for soprano and ensemble in extended Just intonation) by Ben Johnston, a winning work from the 1999 Dutilleux Competition, Artifact I (solo piano) by Steven Hoey, Guitar Concerto by James Fulkerson, (guitar and nine musicians with sound diffusion), ... of Torn Pathways (amplified violin and percussion) by Roger Redgate, and a newly commissioned work by composer and multi/instrumentalist, Vinny Golia. "Upbeat Live". Pre-concert talk with the composers and performers

    begins at 7:00 PM.
    Admission: $25 Front Orchestra, Loge/$20 Rear Orchestra
    For Information call: (213)680-3700



  • Nicolas Collins and Robert Poss
    Wed 3/22/00 10:00 @ Empty Bottle
    Experimental/improv
    Nicolas Collins (electronics?), Robert Poss (guitar?) duo



  • California EAR Unit

    March 22, 2000 - ShockWaves and Freeways

    The quintessential avatar of the violin, composer and performer Malcolm Goldstein joins the Unit with compositions and sounds derived from everyday materials, the contemplation of nature and the ordering made of its random energies. Mesmerizing works from an all-star array including Steve Mackey, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Lawrence Ball and Joep Franssens complete the program.



  • Jennifer Hymer

    Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, California
    Monday, March 13, 7:30 PM

    Pianist Jennifer Hymer returns to Mills from Germany to present a concert of new works for
    piano and electronics. Featured compositions include 'Zwei Studien' by Dieter Schnebel (piano and
    live electronics), 'Le Tombeau de Messiaen' by Jonathan Harvey (piano and tape), 'Sparks' by
    Chris Brown (piano and computer system), 'A Song and a Prayer' by Steven Clark (piano and live
    electronics), and 'Ear-Walking Woman' by Annea Lockwood (amplified piano). More information
    is available by phone to (510)430-2331 or by email or on the web.




  • The McLean Mix: The Ultimate Symphonius 2000 & Inside the Time Machine

    Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
    March 13, 14, 15 all day and March 16 evening

    With a consortium sponsorship from The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Williams
    College, Hamilton College, and Missouri Western State College, 'The Ultimate Symponius'
    employs creative sound, video, multiple slides, and virtual media stations, using excerpts from the
    musics of the past 2000 years blended with original music and video from the McLeans. The work
    allows for a variety of participation from musicians, dancers, artists, and others. More
    information is available by email or on the web.

    Inside the Time Machine is The McLean Mix's premiere concert event, involving "virtual" live
    video, audio and video processing, virtuoso performance, and even a humorous work using live
    music boxes in a highly unusual setting.

    Further information on this concert is available by email.



  • Different Trains
    is teaming up with the Ensemble Green for its third
    concert of the 1999-2000 season with music by Joseph Brennan, Tom Hiel, Steven Hoey, Steven L. Mosko, Patricio da Silva, and Jude Weirmeir.

    World Premiere's include Joseph Brennan's "Blue-Gray" for clarinet and
    piano, and Stephen L. Mosko's "Darling" for solo Bass. Also on the
    program is Tom Hiel's "The Affirmation" for String Quartet, Steven Hoey's
    "SpectraLines" and "Coloratura" for small chamber ensemble, Jude
    Weirmeir's "Circular Garden" for small chamber ensemble, and Patricio da
    Silva's "Para Clarinete."

    Zipper Concert Hall
    Colburn School for the Performing Arts
    200 South Grand Ave,
    Los Angeles, CA 90012

    $10 all ages

    FMI (626) 585-0247 or (323) 665-7326 or on the web



  • Moving Target Series

    New Langton Arts 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th)
    San Francisco, CA
    March 16-17, 2000, doors open 7:15, shows at 8 p.m.
    $8-10, sliding scale
    For reservations or more information: 415/487-0585

    Thursday, March 16, 8 p.m.


    Friday, March 17, 8 p.m.


    Moving Target Series comes to New Langton Arts Thursday, March 16 and Friday,
    March 17 for two exciting evenings of shows. The first evening features
    saxophonist Jon Raskin, member of the highly acclaimed local saxophone
    quartet ROVA, with bassist George Cremaschi, member of many local ensembles,
    including the Beth Lisick Ordeal; the duo combine wide-ranging backgrounds
    and long years of experience into a music that is at once modern and old
    fashioned, avant-garde and traditional, composed and improvised.
    Violinist/creative improv musician Carla Kihlstedt of the Tin Hat Trio and
    Charming Hostess returns from a European tour. "Two Foot Yard" is her new
    experiment, both in using violin and voice simultaneously, and in turning
    bite-sized ideas into songs. Internationally known dancer, actress, mime and
    author Ruth Zaporah makes a solo appearance to present her unique brand of
    performance, which she calls Action Theater. Finally, instrument-builder
    Oliver DiCicco brings his experimental music group Mobius Operandi to perform
    an improvisational set on DiCicco's strange and fascinating instruments.

    The second evening of Moving Target features the poetic visuals of
    experimental filmmaker Konrad Steiner. Also appearing are KPFA host and poet
    Jack Foley with his wife Adelle, who together perform intricate, multi-voiced
    poetry that plays within and pushes the boundaries of experiments pursued by
    language poets such as Jackson MacLow. Dominique Zeltzman,
    dancer/choreographer and longtime collaborator with choreographer Kathleen
    Hermesdorf, presents a new solo work. Woody Woodman (also known, sometimes,
    as pianist Greg Goodman) makes a very rare sojourn away from his legendary
    Finger Palace in the East Bay, bringing his arch-collaborator Igor Finger.
    Woodman's playful performances are similar in spirit to fluxus plays and
    "happenings" from the '60s, and his hilarious take on Noh Theater (No-Noh,
    1993) is just one example of his irreverent sense of humor.




  • OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL VI
    Guest Artistic Director: Carl Stone
    March 16 - 18, 2000

    CONCERTS
    March 16, 2000
    8:00 p.m.
    Theater Artaud
    450 Florida Street, San Francisco

    Peter Garland: The Three Strange Angels (1972-73)
    William Winant, bass drum and bullroarer
    Peter Garland, piano

    David Lang: Memory Pieces (1992-97)
    Aki Takahashi, piano

    Leroy Jenkins: Solo Improvisation for Violin and Viola (2000)
    Leroy Jenkins, violin and viola

    Annie Gosfield, Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (world premiere,
    commissioned by OtherMinds) (2000) Onyx Quartet and Reddrum


    March 17, 2000
    8:00 p.m.
    Theater Artaud
    450 Florida Street, San Francisco

    Jacob ter Veldhuis: String Quartet #3 ("There Must be Somewhere Out
    of Here") (U.S.
    premiere) (1994)
    Onyx Quartet

    Hyo-shin Na: Rain Study (1999)
    Thomas Schultz, piano

    Peter Garland: Bright Angel - Hermetic Bird (1996)
    Aki Takahashi, piano

    Hyo-shin Na: Blue Yellow River (world premiere) (2000)
    Ji Young Yi, kayageum
    Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
    Richard Worn, double-bass

    Christian Wolff: Burdocks (1970-71)
    The Wolff Band


    March 18, 2000
    9:00 p.m.
    Justice League
    628 Divisadero Street, San Francisco

    Hamza el Din: A Selection of works for Oud and Voice (various)
    Hamza el Din, oud and vocals

    Robin Rimbaud aka scanner: Electro Pollution (2000)

    Paul D. Miller aka D.J. Spooky (that Subliminal Kid): Synchronia (2000)



    ARTIST FORUMS

    Both Artist Forums take place at
    George Coates Performance Works
    110 McAllister, San Francisco

    March 18, 2000
    11:00 a.m.
    "The 21st Century String"
    Panelists: Hamza el Din, Joan Jeanrenaud, Miya Masaoka, Ji Young Yi, and others
    Moderator: Sarah Cahill


    March 18, 2000
    2:00 p.m.
    "Cultural Identity and Music in the Post-Modem World"
    Panelists: Annie Gosfield, Paul D. Miller, Robin Rimbaud, Eddie Def and others
    Moderator: Herman Gray



    TICKETS: Festival passes: $40 and $30 for students and seniors with
    valid ID. Individual ticket prices: $16 and $12 for students and
    seniors. Call the Theater Artaud Box Office at (415) 621-7797. For
    more information call (415) 934-8134 or visit the website.



  • Noe Valley Music Series at Noe Valley Ministry announces a very special
    evening of music by the
    STEVE LACY/ROSWELL RUDD QUARTET
    (with Jean-Jacques Avenel on double bass, John Betsch on drums), touring in support of their NEW
    ALBUM "Monk's Dream" (review and notes follow).

    Saturday, March 18 --- TWO SETS -- 7:30 and 9:30 pm, doors open at 7 pm

    $16 advance, $18 at the door

    at Noe Valley Ministry 1021 Sanchez @ 23rd St.

    call (415) 454-5238 for concert information

    Tickets are available through Bass ticket outlets, charge by phone @ (510)
    762-BASS
    Streetlight Records in San Francisco, (415) 282-3550
    Shambhala Booksellers, Berkeley (510) 848-8443
    Maximum Music in San Rafael, (415) 454-9262

    This is Lacy's first major-label release in many years, and this will be his
    only Bay Area show with Roswell Rudd this year.



  • Alvin Curran, composer/performer "Music is not Music"
    Saturday, March 18, 2000
    CalArts Walt Disney Modular Theatre, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia 8:00 PM Fresh from Italy and California, the new music of innovative American composer Alvin Curran includes works for chorus
    and instrumental ensembles, voice, sampler, and midi piano with texts based on the well-known Norton Lectures by John Cage.
    $7 general/$3 alumni/$2 students and seniors.
    For Information call: (661)253-7800 or (818)362-2315



  • Other Minds Presents
    5th Anniversary!!
    OPUS415 NO. 5, Bay Area New Music Marathon
    Produced by the Common Sense Composers' Collective
    Sunday, March 19, 1pm - 11pm


    Theatre Artaud
    All Day Pass $18/$13 students/seniors
    Tix: Artaud Box Office - 415/621 7797, OR BUY ONLINE: www.ticketweb.com
    Info: 415/285 8680 or
    www.commonsense.org
    (for complete shedule and detailed info)




  • CalArts New Century Players
    Tuesday, March 21, 2000 -Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, 8:00 PM The lively and virtuosic New Century Players return Under the Green Umbrella with a rich menu of explorations in musical languages. The NCP with conductor David Rosenboom and soloists Jacqueline Bobak, soprano, Stuart Fox, guitar, Mark Menzies, violin, and Bryan Pezzone, piano, perform Iatiku by Ruth Lomon, Invocation (setting of excerpts from 13th Century Persian poet Farid ud din Attar's "Conference of the Birds" for soprano and ensemble in extended Just intonation) by Ben Johnston, a winning work from the 1999 Dutilleux Competition, Artifact I (solo piano) by Steven Hoey, Guitar Concerto by James Fulkerson, (guitar and nine musicians with sound diffusion), ... of Torn Pathways (amplified violin and percussion) by Roger Redgate, and a newly commissioned work by composer and multi/instrumentalist, Vinny Golia. "Upbeat Live". Pre-concert talk with the composers and performers

    begins at 7:00 PM.
    Admission: $25 Front Orchestra, Loge/$20 Rear Orchestra
    For Information call: (213)680-3700



  • Nicolas Collins and Robert Poss
    Wed 3/22/00 10:00 @ Empty Bottle
    Experimental/improv
    Nicolas Collins (electronics?), Robert Poss (guitar?) duo



  • California EAR Unit

    March 22, 2000 - ShockWaves and Freeways

    The quintessential avatar of the violin, composer and performer Malcolm Goldstein joins the Unit with compositions and sounds derived from everyday materials, the contemplation of nature and the ordering made of its random energies. Mesmerizing works from an all-star array including Steve Mackey, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Lawrence Ball and Joep Franssens complete the program.



  • Millennium Chamber Music Explorations
    Friday, February 25, 2000
    CalArts Roy O. Disney Music Hall, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia 8:00 PM Virtuoso CalArts Faculty chamber players, Susan Allen, harp,
    Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, cello, Mark Menzies, violin, William Powell, clarinet, Rachel Rudich, flute, and others perform Garden of Joy and Sorrow by Sofia Gubaidulina, Timber Creek by emerging
    composer, Teresa Levelle, and the 20th Century musical landmark by French composer, Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time.
    Free Admission. For Information call: (661)253-7800 or (818)362-2315



  • Basso Bongo

    Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New York (USA)
    Friday, February 25, 2000 at 8pm

    Basso Bongo is performers Amy Knoles (percussion, electronics) and Robert Black (acoustic bass),
    both of them known worldwide as magnificent performers. The Basso Bongo "sea of sound" comes
    from dazzling techniques and advanced technology.



  • The Barton Workshop
    Monday, February 28, 2000
    Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, 200 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles
    8:00 PM "History in the making!" -The Village Voice...Famous for their composer portrait recording and performance projects, this renowned Amsterdam-based new music ensemble performs selections
    from music by Christian Wolff, James Fulkerson, Yuji Takahashi, Frank Denyer, Jo Kondo, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Richard Ayres, Jerry Hunt and others as part of their CalArts residency. Performers
    include John Anderson, clarinet, Frank Denyer, piano, James Fulkerson, trombone, Marieke Keser, violin, Tobias Liebezeit, percussion, and Elisabeth Smalt, viola.
    Free Admission. For Information call: (661)253-7800 or (818)362-2315



  • Ahava &
    The Toids

    THE SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
    2701 N.Sepulveda Blvd.
    Los Angeles, CA

    http://www.skirball.com


    $12 General, $10 Members, $8 Students
    http://www.skirball.com/events3.html


    Ahava is an ensemble dedicated to presenting contemporary
    versions of Jewish folk music from around the world, from
    15th century Spain to 1930s Morocco, to present-day New
    York.

    The Toids combine Bulgarian dances, Macedonian songs, and
    original compositions to create music that is both traditional
    and new, danceable and meditative.
    http://shoko.calarts.edu/~rf/toids




  • The Prism Quartet
    begins its 2000 Concert Series on March 2nd in New York City
    and March 5th in Philadelphia with works by Michael Torke, William
    Bolcom, David Liebman, and Philippe Hurel. Upcoming concerts will
    feature compositions by Iannis Xenakis, Frank Ticheli, Franco Donatoni,
    Matt Levy, Tristan Keuris, Tim Ries, Olga Neuwirth, and others.

    For more information about the quartet's concerts, please visit us at
    http://www.prismquartet.com.

    -The Quartet


    The PRISM Quartet


    1998-1999 Season guest artists:




  • THE DOWNTOWN PLAYHOUSE PROUDLY PRESENTS--

    THE ROB BLAKESLEE QUARTET

    FEATURING:

    Rob Blakeslee, trumpets
    Eric Barber, saxophones
    Joel Hamilton, bass
    Alex Cline, drums/percussion

    call 626.791.2494 for more information

    THURSDAY, MARCH 2 @ 8PM
    DOWNTOWN PLAYHOUSE, 121 S. VIGNES
    LOS ANGELES

    ADMISSION $10




    Saturday, March 4, 8 pm
    Art City II, Ventura, CA
    31 Peking Street, Ventura (on the very edge)

    Admission: a mere $5

  • Jeff Kaiser Trio
    Jeff Kaiser Trio: Jeff Kaiser, trumpet and electronics; Woody Aplanalp, guitars; Steuart Liebig, basses

  • Clay Chaplin/Eric Getter
    Clay Chaplin: Computer, Electronics, Stupid Thing; Eric Getter: Percussion

    Bring blankets, pillows, bean-bag chairs, lawn chairs, et cetera.

    This is an indoor-sit-on-the-floor affair.

    For Directions: http://www.mapblast.com/




  • Earplay, contemporary classical program.
    The west coast premiere of "Threshold" by Laurie St. Martin; also pieces by Charles Ives, George Crumb,
    Andrew Imbrie and Donald Martino.

    At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St. at Third, San Francisco, 415-252-6235), 8:00 p.m.



  • iEAR Noize N Trope presents: Scott Smallwood & Guests, electro-acoustic steel drum

    Troy, New York, venue to be announced
    Wednesday, March 8, 8pm

    Composer/Percussionist Scott Smallwood will present a concert of original compositions for the
    electro-acoustic steel drum and live electronics. The concert will feature his unique performance medium,
    the Trinidadian steel drum, configured with contact microphones and connected to a computer running
    real-time signal-processing software. The music presented will include the new solo works "Patination" and
    "Viriditas: The Green Force," and will also include pieces by the experimental improv ensemble, Nyquist,
    featuring Smallwood, Joel Taylor on shakuhachi, and Seth Cluett on fretless electric bass.



  • Nicolas Collins, composer/performer
    Wednesday, March 8, 2000
    CalArts Roy O. Disney Music Hall, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia 8:00 PM Renowned for innovative performances with custom-made, live electronics, often interfaced with instruments, Collins
    presents a series of new works for string quartet, trumpet, skipping CD player, backwards electric guitar, and other electronics.
    Free Admission. For Information call: (661)253-7800 or (818)362-2315



  • "The Shuffle Show"
    a bonus concert presented by Opus 415 and featuring:

    At Theater Artaud (450 Florida St. at 17th, San Francisco, 415-621-7797), 8:00 p.m. (7 p.m. appetizers), $25; or $35
    for both Opus415 and this show (see March 19).



  • Maurice Ravel I: 125 Years

    Eric Himy, piano

    Friday, March 10, 2000 at 8pm
    Saturday, March 11, 2000 at 8pm
    under the patronage of H.E. L'Ambassadeur de France FranÁois Bujon de l'Estang and Madame Bujon de l'Estang

    in cooperation with The Alliance FranÁaise of Washington

    e-mail: alliance@francdc.org

    http://www.francedc.org

    at La Maison Francaise
    4101 Reservoir Road, NW


  • the TODD SICKAFOOSE GROUP

    with many stunt doubles:


    no admission ... donations are greatly appreciated
    opus has great food coffee and tea
    38 E Colorado, Old Town Pasadena
    (626) 685-2800


    we'll be playing music from the newly-barely-released CD "DOGS OUTSIDE"
    check out the CD at OPUS listening stations all month
    *** opus is a great listening room ***



  • The Barton Workshop: Recent Music of Christian Wolff

    Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, California
    Thursday, February 24, 2000 at 7:30pm

    The Amsterdam-based Barton Workshop plays recent music by Christian Wolff. The lecture-recital will include
    Wolff's compositions 'Three Pieces (for Violin and Viola)', 'The Death of Mother Jones', 'Dark as a Dungeon', 'Piano Song (I am a Dangerous Woman)', and 'Exercises 26 and 27'. The Barton Workshop was founded in 1989 by composer-trombonist James Fulkerson.

    More information is available by phone to (510)430-2331 or by email or on the web.



  • woolworth: a building
    by john hudak

    the installation will consist of an "live" audio/video interpretation
    of this neo-gothic skyscraper, which still commands attention, from
    its lobby with vaulted mosaic-covered ceilings, to the gargoyles
    silently keeping watch. sound will be produced by analyzing the
    shape and color of the building, as well as the surrounding
    environment, throughout the day.

    . at studio five beekman
    . saturdays, february 5 and 12, 2 - 9pm

    . 5 beekman street, room 618
    . new york city
    . (near city hall, brooklyn bridge)

    . information 212 587 8107
    . admission is free

    music of john hudak

    haiku has been described as a "japanese poem recording the essence of
    a moment, keenly perceived. " i see my sound recording as "recording
    the essence of sound-moments, keenly perceived."

    my interest in sound centers on the minimalism and repetition of
    everyday sounds. numerous sounds in nature repeat, but we rarely
    hear them for extended lengths of time, either because of random
    environmental obstacles, or because the sounds are just too quiet.
    my musical approach is to present extended lengths of recorded
    sounds, minimally produced and lightly altered, to allow people to
    listen to things they wouldn't ordinarily consider music. this
    approach challenges preconceived notions about what constitutes
    music, and aims to expand our enjoyment and appreciation of the aural
    beauty surrounding us.

    jhudak@pobox.com
    http://www.turbulence.org/short

  • MUSIC AT THE ANTHOLOGY (MATA) -
    MID-WINTER FESTIVAL!
    February 6 - 12, 2000

    A feast of new music will be presented at MATA's mid-winter concert
    festival, February 6, 8, 10 and 12, 2000. The concerts, presented by Philip
    Glass, executive producer and by Lisa Bielawa and Eleanor Sandresky, artistic
    co-directors, will be held at the Film Anthology Archives, 32 Second Avenue
    (at 2nd Street). All concerts will begin at 8:00 p.m. except the concert on
    Sunday, February 6th will begin at 7:00 p.m. The festival will include 4
    MATA commissioned premieres, 12 world premieres, and works by 22 living
    composers as well as works by Harry Partch and George Crumb. Performers
    will include the Eberli Ensemble, Newband, the vocal grops Brooklyn Youth
    Chorus and Western Wind, and the performance artist John Kelly. Individual
    concert tickets are $15 and a subscription to all four concerts is $45.

    Sunday, February 6 at 7:00 P.M. Phin-de-Siecle Phantasm. The Eberli
    Ensemble and performance artist John Kelly will be Mata's special guests.
    The concert will include works by young composers Robert Maggio, Pea Hicks,
    Richard Einhorn, Joel Friedman, and MATA commissionee Marita Bolles, as well
    as by George Crumb.

    Tuesday, February 8 at 8:00 P.M. Virtually American. The
    internationally acclaimed vocal groups Western Wind and the Brooklyn Youth
    Chorus will be special guests. Composers on the concert include James Bassi,
    Gustavo Matamoros, Patrick Clark, Francisco Nunez, Lisa Bielawa and commission
    ee Shafer Mahoney, as well as music by Leonard Bernstein.

    Thursday, February 10 at 8:00 P.M: Solitary Confinement. The concert
    will include a whole evening of guest soloists and works by Myrna Schloss,
    Harold Metlzer, Michael Fiday, Marti Epstein, Allen Ginsberg, Eleanor
    Sandresky and MATA
    commissionee Petros Ovsepyan. The evening will conclude with a work by Eve
    Beglarian, arranged specially for the assemblage of performers.

    Saturday, February 12 at 8:00 P.M. Microtonal Mix. The final concert
    will feature the group Newband directed by Dean Drummond and the original
    Harry Partch instruments. Composers whose works will be heard include Steve
    Horowitz, Julia Wolfe, Nicholas J. Brooke, Daniel Roumain and commissionee
    Annie Gosfield.



  • George Lewis

    Concert-Recent Compositions of George Lewis
    Friday, February 11, 2000 - CalArts Roy O. Disney Music Hall, 8:00 PM New works by Lewis, including a string quartet and music for computer and instrumental ensembles with
    musicians from CalArts and UCSD.



  • Festival de Radio France Présences 2000 Concert

    Maison de Radio France, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Paris
    Saturday, February 12 at 6:30 and 8pm

    Program includes: Jean Claude Eloy, 'Butsumyôe' (La cérémonie du repentir) for voice, percussion, fixed
    sounds, 'Sappho Hikètis' (Sappho implorante) for voice and fixed sounds, 'Anâhata' part 3, 'Nimîlana-
    Unmîlana' (Ce qui s'éveille - Ce qui se replie), premiere of 'Version 2000' for Shô et fixed sounds. More
    information is available by email.


  • Interpretations: Annea Lockwood / Chris Mann

    Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City
    February 3, 2000 at 8pm

    Annea Lockwood, sound-intoxicated, works with Frank Cassara and Dominic Donato, percussion; and Chris Mann ("language is when you correct the grammar of your oppressor") works with David Watson, guitar, and Mark Stewart, daxophone.

    Box Office: 212-501-3330
    Tickets: $10 / $7 TDF/V
    Information: 212-627-0990



  • Thursday February 3rd : Don Preston and The Downtown Playhouse present :

    "Frank Lloyd Wrong"

    Art Jarvinen-percussion and metal
    Ryan Francesconi-guitar and computer
    Scot Ray-trombone and tuba

    compositions by jarvinen, francesconi, and ray mixed with doses of metallic improv -> kam fong as chin ho meets head to head with a brass virtuoso for an evening of ethereal industrial jazz. Opening the concert will be a duo : Eric Barber->sax and Art Jarvinen->electronics.


    8pm - Downtown Playhouse
    121 S. Vignes - between 1st & 2nd Sts. (5 blocks east of Alameda)
    reservations (213) 626-6906 $10 admission (students/seniors $5)



  • Meredith Monk's Magic Frequencies

    Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New York
    Sunday, January 23, 2000 at 3pm

    Singer, choreographer, and performance artist Meredith Monk performs Magic Frequencies. Outer space, science fiction and folk art combine in this poignant performance which takes a look at the earth through the telescopic and microscopic vision of spirits from other realms with vocal and instrumental music, movement, images and light. Call (315)859-4331 for tickets. More information is available by email.



  • Miroslav Tadic and Hindugrass
    Tuesday, January 25, 2000 - Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, 8:00 PM

    "One of the world's thirty most radical and individual guitarists" -Guitar Player...Tadic presents a unique approach to improvisation, drawing from baroque, classical, Indian, Eastern European folk, blues,
    jazz, rock, and flamenco sources with percussionist John Bergamo and saxophonist, Eric Barber. Hindugrass explores the commonalities among classical, folk, and bluegrass music uniting Northern India and the Southeastern United States.

    $12 general/$10 senior/$8 students. For Information call:(310)440-4659



    The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California, Berkeley proudly presents:

  • Abbie Conant, trombone

    Thursday, January 27, 2000, 8pm
    1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
    http://cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU/Home/WhereisCNMAT.html
    Tickets: $10 general, $5 students

    The Wired Goddess and Her Trombone: Works for Wired Trombone Virtuoso trombonist Abbie Conant presents an evening of works for trombone and electronics, including *world premieres* of works by Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, Matt Wright, and Jorge Boehringer. The evening will conclude with a large-scale improvisation.

    Ms. Conant is an internationally acclaimed trombonist who was soloist of the Munich Philharmonic from 1980 to 1993. In recent years she has performed as a soloist in over 60 cities in Europe and America.

    Program:

    CHRIS BROWN-- "Time Bomb: Four Poems by Mina Loy" for Trombone and Interactive Electronics. [*World Premiere*] The four poems are from Mina Loys' late work, a collection entitled "Compensations of Poverty". The instrumentalist (trombone) controls with
    her pitch and volume the granular playback of recordings she made speaking the four poems. An interaction develops between the acoustic sound and the electronic sound it engenders. The trombone "speaks" the poems.

    PAULINE OLIVERS--, "The Heart of Tones", for trombone and 2 oscillators.
    *World Premiere* Matthew Wright, oscillator, William Osborne, 2nd oscillator.Oliveros continues her study of the smallest elements ("the quantums") of musical change.

    ABBIE CONANT AND MATTHEW WRIGHT-- "Garden of Earthly Delights", for trombone and interactive electronics, on a text by Czeslaw Milosz. *World Premiere* Matthew Wright: interactive electronics. Max MSP is controlled by a WACOM board to trigger and transform a prerecorded recitation of the poem and samples of the trombone.

    MAGGIE3 PAYNE-- "Hum 2: Tatsuta-Hime" for 8 trombones: live trombone and 7-track tape. *World Premiere* Tatsuta-Hime: Each autumn, this Japanese goddess wove a beautiful multicolored tapestry. She then incarnated herself as wind and blew her own work to shreds. The seven track tape is a prerecorded overdub of seven additional trombone parts which will be played back on a seven speaker Sourround Sound system.

    JORGE BOEHRINGER-- "The Sinking Ship" for trombone, video and delay line. *World Premiere* Jorge Boehringer, delay line. A multi-media work alluding to the Sirens of Greek mythology and the fog horns of the San Francisco Bay.

    WILLIAM OSBORNE-- "As it were of a trumpet talking", from _Music for the End of Time_ for trombone and quadraphonic tape. An allusion to Rev. 4:1. " After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter."

    ALEX POTTS-- "The Secret Waits for Eyes Unclouded by Longing" for trombone and interactive electronics. Alex Potts, computer. An improvisatory work using the software Super Collider. Among other things, it incorporates the programs ability to spawn granular operations to transform the soloist's soft playing, whispering, and glissandi.

    THE MUTATN CYBORIGAN GIZMO BIG BAND (Improvisation) With synthesists Chris Brown, Tim Perkis, and John Bischoff (of "The Hub), and David Wessel, and Matt Wright (of CNMAT) including instrumentalists Maggi Payne, (flute) and Abbie Conant.





  • Piano Spheres Sixth Season: 1999 - 2000 "At the Turn of the Century"
    presents

    Pianist Vicki Ray
    Tuesday January 18 8 pm

    Vicki Ray begins the new year with an innovative program of premieres,
    collaborations, and provocative repertoire, including

    Oliver Knussen: Prayer Bell Sketch

    Kamran Ince: In Memoriam 8/17/99, written for Ms. Ray

    Ryan Francesconi and Vicki Ray: Doorman, for prepared piano and computer,
    performed with Ryan Francesconi

    Frederic Rzewski: De Profundis, for speaking pianist, on a letter of Oscar
    Wilde written during his incarceration


    the Neighborhood Church of Pasadena
    301 North Orange Grove Blvd
    Tickets $15
    for further information
    (818) 577-4715 or
    (323) 851-2965

    As a member of the California Ear Unit and Xtet, a featured performer on the
    Piano Spheres solo recital series, and in mumerous performances with the Los
    Angeles Philharmonic, Vicki Ray has established herself as a leading
    interpreter of contemporary music. Her new CRI cd "From the Left Edge"
    features solo works written for her and presented at Piano Spheres.
  • Scott Looney's Metaphysicians

    Scott Looney direction composition keys and electronics
    Aaron Bennett soprano & tenor saxophones
    Colin Stetson alto & tenor saxophones
    Eric Perney contrabass
    Roger Reidlebauer guitar
    Peter Valsamis drums

    9:00 pm and 10:00 pm at the Starry Plough
    The Starry Plough is located at 3101 Shattuck (@ Prince St.)
    in Berkeley.



  • Nels Cline-Woody Aplanalp Duo

    Mr. T's Bowl, 5621 N. Figueroa Ave., Highland Park. Music at 9 p.m.; cover $5. Full bar. Over 21. (323) 256-7561 or (323) 960-5693.



  • Jeff Kaiser Trio and Aulos Saxophone Quartet

    Saturday, January 22, 8 pm
    Art City II, Ventura, CA
    31 Peking Street, Ventura (on the very edge)
    Admission: $5


    Jeff Kaiser Trio: Jeff Kaiser, trumpet and electronics; Woody Aplanalp, guitars; Steuart Liebig, basses
    Aulos Saxophone Quartet: Alan Lechusza, Jason Stone, Francisco Martinez, Chris Charbonneau


    Bring blankets, pillows, bean-bag chairs, lawn chairs, et cetera.
    This is an indoor-sit-on-the-floor affair.



  • SATURDAY 22 JANUARY

    The Chicago Underground Film Festival and Facets present:
    WET GATE
    PEOPLE LIKE US
    The Subterranean, 2011 W. North, Chicago
    (773) 278-6600

    Wet Gate's first appearance in the midwest will be with our partner
    in crime PEOPLE LIKE US, aka Vicki Bennett, for a night of sound and
    picture plunder-mania. Vicki's got a host of fantastic CDs and LPs
    on the Soleilmoon and Staalplaat labels of her unique cut and paste
    sound collages, and has recently moved her live show into the realm
    of video manipulation. This promises to be a wacky night.

    ===============
    W E T G A T E
    . . . . . . .

    WET GATE, the all-projector ensemble, was created in 1995 by Steven Dye,
    Peter Conheim and Owen O'Toole as a performing group devoted to the
    use of 16mm film projectors as instruments in a "band" context,
    celebrating the joys of optical analog soundtracks and the cinema
    experience.



  • Meredith Monk's Magic Frequencies

    Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New York
    Sunday, January 23, 2000 at 3pm

    Singer, choreographer, and performance artist Meredith Monk performs Magic Frequencies. Outer space, science fiction and folk art combine in this poignant performance which takes a look at the earth through the telescopic and microscopic vision of spirits from other realms with vocal and instrumental music, movement, images and light. Call (315)859-4331 for tickets. More information is available by email.


  • Crepuscle
    Miya Masaoka koto & electronics
    Tom Nunn original instruments
    (Electroacoustic Percussion Boards & Space Plates)
    Gino Robair percussion


    8:00 pm at the Starry Plough
    The Starry Plough is located at 3101 Shattuck (@ Prince St.)
    in Berkeley.



  • Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents:
    The Bruce Ackley/Tim Perkis duet

    Bruce Ackley - soprano, tenor saxophones
    Tim Perkis - electronics

    Friday, January 7 2000
    8 pm
    Meridian Gallery
    545 Sutter, 2nd floor
    SanFrancisco
    415 398 7229
    ryokan@wenet.net
    http://www.meridiangallery.org
    $10, $5 for students. Noone turned away for monetary reasons.

    For more information, please visit:
    http://www.rova.org/aboutrova/players.html
    http://www.artifact.com/perkis




  • Concerts Multiphonies 1999 / 2000

    Maison de Radio France, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Paris
    Saturday, January 8, 2000 at 6:30 and 8:30pm

    Program includes: Jean Mahtab, 'Etude aux anamorphoses', Claude Lebefvre, 'Toutes les têtes
    voltigent dans la nuit' (Carlos Roque Alsina, piano), Patrick Ascione, 'Holophonie ou la baleine
    rouge'. At 8:30pm: Trevor Wishart, 'American tryptic', Pierre Charvet, '9 études pour piano',
    (Michael Abramovich, piano), Marc Favre, 'Le bestiaire alchimique' and François Bayle 'Si loin,
    si proche...'. More information is available by email.



  • "Unmeasurable Distance"
    A new dance, choreographed by Eri Majima with live music composed and
    performed by Philip Gelb, Carla Kihlstedt and Hugh Livingston.

    Noh Space/Theater Yugen
    2840 Mariposa Street
    SanFrancisco,
    Monday, January 10, 2000
    8 pm
    $10

    Eri Majima - dance
    Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
    Carla Kihlstedt - violin
    Hugh Livingston - cello

    For more information, please look at:
    http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~emajima
    http://www.wenet.net/~ryokan



  • The California Ear Unit
    is presenting a concert of [short] world premiers by composers from Australia, LA, New York, and Europe in a valiant to make NEWMUSIC not boring :

    SO? come hear two new pieces by Ryan Francesconi : webbarwassad and 10 hour conversation, both written for the Ears this last fall. Also on the program are pieces by Adam Lane, Lucky Mosko (hear art jarvinen's beachboy falsetto), Robert Kyr, and others.. hope to see you there!

    7:30 pm Monday January 10
    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
    5905 Wilshire Blvd, BING Theater
    Ticket Info : 213 857 6010



  • Active Line Duo #2
    Scott Looney keys & computer electronics
    Damon Smith Contrabass

    9:00 pm at the Starry Plough
    The Starry Plough is located at 3101 Shattuck (@ Prince St.)
    in Berkeley.




  • Interpretations: Terry Riley

    Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City
    January 13, 2000 at 8pm

    Terry Riley is cooking up steamed fresh romano beans-garlic-olive oil with Krishna Bhatt, sitar
    and tabla; George Brooks, saxophone; Terry Riley, keyboards; Gyan Riley, guitar; Tracy
    Silverman, violin; and special guests. Presented in association with Elaine Kaufman Concert Hall
    and WNYC FM Classic NY New Sounds Live.

    Box Office: 212-501-3330
    Tickets: $18/$15
    Information: 212-627-0990




  • CEAIT Electronic Music Festival 2000

    Roy O. Disney Hall, Cal Arts, 24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia, California
    January 14, 15 and 16, 2000 at 8pm

    The third annual Electronic Music Festival at the California Institute of the Arts includes two
    concerts with the possiblity of a third the afternoon of the January 15. More information is
    available by email or on the web.