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EVENTS from February 2001

SAN FRANCISCO, California:

Musical interpretations of Tang Dynasty Poems a new composition by Hugh Livingston in conjunction with the show ANNA WOLF CHINESE EPHEMERA: COLLECTED AND TRANSFORMED with Philip Gelb, shakuhachi; John Ingle, saxophone; Hugh Livingston, cello.

8pm Saturday February 10, 2001 admission $5 & $10 MERIDIAN GALLERY 545 Sutter Street, San Francisco CA 94102 (between Mason and Powell). For information, call 415 398-7229; online at http://www.meridiangallery.org/.

The artist will lead a walkthrough introducing her work at 7pm, which is free and open to the public. A very limited edition commemorative CD will be available packaged with a unique folded paper sculpture by Anna Wolf.

SAN PEDRO, California:

The new IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES: at Sacred Grounds is curated by saxophonist Chris Heenan on second Sundays of the month.

February 11, 7:30pm: Brian Christopherson, percussion; Ryan Francesconi, guitar, electronics; Chris Heenan, reeds; Ronit Kirchman, violin; Scot Ray, trombone / tuba; Charles Sharp, reeds; at Sacred Grounds 399 West Sixth Street San Pedro 310-514-0800. For more information contact: Chris Heenan at 323-255-5395.

BERKELEY, California:

ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series [ feb 11 01 ] Gianni Gebbia - saxophonist from Italy with Michael Manring - electric bass [ feb 18 01 ] Eric Barber - solo sax from LA; Saadet Turkoz - Turkish/Kazakh vocalist from Switzerland [ mar 4 01 ] Toychestra; Tom Nunn - solo electroacoustic percussion boards; Eric Glick Rieman - solo prepared Rhodes [ mar 18 01 ] Jack Wright Ensemble - from Denver; Viv Corringham - Asiaminor+electronics from London [ apr 01 01 ] Carlo Actis Dato - solo sax from Italy; Emergency String Quartet --Tom Swafford - violin, Bob Marsh - cello/violin, Adam Lane - cello--
Performances at Tuva Space, 3192 Adeline in Berkeley, Cal. All concerts begin at 7:48 (this is NOT a typo). $8 suggested donation. For details see http://sfSound.org/acme.html.

SAN FRANCISCO, California:

Avante-Garde Cinema at THE EXPLORATORIUM Wednesday February 14, 7-9pm "Behind the Screen: Avant-Garde Cinema from the Early 20th Century to the Early 21st Century". We'll also be celebrating our new exhibition, "Behind the Screen: Making Motion Pictures and Television" on loan from the American Museum of the Moving Image.

Among the featured artists: STATIC ROOM by Scott Arford Crackling static video is manipulated live alternating with darkness and lush sounds. The video itself consists of a series of clips made from TV static, bad connections, and other mistakes and inaccuracies. FILM SCREENINGS Early Avant-Garde Cinema juxtaposed with new digital Avant-Garde. Live Sound Track by Artist Richard Koldewyn on piano and digital work by Mathew Biederman with sound artist DJ SpazeCrafteOne. Films include Le Retour A La Raison (1923) and Emak-Bakia (1927) by Man Ray, Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928) by Han Richter, Entre'Acte (1924) by Rene Clair, and Anemic Cinema (1926) by Marcel Duchamp. PENDULUM II by TEST, a collaborative arts group dedicated to using projection in performance and installation. Artists Gregory Cowley, Scott Arford, and Kaveh Soofi present "A clockwork sculpture of projections making use of cyclical imagery and sound suspended in space." IN THE LEARNING STUDIO Sometimes, the edge of a picture is more interesting than the middle. The video streamer tips video on its side to reveal flowing images of time. Local filmmaker Aaron Ross will present his 3D film, "Cruise the Circuit." Cruise the Circuit is an abstract computer animation which directly translates music into moving visual art. It is presented in full color stereoscopic 3D using wireless electronic glasses. GHOSTSTAIRS by John 'B' Berzins, a layered video composition. From the outside, you see the ghosts. Walk through and look back: you become a ghost. OTHER INSTALLATIONS INCLUDE Lightning House by Mary Tsiongas, Untitled by Michael Rudnick.

Bar provided by Blavod (BLACK VODKA), Food catered by CAFE ACRE. This Event is free with Museum Admission. The Exploratorium is located inside the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco's Marina District.

For information, call (415) EXP-LORE.

THE NETHERLANDS:

Steve Horowitz's Mousetrap Quartet on Tour. Concerts February 14, 16 and 18.

Steve Horowitz's Mousetrap Quartet (including Horowitz, Dan Plonsey, Peter Van Bergen, Jim Bove, Joost Buis and Jim Menesses) will tour the Netherlands in February performing music written by Americans, Steve Horowitz and Dan Plonsey, and Netherland composers Joost Buis and Peter Van Bergen.

Concert times are: Feb. 14 @ Paradox in Tilburg at 20:00; February 16 Badcuyp in Amsterdam, 20:30; Feb. 18 @ Dodorama in Rotterdam, 15:00 and again @Bimhuis in Amsterdam 21:00 (Live Recording Radio 4). The concert is made possible by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

BERKELEY, California:

Berkeley Art Center and Live Oak Concerts present: Water From Your Spring, a concert of music by composer Ann Millikan, featuring the California E.A.R. Unit, conducted by Marc Lowenstein, with guest soloists: Jacqueline Bobak, soprano and Phyllis Kamrin, viola. Additional performers include: Citywinds; Guineafia, West African drumming ensemble; Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole, dancer/choreographer; Opal Palmer Adisa, poet; Marty Walker, bass clarinet; and Eric Barber, saxophone. Friday & Saturday, February 16 & 17 8pm concert, 7pm pre-concert talk. Reception following the concerts! $15-20 sliding scale. Berkeley Art Center is located at1275 Walnut St. in Live Oak Park (510)644-6893. For more information: http://www.berkeleyartcenter.org

Concert program includes four world premieres: THE COLOR OF BLOOD: PRAISING THE MOON WE ARE Part 1, for women's chorus with African percussion and dance, choreographed by Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole. This piece is a collaboration with Opal Palmer Adisa that will "explore female culture with an eye for finding the thread that connects women across racial, class and political lines." - Adisa WATER FROM YOUR SPRING, settings of six poems by Rumi 13th century Persian mystic, translated by Coleman Barks, performed by soprano Jacqueline Bobak and chamber ensemble. This piece incorporates rhythmic elements of the Farsi language. The poems will be read in Farsi by Hadi Attaran before the performance. HOUSE OF MIRRORS, a set of two solo pieces for: 1. Marty Walker (bass clarinet), 2. Eric Barber (tenor saxophone). These semi-improvisational pieces utilize the reflection of sound off of resonant surfaces.

SAN FRANCISO, California:

KURAHASHI YOSHIO at Clarion Music Center

One of the greatest shakuhachi grandmasters Kurahashi Yoshio is visiting from Kyoto and is appearing live at Clarion Music Center in Chinatown Friday night, February 23 at 8 pm. Tickets are 12 dollars. Go to http://www.clarionmusic.com to reserve tickets as this event will sell out.

Clarion is on Sacramento, off Grant in San Francisco's Chinatown. He will be joined by local shamisen master Philip Flavin.

NEW YORK CITY, New York:

Premiere of RANDY WOOLF'S Work at Sequitur Concert

The concert will include a new work by one of the country's most acclaimed young composers, Randy Woolf, "The Trick is to Keep Breathing". It is for string quartet, singer and turntable artist, Mocean Worker, using custom-made records that contain all the music the quartet plays live. Worker will surround the live quartet musicians with a distorted mirror image of themselves, referring back to what they just played, or anticipating what they are about to play. The singer is Christina Wheeler, a Knitting Factory favorite and former singer with David Byrne. The lyrics and stage direction are by Valeria Vasilevski.

The Sequitur concert is Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Hall, 129 West 67th Street in New York. Admission is $15 ($10 for students and seniors.)

BROOKLYN, New York:

CLAUDIO CALMENS New Music for Guitar

At 8:00 pm on Tuesday, February 27th at Galapagos: 70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY (Williamsburg)
New Music on North Sixth presents Argentinean new music guitarist Claudio Calmens on his first U.S. tour, with new electric guitar solos written for him by a number of young experimental composers (Larry Polansky, Warren Burt, Nick Didkovsky) and classical guitar music by Howard Skempton , Leo Brouwer (Cuba) and Egberto Gismonti (Brazil).

Calmens is a virtuoso player with an adventurous repertoire, and has toured frequently in Latin America.
This program is supported, in part, by Councilman Kenneth Fisher and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Dickey Endowment of Dartmouth College, and Frog Peak Music (a composers' collective).