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Leftovers November 2001
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Leftovers January 2001
Leftovers from 2000 and before
Leftovers Submissions 2001
EVENTS from July 2001
SAN FRANCISCO:
Meridian Midsummer Festival, July 6
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance proudly presents our third
annual Midsummer Music Festival celebrating the end of the third year
of concerts.
For three years we have been presenting monthly concerts of new music
and have featured the following musicians:
Chris Brown (2), Pauline Oliveros (3), Bertram Turetsky, Garth
Powell, Philip Gelb (3), Scott Walton, Jason Stanyek, Patrick OKeefe,
Glenn Whitehead, Vinny Golia, Steve Adams (3), Carla Kihlstedt (2),
Gino Robair (2), Ladonna Smith, Jon Raskin (2), Bruce Ackley (2),
Larry Ochs, Tim Perkis (2), Damon Smith, Shoko Hikage (4), Ryoko
Mitsutani, Noriko Tsuboi, Brent Larner, Elizabeth Falconer, Devon
Hoff, Joel Harrison, India Cook, Karolyn Van Putten, Ben Goldberg,
John Schott, Toyoji Tomita, Marianne Mcdonald, Una Nakamura, Betty
Wong, Shirley Wong, John Ingle (2), Hugh Livingston (2), Takeshi Oda,
Dan Joseph, Colin Stetson, Matt Ingalls, John Biscoff, Michael
Manring, Dan Plonsey, Laura Carmichael, Philip Flavin
This year, short solo sets by the following:
Phillip Greenlief - winds
Friday, July 6, 2001
Phillip Greenlief is an active performer, composer and musician whose
principal aim is to explore the relationships between literature and
music. He is the founder of the Odyssey Ensemble and Evander Music;
an independent record label dedicated to the presentation of jazz and
improvised music. Mr. Greenlief has performed internationally, both
as a sideman and a leader with various groups. He was a featured
performer at the 1st annual John Coltrane Festival in Los Angeles. He
also performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival ; the Freiburg Zelt
Musik Festival in Germany; the Du Marier Jazz Festival in Vancouver,
B.C.; the 2nd Annual Eric Dolphy Memorial Concert in Berkeley, Ca. ;
The Konfrontation Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria; and the
International Festival for the Arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the
summer of 1998, he lived in he lived in Saint Petersberg, Russia,
where he performed solo concerts and many gigs with local jazz
groups. After completing graduate studies in literature and music at
the University of Southern Califorinia , Greenlief composed " Love
Songs to the Episodes of James Joyce's Ulysses." He then returned to
San Francisco and formed the Odyssey
Ensemble, a collective of some of the finest talent in the Bay Area.
In addition, he has composed a work for the Odyssey Ensemble based on
The Trial , by Franz Kafka, and was commissioned by Rough and Tumble
Theater in 1995 to create music for their production of Eugene
Ionesco's Macbett . Greenlief also composed music for the Sony
Pictures Classics release Dream with the Fishes , starring David
Arquette, and the original score for Mike Cavanaugh's short film
Soup. He has worked with George Coates' Theater Works, appearing in
their world premiere of 20/20 Blake (based on the works of William
Blake) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the ensemble also appeared on MTV.
Phillip regularly performs throughout the Bay Area with his trio,
featuring bassist Dan Seamans and drummer Tom Hassett. He is an
active member of the Clubfoot Orchestra, Wadada Leo Smith's Large
Ensemble, Trio Putanesca, the Ashley Adams Trio, Marco Eneidi's
American Jungle Orchestra, and the improvising quartet Surge. In
addition to performing and composing , he has taught privately and
led workshops and coursework in writing, reading development,
improvisation and jazz studies in schools, colleges and universities
throughout North America.
http://www.evandermusic.com
Ron Heglin is a trombonist and vocalist working in extended technique on
trombone and vocally with spoken and sung imaginary languages. he performs
regularly within the bay area and in Europe where he has performed in vocal
festivals within recent years. he counts as a major musical influence his
study of north Indian vocal music.
KATHY KENNEDY is a sound artist and recovering classical singer. Her
art practice generally involves the voice and issues of interface
with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also
involved in community art and is a founder of the digital media
resource center for women in Canada, Studio XX, as well as the
innovative choral groups for women Choeur Maha and Esther. Her large
scale sonic installation/performances for up to 100 singers and
radio, called "sonic choreographies," have been performed
internationally, including the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series.
She is currently consumed with writing music for cell phones.
http://www.kathyk.net
Adam Lane Since his graduation from the California Institute of The
Arts in 1996, Adam Lane has become recognized as one of the most
important creative musicians of the thriving Bay Area New Music
Scene. His own compositions have been recognized by critics world
wide as "innovative" and "forward thinking," and he has contributed
as a sideman to important new recordings by artist such as John
Tchicai and Tom Waits. A recent article in the July issue of Jazziz
magazine placed Lane alongside only three other musicians (the others
in their 40's or 50's) as an example of the most outstanding work
being done in the "World class creative music scene [of San
Francisco]." Lane has also developed a challenging solo repertoire,
combining his virtuosic bass work with his own spoken word and sound
design. His first solo piece, STARSEARCH, was commissioned by Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and performed there as part of their
solo performance series in 1997. Lane has also composed a variety of
works for chamber ensembles.
He has also recently completed a duo project with pop legend Tom Waits.
Lane has a BA in music from Wesleyan University where he studied with
Anthony Braxton, and an MFA from CalArts where he studied with Wadada
Leo Smith and Daniel Rothman. In 1996 he was awarded a Paternings
scholarship for study at the Darmstadt School for New Music. At
Darmstadt he attended master classes in composition with Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Klaus Huber, Mathias Spahlinger, and Daniel Rothman, and
studied double bass with Italian virtuoso Stefano Scodanibbio.
http://webpages.cwia.com/~sloth/
Kattt Sammon (mezzo-soporano, actress) started out in Dallas radio.
She began her formal vocal studies with Laurie Amat, and has gone on
to study a wide range of musical styles. She studied voice, acting
and movement with Lissa Tyler Renaud. Movement studies have included
the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, Rudolph Laban, Andre Bernard and
Bonnie Bainridge Cohen. She collaborates with such Bay Area
Improvisers as Ron Heglin, Bob Marsh, Marianne McDonald, Aaron
Bennett, Tom Bickley and others. She also actively collaborates with
performance artists/composers Gerhard Stabler and Kunsu Shim. Ms
Sammon has performed at venues such as Beanbenders, Luggage Store
Gallery, 21Grand, Starry Plough, New Langton, 23ten Sound Gallery and
The Lab. http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=113
Born Damon Jesse Smith on oct. 17th, 1972, Spokane,WA. Did "freestyle
bmx" bicycle riding (a much more dangerous foreshadow to "freestyle"
music!) from age 13 to 23. Started music in 1991, under the influence
of Mike Watt
(FIREHOSE & the minutemen) on fender bass. Lead several punk/art rock
combos until 1994. Upon receiving Peter Kowald's landmark lp
"Duos:Europa", left behind by a roommate who moved out, Damon sold
the fender bass and concentrated solely on double bass and creative
improvised music. Damon's music is rooted in the tradition of "free
jazz", with most of his professional experience coming from work with
the orchestras and small ensembles of master alto saxophonist Marco
Eneidi,however, he is very interested in all the manifestations of
free improvised music (jazz rooted or
not!) around the world. his live and recorded efforts focus on continuing
and expanding the possibilities of the double bass and "instant
composition".He also collects recordings, specifically creative
improvised music and double bass music, and finds this to be a very
important part of his music, to be aware of the history of the double
bass and creative music and to be aware of the contemporary state of
both.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=7
Moe Staiano, or Moe! Staiano as he is known for his stage
performances, is a percussionist of found sound and interesting
style. Moe uses objects such as oil barrels, u-bolts, springs, sheet
metals, bicycle wheels, pipes, food pans, the bowing of cardboard,
spatulas or whatever else sounded good being bowed, as well as
prepared guitar & piano frames among other possible objects. Moe!
has collaborated with several number of great talented musicians
including Ron Anderson, Tom Nunn, Dan Plonsey, Matt Ingals, John
Shiurba, Gino Robair and Karen Stackpole to name a few. He is also a
member of Vacuum Tree Head. He has used many musicians in his large
group ensemble called the Moe!kestra!, which is what Moe! has been
focusing his attention on lately. So far, he has written five pieces
for multiple musicians (once having 33 musicians at a Yerba Buena
gig) and will be writing a piece that he will conduct for the
Degenerate Art Ensemble in Seattle. Moe! Staiano has his own
micro-label, Dephine Knormal Musik, which has released his debut
CD, the Non-Study of First Impressions. It features solo cuts &
collaborations. He also has been a guest on Metal Eater's Virus CD
(also on Dephine Knormal Musik), a CD that is a project of Ron
Anderson and Steve Buchanan and Tom Nunn'sExperimental Instruments
Consort CD. He currently is working on getting his second CD out on
another labels as well as a CD out by Moe!kestra! He is also a member
of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and frequently beats on Momo's head
during the occasional MomoMoe! gigs.
http://www.inkboat.com/biography/biomoe.html
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents concerts the first
Friday of each month in the intimate setting of Meridian Gallery. The
series has been underway since fall, 1998 and is curated by Philip
Gelb.
Upcoming concerts:
-August 3, 2001 Phillip Greenlief solo winds
OAKLAND, California:
Wind Trio of Alphaville Sunday in Oakland
Sunday, July 8
5 pm Philip Gelb solo shakuhachi
and
6 pm
The Wind Trio of Alphaville
Philip Gelb
ASPEN, Colorado
Robert McDuffie performs "Sicilienne" in Aspen!
Tonight; Friday, July 13 at 8:30pm
Harris Concert Hall / Aspen Music Festival
Tickets are $30, and can be ordered from http://www.Ljova.com
(click on "News")
The concert will be recorded and later re-broadcast on National Public Radio
(NPR).
Date of broadcast is yet unknown, but I will make sure to keep you posted.
This is a truly extra-special event! If you're lucky to be in Aspen this
week, please attend!
NEW YORK CITY:
THE POLAR BEAR CLUB
THE POLAR BEAR CLUB
Featuring your merry host/space-traveler/DJs timeblind and Mike Wolf. Live
video workshopped while-you-watch. Always excellent. This week: leo anibladi
(rephlex, acv, rome it) + unknown23-ranjii (shadowcast, 5lowershop
soundsystem) will fill out the sound set.
Your videonauts will be Jeremy Bernstein and R. Luke Dubois (of Freight
Elevator Quartet).
http://www.crucial-systems/polarbear/ (polar bears)
SAN FRANCISCO:
THE FIRST ANNUAL TRANSBAY SKRONKATHON BBQ @ Acme Observatory
JULY 15th EVENT:
On Sunday, July 15, The Transbay New Music Calendar in association
with ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series presents
THE FIRST ANNUAL TRANSBAY SKRONKATHON BBQ
Tuva Space - 3192 Adeline, Berkeley
510.649.8744 - http://sfSound.org/acme.html
Sunday, July 15th - 1pm to 11pm - FREE
So please come out to TUVA on July 15 from 1pm to 11pm and join us
to hear dozens of the Bay Area's best-known practitioners of
"multi-conceptual-deconstructed-creative-music." We will have
plenty of charcoal on hand, so bring a slab of meat [or meat-like
products], or any other items for yourself or others to consume
while listening to some damn-fine music!
PROGRAM:
Phyll Smith/Andre Custodio -- ambient
Ron Thompson -- solo guitar+computer
Dan Plonsey's Garbaggio Truckio Fantastico
Rubber City [David Slusser, Ralph Carney, Richard Saunders, Michel
Dumonceau]
Saint of Killers -- avant-space-rock-metal-noise
Jessica Loos/Damon Smith Duo -- Improvised Sound Poetry/String Bass
sfSound Group -- a new music ensemble
Marco Eneidi -- solo saxophone
Myles Boisen & Karen Stackpole -- prepared guitar and gongs
Tori Anus - computer/guitar/viola/drum/random circuits from:
[Jorge Boehringer, Kris Miltner, and David Horton]
tonamatt
[Nancy Beckman, Tom Bickley, Marianne MacDonald, Kattt Sammon]
Phillip Greenlief -- solo saxophone
Double Nickels -- a double quintet of
[John Shiurba/Myles Boisen, ma++ ingalls/John Ingle,Tom Djll/Tom Yoder]
[Morgan Guberman/Eli Crews, Gino Robai/Karen Stackpole]
Bob Marsh/Scott R Looney/Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Garth Powell
Transmission Trio -- [Colin Stetson, Eric Perney, Andrew Kitchen]
ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series at Tuva Space,
3192 Adeline Avenue at Martin Luther King Boulevard in Berkeley,
CA, one block from the Ashby BART Station -- look for the `ANT'
sign (the building used to be an antiques shop.)
EVENT: Sunday, August 5 at 8:00pm
On Sunday, August 5 at 8:00pm, ACME Observatory Contemporary
Performance Series presents avant-shamanistic multi-instrumental
improvisations by Henry Kuntz and the gamelan-influenced solo
explorations of Jeff Gburek at TUVA Space, 3192 Adeline at Martin
Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA. Admission is $9.99, suggested.
PROGRAM:
The performances of New York's Jeff Gburek straddle the line between
composition and improvisation. A long-time guitarist, he has
recently been working with a modified Javanese gamelan percussion
set up, employing tones, textures, resonances and ruptures in a
cyclical Javanes-influenced structure but using elements and objects
outside of that tradition, including prepared electronic sounds
from rewired devices.
Long-time Bay Area sax maven Henry Kuntz's solo presentation
applies in concentrated form "avant-shamanic" concepts he has
developed over many years both by himself and with the group OPEYE.
Henry notes: "The alertness demanded by the free improvisation
process shifts one's state of being into a place not unlike that
described in various accounts of trance, dream or shamanic reality.
"The inherently creative and explorative aspects of free improvisation --
the manner in which it seeks to alter, realign, and reconfigure
cultural paradigms -- place it on a path that is parallel to that
of the shaman. Yet while the shaman seeks to restore individuals
who are out of cultural sorts to harmony with their surroundings,
the avant-shamanic free improvisor does not so much seek to restore
connections with a particular culture, but to find and experience
One's True Self /Our True Selves in the midst of a culture/world
cultures that are in many ways lacking in wholeness."
ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series at Tuva Space,
3192 Adeline Avenue at Martin Luther King Boulevard in Berkeley,
CA, one block from the Ashby BART Station -- look for the `ANT'
sign (the building used to be an antiques shop.)
All concerts begin at 8:00 PM.
WEB LINKS:
ACME Observatory: http://sfSound.org/acme.html
Henry Kuntz: http://astron.berkeley.edu/plonsey/beanbenders/OPEYE.html
http://www.onefinalnote.com/issue5/kuntz.html
http://www.geocities.com/soho/square/6100/kuntz.html
http://www.newcreativemusic.com/contents/reviews/ew.html
CAPSULE PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES:
JEFF GBUREK has been playing guitar for 26 years and "Opposites
Infect" his first solo CD of guitar compositions and improvisations
comes out on Orphan Sounds in September. He has recorded a 7" and
a CD as guitarist with San Francisco post-rock group Poltroon. He
began his studies of gamelan music in Java with Pak Suhardi and
played Javanese and Sundanese styles on the island and with the
New York Indonesian consulate gamelan. He has played violin, guitar
and rebab with various New York improvisors, such as Daniel Carter,
and jazz-world hip-hop trumpeter Graham Haynes. He has performed
in Berlin with East German trombonist Konrad Bauer and with dancer
Julie Greenhill.
HENRY KUNTZ has been intimately involved in free jazz and free
improvisation for more than 25 years. From 1973 to 1979, he was
editor and publisher of the internationally-acclaimed newsletter-review
BELLS. He first recorded on tenor saxophone in 1977 on Henry
Kaiser's Ice Death (Parachute 005). He has played musette and
various flutes since 1981, miniature violins since 1983, gamelans
and xylophones since 1988. On Humming Bird Records, he has released
2 LPs, 16 cassettes, and 3 CDs of solo, group, and multi-tracked
free improvisations. In 1986, he co-founded the "avant-shamanic
trance jazz" group, Opeye
http://astron.berkeley.edu/plonsey/beanbenders/OPEYE.html. He
has traveled extensively (over 20 years) to Mexico, Central and
South America, Asia, Indonesia, and North Africa recording, studying,
and drawing upon aspects of music, ritual, dance, and performance
-- from which 5 ethnographic cassettes have also been produced.
Henry's recently released solo tenor saxophone music,One One & One
(Humming Bird CDs 2&3), has been critically acclaimed in various
publications, including Jazz Journal International, Cadence, One
Final Note http://www.onefinalnote.com/issue5/kuntz.html
US West Coast:
The Scott Amendola Band on tour July 5th-14th
west coast jaunt
july 8th-14th w/ the noe venable trio.
july 5th-Great American Music Hall w/ Sex Mob, and Will Bernard and Motherbug
(www.musichallsf.com) (415) 202-9816.
july 6th- Cafe Tomo, Arcata, CA. (707) 822-4100(www.cafetomo.com) opening
for Sex Mob
july 8th-Play High Sierra fest- 2:15-3:15, then 11:30pm-12:30pm.
(http://www.hsmusic.net)
july 10th-The Rainbow, seattle WA. 722 N.E. 45th st.
(http://akelamedia.com/rainbow) w/ Noe Venable trio
july 11th-St. John's Pub, portland, OR. 8203 N. Ivanhoe st. (503) 283-8520.
w/Noe Venable trio
july 12th- Sam Bond's garage, Eugene, OR. 407 Blair Blv. (541) 343-2635. w/
Noe Venable trio
july 13th- Tuva, Berkeley, CA . 3192 Adeline st. w/ Noe Venable trio
july 14th- McCabes Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, (310) 828-8037.
(www.mccabes.com) CA w/ Noe Venable trio
The Scott Amendola Band:
Nels Cline-guitar (www.nelscline.com)
Jenny Scheinman-violin (www.jennyscheinman.com)
todd sickafoose-acoustic bass
eric crystal-saxophones
scott amendola-drums
the Noe Venable Trio:
Noe Venable-voice and guitar (www.zot.net/noe)
Todd Sickafoose-acoustic bass
Alan Linn-violin
LOS ANGELES, California
EXPANDED MEDIA: VIDEACY, video technology and the arts -
Innovative new video performative work from artists both locally and
across the globe
VIDEACY
When:
Where:
Side Street LIVE
Videacy will provide a delicious sampling of new video works by 18
artists from Los Angeles and around the globe. From the cyber punk, the
web show monkey, the music video freak, the animation warrior and the
super videophile, these artists have been brought together to challenge
the medium of video and explode into new video terrain. These future
hungry techno-brats create new artistic expressions in a landscape of
multiple disciplines.
The artists include: J. Tobias Anderson, Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo,
Clay Chaplin, Gabriel Cyr and Kyle Harris, Ken Ehrlich, Lara Frankena,
Annie Gosfield, Amy Green and Ryan Hill, Kinya Hanada (mumbleboy),
Cecilia Lundqvist, Sterling Ruby, Jennifer Steinkamp and Jimmy Johnson,
Marina Zurkow, and Andrew Bucksbarg
Videacy is produced by adHocArts (on the web at www.adHocArts.org)
and curated by Andrew Bucksbarg, Sara Roberts and S.M. Sofian.
adHocArts is a fresh, exciting congregation of artists and a forum for
collaboration supporting the arts community in Los Angeles and beyond.
adHocArts' mission is to promote the exploration of creative modalities
through artistic resistance, expanded media, art and technology,
cultural perspective, and diversity and difference by sponsoring events
that encourage these practices.
For more information contact videacy@adHocArts.org
SANTA MONICA, California
Barri (Acquittal)
a play by Shahid Nadeem
Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations
would like to draw your attention to the following event
Barri (Acquittal)
a play by Shahid Nadeem (2001 Feuchtwanger Fellow)
Friday, July 20, 2001
Panel discussion Saturday, July 21, 2001, 4:00 P.M. (free)
Highways Performance Space
Madeeha Gauhar (director, actress)
This play is co-produced by the 18th Street Arts Complex
and the Highways Theater at 18th Street
with the cooperation of Villa Aurora
Shahid Nadeem, a Pakistani playwright, TV Director, journalist, and
human rights activist, has written more than 30 plays and eight
television serials for Pakistani television, many of which were also
performed all over Asia and in Britain. He is the in-house playwright
for Ajoka Theatre, PakistanÌs leading non-commercial theatre group. As a
human rights activist he has worked for Amnesty International since
1980.
He was imprisoned under all three military governments in Pakistan
because of his non-violent opposition to military rule and his writings.
He had to stay in exile from 1979-1988 and only returned when General
Zia-ul-Haq died. He has been harassed by the government since his return
for writing about PakistanÌs human rights record and for supporting
Indian-Pakistani friendship. In 1998, he was fired after his play, an
adaptation of a Brecht play on Hitler, was regarded as an attack on
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and for openly criticizing government
interference in Pakistani Television affairs.
In 2001, Shahid Nadeem was granted the Feuchtwanger Fellowship, an
award given to distinguished writers who are forced to live in exile or
suffer oppression in their own country. The Villa Aurora Feuchtwanger
Fellowship is co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute, 18th Street
Arts Complex and PEN Center USA West /Freedom-to-Write Program.
Barri was written in 1986, when Shahid Nadeem was living in exile in
London, and has been an inspiration to socially-meaningful theatre in
Pakistan. He sent the script to Madeehea Gauhar, a leading TV actress
and theatre director, who had started the Ajoka theatre group after
being fired from her job as an English lecturer for her participation in
womenÌs protests againgst so-called "islamic" laws introduced by the
Zia regime. First performed in 1987, Barri was adapted for Pakistani TV
in 1989 and became hugely successful as the boldest and most powerful
serial on the theme of womenÌs emancipation.
Barri, which means "acquittal" as well as "dowry" in the Urdu and
Punjabi languages, tells the story of four women in a prison cell.
Zahida Zaman, a middle class womenÌs rights activist arrested for
participating in protest against discriminatory laws, has to share her
cell with three "common criminals:" Janat Bibi, an old woman imprisoned
for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of her son wanted for petty
theft, Jamila, who killed her violent husband, and Maryam, who was
arrested for dancing at a shrine and was raped while in prison. Zahaida
learns about their stories as examples of the oppression of women in
society. The play was the first cultural response to General
Zia-ul-HaqÌs retrogressive laws, which made a woman equal to half a man.
The performance at Highways Performance Space reunites the original
cast. Barri is directed by Madeeha Gauhar, a well-known theatre
director, actress, and leading supporter of friendship between India
and Pakistan. Fawzia Afzal Khan is an actress and Professor of English
at Montclair University in New Jersey. Samia Mumtaz is an actress and
social scientist who is currently living in New York. Laila Wasti is a
well-known actress in Pakistan and presently enrolled at the UCLA Film
School.
NEW YORK CITY:
Saturday 28 July at Diapason Gallery NYC
Saturday 28 July 2001
John Hudak
"Tall Grasses" installation, in the small exhibition room, 8-9:30pm
The sound and image projection of tall grasses blowing in the wind.
"grass that one kind of grass when you walk on the soft land what kind can
it be grass blown in the wind tall grass green grass that one kind of grass"
Dave Gearey
"3% Vision," film/Daniel Goode, music, in the performance room, 8-9:30pm
Performances starting at 9:30pm:
John Hudak, Audio/Bruce Tovsky, Video projection controlled by Theremin
Ian Nagoski, Audio/Dan Conrad, Chromaccord Light Organ
Thomas C. Moore, Audio
Diapason
http://www.diapasongallery.com
Information: (212) 719-4393 or info@diapasongallery.com
Take the N or R to 42nd St., exit towards the rear,
and you're at 40th and Bway. Or take the B, D, Q and F to 42nd St. It's 1026
Sixth Ave @ 39th 2nd floor
SAN FRANCISCO:
avant-shamanistic multi-instrumental
improvisations by Henry Kuntz and the gamelan-influenced solo
explorations of Jeff Gburek
Tuva Space - 3192 Adeline, Berkeley
510.649.8744 - http://sfSound.org/acme.html
EVENT: Sunday, August 5 at 8:00pm
On Sunday, August 5 at 8:00pm, ACME Observatory Contemporary
Performance Series presents avant-shamanistic multi-instrumental
improvisations by Henry Kuntz and the gamelan-influenced solo
explorations of Jeff Gburek at TUVA Space, 3192 Adeline at Martin
Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA. Admission is $9.99, suggested.
PROGRAM:
The performances of New York's Jeff Gburek straddle the line between
composition and improvisation. A long-time guitarist, he has
recently been working with a modified Javanese gamelan percussion
set up, employing tones, textures, resonances and ruptures in a
cyclical Javanes-influenced structure but using elements and objects
outside of that tradition, including prepared electronic sounds
from rewired devices.
Long-time Bay Area sax maven Henry Kuntz's solo presentation
applies in concentrated form "avant-shamanic" concepts he has
developed over many years both by himself and with the group OPEYE.
Henry notes: "The alertness demanded by the free improvisation
process shifts one's state of being into a place not unlike that
described in various accounts of trance, dream or shamanic reality.
"The inherently creative and explorative aspects of free improvisation --
the manner in which it seeks to alter, realign, and reconfigure
cultural paradigms -- place it on a path that is parallel to that
of the shaman. Yet while the shaman seeks to restore individuals
who are out of cultural sorts to harmony with their surroundings,
the avant-shamanic free improvisor does not so much seek to restore
connections with a particular culture, but to find and experience
One's True Self /Our True Selves in the midst of a culture/world
cultures that are in many ways lacking in wholeness."
ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series at Tuva Space,
3192 Adeline Avenue at Martin Luther King Boulevard in Berkeley,
CA, one block from the Ashby BART Station -- look for the `ANT'
sign (the building used to be an antiques shop.)
All concerts begin at 8:00 PM.
WEB LINKS:
ACME Observatory: http://sfSound.org/acme.html
Henry Kuntz: http://astron.berkeley.edu/plonsey/beanbenders/OPEYE.html
http://www.onefinalnote.com/issue5/kuntz.html
http://www.geocities.com/soho/square/6100/kuntz.html
http://www.newcreativemusic.com/contents/reviews/ew.html
CAPSULE PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES:
JEFF GBUREK has been playing guitar for 26 years and "Opposites
Infect" his first solo CD of guitar compositions and improvisations
comes out on Orphan Sounds in September. He has recorded a 7" and
a CD as guitarist with San Francisco post-rock group Poltroon. He
began his studies of gamelan music in Java with Pak Suhardi and
played Javanese and Sundanese styles on the island and with the
New York Indonesian consulate gamelan. He has played violin, guitar
and rebab with various New York improvisors, such as Daniel Carter,
and jazz-world hip-hop trumpeter Graham Haynes. He has performed
in Berlin with East German trombonist Konrad Bauer and with dancer
Julie Greenhill.
HENRY KUNTZ has been intimately involved in free jazz and free
improvisation for more than 25 years. From 1973 to 1979, he was
editor and publisher of the internationally-acclaimed newsletter-review
BELLS. He first recorded on tenor saxophone in 1977 on Henry
Kaiser's Ice Death (Parachute 005). He has played musette and
various flutes since 1981, miniature violins since 1983, gamelans
and xylophones since 1988. On Humming Bird Records, he has released
2 LPs, 16 cassettes, and 3 CDs of solo, group, and multi-tracked
free improvisations. In 1986, he co-founded the "avant-shamanic
trance jazz" group, Opeye
http://astron.berkeley.edu/plonsey/beanbenders/OPEYE.html. He
has traveled extensively (over 20 years) to Mexico, Central and
South America, Asia, Indonesia, and North Africa recording, studying,
and drawing upon aspects of music, ritual, dance, and performance
-- from which 5 ethnographic cassettes have also been produced.
Henry's recently released solo tenor saxophone music,One One & One
(Humming Bird CDs 2&3), has been critically acclaimed in various
publications, including Jazz Journal International, Cadence, One
Final Note http://www.onefinalnote.com/issue5/kuntz.html
INTERNET:
Announcing the Launch of the Website for:
"Re: Duchamp Traveling Exhibition"
La Biennale di Venezia:
49th International Exhibition of Art--
Concomitant Exhibitions
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp
"The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition is a project that has been evolving
over time. It has traveled to various cities in Germany, Poland, Chile and
Israel, as well as New York City. It is the ongoing work of Abraham Lubelski,
and incorporates the work of over 250 other artists, including Nam June Paik,
Dennis Oppenheim, Carl Andre, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taylor Mead, Larry
Weiner, David Humphrey, Inka Essenhigh....
The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale* is an
installation of clotheslines from which artwork is hung.** The idea for this
installation is derived from Marcel Duchamp's infamous benefit exhibition
organized on the Premises of the Coordinating Council of French Relief
Societies, 451 Madison Avenue, New York, October 14th - November 7th, 1942,
in which he criss-crossed the entire gallery with one mile of string. This
entanglement, which the public had to negotiate when they came to view the
art, stood as a metaphor for the difficulties encountered in attempting to
understand modern art.
The current exhibition uses this Duchampian metaphor to point to connectivity
as much as any difficulty that might hinder an appreciation of art in the
digital age---art whose nature may be partially or completely ephemeral,
time-based, or immaterial, and which might be conveyed digitally or housed
virtually. Re: Duchamp celebrates the process of visual sampling in a world
where the line between original and copy has been blurred, and the medium is
the readymade.
** Participating artists were asked to e-mail their submissions as digital
files. These were printed out, placed in plastic sleeves and brought to
Venice for installation. Hung from criss-crossing lengths of string at the
Church of S. Maria Ausiliatrice, they resemble so many Tibetan prayer flags,
the wind and the Web conveying and disseminating their messages.
* At the 49th Venice Biennale, the Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition forms
part of the Markers Project, which involves organizations in Venice including
the Peggy Gugghenheim Collection, the Biennale Arti Visive, and the
Municipality of Venice itself."
[--notes, Joy Garnett]
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
MARK AMERIKA, DANIEL GARCIA ANDUJAR, DOUGLAS DAVIS, CHRISTOPH DRAEGER, PETER
FEND, JOY GARNETT, PAUL GARRIN, KEN GOLDBERG, WANG GONGXIN, MARINA GRZINIC &
AINA SMID, WENDA GU, INGO GUNTHER, LIANG-MEI HUANG, JON IPPOLITO, EDUARDO
KAC, OLGA KISSELEVA, TINA LAPORTA, JENNY MARKETOU, MARCELLO MAZZELLA, PAUL D.
MILLER aka DJ SPOOKY, MTAA, OLU OGUIBE, ANDRES SERRANO,
HANI RASHID (ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTS), MARK TRIBE & KERRY TRIBE
Curated by: CRISTINE WANG
http://www.tribes.org/dystopia
For More Information contact: Cristine Wang tel:
917.318.0081
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp
NEW YORK CITY:
TONIC - various performances!
For more details, ticket info and updates please go to http://www.tonicnyc.com.
TONIC EVENTS this July!
--Sun, Jul 01--
*Pharoah's Daughter Klezmer Brunchat 1:30 & 3:00pm
*Danielle Howle / Megan Reilly / Shelby Bryant Triple Billat 7:30pm
--Mon, Jul 02--
*Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm
--Tue, Jul 03--
*CURHA / Gloria Deluxe at 8:00pm
--Thu, Jul 05--
*The Baffler Benefit at 9:00pm
*phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Fri, Jul 06--
*Wayne Horvitz, Ikue Mori, Carla Kihlstedt & Erik Friedlander at 8:00pm
*Tin Hat Trio at 10:00pm
*The Vivian Sisters at Midnight
*The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sat, Jul 07--
*Arto Lindsay w/ Ikue Mori, Alan Licht & Special Guests / Convolution Double
Billat 8:00pm
*Rafael Toral at Midnight
*subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sun, Jul 08--
*The Sway Machinery Klezmer Brunch at 1:30 & 3:00pm
*Leo Gandelman CD Release party at 8 & 10:00pm
--Mon, Jul 09--
*Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm
*Yerba Buena at 10:30pm
--Tue, Jul 10--
*Erik Friedlander's Broken Shadows at 8:00 & 10:00pm
--Wed, Jul 11--
*Ivy / special guest Nathan Larson at 8:00pm
--Thu, Jul 12--
*Eric Truffaz at 8 & 10:00pm
*David Tronzo & Chris Dahlgren at Midnight
*phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Fri, Jul 13--
*Victoria Hanna / Big Lazy Double Billat 8:00pm
*Moisturizer at Midnight
*The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sat, Jul 14--
*James Blood Ulmer & Charlie Burnham at 8 & 10:00pm
*Ori Kaplan Ensemble at Midnight
*subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sun, Jul 15--
*TBA Klezmer Brunch at 1:30 & 3:00pm
*David Grubbs / Peter Blegvad Double Billat 8:00pm
--Mon, Jul 16--
*Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm/ Little Theatre
Continues at 10:00pm
--Tue, Jul 17--
*Public Movies Video Screening: Arto Lindsay, David Hammons Terra Productions &
Masami Mizuguchi. at 8:00pm
--Wed, Jul 18--
*Roy Nathanson's Alphabet Lounge at 8:00pm & 10:00pm
*Vernon Reid's Chatroom in the Wine Cellar at 7:00pm
--Thu, Jul 19--
*Dean Bowman Sings Black Spirituals at 8:00pm
*Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar at 10:00pm
*phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Fri, Jul 20--
*Yuka Honda & Friends / Rovo /Double Bill at 8:00pm
*Liminal at Midnight
*The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sat, Jul 21--
*Yuka Honda & Friends / Rovo /Double Bill at 8:00pm
*Melomane at Midnight
*subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sun, Jul 22--
*Charm City Klezmer Klezmer Brunchat 1:30 & 3:00pm
*Julia Greenberg / Amanda Thorpe / The Sharp Things Triple Billat 8:00pm
--Mon, Jul 23--
*Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm
--Tue, Jul 24--
*Quietor / Karla Schickele / Michael Hurley at 8:00pm
--Wed, Jul 25--
*Jaron Lanier, Krishna Bhatt, Bill Laswell & special guests at 10:00pm
--Thu, Jul 26--
*Smokey Hormel & Miho Hatori's Los Afros Samba at 8 & 10:00pm
*TBA at Midnight
*phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Fri, Jul 27--
*Steven Bernstein's Millienial Territory Orchestra at 8 & 10:00pm
*Barbez at Midnight
*The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sat, Jul 28--
*TBA at 8 & 10:00pm
*G. Calvin Weston's Big Tree at 10:00pm
*TBA at Midnight
*subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge
--Sun, Jul 29--
*Margot Leverett Klezmer Brunch at 1:30 & 3:00pm
*Margarita y U.C.E. / Bee & Flower / Thalia Zedek & Friends Triple Bill at
8:00pm
--Mon, Jul 30--
*Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm
Please visit http://www.tonicnyc.com for more information & updates.
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)
212-358-7501 / http://www.tonicnyc.com.
For more information, contact TONIC:
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)
212-358-7501 / http://www.tonic107.com
Find out Exchange Participate Find Read about Visit
Ron Heglin - trombone, voice
Kathy Kennedy - voice
Adam Lane - bass
Kattt Sammon - voice
Damon Smith - bass
Moe Staiano - percussion
8 pm
Meridian Gallery
545 Sutter (between Mason and Powell)
SanFrancisco
415 398 7229
email: ryokan@value.net
http://www.meridiangallery.org
$10
$ 5 students, impoverished artists.
-September 7, 2001, Pauline Oliveros/Shoko Hikage/Toyoji Tomita
-October 5, 2001 John Tchicai - saxophones and Adam Lane - bass
- November 2 2001 Brandon Labelle - electronics
-December 7, 2001 Fred Frith - solo guitar
-January, 2002 Jane Rigler - solo flute
-February, 2002 TBA
-March, 2002 Alan Lechusza - winds, Christopher Adler - Khae
5 pm
World Grounds Cafe
3726 Macarthur
Oakland, CA
Free
Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
Philip Greenlief - soprano, alto, tenor saxophone
Jon Raskin - sopranino, alto, tenor saxophone
ryokan@value.net
http://value.net/~ryokan
Friday, July 13, 9:00 - (you go home), $FREE
subTONIC, 107 Norfolk St., New York, NY (F Train to Delancey, 1/2 block
north on Norfolk).
http://www.subtonic.net/(subtonic)
http://www.bootsquad.com/ (jeremy bernstein / bootsquadresearch)
http://music.columbia.edu/~luke/ (r. luke dubois)
Musings
http://come.to/musings.com
and New Creative Music
http://www.newcreativemusic.com/contents/reviews/ew.html.
Friday July 20th, 2001
Saturday July 21st, 2001 (program repeated)
8:00 p.m.
425 S. Main Street, 2nd floor, downtown L.A.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 for students, per night
For reservations call (323) 972-3685
Parking ($3) available in the building at 425 S. Main Street
& Saturday, July 21, 2001
8:30 P.M.
Tickets $20.00 (please ask for student discount)
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica
(just north of Olympic Boulevard)
Call 310-315-1459 for reservations
Fawzia Afzal Khan (actress)
Samia Mumtaz (actress)
Laila Wasti (actress)
1026 Sixth Avenue, between 38 & 39, 2nd floor
New York City
Musings
http://come.to/musings.com
and New Creative Music
http://www.newcreativemusic.com/contents/reviews/ew.html.
Media Sponsor: NY ARTS MAGAZINE
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com
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http://www.firstpulseprojects.org
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