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Out of Your Head is an improvising ensemble out of Baltimore that puts on weekly shows. On March 2nd they will play with Ellery Eskelin.

IMPROVISED MUSIC ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH GUEST ELLERY ESKELIN

Out of Your Head Collective Celebrates One Year at The Windup Space on March 2

Out of Your Head (OOYH) will celebrate one year of performances at The Windup Space on Tuesday, March 2. World-renowned tenor saxophonist, Ellery Eskelin, will be performing as part of the celebration. He’ll perform with Baltimore improv heavyweights Michael Formanek (bass) and Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) and other collective members. Two additional groups, comprised from the OOYH collective, will perform. The music will begin at 8:00 P.M. sharp. As always, OOYH performances are free to the public.

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From Portland Eye and Ear Control:

2/20/10: Johnsen/Theriault/Abusive Consumer
February 20th 2010
@Buzz-R-Electronics
8pm
920 SE 31st Ave
$5.00 dollars please for Michaels travel expenses.
Michael Johnsen-Homemade Devices – Michael is a master of electronics, his setup is amazing. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx36qq1oEKI&feature=related
Doug Theriault-Guitar Electronics
Abusive Consumer-Electronics

2/19/10: Corsano/Yeh/Shoup/Horist
Friday, February 19th, 2010:
“Amazing quartet featuring Chris Corsano [drumming miracle], C. Spencer Yeh [ecstatic violin], Wally Shoup [gloves-off saxophone], and Bill Horist [guitar, prepared & un-]. This show will not be tame. Outrageous musicianship, ideas from the future, tons of heart.
8pm also @ The Wail
recommended donation $8 student/CMG member, $10 general”

2/18/10: Abusive/Consumer & Tim Alexander and Pickard/Sielaff/Niekrasz trio
Portland New Music Society Presents:
Thursday, February 18th
8pm, $5 suggested donation (no one turned away)
at Redeemer Lutheran Church — 5431 NE 20th Ave.
(ne 20th and Killingsworth) — (ByCycle.org)
Abusive/Consumer and Tim Alexander (Moth)–electronics duo.
Joel Pickard, Jonathan Sielaff, and John Niekrasz Trio (pedal steel, bass clarinet, drums)

2/17/10: Wright/Theriault/Pittman
February 17th
The Wail 8pm
5135 NE 42nd. Portland, OR 97218. Northeast
Jack Wright (philly): Reeds
Doug Theriault: Guitar electronics
Kelvin Pittman: Sax
Solos, duos, Trios
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2/15/10: Jenkins/Theriault/Wilcox/Pittman/Neidhardt
February 15th
The Wail
8pm
5135 NE 42nd. Portland, OR 97218. Northeast
JP Jenkins: Guitar
Doug Theriault: Guitar electronics
Tyler Wilcox: Reeds
Kelvin Pittman: Sax
Paul Neidhardt: Percussion

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From Ensemble Pi:

Ensemble Pi returns to The Cooper Union’s Great Hall with its annual Peace Project concert, Dancer on a Tightrope, March 13 at 8 p.m.

World premiere of Karim al-Zand’s setting of Leo Lionni classic children tale, Swimmy, with large-scale projections

World premiere of Kristin Norderval’s A Remarkable Failure

New York premiere of Frederic Rzewski’s Whangdoodles

Works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Behzad Ranjbaran

New music collective Ensemble Pi returns to The Cooper Union’s Great Hall with its annual Peace Project concert, Dancer on a Tightrope, on March 13, 2010 at 8 p.m. This year’s program will address the courage and compassion necessary to fight for one’s belief with works celebrating life as risk and art as flight into another existence. Highlights include the world premieres of Canadian-American composer Karim al-Zand’s Swimmy (2010) – a setting of Leo Lionni’s Caldecott Honor picture book of the same title, and composer/vocalist Kristin Norderval’s A Remarkable Failure (2010) – a setting of prominent Israeli journalist and author Amira Hass’s acceptance speech for the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation. Both works, commissioned by Ensemble Pi, are performed by narrator/vocalist Kristin Norderval, and Swimmy is presented with large-scale video projections by Dave Channon. The evening also features the New York premiere of Frederic Rzewski’s Whangdoodles (1990) as well as Sofia Gubaidulina’s Dancer on a Tightrope (1993), and Behzad Ranjbaran’s Shiraz (2006).

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

February 09, 2010
A Celebration of the Life of Joe Maneri, Irondale Center
James Bergin, Jim Black, Roy Campbell, Steve Dalachinsky, Lola Danza, Tom Halter, Katt Hernandez, Ben Jaffe, Noah Kaplan, Joe Karten, Matt Lavelle, Daniel Levin, Russ Losing, Tony Malaby, Abe Maneri, Mat Maneri, Sal Maneri, Sonja Maneri, John Medeski, Matt Moran, Randy Peterson, Barre Phillips, Mike Rivard, David Rothenberg, Ed Schuller, Matthew Shipp, Craig Taborn, Keith Yaun, Richard Zukowski

February 07, 2010
Amplified Quartet, The Stone
Matt Bauder, Jeremiah Cymerman, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley
Tartar Lamb II, The Stone
Tim Byrnes, Jeremiah Cymerman, Toby Driver, Daniel Means, Terran Olson

February 06, 2010
Kayo Dot, The Stone
David Bodie, Tim Byrnes, Toby Driver, Greg Massi, Mia Matsumiya, Daniel Means, Terran Olson

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