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Sonic Circuits has announced their festival lineup for Sept 18-25, and it is killer.

2010 Partial Schedule:

Saturday, September 18
Magma (France)

Sunday, September 19
Illusion of Safety (Chicago)
Alexei Borisov & Olga Nosova (Russia)
Confusion Bleue (Baltimore)
Corridors (NYC)
Colla Parte (Perry Conticchio, Rich O’Meara, Daniel Barbiero) (DC)
Alexandra Gardner (DC)
RDK+Insect Factory (DC)
Eli Keszler (Providence)
Mercury Fools the Alchemist (DC)
Mata Gawa (DC)
Borborites (DC)

Monday, September 20
Trophies (Baltimore/Brooklyn)
Gestures (DC)
Lost Civilizations (DC)

Tuesday, September 21
Fennesz (Austria)
Arturas Bumsteinas + Janel & Anthony (Lithuania/DC)
Low End String Quartet (DC)

Wednesday, September 22
Andrea Centazzo (Italy)

Thursday, September 23
VLT_BLK (DC)
Sean Peoples (DC)
Tone Ghosting (DC)

Friday, September 24
Merzbow+Richard Pinhas (Japan/France)
Blue Sausage Infant (DC)
TL0741 (DC)

Saturday, September 25
Univers Zero (Belgium)

Venues:
La Maison Francais
Fairfax Old Town Hall
Strathmore Mansion
Kennedy Center Millenuim Stage
The Fridge

From Matthew Sperry in Memoriam, this year’s concert takes place this week in San Francisco and Oakland.

Please join us in a celebration of Matthew Sperry’s life and music with the Bay Area’s creative music community:
June 3 and 5, 2010
Eighth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival: HomeGrown

Handwritten scores from Matthew’s notebook inspire this annual festival of music and remembrance. The Festival begins in San Francisco with a Tag Team Trio Shift featuring dozens of the Bay Area’s experimental musicians performing no more than three at a time. Closing in the East Bay, the renowned sfSoundGroup presents a composition of Matthew’s in a program of exquisite works in contemporary music making.

Thursday June 3 | 8pm | $6 – $100 sliding scale
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
San Francisco
co-presented with Outsound Presents
Tag Team Trio Shift with dozens of musicians refereed by John Shiurba

Saturday, June 5 | 8pm | $6 – $100 sliding scale
21 Grand
416 25th Street
Oakland
sfSound
playing the music of
Matthew Sperry,
Anthony Braxton,
Cornelius Cardew,
James Tenney and
sfSoundGroup

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From Ireland’s Stet Lab:

stet lab featuring virtuoso pianist-improviser alexander hawkins
Tuesday, 15 June 2010

7:15 pm (doors: 7:00 pm)

Ó Riada Hall
UCC Music Building
Sundays Well
Cork, Ireland

€10 (€5)

Featuring the leading English pianist and improviser Alexander Hawkins, the final Stet Lab event of the 2009-2010 season will take place at 7:15 pm on Tuesday 15 June 2010 at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sundays Well, Cork, Ireland.

Recently heard performing with the legendary Sonny Simmons, and with the pioneering Joe McPhee, Alexander Hawkins has been dubbed “one of the brightest rising young stars of British jazz and improvisation” by John Eyles (All About Jazz). This appearance at Stet Lab marks his Irish debut.

Hawkins is a powerful and inventive performer best know as a member of the transatlantic Convergence Quartet (with Dominic Lash, Taylor Ho Bynum and Harris Eisenstadt), and his own 6-piece Ensemble (featuring Orphy Robinson, Otto Fischer, Hannah Marshall, Lash and Javier Carmona). In the British improvised music scene Hawkins is the most sought after pianist of his generation, and as sideman he has worked in Evan Parker’s trio and quartet, and performed with jazz and improvised music luminaries including Louis Moholo-Moholo, Lol Coxhill, John Butcher, Mark Sanders, Steve Williamson, Tom Arthurs, John Russell, Pat Thomas and Eddie Prévost.

Also performing at the event will be Stet Lab regulars including Kevin Terry, Susan Geaney, Marian Murray and Han-earl Park.

Opening the event will be Stet Lab’s resident ensemble The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… lead by Cork-based improviser and bass player Tony O’Conner.

The event will begin at 7:15 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm) and entry is €10 (€5).

Stet Lab gratefully acknowledges the support of the UCC School of Music and the Basement Project Space for this month’s event.