Braxton Performance Tonite in Berkeley

July 13, 2010 — Mike

I’m a little late, but you still might be able to make this…

On Tuesday July 13 at 7:30pm, Tuesdays at Tom’s Place presents

EKG + Matt Ingalls + Gino Robair
Chris Brown

EKG is one of our favorite lower case-ish electronic ensembles. Kyle Bruckmann (oboe & electronics) and Ernst Karel (trumpet & electronics) have been performing together since they both lived in Chicago. There’s a  great interview here: http://www.anothertimbre.com/ekginterview.html

EKG, with Matt and Gino, will perform Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 50 (1975) for two instrumentalists and two synthesizer players, with a score consisting of ten pages of sequence and visual notation. Originally performed by Braxton, Alan Strange, Roscoe Mitchell and Richard Teitelbaum, the only recording I know of is on the Splatter Trio+Debris release “Jump Or Die — 21 Anthony Braxton Compositions 1992″, on Music and Arts records.

Chris Brown (http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=22) will perform one of his works (he told me the title and I forgot to write it down!) for piano augmented with a Piano Bar MIDI interface and real-time computer processing. I’ve heard this one before and it’s pretty amazing.

Tom’s Place
3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley CA
Directions: http://4-33.com/directions.html
Information: http://4-33.com/tuesday/index.html

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Cuneiform Artists on Tour

July 13, 2010 — Mike

From Cuneiform:

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
• July 23rd, 2010, in Pori, Finland for the Pori Jazz Festival (http://events.myspace.com/Event/5570547/Pori-Jazz-Festival)
• July 24th, 2010, in San Sebastian, Spain @ the Heineken Jazzaldia in Trinidad Square (http://events.myspace.com/Event/5570849/Jazzaldia)

MATS/MORGAN BAND
• July 17th, 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden @ the Nefertiti
• July 22nd, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden @ the Fasching

LED BIB
• July 15th, 2010 in Durham, UK @ the Gala Theatre (www.galadurham.co.uk)

RICHARD PINHAS
• July 28th, 2010 in Tolmin, Slovenia for the Sajeta Festival (http://www.sajeta.org/)

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Upcoming Seattle Shows

July 13, 2010 — Mike

From Wayward Music:

FRI. 7/16 – composer/violist Christian Asplund & poet/vocalist Lara Candland, with Stuart Dempster, Greg Campbell, Jesse Canterbury

SAT. 7/17 – Affinity Chamber Players perform recent music by composers Eric Flesher, Stephen Lilly, Chris Stover, and Ryan M. Hare

SUN. 7/18 – WORLD LISTENING DAY: members of the Seattle Phonographers Union lead silent listening walks around Green Lake at 10 AM, Noon, 2 PM, and 4 PM; FREE! Details here: http://nseq.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-listening-day.html

COMING UP:

(All upcoming shows are subject to change, so stay tuned!)

FRI. 7/23 – Seattle Improvised Music presents percussionists Paul Neidhardt & Andy Hayleck

SAT. 7/24 – recent music by Seattle composer Steve Scribner

TUE. 7/27 – contemporary chamber music performed by Paul Taub (flute) and Cristina Valdes (piano)

SAT. 7/31 – Ask the Ages, new band led by Sunship guitarist Brian Heaney, with Stuart Dempster (trombone), Greg Campell (percussion), John Seman (bass), Matt Reid (trumpet) w/ guests Melissa Walsh (harp) and Archana Bennur (Carnatic vocals) + guitar trio of Heaney/Dennis Rea/Stephen Parris

SAT. 8/7 – Tom Varner, French horn

FRI. 8/13 – electronic music by Pulse Emitter, Stella Haze, Spare Death Icon

SAT. 8/14 – Nonsequitur celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Improvisor Magazine with the great Joe McPhee, solo saxophone improvisations

THU. 8/19 – PRAN: Greg Powers (trombone) & Stuart Dempster (didjeridu)

FRI. 8/20 – Seattle Improvised Music & Nonsequitur present guitarist Michael Pisaro + local improvisers

SAT. 8/21 – Seattle Improvised Music & Nonsequitur present guitarist Michael Pisaro + local improvisers

WED. 8/25 – music by Seattle composer Ryan Marsh, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams

THU. 8/26 – Scottish saxophonist Raymond MacDonald w/ Paul Hoskin (reeds), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Lori Goldston (cello), Greg Campbell (percussion)

FRI. 8/27 – Nonsequitur presents Brazilian pianist Ruth Serrão, performing music by Brazillian composers César Guerra-Peixe, Elaine Agnew, Claudia Caldera, Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes

SAT. 8/28 – saxophonist Eric Barber

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Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble plays skillfully and honestly

July 13, 2010 — Mike
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and Kevin No...
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From the Post Gazette:

Kevin Noe, artistic director and conductor of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, has the endearing habit of holding up the musical score of the piece the group has just played during applause. It’s his way of reminding the audience, his players and himself that nothing happens without the composer’s hard work, and the ineffable inspiration that the muse grants. It might seem like only a nice gesture, but he did something extraordinary Friday night that revealed the uncommon — and utterly sincere — respect he has for music.

Another article on the group is here.

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Musique Machine Reviews

July 13, 2010 — Mike

From Musique Machine:

Alo Girl – Gently Before She Dies
This C30 tape from always rewarding and distinctive Italian HNW act Alo Girl takes its name from 1972 Sergio Martino directed Giallo moive (original titled “ Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave” ) which featured Edwige Fenech as the young, beautiful, and self-confident niece of burned out writer & possible killer Luigi Pistilli. The tape features on the cover a still from the movie of Ms Fenech holding a black cat to her naked body.

Vorg & Kaffehitler – Self Titled Split
This split c90 tape offers up a length forty five track a piece from two HNW scene newcomers in the form of Vorg & Kaffehitler who both come from the city of Jonkoping in Smaland, Sweden- which is the ninth most populated city in Sweden.

Architeuthis Rex – Dark as the Sea
When a band jams in free rhythm with lots of effects pedals, feedback and guitar noise and makes a big soupy, messy drone out of it, I usually call it ‘psychedelic krautrock’ in honor of those groups from the 70′s that first put this sort of sound on record.

Somnivore – Clergy of Oneiros
Dictionary time. Somnivore: eater of sleep, if my Latin is correct. And Oneiros—one of the sons of Night in Greek mythology. Sounds to me like we’re in for a tolling, rumbling, cavernous excursion into Lustmørd territory, and we are. But a clone this isn’t: like all good records, the stamp of an individual creator can be heard on each track and in every aspect of the recording. Imagine—or maybe better to say recall—the music that resonates in your inner ear right after you’ve floated up from sleep.

TIM the Band – Thank You Roland
Oddly TIM the Band features no one called Tim(or Roland, for that matter!), but instead it features two San Franciscan gentleman who offer up some nice sometimes spaced-out & mellow, to rapidly honked and often electronic loop improvised sax playing.

Is – Pressure Vessel
“Pressure Vessel” finds Chicago based HNW/ Harsh noise project Is creating a single, highly tense and violent thirty five minute track that utilizers only the sounds of the carbonation of water.

Ïîòåðÿííàÿ Ãîðëà – Self Titled
Ïîòåðÿííàÿ Ãîðëà (Lost Necks) is a brutal & brain roasting HNW collaboration between Sarajevo Neven Misaljevich(of Smrznik and one of the minds behind the excellent Zvukovina label) and Russian based Alexander Kibanov (from Äåíü Ðàñïëàòû, and many other projects and labels such as Mind Noise Disintegration).

An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter – The Killer Wore Gloves
“The Killer Wore Gloves” is a 2008 release from this Giallo influenced HNW project, which featured the projects original line-up in the form of Richard Ramirez (of Black Leather Jesus ,Werewolf Jerusalem, Vice Wears Black Hose, ect) & Isabella K (formally of Anal Drill, ERK64, High Heel Maniac, Limacon, Manplug) who left the HNW scene altogether in 2009.

Halo Manash – Taiwaskivi(Cd & DVD)
“Taiwaskivi” is the 8th release from ritual ambient project Halo Manash, and it’s also the most recent release on the excellent occult ambient & mysterious Finnish label /collective Aural Hypnox.

Francisco López – Untitled (2006-2007)
Francisco López uses sound in a holistic way to reward attentive listeners. Adopting Pierre Schaeffer’s attitude to sound as having the ability to recontextualise the world as we know it, his objets sonore – or aural pictures – explore the sum of an environment and the sound-making elements that inhabit it when divorced from the other four senses. This forms a proposal for the listener to contemplate outside of language, a freedom so rarely offered by the 24/7 loquacity of the modern age.

Churner – Florescent Bondage
“Florescent Bondage” finds creative US noise project Churner creating some of his most conventional harmonic and at times approachable work to date. With the album offering up seven very different and inventive takes on noise with elements of distortion buried synth pop and sound tracking elements appearing along the way.

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New Adventures in Downtown Sounds

July 13, 2010 — Mike
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WSJ.com features Jenny Scheinman:

A lack of rehearsal is merely a challenge for superb experimental musicians such as Ms. Scheinman, Mr. Cline and the muscular, adventurous rhythm section of Jim Black on drums and Todd Sickafoose on bass for the project the violinist calls Mischief & Mayhem. They are all members of a very loose coalition that descended from the music scene based in SoHo lofts and at the Knitting Factory on Houston Street in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Mr. Cline used the expression “not straight-ahead jazz” to describe the ground-breaking music played back then by Julius Hemphill, Tim Berne, Bill Frisell, John Zorn and others, who went beyond the door swung open by Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman and other free-jazz icons.

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Umbrella Music Through July 29

July 13, 2010 — Mike

From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Wednesday, 14 July 2010
The Hideout
10:00PM | Drake/Bishop/Parker/Abrams
Hamid Drake – percussion, frame drum
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Jeff Parker – guitar
Joshua Abrams – bass, guimbri
two sets
$10 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : Cocanig vs Leibundguth : The Soul Fiasco

Sunday, 18 July 2010
The Hungry Brain
10:00PM | Levin/Daisy Duo
Daniel Levin – cello
Tim Daisy – drums

Wednesday, 21 July 2010
The Hideout
10:00PM | Darren Johnston Group
Darren Johnston – trumpet
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Jason Adasiewicz – vibes
Nate McBride – bass
Frank Rosaly – drums
11:00PM | Good For Cows
Devin Hoff – bass
Ches Smith – drums
$8 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : Hard Boiled Records’ Mark Ferguson spins Soundtracks

Thursday, 22 July 2010
Elastic
10:00PM | Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing
Nate Wooley – trumpet
Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello
Jason Roebke – bass

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The Hideout
10:00PM | The Engines
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Dave Rempis – saxophones
Nate McBride – bass
Tim Daisy – drums
two sets
$6 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : David Daniell spins Excited Strings (Guitars and Otherwise)

Thursday, 29 July 2010
Elastic
10:00PM | Johnston/Daisy Duo
Darren Johnston – trumpet
Tim Daisy – drums

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