Avant Music NewsHere is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.
Ultraphauna – No No No No (2023)
Harjo – The Magi (2023)
Gentile, Kate / ICE – b i o m e i.i (2023)
Morego – Fascination (2023)
Loud as Giants (Broadrick / Serries) – Empty Homes (2023)
Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.
Friday, March 31
Fri 3/31 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends
Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight.Fri 3/31 7:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
mB & FAULTS
FAULTS is Jorge Bachmann (electronics), Kevin Corcoran (percussion) and Jaroba (bass clarinet). They are joined for this performance by Gabby Wen (electronics) and Andrej Hronco (generative visuals).
mB is multimedia artist Michael Bailey performing with bass and feedback on this current tour as he returns to California.Fri 3/31 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College’s graduate students’ work at Signal Flow 2023 – the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.Saturday, April 1
Sat 4/01 2:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Handcrafting Soft Circuits — From soft circuits and paper switches to pen and paper drawing we will examine the ways you can work with your hands to combine electricity, interactivity, light and imagination. We will use paper to draw our own circuits and then use conductive tape and LEDs to create various types of circuits.Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental and vocal chamber music written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area’s musicians. The concert will be presented to a live audience at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Saturday April 8, 2023Sat 4/01 8:00 PM All Saints’ Episcopal Church [555 Waverley Street Palo Alto, CA 94301]
Streaming and in-person
21V opens its second season with “Sonic Reflections on Interconnectedness.” As we emerge from a global pandemic, we yearn more than ever for community and reminders of the many ways we are intertwined.Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College’s graduate students’ work at Signal Flow 2023 – the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.Sat 4/01 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Faults is the improvising trio of Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran and Jaroba, joined for this performance by Gabby Wen, an Oakland-based musician working with electronics, field recordings, and guqin, with live visuals by Andrej Hronco. Faults works with electronics, percussion and bass clarinet sometimes including the use of field recordings and graphic or text scores to guide their live performances.Sunday, April 2
Sun 4/02 4:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Experience the culmination of Mills College’s graduate students’ work at Signal Flow 2023 – the final installment of this historic student-run festival. From March 31st to April 2nd, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall will be filled with the sounds of innovative and thought-provoking compositions.Sun 4/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)Wednesday, April 5
Wed 4/05 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Radical Divination
Composer and visual artist Gino Robair presents Radical Divination, his “opera of augury through papermaking.”Wed 4/05 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series – Ambitious, experimental music!
Sumdeus Trio
Rome Yamilov, Kazuto Sato, Patrick Talesfore, Jr.
Lords of Outland
Anthony Flores, Philip Everett, Ray Schaeffer, Rent Romus More…Thursday, April 6
Thu 4/06 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Tom Djll’S SPEED OF SILENCE: OPENING RECEPTIONThu 4/06 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Caterina BarbieriFriday, April 7
Fri 4/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
QUINTETO LATINO: “THE SPANGLISH DANCES” PREMIEREFri 4/07 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Kali Malone
Source: Music and More.
East Axis – No Subject (Mack Avenue Recordings, 2023)
Ornette At 12 Crisis To Man On The Moon Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2023)
Albert Ayler – Summertime to Spiritual Unity, Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2023)
Source: Experiments In Opera.
EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA
presents the world premiere ofAnthony Braxton
Theater Improvisations
An operatic realization of Compositions No. 279-283
for comedian and improvising musicians by a giant of American music, composer and saxophonist Anthony BraxtonFeaturing
Rob Reese, actor/director
Kamala Sankaram, vocals
Nate Wooley, trumpet
James Fei, saxophones
Ingrid Laubrock, saxophonesThree performances at The Brick (579 Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY)
June 15-17, 2023, 8:00pmThursday, June 15 — Rob Reese, Kamala Sankaram, Nate Wooley
Friday, June 16 — Rob Reese, Kamala Sankaram, James Fei
Saturday, June 17 — Rob Reese, Kamala Sankaram, Ingrid Laubrock
Source: Anna Webber.
April 1 – Trondheim Jazz Orchestra @ Transition Festival Utrecht
We’re playing my piece “Aural Topography”!
The band is: Mette Rasmussen, Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, Peder Simonsen, Heida Mobeck, Liz Kosack, Ida Løvli Hidle, Ole Morten Vågan, Max Andrzejewski, Matilda Rolfsson, and meApril 7-11 – Shimmer Wince Midwest Tour
April 7 – UW Parkside, Kenosha, WI (noon concert)
April 7 – Cafe Coda/Blue Stem Jazz, Madison, WI (evening concert)
April 8 – Pulitzer Arts Foundation/New Music Circle, St Louis, MO
April 9 – Hungry Brain, Chicago, IL (w/ the Nick Mazzarella trio)
April 10 – Trinosophes, Detroit, MI (w/ Marcus Elliot + Jaribu Shahid
April 11 – workshop at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIAnna Webber – flute, tenor sax
Adam O’Farrill – trumpet
Mariel Roberts – cello
Elias Stemeseder – synthesizer
Lesley Mok – drumsApril 29 – NY Phil presents Nightcap: Zosha Di Castri
program curated by Zosha Di Castri, including works by Hall Moran, Webber, Waits, and more…Zosha Di Castri – composer, curator
Alicia Hall Moran – voice
Diego Espinosa – percussion
Sam Yulsman – piano
Anna Webber – tenor sax
Source: Bandcamp Daily.
It’s the time of year when, exhausted by the oppressive gloom of winter, we begin seeking out signs of spring wherever we can find them. This month’s column made the search a simple task. March brings warm music, uplifting to the spirits no differently than an extra pint of daylight. Let everyone else be dictated to by the feral whims of a groundhog; you, instead, can let this column be your sign that spring is already here. Let’s begin.
Source: Vital Weekly.
DAVID LEE MYERS – STRANGE ATTRACTORS (CD by Cronica Electronica) *
ROEL MEELKOP – VIVA IN PACE (CD by Cronica Electronica) *
WIL BOLTON – LIKE FLOATING LEAVES (CD by Laaps) *
Z’EV & JULIEN OTTAVI – CRASH & CROSS (CD by 4IB Records) *
SAMO KUTIN & PASCAL BATTUS – LIVING BRIDGES (CD by Edition Friforma) *
JAKA BERGER – TREATISE (CD by Edition Friforma) *
CUT TRIO – PELLETRON/DYNAMITRON (CD by Edition Friforma) *
C/W/N – THIRTYNINE FIFTYFIVE (CD by Handaxe)
GONÇALO ALMEIDA – COMPOSITIONS FOR DOUBLE BASS (CD by Cylinder Recordings) *
PANICSVILLE – TAKE ROOT (LP by Nihilist Recordings) *
STEVE BATES – THE ACCURSED SOUND (LP by The Dim Coast) *
WIRECUTTER – LITTLE FAITH (LP by Boomslang)
VERTONEN – PARRY & ELIZA (CDR by Ballast) *
DEAD EDITS – KARAOKE POWER ELECTRONICS (CDR+ art by Ballast) *
BERTRAND DENZLER – LOW STRINGS (CDR by Confront Core Series) *
IDA K – PTERODACTYL GRAVEYARD (CDR by Chocolate Monk) *
PERVERT (CDR by Noninterrupt) *
CONTINUOUS DUTY ZONE – IJMOND (CDR by Noninterrupt) *
ABSTRACT HOUSEHOLD WARFARE – LE CUL DE LA VIEILLE (cassette by Unsigned)
L*MBIK – MAGICKX GOULASH (CDR by Unsigned) *
SPELONK – THEREMINING (cassette by Het Geluidschap) *
GRAPHÈME VOLUME 2 (magazine by Smallest Functional Unit)
Source: Cafe OTO.
Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols have been performing together for close to half a century, with their first recorded collaboration being 1977’s landmark “Voice” release on Ogun Records, which…
ERUNIM (MAGGIE NICOLS & PHIL MINTON) – 20.10.22Wonderful, lyrical set from bass-clarinetist Yoni Silver, captured at OTO in January this year. Packing more into under 20 minutes than many manage in twice that time, Silver deftly weaves a breathtaking range of…
YONI SILVER – 29.1.23Beautiful, entrancing set from highland bagpiper, composer and improviser, Erwan Keravec. In seeking out the more unusual sounds, and ways of playing and listening to his instrument, far from its…
ERWAN KERAVEC – 23.10.22Myriad interwoven textural fractures from Grace & Delete – aka no-screen laptop wizard James Dunn and bass clarinet boss Chris Cundy. “Dunn’s electronics are a masterclass in the resources of outdated…
GRACE & DELETE – 9.6.16Wishing you a great festive period with a very special free mix from The Sprigs! Spanning the yuletide gamut from cosy logfire vibes, to frost-flowered folk and joyful solstice celebrations, with just the…
THE SPRIGS – OTO CHRIMBO MIXUS guitarists, Eli Winter and Cameron Knowler have been playing and performing together since 2018 but there’s an easy, natural affinity in their playing and interactions that feels informed by a much…
ELI WINTER & CAMERON KNOWLER – 22.5.22
Source: Jo Quail.
14TH MAY
Glasgow The Hug and Pint13TH MAY
Manchester White Hotel12TH MAY
Leeds Seven Arts11TH MAY
Colchester Arts Centre10TH MAY
Nottingham The Bodega09TH MAY
Bristol The Gryphon08TH MAY
Southampton Suburbia07TH MAY
London Desertfest
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