The Stone in February

Upcoming shows at The Stone:

February 2008 at the Stone curated by Zeena Parkins

2/1 Friday (MW)
8 pm
Robin Holcomb: Larks they Crazy
Robin Holcomb (piano) Marty Ehrlich (reeds) Doug Wieselman (reeds) Dave Hofstra (bass) Kenny Wollesen (drums)

10 pm
Jim Pugliese with Audrey Chen and Kato Hideki
Jim Pugliese (drums, mbira, cello, bass and voice) Audrey Chen (drums, mbira, cello, bass and voice) Kato Hideki (drums, mbira, cello, bass and voice)

2/2 Saturday (DB)
8 pm
Raz Mesinai—Sleepwalker
Raz Mesinai (electronics) Jonathan Gandelsman (violin) Shazhad Ismaily (bass)
Yet another phase in Mesinai’s powerful, hypnotic and extremely dubbed out piece for violin and bass.

10 pm
Jim Staley
Jim Staley (trombone) and special guests

2/3 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Wayne Horvitz—Music for Quartet
Wayne Horvitz (piano) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Megan Weeder (violnn, viola) Doug Wieselman (clairnet)

10 pm
Robin Holcomb: Song Set
Robin Holcomb (voice) Wayne Horvitz (piano) Doug Wieselman (guitar, clarinet) Tony Scherr (bass, guitar)
Songs by Robin Holcomb, Michael Hurley, Stephen Foster, Randy Newman, Doc Pormus and more.

2/5 Tuesday
8 pm
Okyuung Lee and Cornelius Dufallo
Okyuung Lee (cello) Cornelius Dufallo (violin)

10 pm
Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka (koto, electronics) and special guests

2/7 Thursday
8 pm
Jennifer Walshe—Pieces for Voice
Jennifer Walshe (voice)
Jennifer Walshe will perform compositions for solo voice with various gadgets.

8 pm
Suzanne Thorpe and Philip White
Suzanne Thorpe (flute, electronics) Philip White (electronics)
Electro-acoustic flautist Suzanne Thorpe (Mercury Rev, J Mascis, the Wounded Knees) will be joined by sound artist Philip White as they perform flute and feedback solos and duos, otherwise known as thenumber46. Thorpe and White will improvise with electronic, acoustic and video instrumentation, exploring architectural constructs and points of contact during composer/performer/listener interaction. Plus it’ll sound good.

2/8 Friday (OL)
8 pm
Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman Duo— Improvisations and New Compositions
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Mark Feldman (violin)

10 pm
White Out with special guest Nate Wooley
Lyn Culbertson (keyboards) Tom Surgal (drums) Nate Wooley (trumpet)

2/9 Saturday (RK)
8 and 10 pm
Kevin Blechdom—semi-improvised opera
Chingchongsong, Lumberob, Barwave and friends (piano, bass, drums, saw, electronics and voices)

2/10 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Yoon Jeong Heo—Solo and Ensembles
Yoon Jeong Heo (geomungo, a-jeng) Ned Rothenberg (clarinets, shakuhachi) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

10 pm
Ned Rothenberg, Satoshi Takeishi and Yoon Jeong Heo
Yoon Jeong Heo (geomungo, a-jeng) Ned Rothenberg (clarinets, shakuhachi) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

2/12 Tuesday (CB)
8 pm
Briggan Krauss with Jim Black and Ikue Mori
Briggan Krauss (alto sax) Jim Black (drums) Ikue Mori (electronics)

10 pm
Michael J Schumacher
Michael J Schumacher (computer, electric guitar, synth, bass)
New pieces including using the sounds of basketball. All performed in an expanded sound system.

2/13 Wednesday (HH)
8 pm
Original music by harpist Shelley Burgon
Shelley Burgon (harp, piano, computer) Trevor Dunn (bass) Shannon Fields (guitar) Ryan Sawyer (drums)

10 pm
Ches Smith
Ches Smith (drums)

2/14 Thursday (MF)
8 and 10 pm
SPECIAL VALENTINE’S DAY IMPROV NIGHT—A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Zeena Parkins (harp) and many beautiful and loving guests
A romantic night of improvisation to benefit the Stone! TWENTY DOLLARS

2/15 Friday (OL)
8 pm
Zeena Parkins and Janene Higgins Duo
Zeena Parkins (electric harp, electronics) Janene Higgins (images)

10 pm
Carlos Giffoni
Carlos Giffoni (electronics)

2/16 Saturday (GG)
8 pm
Mark Stewart Solo
Mark Stewart (electric guitar, homemade instruments)

10 pm
Zeena Parkins and friends
Zeena Parkins (harp) and special guests

2/17 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Anantha R. Krishnan and Kevin Adams: VRIKSHA
Anantha R. Krishnan (electro-acoustic percussion) Kevin Adams (video projection)

10 pm
Wiener Kids
Jordan Glenn (drums, melodica) Steini Gunnarsson (guitar)
Music inspired by small dogs, old bikes, muppets, cheap Halloween decorations, babies with glasses and other wiener kids.

2/19 Tuesday
8 pm
Zach Layton
Zach Layton (electronics, theremin, keyboards)

10 pm
Andrea Parkins
Andrea Parkins (accordion, laptop, electronics)

2/20 Wednesday (OL)
8 pm
Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko Nagai
Satoshi Takeishi (percussion and electronics) Shoko Nagai (piano) and a special guest
Improvised music based on Nogaku (Japanese Noh theatre music)

10 pm
Greenlief-Halvorson duo
Philip Greenlief (sax) Mary Halvorson (guitar)
The Greenlief-Halvorson duo will play improvisations and new compositions by Phillip Greenlief, from his recent series of “Map Pieces”, which draw upon numerous compositional elements and improvising game strategies. The duo explores sound as well as melody and other more traditional language aspects.

2/21 Thursday
8 pm
Chris McIntyre-New Solos and Works for Improvisers
Chris McIntyre (trombone, Nord Lead, laptop) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Shelley Burgon (harp, electronics) Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics) Cornelius Dufallo (violin)
First performance of selections from “morphi studies for trombone with and without electronics” along with new graphic and strategic works for improvisers.

10 pm
Bevin Blectum Solo—Gular Flutter
Bevin Blectum (laptop, assorted electronics)
Costumed and with video, all new audio/video from the new album Gular Flutter. Audio by Blevin Blectum. Video by Ryan Junell. The live performance is a study in slo-mo sunspots, high contrast hydraulics, Cascaded Integrator-Combing, and negative acceleration. Epic sound for distressed ifrit. Peculiar winds during the eclipse allow for the rapid cooling of the organism via evaporative water loss and convection from the mucous- covered surfaces. The metal-helmeted cascade-familiar performs maintenance. Shot hot in the hills of Oakland, Ca.

2/22 Friday
8 pm
Phase Chancellor
Martin Schmidt (synth) Jay Lesser (synth) Nate Boyce (synth)
An improvisational 3 synthesizer trio: Ecumenically straddling the modular and digital divide and avoiding any straight answer to the question “to drone or not to drone?”. Phase Chancellor skip the presents in favor of intuitive long form progression through a smoky vortex of signal chains.

10 pm
Wobbly and Jay Lesser—solos and a possible duo
Wobbly (dual CDJ, samplers keyboards) Jay Lesser (electronics, laptop, synth)

2/23 Saturday (RK)
8 and 10 pm
MATMOS
Dr. Drew Daniels (laptop, objects) Martin Schmidt (synth, objects)
Matmos are a duo who recently relocated from San Francisco to Baltimore. Their work is all over the place: musique concrete, pop music, rhythmic patterns, free improv, video, sound, actions. For this concert they will present their “cover” of “The Backyard”, the final act of the Robert Ashley tele-opera “Perfect Lives{, and some newer pieces that focus on pure electronic music. Expect some improvisation and some guest shenanigans.

2/24 Sunday (GG)
8 pm
Matthew Welch—New and Traditional music for bagpipes
Matthew Welch (bagpipes)

10 pm
James Fei with Kato Hideki
James Fei (electronics) Kato Hideki (electronics)
Analog electronics.

2/26 Tuesday
8 pm
David Watson and Satoshi Takeishi
David Watson (bagpipes) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics)

10 pm
Lauren Radnofsky/Hass
Lauren Radnofsky (cello) Caleb Burhans (violin) Olivia DePrato (violin)
Beth Guterman (viola)
Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) String Quartet no.3 “In iij. Noct.” (2001)

Performed in complete darkness, the third string quartet of Haas is almost entirely improvised around a framework of specific elements, apart from a brief conclusion where Haas quotes a madrigal by Gesualdo, written for a service during Holy week, in which the church is filled with candles that gradually become extinguished one by one until the congregation is left in darkness…

2/27 Wednesday
8 pm
Ikue Mori with Jennifer Choi
Ikue Mori (electronics) Jennifer Choi (violin)

10 pm
John King’s Crucible Quartet
Patrick Doane (violin) So Jin Kim (violin) John King (viola ) Ha Yang Kim (cello)
Crucible Quartet plays two new King quartets: “18 Lines” and “Rivers of Fire” for quartet and live electronics

2/28 Thursday (MF)
8 pm
Bobby Previte Guitar Trio
Bobby Previte (drums) Adam Levy (guitar) and a special guest on Bass

10 pm
Richard Crandell
Richard Crandell (mbira)
The elusive mbira master returns for an exotic night of music at the Stone.

2/29 Friday (CW)
8 pm
Zeena Parkins and Anthony Coleman Duo
Zeena Parkins (harp, synth, electronics) Anthony Coleman (organ)
First time ever in duo formation. Electric!