The Stone in August

The Stone has posted its August calendar.

August 2008 at the Stone curated by Trevor Dunn / Shelley Burgon

8/1 Friday
8 and 10 pm
(((Microwaves)))
Dave Kuzy (guitar, voice, fx) John Roman (drums, synth drums, voice, fx)
Modern day noise-rock for modern problems. Hailing from Pittsburgh.

8/2 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser (contrabass) Diane Moser (piano)

10 pm
The Marks Brothers
Mark Dresser (contrabass) Mark Helias (contrabass)

8/3 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Devin Hoff
Devin Hoff (contrabass)

10 pm
Drew Gress
Drew Gress (contrabass, electronics)

8/5 Tuesday (JG)
8 pm
Michael Formanek
Michael Formanek (contrabass)

10 pm
ferment/foment
Michael Formanek (bass) Tim Berne (sax) Craig Taborn (piano) Gerald Cleaver (drums)

8/6 Wednesday (YT)
8 pm
Thomas Morgan
Thomas Morgan (contrabass)

10 pm
Lambic + Percy Jones
Percy Jones (fretless bass) Stephen Moses (drums, trombone, effects) Paul Sullivan (guitars, effects)
Lambic is a style of Belgian ale that is spontaneously fermented from airborne wild yeasts in the Senne Valley. Like it’s namesake, Lambic’s music is constantly shifting and evolving, and always exciting. Stephen (Alice Donut) and Percy (Brand X) go way back together, having played in the late ’70’s with Noise-R-us and The Quality Trio.

8/7 Thursday (MP)
8 pm
MV Carbon
MV Carbon (cello, electronics)
M.V. Carbon plays cello through an array of electronics and combines it with light sensitive oscillations and pulsations. She uses analog synthesizers to create base drone tracks that are layered to form intonations that evoke meditative tendencies. Analog reel-to-reel tape machines are used to pick up the natural delay of each particular room space that she performs in. She carries the listener through different realms of consciousness by using variations in repetition and subtle changes in frequency.

10 pm
Seabrook Power Plant
Brandon Seabrook (banjo, guitar) Tom Blancarte (bass) Jared Seabrook (drums)

8/8 Friday (TD)
8 and 10 pm
Charlie Mcalister
Charlie Mcalister (banjo, electric guitar, Chinese fiddle)
Avant-garde master-mind from Charleston, South Carolina. Born in the Lowcountry and raised on a boat with only powered eggs to eat, he chews on his own hands. An Art Institute of Chicago dropout, Mcalister has founded his own damb institute. He substitutes human students with dolls whom he teaches singing and recital of hallucinogenic stories. Mcalister stears the vessel straight into the infinite void with humaor and atonal strumming.

8/9 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
Nat Baldwin
Nat Baldwin (contrabass, voice)
New Hampshire native Nat Baldwin plays the upright bass and sings, and takes both of those things to their limit, perfecting a sound that he can call entirely his own. His approach to the bass is experimental and endlessly creative, though never showy or overdone. He is an ex-member of Dirty Projectors, and has studied under legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton.

10 pm
Extra Life [duo]
Charlie Looker (guitar, voice) Caley Monahon-Ward (violin)
A stripped-down version of Extra Life performs new arrangements of material from their new album “Secular Works” (Planaria Recordings) as well as their new split EP with Nat Baldwin (Shatter Your Leaves Records).

8/10 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Darius Jones & Marty McCavitt
Darius Jones (alto sax) Marty (laptop)
Mad science from Richmond, Virginia.

10 pm
Ghosts For Breakfast
Jeff Gretz (drums) Travis Laplante (tenor sax) Steve Moore (bass) Nate Wooley (trumpet)
Drummer/composter Jeff Gretz’s brand spanking new punk/jazz quartet. Tightly controlled musical outbursts featuring regularly scheduled interruptions from improvised realms. Debut performance.

8/11 Monday (JG)
8 pm
Pamela Kurstin
Pamela Kurstin (theremin) Dalit Warshaw (piano) Ingrid Laubrock (sax)

8/12 Tuesday (IQ)
8 pm
The Solitary Cyclist
Ganda Suthivarakom (vocals) John Lindaman (vocals, guitar) Madelyn Burgess (bass) Chris Deaner (drums)
A low-decibel, melodic pop exploration of the duet. Tunes by John Lindaman (True Love Always) and Ganda Suthivarakom (Smokey and Miho). Featuring Chris Deaner (+/-) and Madelyn Burgess (Hula). Five dollars.

10 pm
Niobe
Yvonne Cornelius (voice) Konrad Feurstein (guitar) Christian Thomé (drums)

8/13 Wednesday (TD)
8 pm
Conncet 9 Big Band: Music Written For The Stone
Derek Gaines (electronics, guitar) Elliot Weiss (guitar) Jessica Weiss (vocals) Lexi Rendon (vocals) Pete Jackson (bass) Mark Palmer (drums) Brent Gaines (drums) Dust Magnet (Visuals)
Conncet 9 is usually a one man project of multi-instrumentalist Derek Gaines. The music is mostly spastic collage music sometimes using beautiful layered melodies and sometimes being harsh tidal waves of noise. Derek and his fellow musicians have written special music for this performance including special visuals.

10 pm
Ben Weinman
Ben Weinman (guitar, electronics)

Thursday and Friday August 14 & 15
REALICIDE RECORDS SHOWCASE

8/14 Thursday (AG)
8 pm
tik///tik and Often
tik///tik: Steven Cano (hardware electronics) Often: Ryan Faris (hardware/software) Pamela Mogollon (glass)
tik///tik is high anxiety glitched harsh noise from Los Angeles. Often, ranging from electrocoustic to harsh noise is from Jacksonville, FL.Ex-Ultra//Vires, Capital Hemmorhage.

10 pm
Realicide
Robert Inhuman (voice) Mavis Concave (hardware electronics) Ryan Faris (hardware, software) Steven Cano (hardware electronics) Simon Severe (software) Jim Swill (voice)
Gabber punk, digital hardcore, industrial noise from various US regions.

8/15 Friday
8 pm
Jim Swill and Realicide
Jim Swill (nomadic spoken word) Realicide: Robert Inhuman (voice) Mavis Concave (hardware electronics) Ryan Faris (hardware, software) Steven Cano (hardware electronics) Simon Severe (software) Jim Swill (voice)
Jim Swill: Repping Get Born zine from St Louis. Realicide is Gabber punk, digital hardcore, industrial noise from various US regions.

10 pm
DJ THUMPER
Mavis Concave (laptop)
Mavis Concave’s gabber/breakcore pop mash-up project.

8/16 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
David Daniell & Alan Licht Duo
David Daniell (guitar) Alan Licht (guitar)
http://www.daviddaniell.com/

http://www.dragcity.com/bands/licht.html

10 pm
San Agustin
David Daniell (guitar) Andrew Burnes (guitar) Bryan Fielden (drums)
http://www.san-agustin.org/

8/17 Sunday (GG)
8 pm
Stephan Moore
Stephan Moore (laptop)

10 pm
Evidence
Stephan Moore (laptop) Scott Smallwood (laptop)

8/19 Tuesday (AG)
8 and 10 pm
Ne(x)tworks
Kenji Bunch(viola) Cornelius Dufallo (violin) Joan LaBarbara (voice) Chris McIntyre (trombone) Shelley Burgon (harp)
Miguel Frasconi (glasses) Stephen Gosling (piano)

8/20 Wednesday (GG)
8 pm
White Out
Lynn Culbertson (keyboards) Tom Surgal (drums) + TBA

10 pm
Cornelius Dufallo
Cornelius Dufallo (violin)

8/21 Thursday (CB)
8 pm
John Natchez
John Natchez (horns)

10 pm
Miguel Frasconi and Shelley Burgon
MIguel Frasconi (glass) Shelley Burgon (harp)

8/22 Friday (IQ)
8 pm
Stars Like Fleas
Shannon Fields (guitar) Montgomery Knott(voice) Ryan Smith (keyboards) Ryan Sawyer (drums) Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet) Shelley Burgon (harp) Sam Amidon (violin) Laura Ortman (violin) Jon Natchez (horns, guitars) Tianna Kennedy (cello) Shayna Dulberger (contrabass)

10 pm
Stars Like Fleas + TBA
Shannon Fields (guitar) Montgomery Knott (voice) Ryan Smith (keyboards) Ryan Sawyer (drums) Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet) Shelley Burgon (harp) Sam Amidon(violin) Laura Ortman(violin) Jon Natchez (horns, guitars) Tianna Kennedy (cello) Shayna Dulberger (contrabass)

8/23 Saturday (RK)
8 pm
Lone Wolf
Ryan Sawyer (percussion)

10 pm
Ryan Sawyer & TBA
Ryan Sawyer (percussion)

8/24 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Shayna Dulberger
Shayna Dulberger (contrabass)

10 pm
Matt Lavelle’s “a blessing like no other”
Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet) Bob Hubbard (drums) Francois Grillot (bass) Ras Moshe (saxaphone)

8/26 Tuesday (AG)
8 and 10 pm
Ne(x)tworks
Kenji Bunch (viola) Cornelius Dufallo (violin) Joan LaBarbara (voice) Chris McIntyre (trombone) Shelley Burgon (harp)
Miguel Frasconi (glasses) Stephen Gosling (piano)

8/27 Wednesday (MP)
8 pm
Sara Schoenbeck & Kaoru Watanabe
Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Kaoru Watanabe (Japanese and Western flutes)
Exploring different timbres and beautiful extended techniques.

10 pm
Dust Dive Flash
Laura Ortman (violin, electric guitar, amp, keyboard, samplers, vocals)

8/28 Thursday (CB)
8 pm
Trevor Dunn’s Proof Readers
Trevor Dunn (contrabass) Darius Jones (saxaphone) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Ryan Sawyer (percussion)
Proofreaders play the music of Ornette Coleman, mostly from the ’50s and ’60s.

10 pm
Peter Zummo
Peter Zummo (trombone)

8/29 Friday (SK)
8 pm
Paul Duncan
Paul Duncan (voice, guitar)

10 pm
Shannon Field
Shannon Fields (guitar)

8/30 Saturday
8 and 10 pm
John Zorn Improv Night-A Stone Benefit
Many special musicians come out to support The Stone.
Twenty dollars.

8/31 Sunday (MM)
8 pm
Zach Layton
Zach Layton (compositions)

10 pm
Pull
Ryan Snow (trombone) Johnny Butler (saxophone) Sasha Brown (guitar) Josh Myers (bass) Bram Kincheloe (drums) Jonathan Goldberger (guitar)