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Performances

Coming to Downtown Music Gallery

Source: Downtown Music Gallery.

Tuesday, March 28th:
6:30: T.J. BORDEN / AH – Cello / Voice
7:30: THOMAS HELTON / KENNY WARREN / MIKE PRIDE – ContraBass / Trumpet / Drums
8:30: PATRICK GOLDEN / JIM CLOUSE / DAVE SEWELSON / ADAM LANE

Rare Monday, April 3rd:
6:30: LEONID GALAGANOV / KENNY WARREN / AQUILES NAVARRO / DAVID CROWELL – Drums / 2 Trumpets / Tenor sax

Tuesday, April 4th:
6:30: THOMAS HEBERER / JOE FONDA / JOE HERTENSTEIN – Trumpet / Contrabass / Drums
7:30: GIACOMO MEREGA / ANDREW SMILEY / RAF VERTESSEN – El Bass / El Guitar / Drums

Tuesday, April 11th:
6:30: DANNY KAMINS / MAX KUTNER / JAMES PAUL NADIEN – Sax / Guitar / Drums
7:30: CHERYL PYLE’S BEYOND MUSIC GROUP & Birthday Celebration
8:30: BRAD HENKEL / JOANNA MATTREY / LESLEY MOK – Trumpet / Viola / Drums

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Performances

Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, March 24

Fri 3/24 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory Bowes Center [200 Van Ness Ave SF]
Del Sol String Quartet performs String Quartet no.2 by David Garner
San Francisco Conservatory Bowes Center
200 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave Berkeley]
The SticklerPhonics

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Aine Nakamura & Srayamurtikanti

Fri 3/24 8:00 PM Zellerbach Hall [UC Berkeley Berkeley]
ARTEMIS
Renee Rosnes, piano and musical director
Ingrid Jensen, trumpet
Alexa Tarantino, alto saxophone, flute
Nicole Glover, tenor saxophone
Noriko Ueda, bass
Allison Miller, drums

Fri 3/24 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Hinge presents a program blurring the lines between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock. This concert features pieces ranging from the lush harmonies and quirky rhythms of Dan VanHassel’s Sea Change, to the noisy electronic soundscape of Katherine Young’s Camilles, to Hinge’s reimagining of a song by extreme metal band Meshuggah. The program closes with Hinge’s interpretation of Julius Eastman’s epic and monumental minimalist work Gay Guerrilla.

Saturday, March 25

Sat 3/25 1:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
The aim of this workshop is to cultivate an intentionality and curiosity in the way that we move through and interact with our Surround, opening our senses to emergent patterns in nature. Participants will be encouraged to document their observations, found sounds, and their ephemeral works to share and discuss as a group.

Sat 3/25 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
The Lost Trio with Ian Carey

Sat 3/25 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Alexander Elliott Miller and Giacomo Fiore

Sat 3/25 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
AV Club is a San Francisco based algorave artist collective focused on live performance, where technology itself is the instrument. They use samplers, sequencers, livecode environments, modular synths, feedback loops, generative art, microscopes, & more to make sights and sounds you haven’t encountered before but will want to experience again.

Sunday, March 26

Sun 3/26 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Created by violinist/composer DAN FLANAGAN, “The Bow and the Brush” integrates the visual arts with new music. Dan is joined by cellist VICKY EHRLICH, trombonist BRUCE CRISP, and violinist GABRIELLE WUNSCH to perform new works by Libby Larsen, Nathaniel Stookey, Linda Marcel Marcel, Shinji Eshima, Jacques Desjardins, Cindy Cox, Maija Hynninen, Jose Gonzalez Granero, Edmund Campion, Emily Onderdonk, Peter Josheff, Evan Price, Michael Panther and Dan Flanagan. All compositions will be Oakland premieres and will be performed with projected images of the paintings and sculptures that inspire them.

Monday, March 27

Mon 3/27 6:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
As a part of Indexical’s Micro-Residency Program, Kumi Maxson is facilitating weekly collective improvisation workshop spaces, every Monday* from March 27 to May 29 from 6-8pm. The workshops will consist of a short reading and listening session, followed by discussions of the liberatory political implications of musical improvisation. The workshops will cater to all levels of improvisational and musical experience (including none!), striving to create an accessible space for non-hierarchical participation and experimentation. Musicians are encouraged to bring their own instruments, however some will be provided for those who do not have their own. Masks are required for these workshops. Wind players and vocalists may perform without masks if needed.

Mon 3/27 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St San Francisco]
Earplay: knock, breathe, shine
Earplay’s 38th season continues on March 27th with a concert program that traverses the topical, the poetic, and the sonic space where they overlap.

Mon 3/27 8:00 PM Bottom of the Hill [1233 17th Street SF]
Winston Tong & Lx Rudis ~ Two Toiling Midgets (Paul Hood & Craig Grey) ~ Longshoremen

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.

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Reviews

Dusted Reviews

Source: Dusted.

Andrea Belfi — Eternally Frozen (Bow/Maple Death)

loscil // Lawrence English — Colours of Air (Kranky)

Eden Lonsdale — Clear And Hazy Moons (Another Timbre)

Joseph Allred — For the Fallen Dawn (Island House)

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Artist Profile Performances

The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 

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Interviews

Steve Roach Interview

Source: Echoes.

In 1984 Steve Roach released what remains one of his two best known recordings, Structures from Silence. Now, nearly 40 years later he returns to that sound on the album, Rest of Life. It’s a double CD of mostly quiet and deep ruminations. There’s no digeridoos or modular synthesizers, but there is the electric violin of his wife, Linda Kohanov. From their home in the Arizona desert, they talk about revisiting the spirit of Roach’s Structures from Silence, and horses.

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Performances

Coming to Seattle

Source: Wayward Music Series.

Mind Mirage + August + Balcony View + Sonora Enjambre
Thu. Mar. 23, 8 PM; $5 – $20 donation at door

Mind Mirage (Oakland) = ethereal electronics. August (Anacortes) = drone, folk, noise, improvisation. Balcony View = explores soft ambient to noise to drone/doom. Sonora Enjambre = soundscapes promoting rebellion and regeneration.

Enereph / Nick Bigelow / Jon Scheid
Sat. Mar. 25, 8 PM; $5 – $20 at the door

Seattle-based collective/label Jade Plain shares an audiovisual journey through electronic atmospheres generated using a medley of samplers and synths dancing with live reactive visuals, sculptural artwork, textiles, and puppetry by Enereph, Jon Scheid, and Nick Bigelow.

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AMN Picks General

AMN Picks of the Week: Maulen / Void Stasis / Wordclock

Here 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.

Maulen – El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago (2023)
Void Stasis – Viral Incubation (2023)
Wordclock – Heralds (2017)
Wordclock – Self Destruction Themes (2015)
Wordclock – Endless (2014)


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Performances

Coming to the ISSUE Project Room

Source: ISSUE Project Room.

JEAN CARLA RODEA: ALL YOUR SOJOURNS HAVE LED TO THIS
Friday, April 7, 2023 – 8:00 pm
CPR – Center for Performance Research
ISSUE in partnership with CPR – Center for Performance Research is pleased to present All Your Sojourns Have Led to This, a commissioned work from interdisciplinary artist and 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea. The work will premiere at CPR’s space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

ANNEA LOCKWOOD & RUTH ANDERSON: “TÊTE-À-TÊTE” LP RELEASE WITH ERGOT RECORDS
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 – 8:00 pm
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
Join ISSUE & Ergot Records for a listening event in celebration of the release of Tête-à-tête, a new LP of tape pieces by Annea Lockwood & the late Ruth Anderson with drinks, an introduction from Annea Lockwood, an audio diffusion of the record, and a DJ set from Ergot Record’s Adrian Rew.

51717 / TORN HAWK
Thursday, April 20, 2023 – 8:00 pm
The Emily Harvey Foundation
ISSUE is pleased to present new works from longtime friends Lili Schulder and Luke Wyatt, known through their far-reaching releases under the monikers 51717 and Torn Hawk, respectively. The performances will take place at The Emily Harvey Foundation’s space in SoHo, Manhattan.

ISSUE MEMBER EVENT: SUZUERI & JULIA SANTOLI
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 – 8:00 pm
Fridman Gallery
ISSUE and AvanToyko are pleased to invite members and special guests to a reception and presentation of the first live duo collaboration between multi-disciplinary artist and experimental musician Julia Santoli and Tokyo-based sound and visual artist suzueri (Elico Suzuki). The debut collaboration will be presented at Fridman Gallery in the Lower East Side.

NINA GARCIA / LEE RANALDO & LEILA BORDREUIL
Friday, May 12, 2023 – 8:00 pm
Brooklyn Music School
ISSUE is pleased to present the debut U.S. performance from Parisian guitarist Nina Garcia, who performs solo. Leila Bordreuil & legendary guitarist Lee Ranaldo open, reprising their recent duo for an evening that transgresses boundaries between instrumental improvisation & noise.

LEILA BORDREUIL & LUKE STEWART: NEW WORKS FOR FEEDBACK ENSEMBLE – CHRIS CORSANO, NINA GARCIA, JULIA SANTOLI, NATE WOOLEY, C. SPENCER YEH
Thursday, May 18, 2023 – 7:00 pm
Under the “K” Bridge Park
New works from Leila Bordreuil & Luke Stewart’s Feedback Ensemble, a raucous group of musicians utilizing their own feedback apparatuses.

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Performances

Upcoming Bridge Tours

Source: Across the Bridge.

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Reviews

Vital Weekly Reviews 1379

Source: Vital Weekly.

FABRIZIO MODENESE PALUMBO – ELP (CD by Dissipatio) *
DUNCAN PINHAS & YERRI-GASPAR HUMMEL – VOYAGE INITIATIQUE (CD by La But) *
ROMAIN PERROT & QUENTIN ROLLET – LE VIEUX FUSIBLE/THE SINGLES (2CD by ReQords) *
DAMARGE – 1981 TO 1984 (CD/DVD by Equation Records) *
TAMING THE OUTBACK – 1986-1989 (CD by Equation Records) *
SENESTRA – STANDFORD (CD by Fourth Dimension) *
KODIAN PLUS – DISENGAGE (CD by A New Wave Of Jazz) *
CHRISTIAN RØNN – TRAVEL THROUGH STONES (CD by Nische Records) *
BRANDON LOPEZ TRIO – MATANZAS (CD by Relative Pitch Records) *
MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN/FRED LONBERG-HOLM – MISSA AMISSA (CD by Relative Pitch Records) *
BXMR – EVE’S NAVEL (LP by BX Mart)
GIOVANNI LAMI – MONUMENTO FIUME (LP by Kohlhaas)
PIITU LINTUNEN PRESENTS 7AI9 (compilation LP by Sahko Recordings)
JAMES FELLA & GABRIELLA ISAAC – PERFORMANCES (LP by Gilgongo Records)
AWKWARD GEISHA/EUGENE CHADBOURNE (split 7″ by Love Earth Music)
TOM BETTERIDGE – LINTS (CDR, private) *
TOM BETTERIDGE – DRY ROT / CLOT POSSET (CDR, private) *
+DOG+ – THE FAMILY MUSIC BOOK VOL 4 (2CDR by Love Earth Music) *
GÜNTER SCHLIENZ – CURRENT (cassette by Muzan Editions) *