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Tag: Avant-garde music

  • Taran's Free Jazz Hour, Podcast 33/2011

    From Taran’s Free Jazz Hour, podcast 33/2011 wig ab baars trio 20 years: Ab Baars (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Wilbert de Joode (contrabass), Martin van Duynhoven (drums). flying note records an alternate universe: Kali Z. Fasteau (cello, soprano saxophone, electric piano), William Parker (contrabass), Cindy Blackman (drums). prophesy: Kali Z. Fasteau and lots of musicians, info…

  • San Francisco Bay Area Scene

    From Bay Improviser: Thursday, October 20, 8pm Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. (@ 6th Street), San Francisco OutSound presents the Luggage Store New Music Series * 8pm – Jaroba & Keith Cary – Gizmos and Gadgets, The Bicycle tone Generator, the Plassoon, the Pots and Pan Cello and the Mastertron * 9pm – Ritwik…

  • Los Angeles Scene

    From Sundays Live: Thursday, October 20, 12:45pm Pierce College, Performing Arts Bldg. Main Stage, 6201 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills Brad Dutz / Chris Wabich (percussion duo) From Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles: Thursday, October 20, 7pm Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave., Westwood Andrea Centazzo will perform MILLE: A MULTIMEDIA CONCERT,…

  • Taran's Free Jazz Hour, Podcast 32/2011

    From Taran’s Free Jazz Hour, podcast 32/2011 scott amendola, lift: Scott Amendola (drums), John Shifflett (bass), Jeff Parker (guitar) slam lyric pieces: Martin Pickett’s regular trio augmented by two terrific brass players. Martin Pickett (piano), Steve Waterman (trumpet, flugelhorn), Mark Bassey (trombone), Paul Jefferies (double bass), Ben Twyford (drums). tisza: Szilárd Mezei (viola), Ervin Malina…

  • San Francisco Bay Area Scene

    From BayImproviser: Thursday, October 13, 8pm Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. (@ 6th St.), San Francisco OutSound presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series Full Moon Concerts: Blood Moon with Light a Fire (guest curation) * 8pm Trio: Matt Chandler (electric bass), Karl Evangelista (electric guitar), Jacob Felix Heule (drums) * 9pm Moe!kestra! with…

  • Los Angeles Scene

    From SASSAS: Wednesday, October 12, 8pm Human Resources LA, 410 Cottage Home St., LA SASSAS and Human Resources LA present: AD HOC #3: Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings, and Casey Anderson Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings have performed together as a duo since meeting within Boston’s “lowercase” improvising community in 2005. Their music explores an unpredictable…

  • Taran's Free Jazz Hour, podcast 31/2011

    From Taran’s Free Jazz Hour, podcast 31/2011 dan giorgetti soundtrack of the BBC miniseries The Hour: composed by Daniel Giorgetti, performed by Jamie Talbot (sax, clarinet), Sam Burgess (bass), Simon Chamberlain (piano), Ian Thomas (drums), Chris Baron (vibes, percussion), Daniel Giorgetti (samples, programming) wig cut a caper: Ig Henneman (viola, compositions), Ab Baars (tenor sax,…

  • Taran’s Free Jazz Hour, Podcast 30/2011

    From Taran’s Free Jazz Hour podcast 30/2011 includes: dark tree records pourtant les cimes des arbres: Daunik Lazro (saxophone, baryton), Benjamin Duboc (contrabass), Didier Lasserre (caisse claire & cymbales) daniel barbiero fields/figures: Perry Conticchio (reeds and flutes), Rich O’Meara (percussion), Daniel Barbiero (double bass) delmark awakening: Nicole Mitchell‘s unique flute work in an intimate quartet…

  • San Francisco Bay Area Scene

    From BayImproviser Thursday, October 6, 7:30pm Tuesdays at Tom’s Place, 3111 Deakin St., Berkeley * Tony Buck (percussion) and Magda Mayas (piano) * Annette Krebs (prepared guitar) * Grosse Abfahrt – Tom Djll (trumpet), Matt Ingalls (clarinet), Tim Perkis (electronics), Gino Robair (electronics, percussion), John Shiurba (electric guitar.) Thursday, October 6, 8pm Luggage Store Gallery,…

  • Los Angeles Scene

    From Angel City Arts Wednesday, October 5, 8pm Royal T, 8910 Washington Blvd., Culver City Slumgum with Special Guest Dwight Trible Vocalist Dwight Trible collaborates with Slumgum, for an memorable evening of adventurous music. Slumgum is: Jon Armstrong, Tenor Sax; Rory Cowal, Piano; Dave Tranchina, Bass; Trevor Anderies, Drums. From FaceBook Events Thursday, October 6,…

  • Los Angeles Scene

    From California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Friday, Sept. 30, 11am CalArts, Main Gallery Conference Room, 24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia CalArts Office of International Relations presents: CalArts Plays Itself @ PACT Zollverein in Essen, Germany Live U-Stream of the Performance Program: * DARK FARE is an experimental performance trio comprising Chiara Giovando (film/video), Kristín Þóra…

  • NorCal Noise Fest XV

    From NorCal Noise Fest 6 DAYS OF NOISE, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, ODD ELECTRONICS, & OUTSIDER SOUND ART CELEBRATING OUR 15th YEAR!! Funded in part by the Microgrant Program of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission with support from the City and County of Sacramento, California. Wednesday, Sept. 28, 8pm Naked Lounge Downtown, 1111 H Street, Sacramento DELAYED…

  • San Francisco Bay Area Scene

    From Bay Improviser and Squid’s List Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8pm The Lab, 2948 16th St., SF 23five Incorporated, swissnex San Francisco, & The Lab present: Infrasound (Oakland), Jason Kahn (Switzerland), Francisco Meirino (Switzerland) On September 27, 23five celebrates 10 years of Infrasound, the acclaimed collaborative project between Scott Arford and Randy Yau. These two sound…

  • Dissonance Is The New Harmony in Atlanta

    Image via Wikipedia NPR Music covers the burgeoning “noise” scene in Atlanta. Jangling collages of sound, atonal melodies and jumbled percussion, avant-garde music has gone through a lot of bizarre phases. And now, “noise music” has become accepted in indie-rock circles through easy digital access. In the birthplace of R.E.M., dissonance is the new harmony.…

  • RIP Mauricio Kagel

    Image via Wikipedia Kagel has passed on. Mauricio Kagel, an avant-garde composer whose often absurdist works blurred the boundaries between music, theater and film, died on Wednesday in Cologne, Germany. He was 76. His death was announced by his music publishing house, C. F. Peters Musikverlag. No cause was given. By temperament a dadaist and…