top ten transbaynian moments of 2007
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top ten transbaynian moments of 2007
transbay the Creative Music Calendar FEBRUARY 2008 from matt davignon 11/24/07: Even Steven I paid $10 for Polly Moller to get into an ensemble show, after she gave me a ride to the venue. At the end of the show, I get my share of the door: $10. 3/15/07: In a duo at the Luggage Store with Jordan Glenn, Mills student and tabla player Anantha Krishna plays an unmistakable walking bass line on the bayan drum. and tom duff new exhibit bisects the performance space with a glass gazebo. In addition, the artist demands that all the lighting used by the music series be removed from the gallery and replaced by a single dim fluorescent light, and that a gallery window be left open in the middle of the (cold) winter. Reports of an upcoming art exhibit in which musicians, audience members, and series curators will be sprayed with a hose or given electric shocks at unexpected intervals turn out to be just a rumour. continued on page 5 2007: Gain One/Lose One Longtime laptop composer Marielle Jakobsons rediscovers the joy of guitar pedals. Meanwhile, longtime acoustic bass improviser Damon Smith starts using a laptop computer in performance. The top ten mp3s on my iPhone that might or might not be music (in Letterman order): 10.Excerpts of two performances of Gino Robair’s opera I, Norton (featuring me as the emperor.) 9. John Bonham drum outtakes 8. Robotron samples 7. Terrestrial and Jovian atmospheric radio sounds 6. Red-tailed Hawk calls 5. Eddie Cantor singing “The Only Thing I Want For Christmas” 4. A foghorn 3. Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate performed by the composer 2. Assorted hard drive head crash sounds 1. A 1916 recording of the Hallelujah Chorus, accompanied by a brass band. 3/17/07: CJ Reaven Borosque is unable to play her scheduled set at Noise Pancakes because someone the venue’s doorbell depends on the telephone, and nobody thought to leave the line open. 1/2007: Where art meets music... Just a few months after the Luggage Store Gallery Music Series had to work around an art exhibit that involved filling the gallery with a maze of wall-to-wall scaffolding, the HOLY SHIT IT WUZ A GREAT YEAR • GNOME SAYIN? photo by Tim Perkis top ten transbaynian moments of 2007 the san francisco bay area monthly publication for experimental/improvised/noise/electronic/freejazz/outrock/21st century transgenred music and sonic art FEBR transbay the Creative Music Calendar Thu 1/3 8pm $6-10 • Luggage Store Gallery Outsound Presents New Music Series 8pm: Jen Baker (Trombone) and Damon Smith (Double Bass) 9pm: Les Hutchins (Electronics) and Polly Moller (flutes) Fri 2/1 7:30pm $4-6 • University of the Pacific Music Beyond Performance In its sixth season Music Beyond Performance presents work that is created through technology and can only be experienced in a unique performance setting, blending sound and visual image in an experience often described as intermedia. Artists to be presented include Bret Battey (UK), Ivan Elezovic (US), Celia Eid/ Sebastien Beranger (France), Matthew Dotson/ Bart Woodstrup (US), Orlando Jacinto Garcia/ Jacek Kolasinski (US), Ge-Suk Yeo (Korea/ Germany), David Morneau (US), and Daniel Blinkhorn (Australia). Fri 2/1 8pm $6-$10 • 1510 8th St Performance Space Damon Smith- contrabass, Weasel Walterdrums, Paul Hartsaw= saxophone plus TBA Fri 2/1 8pm $5 • Kimo’s Ton Trio Aram Shelton: alto & soprano saxophones Kurt Kottheimer: bass Sam Ospovat: drums Fri 2/1 8pm $10 / $5 • Meridian Gallery Jen Baker will demonstrate her wide palette of solo literature with self-composed, commissioned, and other works. In addition to a set of Lyrical Vibrations (partially composed/ improvised pieces), she will perform OneSided Window, a collaboration with her pen pal in prison. Other work will include Patrick Muchmore’s THS, a commissioned solo with electronics, and Three Pieces for Trombone by Giacinto Scelsi. venue information 111 Minna Gallery 111 Minna Street, San Francisco 1510 8th St Performance Space 1510 8th Street, Oakland [West Oakland BART] 21 Grand 416 25th Street, Oakland [at Broadway] 24th Street Theater Works 2405 24th Street, San Francisco [at Vermont] 5lowershop 992 Peralta Avenue, San Francisco Anno Domini Gallery 366 S. 1st Street, San Jose artSF 110 Capp Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco [at 16th] Black Gate Code 500 Artists Television Access 992 Valencia, San Francisco [at 21st] Berkeley Arts Festival 2213 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Berkeley Piano Club 2427 Haste Street, Berkeley [at Dana] The Brainwash Cafe 1122 Folsom St. San Francisco Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland Climate Theater 285 9th Street, San Francisco [at Folsom] CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco The Exploratorium 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco First Church of the Buzzard 2601 26th Street #150, Oakland [at Adeline] Freight & Salvage 1111 Addison Street, Berkeley Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street, San Francisco [near Post] Hotel Utah 500 Fourth Street, San Francisco [at Bryant] Hunter’s Point Shipyard Innes Street Terminus, San Francisco Jazzschool 2087 Addison Street, Berkeley Jewish Community Center of the East Bay 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley Johansson Projects Gallery 2300 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland Kimo’s 1351 Polk Street, San Francisco The LAB 2948 16th Street, San Francisco [at Capp] Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street, San Francisco [at 6th] Mama Buzz Cafe 2318 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland [at 23rd] Maybeck Studio email gm@handprintseries for location Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street, San Francisco Mills College Ensemble Room 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland Sat 2/2 3pm free • KFJC 89.7 FM Polly Moller & Co., consisting of Polly Moller, Jim Carr, Amar Chaudhary, and Bill Wolter will perform live in the Pit. The words are composed, and the music improvised. 89.7 on your FM dial... or www.kfjc.org... Sat 2/2 8pm $15 • Recombinant Labs Compound Activating the Medium 23five presents the first night of its annual Activating The Medium festival with an international cast of sound artists, including Zbigniew Karkowski, Jason Kahn, Tim Catlin, and Francisco Meirino. Tue 2/2 8pm $7-12 • Climate Theater Golden Melody Band Sun 2/3 9:30pm $6 • Hotel Utah Ozmadawn You Will Taste the Teeth in Our Mouths (Jacob Felix Heule & Jay Korber of Ettrick) Ku/Dryer Musicians Union Hall 116 9th Street, San Francisco [at Mission] Noe Valley Ministry 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco NOHspace 2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco ODC Dance Theatre 3153 17th Street, San Francisco [at Shotwell] Pearl Alley Studios 120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz Piedmont Piano Company 660 Third Street, San Francisco Project Artaud Theatre 450 Florida Street, San Francisco Recombinant Labs Compound 1070 Van Dyke Avenue, San Francisco RX Gallery 132 Eddy Street San Francisco San Francisco Conservatory of Music 50 Oak Street San Francisco Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley [at Prince] Temescal Arts Center 511 48th Street, Oakland [at Telegraph] The Toad in the Hole Pub 116 5th Street, Santa Rosa University of the Pacific - Recital Hall Conservatory 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 700 Howard Street, San Franciso [at 3rd] the san francisco bay area monthly publication for experimental/improvised/noise/electronic/freejazz/outrock/21st cen RUARY n the persistent caveat Schedules are subject to change, and the reasons can be totally appalling, flying in the face of human reason. Please confirm details provided in this publication by visiting transbaycalendar.org. Tue 2/5 8pm $10 • 1510 8th St Performance Space 8 pm: Matt Davignon/Les Hutchins duo 9 pm: Polly Moller & Co. Wed 2/13 8pm $10 / $5 • Meridian Gallery Meridian Music: Composers in Performance present Three Trapped Tigers (Tom Bickley and David Barnett, recorders). Thu 2/7 8pm $6-10 • Luggage Store Gallery Outsound Presents New Music Series 8pm Karl Evangelista - solo guitar 9pm Polly Moller & Co. Thu 2/14 8pm $6-10 • Luggage Store Gallery Outsound Presents New Music Series 8pm Phillip Greenlief - solo saxophones 9pm “Duology” Michael Marcus/Ted Daniel duo CD release tour (NY) Fri 2/8 8pm Free, Donations Encouraged • San Francisco Conservatory of Music New American chamber music for voice and instruments. Vartan Aghababian, Jacob Bertrand, JooWan Kim, Liam Wade, and arranger Patrick Lawrence. Ann Moss, soprano; The Yeager String Quartet; Steven Bailey, piano; Kristal Sccwartz, harp. Sat 2/9 Noon, Donation/NOTA • ArtSF gOdwaffle Noise Pancakes R H Y Yau pancake special, Andrea William’s Anais Din, Rhiknoberus Sat 2/9 8pm $6-10 • 21 Grand Unofficial Tribute to Paul Burwell featuring recorded performances by Anne Bean, David Toop, and Elliot Sharp, and live performances by Mark E. Miller, Henry Kaiser, Aurora, and Weasel Walter. Mon 2/11 • Totally Intense Fractal Mind Gaze Hut Club Sandwich with Pocahaunted, Pukers, Barn Owl, Vis Viva, Crystal Village matthew goodheart solo piano 1510 Performance Space Sunday, Feb. 17 8 pm Fri 2/15 8pm $7-20 • Artists’ Television Access 21 Grand Benefit K.I.T., Face, SL Morse and more Sat 2/16 Noon, Donation/NOTA • ArtSF gOdwaffle Noise Pancakes Eyelenz Sat 2/16 8pm $6-10 • 1510 8th St Performance Space A trio performance with: James Fei (saxophones), Damon Smith (bass) and Charity Chan (piano) plus TBA Sun 2/17 3pm free • NOHspace Worklights Edward Schocker, Suki O’Kane and Jonathan Segel present work-in-progress with glass, bass drum, and electronics. 8pm Lords of Outland - “You can sleep when you’re dead!” 9pm Eddie the Rat - “Insomnia Sound Bible” Two explosive sets of freakish thematic sounds on the fly! Fri 2/22 8pm $5/$10 • Berkeley Arts Festival Daniel Popsicle plays, with a strict admonition that no children, especially children who might run around and around and around the performance space during the performance, will be allowed entry. Meanwhile, Dan’s plan is to include some earlier pieces like “My Version” and “Superhero of Shirts,” and some which aren’t for the full ensemble. Dan thinks they’ll do some of the Color Music, and maybe just one or two parts of Hockey Season. Sat 2/23 8pm free • The Brainwash Cafe Mika Pontecorvo, Cartoon Justice/Theory Gareden and friends Grooming the Crow and Del *.* ... a fusions of noise, free improv, with elements of psychedelic rock, ameri-kinda, americana,...a post-industrial tribal sounds. Sun 2/24 • Artists’ Television Access Club Sandwich with Tik//Tik, Xrin Arms, Nero’s Day At Disneyland Sun 2/17 8pm $5-10 • 1510 8th St Performance Space Matthew Goodheart - solo piano Tue 2/26 8pm $7-12 • Climate Theater 8:00pm Bill Hsu w/ James Fei and Moe Staiano 9:00pm VidyA Tue 2/19 8pm $7-12 • Climate Theater 8:00pm Rova Saxophone Quartet 9:00pm Henry Kaiser and Healing Force Thu 2/28 8pm $6-10 • Luggage Store Gallery Outsound Presents New Music Series 8:00pm Cerebral Roil 8:30pm Jolthrower 9:00pm CJ Borosque 9:30pm XOME Wed 2/20 • Fort Gallery Club Sandwich with Anni Rossi, Mad Greggs, Joe Davances, Some Dark Holler (Erika of Gowns) & Dannie Murrie Thu 2/21 8pm $6-10 • Luggage Store Gallery Outsound Presents New Music Series Double CD Edgetone Release Performance YOU NEED TO KNOW MORE augment your understanding by visiting these additional calendar listings at bayimproviser.com • brutalsfx [yahoogroup] club-sandwich [googlegroup] • fecalface.com foopee.com/punk/the-list/ • OutSound [yahoogroup] $5 - 10 sliding scale music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusicevents 1510 eighth st. 0akland transbaycalendar.org • zumonline.com/shows/ m@ ingalls davignon [continued] 1. Tim Perkis’s NOISY PEOPLE Well worth the wait! 9/6/07: May or may not be in the hizzouse 2. Lê Quan Ninh + Frédéric Blondy @ CMC Intense acoustic sound exploration - far from “lowercase”. 3. Graeme Jennings, Christopher Jones, and Leighton Fong playing Ives @ Revolution Cafe The perfect venue (and tuning of the upright piano) for Ives. 4. Erik Ulman, Leighton Fong, and Florian Conzetti performing David Coll’s “19561958” @ UCB Coll is one of the more promising composers I’ve heard recently from the Bay Area’s academic scene. 5. 7th Annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ @ 21Grand Probably the best Skronkathon to date! While headlining at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Montrealean glitch/noise musician Tim Hecker requests to play at the mixing console rather than the stage. He also asks the festival presenters to not give any indication that he’s actually in the room. (Giving several audience members the impression that SFEMF was playing his piece “from tape”.) 5/2007: Tuning into this year’s internet fad, Polly Moller and Travis Johns submit photos of LOLImproviserz to a blog titled “I Can Has Newmuzik?” http://newmuzik.blogspot.com 6. Caroliner Retrospective & Homage to a 19th Century Singing Bull @ CCA A rare chance to see all of Caroliner’s shit accumulated over the past 23 years. suki o’kane 7. Lucky Dragons @ 21Grand 60s-flashback-max/msp-with-touchyfeely-group-sensors-for-twentysomethings. Man I feel old! 23 Years of Hernia Milk and Ergot Dreams: A Retrospective of Caroliner and its Homage to 19th Century Singing Bull 8. Graeme Jennings, solo violin with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players performing Brian Ferneyhough’s “Terrain” @ Yerba Buena Forum. Good performance despite the group being under-rehearsed - they don’t call it “new complexity” for nothin.. 9. Tarpita Fleisch & Rubber (0) Cement @ 21Grand Was that a “vagina controller”? -Woops - where’d my chair go? 10.James Fei, John Ingle, Damon Smith, and Weasel Walter @ 21Grand The strangest (in a good way) improv set i heard in 2007. best shut out ranting Although it was possible to pick from a dozen empty seats at the Luz Alibi and Georgio Marauder, Theremin Barney and Ploc Munster portion of this event, the closing Caroliner performance involved funneling audiences into a narrow aisle against the wall opposite the insanely great installation... if you got in at all, which many didn’t, leading to a cascade of highly-trained cultural consumers slowly descending the staircase while intiating conversations on their cell phones about how the work wasn’t worth seeing anyway. 10/20/07: After much discussion on the newmusic@ music.mills.edu discussion list about the pain-inducing qualities of very loud, very hi-pitched sounds, the loud, hi-pitched ensemble Tinnitus Insect Volume Knobs has its debut performance. 4/25/07: “Noisy People” opens to a packed theatre at the Pacific Film Archive. The movie features clips of many shows that had 4 people in the audience. 5/26/07: 1 day after the Moe!Kestra! 10th anniversary show at the LAB, several separately posted clips on youtube show dozens of audience members diving into the piano wreckage to get the best splinters for souvenirs. have been nostalgia, or perhaps worse: educational, but the live performances proved otherwise: many notes, tightly played, joyful, exhausting. most unlikely, but now that we think about it, best ever house band Big City Orchestra backing Daevid Allen at the Starry Plough It seemed a gig gone out of control, but for none of the typical reasons gigs go out of control when BCO is involved. There appeared to be five acts that bore absolutely no relationship to one another, cosmically galvanized by Daevid in his white graffitti’ed tyvek coveralls with uberprofessional knitting activity by Jonathan Segel on guitar and violin. longest waits drawn to a close with incendiary performances best band that returned in 2007 and should return again in 2008 The Molecules: Friends Splatter Trio +n: Clear the Club Compomicro-Dexall In a world now pockmarked with instantaneous mp3 releases of last night’s work, two remarkable releases in 2007 told a sonic (and in the case of the Molecules, a visual) story of what a ten- or twelve-year interval can do. Prying the cover off this cornerstone of Bay Area new music might Brief and intense appearances at 21 Grand (back corner, people fell down in recognition of what this duo was capable of doing) and G3 (with Matt Ingalls, forshadowing tinnitus reeds) filled many with hope and longing. Things change. And continuing on that subject, long live The Flying Luttenbachers. the san francisco bay area monthly pu michael zelner (in date order): 1. Jan. 27 - The Molecules (Ron Anderson, Tom Scandura, and John Shiurba), and Compomicro-Dexall (Mike Guarino and Jake Rodriguez) @ Hemlock Tavern 2. Feb. 5 - Lawrence “Butch” Morris: Understanding Conduction; with string octet (George Cremaschi, Tara Flandreau, Jess Ivry, Dina Maccabee, Hillary Overberg, Jonathan Segel, Damon Smith, and Theresa Wong)@ SF Performing Arts Library & Museum 3. Mar. 2 - Dan Plonsey String Ensemble (Myles Boisen, Merlin Coleman, George Cremaschi, Jeff Hobbs, Marielle Jakobsons, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jonathan Segel, John Shiurba, and Bill Wolter), Shudder (Kyle Bruckmann, Lance Grabmiller, and Phillip Greenlief), and myrmyr (Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag) @ West Grand & Valley St. rooftop and the top ten sounds of 2007 10.Nigerian spam in Morse code 9. Trunk Boiz Scraper Bike in the mix at Radio Great Wall 8. “That is totally inappropriate.” Comment made by Noel Lawrence upon hearing the PornOrchestra Chamber Ensemble improvise a speed metal song to a vintage stag film. 7. The results of Peter Nyboer’s Prelinger code that mapped imagery pixels as sonic information 6. Weasel Walter 5. Shudder 4. Liz Allbee from the kitchen of Maybeck House starting a conversation with Jason Levis as a way of telling the audience her performance had concluded 3. Gold Record Studio: Live at Laney Flea Market on shuffle play 2. Arctic seals below the ice 1. >1kHZ tones from Tinnitus Insect Volume Knobs 4. Apr. 1 - Anthony Braxton (septet) @ Iridium 5. Apr. 25 - Noisy People world premiere @ Pacific Film Archive 6. May 25 - Moe!kestra! 10th Anniversary Concert @ The Lab 7. Jun. 26 - Weasel Walter Clarinet Choir (w/Alan Anzalone, Jacob Lindsay, Aram Shelton, David Slusser, and Damon Smith) @ 21 Grand 8. Jul. 13 - Kiki & Herb: Alive From Broadway @ A.C.T. 9. Sep. 14. - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street @ A.C.T. 10.Oct. 7 - Steve Swell’s Slammin’ the Infinite (w/Sabir Mateen, Matt Heyner, and Michael Wimberly) @ 1510 8th St. Performance Space and a year of most excellent posters Most often from the creative associates of Club Sandwich. View the archive at myspace.com/clubsandwichsf. about this thing The Transbay Creative Music Calendar is a volunteer-produced free monthly journal for noncommercial creative new music in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to our comprehensive listing of upcoming events, we publish articles and reviews about local music and the people who create it. We talk about a wide range of modern music, including: experimental, improvised, noise, electronic, free-jazz, outrock, 21st century compositions, and sonic art. 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