8:00 p.m., Saturday March 28

I perform at Enemy with Daniel Fishkin, daxophone player extraordinaire. The Green Pasture Happiness will open: Aaron Zarzutzki (no-output turntable), Daniel Fandiño (electronics), and Brian Labycz (electronics).

Daniel Fishkin has built and played daxophones of all shapes and sizes since 2004. Daxophone: a flat piece of wood, anchored at one end, and played with a bow.  This German idiophone, invented in 1987 by Hans Reichel, sounds anywhere between a violin or baby.  Live looping can elevate this monophonic instrument into a badger’s choir, or perhaps evoke the mating rituals of the musk-elk.  Daniel’s current interests include improvisation, transformation, Goethe’s Faust, and narrative song-form.

I will perform on Springboard, which has its own crude form of daxophone built into it, along with a variety of coil springs and other readily available materials that have been noted for their remarkable sounds.

Dan’s MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/dandelionfiction

Hans Reichel’s website: www.daxo.de

The Green Pasture Happiness… “is predatory, smarmy, and slaphappy. those who get hypnotized by its dialectic approach to the history of music do not hear what it is really saying. they sincerely believe that the cure for evil is more evil. their violent, tendentious campaigns of malice and malignity are to improvisation what the blitzkrieg was to international diplomacy, by which I mean that they like forcing one to fall into the trap of thinking that all musical literature that opposes diabolism was forged by resentful, unambitious bludgers.”

7:30 p.m., Monday March 30

I perform at Myopic Books with Aaron Zarzutski (objects) and Guillermo Gregorio (reeds)

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 with Bryan Day, , sound artist, instrument inventor, and founder of free music label Public Eyesore

Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622
www.enemysound.com 

Bryan Day and I will open for Evidence, Vertonen, and Katchmare

About Bryan Day

Omaha, Nebraska based improviser and concept artist Bryan Day (b. 1979) has been involved in the avant-garde music community for the last 12 years.  He started the, then Minneapolis-based, free music label Public Eyesore in 1997 as an outlet for his works using homemade electronic and mechanical sound generating devices, and to this day continues the process of expanding upon these themes.  Merging structure and chaos, Day uses an elaborate notation system and cellular automata based computer programs of his own design, along with the expressionist cues of visual art and modern dance for his inspiration. Rather than be known as a musician, he prefers to be known as an impulsive conceptualist, searching for difficult and inconvenient analogs to the contemporary experience using sound.

Bryan Day’s personal web page: www.publiceyesore.com/sistrum.htm

Myspace: www.myspace.com/daybryan

Public Eyesore: www.publiceyesore.com

Evidence is on a short Midwest tour, performing their Losperus project based on thrift store finds.

Musicians and sound-makers are invited to make a drone for 24 hours, from 9 a.m. January 1st until 9 a.m. January 2nd. Medium will pause at 6 p.m. for a performance by Chicago Phonography that will last until 9 p.m. Medium will resume, continuing until 9 a.m. Friday morning. Medium is open invitation as long as you don’t disturb the drone. If you can, please some food to share.

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Here’s an update, including three new performances added to my November schedule…

1. 8 PM Friday, November 14 @ Elastic with Auris, plus Max Alexander, Julian Berke, and Andy Armstrong
2. 2 - 5 PM Sunday, November 16 @ Green Mill performing solo Anaphora’s “Experimental (i)MPROVISATION” concert
3. 8 - 10 PM, Sunday, November 16 @ Via Theatre with Chicago Phonography in “Exquisite City” exhibit
4. 9 PM Friday, November 21 @ Enemy with Linda O’Keefe and Guillermo Gregorio

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