Posts Tagged ‘improvisation’
Posted Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 1:29 AM |
I have six performances scheduled for October and November, with more being planned. Three happen in the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3), presented in various locations from October 1—12. Look further down for my other three post-CCAF shows held at Enemy, Myopic, and Elastic. Please check the CCAF3 Schedule page and this web page in case of last-minute schedule changes.
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Brett Balogh, Todd Carter, Chad Clark, John Kannenberg, Joshua Manchester, Jayve Montgomery, and Steve Barsotti joining us from the Seattle Phonographers Union
ELASTIC
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60618
www.elasticrevolution.com
$10 suggested donation
I will also briefly introduce the World Listening Project this evening.
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6 p.m. Saturday, October 4 with Steve Barsotti — improvisation with invented instruments and electronics — from Seattle celebrating the release of our new CD, Rarebit
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60622
www.heavengallery.com
$10 suggested donation
Also featuring:
“Post-Katrina Stories”, a film by Stan West; Hanah Jon Taylor (saxophones) and Tom Abbs (upright bass); The Suite Unraveling, in collaboration with Asimina Chremos (movement) and Sarah Bendix (puppetry); and the quartet of Jeb Bishop (trombone), Craig Taborn (piano), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Tim Daisy (drums)
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8 p.m. Wednesday, October 8 with Glenn Weyant (invented instruments), Matt Weston (percussion), and Michael Erzen’s Artbot
Peter Jones Gallery
1806 West Cuyler, 2nd Floor
Chicago IL 60613
(773) 472-6725
www.peterjonesgallery.com
$10 suggested donation
Read Bill Meyers critics’ choice in the Chicago Reader
Performances following CCAF3…
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8:00 p.m. Sunday, October 12 with Auris—Julia Miller (guitar), Christopher Preissing (flute, voice, electronics), and Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet) on a bill with Unhappy Atlas and Bokeh
Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
Chicago IL 60622
www.enemysound.com (please bookmark the new url)
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7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20 with Brian Labycz (electronics)
Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
www.myopicbookstore.com
Free admission, donations welcome
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9:00 p.m. Friday, November 14 with Auris: Julia Miller (guitar), Christopher Preissing (flute, voice, electronics), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet)
ELASTIC
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60618
www.elasticrevolution.com
$10 suggested donation
Tags: arts, chicago, collaboration, electronics, festival, gallery, improvisation, music, performances, phonography, projects, schedules
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Posted Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 1:59 PM |
At 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, September 28, I will give a short performance on Monica Herrera’s Strings, her sculptural sound installation at the Hyde Park Arts Center (HPAC):
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2008/07/strings_by_monica_hererra.php
2:00-5:00 p.m., admission FREE, Asian food provided.
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
773-324-5520
www.hydeparkart.org
Monica Herrera is a recent graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2008). My performance is one of many in the Chicago Artists Month Opening Celebration at HPAC.
Over the weekend there will be a mix of exhibitions and free performances to kick off Chicago Artists Month, including a concert by the Black Monks of Mississippi, portrait drawings by Dale Washington, Butoh dance by Nicole LeGette, and free outdoor concerts by Fred Anderson, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar as part of the 2nd Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Tags: arts, chicago, collaboration, electronics, festival, Hyde Park, improvisation, music, performances, projects
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Posted Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 1:51 PM |
Concluding a busy month of performances, Los Cuatros Demonios opens for Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan, a band from New York who perform original music on invented instruments.
7:00 p.m., Sunday, August 24 at ELASTIC Arts Foundation
Los Cuatros Demonios is Tomeka Reid (cello), Carol Genetti (voice), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Eric Leonardson (springboard), and Dan Godston (trumpet, percussion)
ELASTIC Arts Foundation
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd fl. (above Friendship Chinese Restaurant)
$10 suggested donation
Related links:
http://www.elasticrevolution.com/
http://www.myspace.com/electricjunkyardgamelan
http://www.myspace.com/cellomama
http://www.carolgenetti.net
http://www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusic
http://www.myspace.com/ericleonardson
Tags: brooklyn, chicago, experimental, improvisation, music, performance, sound
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Posted Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 3:31 PM |
Eric Glick Rieman, from Berkeley with his prepared Rhodes piano, will be performing with me this Friday, 8:00 p.m. at the AV-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612, (312) 850-4030. $8 suggested donation.
This show is a double bill with The Young Equestrians from Brooklyn.
(If you know you can attend, please send me a message. Thanks to the
grief that the City of Chicago has given the folks at the AV-Aerie about
a license, they must promise this is a private party.)
Tags: berkeley, brooklyn, chicago, experimental, improvisation, instruments, music, performance, sound
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Posted Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 AM |
Live Improvised Music with Dan Godston and Guillermo Gregorio
1st set
Guillermo Gregorio — clarinets and saxophones
Eric Leonardson — springboard, amplified objects
Dan Godston — trumpet, small instruments
2nd set : Altamira
Ricardo Lagomasima — drums
John Deblase — electric bass
Nick Millevoi — guitar
Brown Rice
4432 N Kedzie Avenue
Chicago IL 60625
www.brownricemusic.org
8:00 p.m.
$5 suggested donation
Directions: Brown Rice is small storefront located a half block north of the Montrose-Kedzie intersection, a few blocks south of the Kedzie station on the CTA Brown Line. There is a small sign over the entrance that reads “Perfect”. View Map.
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Tags: brownrice, clarinets, community, improvisation, improvised, instruments, live, music, performance, saxophones, sounds, trumpet
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Posted Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 10:03 PM |
Listen to the first Chicago Phonographers’ performance at Brown Rice via WAV stream or download the MP3 file. Available now, thanks to Joshua Manchester on this web page www.joshuamanchester.com/ChiPhon.html
Tags: audio, chicago, improvisation, phonography, sound, soundart, soundscape
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Posted Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 5:13 PM |
Chicago Phonography with Todd Carter, Chad Clark, Chris Hammes, Michael Hartmann, Eric Leonardson, Joshua Manchester, Robert Pleshar, Patrick Scott, Aaron Zarzutzki, and Philip von Zweck.
Brown Rice
4432 N Kedzie Ave
Chicago IL 60625
www.brownricemusic.org
9:00 p.m. (Doors open 30 minutes before show)
$6 suggested donation, $4 for students
1st Set: screening of Tampico, a documentary directed by Suree Towfighnia.
2nd Set: Chicago Phonography
Directions: Brown Rice is small storefront located a half block north of the Montrose-Kedzie intersection, a few blocks south of the Kedzie station on the CTA Brown Line. There is a small sign over the entrance that reads “Perfect”. View Map.
Background: Initiated by Chad Clark through the chi-improv Yahoo! Group, Chicago Phonography is a way to gather people interested in producing and broadcasting unprocessed field recordings (made in and around Chicago) as an ensemble in a context of live improvisation. This group has never performed together before and is inspired, in part, by the Seattle Phonographers’ Union.
Choice quote: “nature performs and we provide the secretarial services”—R. Murray Schafer
Tags: audio, chicago, improvisation, phonography, sound, soundscape
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Posted Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at 1:24 PM |
This is a wonderful video of CHARLES COHEN at The BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL a new short film by Alex Tyson on Vimeo. Since our first meeting back in 1997, Charles has a way with this synthesizer that’s been nothing but a pleasure for me to hear.

This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970’s Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla’s 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from Charles’ mixing board.
All of the photography and editing was produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using the Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.
Tags: artist, audio, Buchla, Experimental Instruments, free, HD, improvisation, sound, synthesizer, video, Video Online
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Posted Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 5:02 PM |
Carol Genetti (vocals) and I will be performing a duo set at the final show in the Triage Sound Series:
8PM Tuesday, December 18
Elastic
2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 772-3616
suggested donation
There will also be performances by Series Founders, Mykel Boyd, and Neil Jendon. See the Elastic events page for latest details.
Tags: electroacoustic, improvisation, music, sound, voice
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