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Best of 2004: Various and sundry Bay Area luminaries embalm the previous year Ja in the form of Top Ten lists 1510 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Matt Davignon: n 2 Matt submits: some great music moments of 2004 Dina Emerson and Jonathan Segel Duo at the Milk Bar 4/2 Alessandro Olla with Jon Brumit and Josh Churchill - Merlin Coleman’s multi-tonal gargling at the LSG 8/5 u 0 unplanned improvisation at LSG 9/16 Meredith Monk Marathon at Mills College 2/14 Ghost In The House at Skronkathon Barbeque 10/8 Marcos Fernandes & Robert Montoya - Jiffy Scuttler, ar 0 Lines Ensemble performs Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise 6/19 RX Gallery 3/26 y 5 sponsored in part by

The Transbay Creative Music Calendar is a volunteer-produced free monthly journal AMOEBA for non-commercial creative new music in Tom Djll the San Francisco Bay Music The sfSoundRadio streaming radio site, that’s my vote. Area. In addition to our comprehensive 2455 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley Read This Book Because You’ll Never listing of upcoming events, we publish arti- 1855 Haight Street, San Francisco Tom Duff See The Movie cles and reviews about local music and the Jonathan Segel + Dina Emerson, laptop & voice -an excerpt from a book in progress. Your comments people who create it. Mon 1/5 21 Grand (Matt Davignon’s Slow-Motion CD are welcome. We talk about a wide range of modern Release Party.) music, including: The Road To REEL CHANGE experimental, impro- Natto Quartet: Phillip Gelb (Shakuhachi), Shoko Hikage(koto), by David Michalak vised, noise, electron- Submission deadline for the February 2005 issue is Chris Brown (prepared piano) and Tim Perkis on electronics ic, free-jazz, outrock, ¡ January 15 ! 21st century composi- Fri 2/13 Maybeck Recital Hall This means on or before January15! I’ve always looked forward to the soundtrack tions, and sonic art. stage of filmmaking. It means no more pushing heavy Each month, 1000 Calendar Listings must be submitted using the online form at: Fred Frith, solo acoustic guitar copies of the Transbay transbaycalendar.org/submit.html equipment around or conning the actors into “just are mailed to individu- Sun 2/15 ACME/Jazz House als and hand-delivered one more shoot.” It’s just the film and the music in to over 45 performance John Shiurba 5x5 your head. I often worked with J.A. Deane (Dino), a venues and public yetanotherf***ingyear@transbaycalendar real wizard with samples, composing and recording locations throughout Sun 4/25 ACME/Jazz House the Bay Area. Contact the soundtracks. (If you can’t get Eno get Dino!) Dino us for a FREE sub- John Butcher/Gino Robair Duo left town in ’96 and I needed to find a new approach. scription! http://transbaycalendar Wed 5/12 SFAlt Music Festival For well over a year I worked with Nik Phelps com- Your kind donations posing and recording a soundtrack for Inside-Out, a help keep the Transbay Philip Gelb/Shoko Hikage/Alex Cline Trio dance film that was performed by the Club Foot alive and growing. Wed 5/12 SFAlt Music Festival Please send checks Orchestra at my 25th anniversary show. Nik went on [payable to “Transbay to form Sprocket Ensemble performing live music for Music Calendar”] to: Tanya Feichtmair, David Slusser, Dan Plonsey, Transbay Accounting, Andrew Voigt, Steve Adams, Allan Chase & Ben Goldberg animated films and I was left to ponder. I thought 106 Fairmount, about retiring from filmmaking having found myself Oakland, CA 94611. Woodwind Solos in memory of Steve Lacy Sun 7/18 ACME/Jazz House in a deep hole financially from 30 years of producing Please visit our web

.org movies. Andrew Voigt encouraged me to get a sound- site or contact us directly for more infor- Chris Brown, piano interfaced to laptop track band of my own going. I had a name, REEL mation about getting Sun 8/1 ACME/Jazz House CHANGE, but that was it. Without hearing a lick your FREE subscrip- Andrew recruited Joe Sabella who had worked with tion, submitting con- .org Ernesto Diaz-Infante Solo acoustic guitar tent, listing an event, continued on page 2 advertising, viewing Sun 8/8 Transbay Skronkathon BBQ archives, or volunteer- ing. Scott Rosenberg’s Skronktet West san francisco bay area monthly publication for Sun 8/8 Transbay Skronkathon BBQ experimental/improvised/noise/electronic/freejazz/ outrock/21st century transgendered music and sonic art REEL CHANGE continued Gino Robair (with input from Phillip Greenlief):

Dino for years creating some great samples. It was a nice The Revolution will be Improvised. continuity. Joe played great soundscapes that helped Top 11 things you can do to improv(e) the situation for all creative musicians (and ultimately, yourself) in the Bay Area. glue Andrew’s winds and the lap steel together. I 11. Cover the scene (e.g., interviews, CD and concert reviews), for a national or international mass-media outlet. thought of the film as a score and trusted that the musi- 10. Encourage local radio stations to play local music and regional print media to cover local events. cians would see the structure. We received some good exposure. KQED did a piece 9. Help out with creating and distributing the Transbay Calendar. John on us for the Independent View TV show where we 8. Form a large ensemble, invite younger musicians to participate, and do some gigs with the group. Shiurba played to films and were interviewed. I still hear from 10 great cds 7. Record and release someone else’s music (particularly someone who is not already well known). people who saw it, even strangers. (Talk about the rip- in no particular order... ple effect!) We added Tom Nunn on bugs and other 6. Get involved in the community (e.g., bring music to the schools or youth organizations, **Dan Plonsey- inventions. He was our first “guest” and one who could support Women’s Audio Mission, etc.). never over stay his welcome. The quartet played The Music of El Cerrito Vol. 2a (Portcullis) 5. Put on a multi-day festival that includes a broad range of musical styles. Or, volun- Exploratorium and Yuerba Buena and actually got paid. **Kyle Bruckmann- Gasps & Fissures teer to work with a festival, perhaps helping solicit business sponsorship, etc. rajar at npr, january George Cremaschi was asked to play and added some **Phillip Greenlief- Stalking Andrei deep bowed bass to the mix. At this point Andrew 4. House a touring musician. **John Butcher & Gino Robair- New Oakland Burr thought he would be leaving town and the band. I went Phillip Greenlief 3. Commission works from local artists and perform them on several **Morgan Guberman & Gail Brand- Ballgames & Crazy to Phillip Greenlief’s “birthday” show with champagne occasions. in hand and asked him to play with REEL CHANGE **Carla Kihlstedt, Matthew Sperry & Gino Robair- Sonarchy Trio Favorite Records of 2004 knowing he was the busiest man in the world. Phillip 2. Curate a performance series that includes artists from out- John Shiurba - Triplicate (Oakland) **Myles Boisen- Past Present Future agreed and was a nice complement to Andrew (who did- side your musical interests. Sam Rivers, Adam Rudolf, Harris Eisentstadt - n’t leave) adding some great “voices” singing and growl- **Natural Dreamers - John Dietrich & Chris Cohen Vista (Florida - LA) 1. Find a unique and non-self-serving way to give ing through his clarinet and other reeds. Gebbia, Goodheart, Powell - Zen Widow (Sicily, something back to the community. **Brian Ferneyhough- Composers’ Art Label We recorded while watching the films usually 2 or Berkeley, Santa Rosa) **Toychestra/Fred Frith- Dan Plonsey’s What Leave Behind 3 improvised takes for each. I would later line these Nathan Hubbard - Skeleton Key Orchestra (San Diego) “takes” up side by side synced to the movie. I would Damon Smith Jeff Kaiser - The Alchemical Mass (Ventura/LA) decide which take was best and then add some spice 1. lisle ellis/biggi vinkeloe @21 grand Kyle Bruckmann - Gasps & Fissures (SF) from the others. The results were often organized or Myles Boisen - Past - Present - Future (Oakland) 2. bertram turezky solo @cnmat (Zelner Continued) composed but with a spontaneous and sometimes wild Butcher/Robair - (London - Oakland) 28-Feb - What We Live (Larry Ochs, Lisle Ellis, Donald Robinson) feel to them. Our feet were on the ground while our 3. wolfgang fuchs/jacob lindsay sopranio/Ab clarinet duo Humph! - (Self-titled) (Portland) with guest Nels Cline heads were in the sky. At one point George asked, “Why @ 21 grand Steuart Liebig - Minim (LA) The Jazz House, Berkeley; two sets all the recording?” I wanted to document the band. Top 1 0 Films of 2004 Once Phillip asked us to be on his Evander music label I 4. frank gratkowski/joelle leandre/david wessel/chris brown 12-May - Adam Lane/Vinny Golia/Vijay Anderson Trio, John 1) The Corporation (US) set my sights on a CD release. Joe Sabella set his sights @cnmat Butcher/Gino Robair Duo, and Philip Gelb/Shoko on teaching and in time called it quits. I took a bigger Hikage/Alex Cline Trio 2) Dogville (US/Denmark) 5. henry kaiser solo acoustic guitar + book review of "derek bai- role in directing the band and worked hard at becoming 21 Grand, Oakland; SFAlt Festival 2004 (first night) 3) Saraband (Sweden) ley and the art of improvisation" by ben watson @1510 4) Bad Education (Spain) a better lap steel player. I began to recognize that wry 14-May - Randy Yau, William Hooker & Moe! Staiano, and Uncle 5) Kill Bill (US) smile on Andrew’s face when I played something good. 6. space between w/mark dresser @cnmat (John Shiurba & Myles Boisen) 6) The Return (Russia) “You’re getting a lot better,” Joe would say, “We would- Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco; SFAlt Festival 2004 (third night) 7) Hero (China) n’t be playing with you if you weren’t.” 7. martin blume/jerome bryerton @21 grand The improv scene reminded me of the film scene in the 11-Jun - Myles Boisen, David Slusser, 8) Father and Son (Russia) 8. brotzmann 9) The Fog of War (US) late 1970s. I was thrilled to be involved but the audi- & Aaron Bennett’s Drinking Straw Ensemble 21 Grand, Oakland; "Duck and Cover" (night 1) 10) Who Killed Bambi? (France) ences were dwindling. I was used to over 100 people at 9. aurora josephson/joelle leandre + jen baker/scott r. the film shows and now we’d be lucky to get half that looney/leandre @1510 13-Jun - Matthew Shipp For complete description of these films many. After 9/11 it got worse. I decided it was over. No Florence Gould Theater, San Francisco and more, go to: http://greenliefon- more film shows. I felt too much good work was going 10. john butcher/gino robair @21 grand/sfalt solo piano, two sets; SFJAZZ Spring Season film.blogspot.com/ unnoticed. This phase didn’t last long. News of my 2-Jul - Meridian Midsummer Music Festival 6 friend Ben Lindgren’s sickness put things in perspective. Myles Boisen, Phil Gelb, Bill Hsu, John Shiurba, and Gino Robair Ben was a great abstract expressionist painter and Michael Zelner Meridian Gallery, San Francisco inspired by his work, I offered to make a film using his Here’s my list of ten favorite "mostly live bay area concerts in In memory of Matthew Sperry paintings. I wish he had lived to see it. The group came back together to record the soundtrack for 2004," listed in chronological order: it minus Joe who was replaced with a cello player, Adam Hurst. Adam revitalized the band, adding REEL 24-Jan - Paul Costuras, Greg Saunier, Heco Davis, Moe! Staiano, 18-Jul - Tribute to Steve Lacy cello to many of the tracks forming a unique chemistry with Andrew and George. Adam could CHANGE Eric Landmark, and Jesse Quattro The Jazz House, Berkeley take the music anywhere. I was always amazed that more musicians didn’t pick up on his play- continues New Langton Arts, San Francisco; "Crawling Out From Under Rock" saxophone solos by Tanja Feichtmair, Allan Chase, Ben Goldberg, ing and use him. He fell in love and moved to Portland but not before we did more recordings David Slusser, Steve Adams, Dan Plonsey, and Andrew Voigt on 16-Feb - Luc Houtkamp and Friends as a quartet, with Tom and Andrew. I found myself left with enough material for 2 CDs! page 3 The Jazz House, Berkeley It took quite a while to finalize the mixes. Some tracks got lost in cyber space and 7-Dec- Joelle Leandre w/Myra Melford, Phillip Greenlief, Damon solo set, then with Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, George Cremaschi, had to be recovered and remixed from scratch! And maybe I was too fussy with the mixes. Smith, Spirit, Scott Looney, & Aurora Josephson1510 Performance and Tom Djll Space, Oakland; "Au Revoir, Joelle;" four short sets transbay creative music calendar • JANUARY 2005 • 2 transbay creative music calendar • JANUARY 2005 • 7 REEL CHANGE continued Scott Looney Matt Ingalls Suki O’Kane’s Top Ten continued There are many subtleties that few or even one person will I really didn’t go out to see much music, but here are some of 10 great performances of 2004: the most memorable nights (in no order of ranking) hear. When I mentioned this to Andrew recently he remarked, “I heard it, so don’t worry about it.” I took the CD BEST SHOW FOR FINDING A BUNCH OF 3/8 Mills College sfSoundSeries -Omaggio Berio (esp the Sequenza V by Toyoji) to Myles Boisen for mastering but found I couldn’t get the DRUMMERS SITTING IN A ROW Tom Djll, solo trumpet sound I was after in the 90 minutes I could afford so I pur- 6-Mar: Altamont II with Deerhoof, Triangle, X-27, Bobby Urs Limegruber/Barre Phillips/Jacques Dumeire CNMAT (or 4/18 ACME chased the necessary software and mastered it myself. Still it Conn, Arctic Universe, Numbers, Da Hawnay Troof was this in 2003?) Matthew Goodheart, solo piano was good to play it for Myles. I had taken a few guitar Liminal Arts, Oakland lessons from him and was curious as to what he thought. I 4tet Aurora/Joelle Leandre/Damon/Martin Blume (October 4/27 Mills College BEST SHOW FOR RUBBING SFALT YOUR WOUNDS asked, “How did I do Myles? I’m trying to provide some 18th-Berkeley Arts Center) Alvin Curran: "Shofar... Or None Of The Above", 14-May: Randy Yau, atmosphere with the lap steel.” “Well,” he said, “without with Carla Kihlstedt, William Winant, Anne Hege William Hooker & Moe! I Norton - Jazzhouse atmosphere we couldn’t breathe.” Staiano, and Uncle (John (Nov 3rd ACME The graphics and cover art took quite a while to 5/14 SFALT - Hemlock Tavern Shiurba & Myles Boisen) Observatory) w/ Mills complete. Since this was a soundtrack CD I wanted the Uncle : Myles Boisen + John Shiurba, guitars Hemlock Tavern, San Ensemble images to be high quality and representative of the films. I Francisco 6/18 21Grand became the devil in the details. Deadlines came and went. Trio Marco Eneidi/Chris SFAlt Festival 2004 (third Bryan Eubanks + John Krausbauer, Phillip Greenlief must have wondered if I was crying “wolf”. Brown/Donald Robinson night) sax+guitar+feedback The incompletion of the project threw me into a deep (October 31 - Festa De La depression, a place where this excitable boy had never been. SPEAKING OF ASSES, Scorpione - 1510 7/15 Eddie’s Park Finally the arrival day came. I was too nervous to sit and BEST SHOW FOR GET- Performance Space) Bran (..) Pos, solo electronics wait for the UPS truck so my wife Marie signed for the 10 TING A NECK ACHE boxes of CDs. sfSoundSeries - WHILE SEEING MUSI- 8/28 sfSoundSeries I can say the end product turned out very close to what I Minimalist night (the CIANS SPANK BUTTS Kyle Bruckmann, solo oboe had in mind. I discovered a new excitement for the music 25-Jun: Matmos with Glass and Andriessen 9/19 ACME and set up a CD release show on January 22 at 21 Grand in Francis Dhomont, Richard esp) Aurora Josephson, solo voice Oakland. REEL CHANGE will be: Andrew Voigt, George Chartier, and Jean-Francois sfSoundSeries - perfor- Cremaschi, Tom Nunn, Phillip Greenlief, David Michalak and Denis mance of Lachenmann’s 10/28 Evander Music October Festival guest Kyle Bruckman. A million thanks to the musicians for Recombinant Labs Big City Orchestra during Neighborhood Public Radio series, January Allegro Sostenuto & Jazz House Fundraiser their dedication and so much inventive music. REEL Compound, San Francisco Bryan Eubanks + Leif Sundström + Joseph Foster, CHANGE is coming! "Dhomontos" analong syth kit + busted 70’s stereo + trumpet SF Opera - The Grand Macabre (Ligeti) BEST SHOW FOR KEEPING IT TOGETHER UNTIL SOME- 11/9 SFOpera THING REALLY GETS YOU AND YOU CAN’T KEEP IT Bischoff and Perkis at 964 Natoma for the Field Effects series Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre Suki O’Kane TOGETHER NO MORE Cheryl Leonard’s Instruments in Trees BEST SHOW FOR RUNNING INTO THE WOMAN WHO WORDLESS- 12-Jul: Tom Djll, Ron Heglin, Toyoji Tomita The Best CD of 2004: with OrcheSperry, Matthew Sperry Trio, et al. LY WALKS BY YOUR BUS STOP EVERY MORNING Devil Lovers (Cremaschi/Shiurba/Rosenberg) premiere set at Kyle Bruckmann’s Gasps and Fissures 21 Grand, Oakland 17 Jan: Big City Orchestra, Matt Davignon, RAJAR, and CMAU the Olympia Experimental Music Festival Olympia WA 2nd Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Concert with Tim Perkis and Wobbly, Lance Grabmiller, Jon Brumit, Recursive Heretics: 21 Grand, Allright, that’s eleven - sue me. BEST FRITH COVER EVER PERFORMED IN FRONT OF FRITH Oakland 3-Sep: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum with Toychestra, Death Neighborhood Public Radio Ambient, and Carla Bozulich Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland BEST SHOW FOR UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR Rock and a Hard Place AUDIENCE REALLY THINKS OF YOUR MUSIC tie: BEST PERFORMANCE TORN FROM THE PAGES OF THE COL- 31-Jan: Rova Saxophone Quartet LAGE MADE THE NIGHT BEFORE The Jazz House, Berkeley 5-Sep: Scarnella with Che Guevara Memorial Marching (and and Stationary) Accordion Band 27-Jun : Daniel Popsicle Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Swan’s Courtyard, Oakland Open Gate Theatre presents BEST SHOW FOR A COLLISION OF EXPECTA- BEST MUSIC TO WATCH DIABOLICAL VEGETABLE SEX TO TIONS 6-Nov: Uncle Bad Touch at the PornOrchestra with I Will Kill 7-Feb: Flying Luttenbachers, SpezzaRotto, and You Fucker and Militant Children’s Hour Toychestra 21 Grand, Oakland El Rio, San Francisco

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Sat 1 /1 9:00 PM $1 5 Jazz at Pearl’s [256 Columbus Ave. (at Broadway) San Francisco, CA 941 33] Sat 1 /22 8:00 PM $1 5/1 0 ODC Dance Theatre [31 53 1 7th St @ Shotwell SF] Raymond Scott’s music is known mostly as a soundtrack for Looney Tunes. Jeff The San Francisco Tape Music Festival Sanford’s 13-piece band re-introducesaudiences to Scott’s inspired, genre (and sometimes gravity)-defyingmusic. Sat 1 /22 9:30 PM Starry Plough [31 01 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley] Crater; The Nels Cline Singers with Ben Goldberg; Ben Goldberg Thu 1 /6 8:00 PM $6-1 0 Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1 007 Market St. Sun 1/23 4:00 PM $20 Chez Hanny [145 Fillmore (x Waller) San Francisco] @ 6th Street SF] Sheldon Brown Group with Sheldon Brown reeds and composer, Jonathan Alford 8pm: Ghost In The House (Karen Stackpole: Gongs, Kyle Bruckmann:Oboe, David piano, Michael Wilcox, electric bass, Alan Hall, drums. Michalak: Lap Steel Guitar, Tom Nunn: Bug & Inventions) 9pm: Alan Courtis (of Reynols) with Thomas Dimuzio Sun 1 /23 7:30 PM $5, $8, $1 0 SIMM Series/Outsound Research [Musicians Union Thu 1 /6 8:30 PM 5$ Boccis Cellar [1 40 Encinal St Santa Cruz] Hall 1 1 6 9th St @ Mission SF] Somethingfourplays all orginal music. Drawing TBA on influences of jazz,experimentalrock & avant Thu 1 /27 8:00 PM $6-1 0 sliding scale Luggage Store garde. 2 sets. Gallery New Music Series [1 007 Market St. @ 6th Fri 1 /7 9:00 PM $8 Elbo Room [647 Valencia SF] Street SF] SAGAN, also SPOONBENDER1.1.1, and IRR. APP. 9pm: Antimatter (Xopher Davidson) (EXT.) Fri 1 /28 8:00 PM $20 The Jazz Bakery [3233 Helms Sun 1 /9 8:01 PM Free JavaCat Coffee [5549 Geary Avenue Los Angeles (31 0) 271 9039] Blvd at 20th Ave SF] Kahil El’Zabar/ Billy Bang/ Fareed Haque: THREE Live electronic ambient music remixed by Lx NIGHTS of SUBLIME SONIC GLORY(Friday Rudis (Drum Machine Museum) and Beau Casey through Sunday) with these Modern Music (Cypod). Masters at Los Angeles’ Premiere Jazz Performance Space!!! Mon 1 /1 0 8:00 PM $1 2/1 0 ODC Dance Theatre [31 53 1 7th St @ Shotwell SF] sfSoundSeries:Cage, Braxton, Webern, Bithell Sat 1 /29 8:00 PM $1 2 general; $8 students/seniors/disabled Trinity Chapel [2320 Thu 1 /1 3 8:00 PM $6-1 0 Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1 007 Market St. Dana Street (between Durant & Bancroft) Berkeley] @ 6th Street SF] Double Bill: Solo sets by Diane Grubbe, flute, and Phillip Greenlief, saxophone. 8pm NF Orchest formerly Nun Frenzy 9pm Daniel Magay Group Mon 1 /31 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] NICOLAS COLLINS, CCM Fri 1 /1 4 1 8:00 PM $1 5 ODC Dance Theatre [31 53 1 7th Street at Shotwell SF] Composer-in-Residence- The 8pm tuesday jan. 18th @ 1510 8th st. performance space. $6-10 Philip Gelb presents a new solo compositionfor a solo dance by Martine Young. musical joys of "hardware hack- west oakland. 1block from w. oakland bart. $6-10 sausages $2ea ing" are the focus of this perfor- capitalist realism: Fri 1 /1 4 8:00 PM Jupiter [21 81 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley] improvised music and sausage mance by one of the top pio- PLAYS MONK Scott Amendola, drums; Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Devin Hoff, bass neers in the field. Fri 1 /1 4 9:00 PM Cafe Rite Spot [1 7th St. @ Folsom in SF Mision ] Miss Henry- vocals, Ralph Probst -guitar, Steve Fowler -bass set 1 thollem mcdonnas...... piano Sat 1 /1 5 8:00 PM $1 5 ODC Dance Theatre [31 53 1 7th FEBRUARY 2005 set 2 Street at Shotwell SF] liz allbee...... trumpet jen baker...... trombone Philip Gelb presents a new solo compositionfor a solo damon smith...... double bass

dance by Martine Young. set 3 randy mckean...... saxophone Thu 2/3 8:00 PM $6-1 0 sliding scott r. looney...... piano and electronics Sat 1 /1 5 8:00 PM Trinity Chapel [2320 Dana St btwn noah phllips...... guitar Bancroft & Durant Avenue Berkeley] scale Luggage Store Gallery john hanes...... percussion New Music Series [1 007 Market "capitalist realism" was a german pop art movement formed by artist Jon Raskin, solo saxophone sigmar polke and gerhard richter and others. polke used images of sausages in his abstract works, we are serving actual sausage with our St. @ 6th Street SF] abstract music , making the event a new form of capitalist realism. currywurst, bockwusrt, bratwurst, veggiewusrt and other Tue 1 /1 8 8:00 PM $6-1 0 1 51 0 8th St Performance Space 8pm: Twine (Doug Carroll: elec- fine sausages available. http://www.balancepointacoustics.com [1 51 0 8th Street Oakland] tric cello & Tom Nunn: inven- http://www.bayimproviser.com capitalist realism: improvised music and sausage tions) macdonnas + allbee/baker/smith+ 9pm: Stackenäs/Nordeson/ phillips/mckean/looney/hanes Smith trio (Guitar/Double- bass/Percussiontrio from Stockholm/SanFrancisco) Thu 1 /20 8:00 PM $6-1 0 Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1 007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] Sat 2/5 8:00 PM $1 2 Mills College Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] 8pm TBA ELIANE RADIGUE - This pioneering French composer of electroacousticmusic 9pm Phillip Greenlief/TheresaWong Duo envelops the listener with her unique, meditative, exquisitely crafted world of Thu 1 /20 8:00 PM $1 5/1 0 ODC Dance Theatre [31 53 sound 1 7th St @ Shotwell SF] Sun 2/6 8:00 PM $6-1 0 21 Grand [449B 23rd St. Near 1 9th Street BART Oakland] The San Francisco Tape Music Festival David Stackenäs (Stockholm),guitar + Damon Smith (Oakland), bass + Kjell Fri 1 /21 8:00 PM $1 5/1 0 ODC Dance Theatre [31 53 1 7th Nordeson (Stockholm/SF),percussion St @ Shotwell SF] The San Francisco Tape Music Festival Mon 2/7 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland] BIGGI VINKELOE - The Swedish-basedsax player and flautist performs solo music Fri 1 /21 9:00 PM $1 0 Jazz at Pearl’s [256 Columbus composed in real time with roots in both European and Jazz traditions. Ave., SF 941 33] Blue Balkan’s Afro-SerbianJazz offers a vibrant, global Wed 2/9 8:00 PM suggested donation $1 0 Meridian Gallery [545 Sutter Street SF] jam session sound that infuses jazz tunes with exotic Meridian Music presents a noted composer/performertba rhythms and accents. Thu 2/1 0 8:00 PM $6-1 0 Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series [1 007 Market St. Fri 1 /21 1 0:00 PM 5$ Connecticut Yankee [1 00 @ 6th Street SF] Connecticut St SF] 8pm Bob Marsh, whoknowswhat/BrianEubanks (Portland, OR), saxes and stuff Somethingfourplays all orginal music. Drawing on 9pm Stuart Hinds, solo overtone vocalist (Lubbock, TX) influences of jazz,experimentalrock the Thu 2/1 0 8:30 PM $1 2.00 Exploratorium [3601 Lyon St. & avant garde. 2 sets. San Francisco San Francisco, CA 941 23] Tape Music Festival 2005 Come to the Exploratoriumand hear Matmos, a musi- Sat 1 /22 6:00 PM free with dinner Lydia’s Organic presented by the New San Francisco Tape Music Center Foods [31 Bolinas Road • Fairfax, CA 94930] sfSoundSeries and ODC Theater cal group famous for creating sound symphoniesusing Philip Gelb will present traditional and contempo- Thu, Fri, & Sat ODC Theater an eclectic array of gathered sound. Jan 20 - 22 8pm 3153 17th Street (@ Shotwell) rary pieces for shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) San Francisco $15 a night / $36 festival pass http://www.odctheater.org http://sfSound.org/tape Sat 1 /22 8:00 PM 21 Grand [449B 23rd St. Near 1 9th Street BART Oakland] Cinema for the Ear A 3-day festival of fixed media audio art distributed in Evander Music Presents "Open In Total Darkness" real-time across a sixteen-loudspeaker surround sound system. Featured works include classics by Morton Feldman, Gyorgy PLEASE GO TO WWW.TRANSBAYCALENDAR.ORGFOR DETAILS ABOUT the REEL CHANGE CD Release Show. Featuring Ligeti, and Frank Zappa; audio dramas; 3D nature recordings; THESE EVENTS, PLUS UPDATES AND SUBMISSIONGUIDELINES and new compositions by local and international composers, Andrew Voigt; Tom Nunn; George Cremaschi; including the Bay Area premiere of "FERN", a 16-channel Phillip Greenlief; David Michalak; Kyle Bruckmann theatrical sound piece by Merlin Coleman. [visit web site for details] performing live to films by David Michalak