ma++ otate tool" issue! its the "fun with the r sessions and recording recording and world, including including world, on festival, workshops workshops festival, performance at the the at performance 5) Provide Provide 5) scene Notes Area players to to players Area John Lee the US and around the the around and US the from other cities in in cities other from SFAlt interact with players players with interact music year-round music that support the the support that opportunities for Bay Bay for opportunities 3) Build audiences Build 3) 4) Support the venues venues the Support 4) Area Creative Music Music Creative Area 1) Present a a Present 1) awareness of the Bay Bay the of awareness international press press international 2) Build local and and local Build 2) variety of styles of variety of good music in a a in music good of concentrated festival festival concentrated Festival Objectives Festival by 1) Present a variety of styles as This year it appears that we have another strong festival. Looking at Personal Observations of the Author Transbay Creative Music Calendar and the lineup, it defined by the coverage of the We have a number of special guests from around the world, including 1) SFAlt has been very successful in presenting good music. With bayimproviser.com: Experimental,Selection process Ned Rothenberg, Gianni Gebbia, John Butcher, William Hooker and only a couple of exceptions, each set has met or exceeded my ’ SFAlt 2004 others. We are presentings difficult several to imagine rarely any heard set orbeing unusual less pairings:than great. expectations. We’ve brought in some really great players that Avant-GardeNoise, andElectronic, Modern Composition Free-Jazz, Positive Knowledge with Kitundu, Subtle, William Hooker with Moe!, rarely play in the Bay Area such as Joe McPhee, Scott Fields, Seth Jack Wright with German improvisers Sabine Vogel and Michael Griener, Alex Cline with Phillip Gelb and Shoko Hikage, and Brassiosaurus with Misterka, Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii, Haco, Eugene Chadbourne, Chris Forsythe and others. 2) The pairings of out of town and local players have been great. 2) Improvised, Present a mixture We are again sponsoring a workshop as part of the festival, this year For example, Joe McPhee with India Cooke and Donald Robinson and featuring British saxophone virtuoso John Butcher. The workshop will Eugene Chadbourne with Tim Perkis. out-of-townof Bay playersArea and be Tuesday May 11th. For more information about this workshop, please 3) The workshops, partially subsidized by SFAlt, have been players when it makes sense 3) email Gino Robair at [email protected] and put "Workshop" in the May successful. The first 2 years Damon Smith brought in Wolfgang Combine local Dina Emerson. Fuchs, and this year Gino Robair is bringing in John Butcher. and non-local 2004 4) There has been some benefit to the local musicians, including 4) the ability to play and record with some of the out of town Attempt, over musicians. severalthe yearscourse of of first first 5) Press awareness has not increased dramatically yet, although if the festival, to decided to to decided hold the the hold cover the broad The remaining remaining The subject line. the festival continues I believe in a few years we’ll start seeing committee committee members members constraints. constraints. some feature articles and additional press coverage. philosophical philosophical differences differences 6) The first two years probably had too many sets, spreading out spectrum of or time time or committee due due committee the audiences. For 2004 we’ve scaled back to 5 nights with 3 sets musicians dropped out out dropped each. participants participants John Butcher of the the of to to 7) We need to continue trying to diversify the musical content. It in the time, some some time, course of of course would be nice to have more electronics and modern composition in local Over the the Over would be. be. would future festivals. We need to continue trying to include folks that scene festival festival held in 2001 2001 in held to discuss discuss to what the the what meetings were were meetings haven’t played before. This year, about 70% of the musicians in the festival have not played the festival before, but in booking participating participating interested in in interested and a few few a and initial initial future festivals we need to continue to favor folks who haven’t people were were people played in previous years. Bay Area. A A Area. Bay number of of number Music in the the in Music 8) The long-term viability of the festival will be dependent upon organizers of of organizers musicians and and musicians getting outside funding from grants, sponsorship, donations, etc. Creative Creative This is one of the most challenging areas, since it takes a high word out to to out word and sent the the sent and level of concentrated focus and a certain talent for dealing with festival was was festival a good idea idea good a other other bureaucracy, building relationships with funding sources, and attention to detail. Currently, there is no one working in this thought a thought area, which does not bode well for the future of the festival. Ernesto Ernesto Ernesto Diaz- Ernesto Rent and Rent Anyone who feels they have the desire and aptitude to contribute in Infante. Infante. Wright, Rent Rent Wright, Romus and and Romus this area should contact me. conversations conversations among Jack Jack among 9) There has been less feedback from audiences and musicians than I few years ago ago years few would have expected. There have been a few grumblings about the (SFAlt) first first (SFAlt) surfaced a a surfaced lineups, a few pats on the back from appreciative musicians and in in Festival Festival fans, and some interest from press and radio. But for the most Alternative Alternative Francisco Francisco Music Music part, I haven’t heard much, nor has there been much discussion on The idea for for idea The the San San the ba-newmus or other discussion venues. All input and suggestions are welcome, and especially positive input would be welcome in History order to help justify the cost and effort involved in putting the festival together. 10) Attendance has been ok but needs to be better. Our shows have been better attended then the average Bay Area Creative Music show, which is encouraging, but still many shows have had only 25 or so paid admissions. I would encourage anyone who believes in the worthiness of the festival to make a special effort to attend this year as a sign of support. William Hooker drinking straw music!!! straw drinking and John Finkbeiner's John and Luggage Store Gallery Aaron Bennett's Bennett's Aaron New Music Series PLUS Thu 5/6 8:00 PM $6-10 Cheryl Leonard, T Joshua Churchillim Blue & Thu 5/13 8:00 PM $12 SF T Marcos Fernandes,rummerflora NathanAlt Collective: Music Hubbard, Festival Robert Montoya, A.L. Dentel Normal: Fred Frith - Guitar Sudhu Ned Rothenberg - Solo Saxophone T Thu 5/20 ewari - Electronics CLOSED Al Scholl, Ellen W Thu 5/27 8:00 PM $6-10 mundane media & , (not)quiet presents TBA [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] www eller www Sunday May 2 8:15p 2 May Sunday www .balancepointacoustics.com .outsound.org .bayimproviser 1 block from west oakland bart. oakland west from block 1 acoustics of 1510. located in a quaint, lovely and historic west oakland neighborhood, oakland west historic and lovely quaint, a in located 1510. of acoustics free improvised chamber music for strings and piano, on a fine piano in the intimate intimate the in piano fine a on piano, and strings for music chamber improvised free previous concerts featured kjell nordeson and biggi vinkeloe. this is a rare chance to hear hear to chance rare a is this vinkeloe. biggi and nordeson kjell featured concerts previous this is the third installment of the looney/smith duo meets an improviser from sweden. sweden. from improviser an meets duo looney/smith the of installment third the is this Films by John Church Monica Gazzo Amy Happ Philip .com Big Sur Experimental Music Festival 2004: Hoffman Marjorie Sturm Caveh Zahedi and more Sound/Shift Big Sur + piano Music by 99Hooker Ausberto Acevedo Joe (MetaMan) r scott & looney . double bass double Balesteri Bob Bellerue CJ "Reaven" Borosque Smith Damon The Anais Nin Video & Film Diary Festival Mitchell Brown Lara Bruckmann Kyle Bruckmann Jon (sweden/philly)'cello Brumit Jared Butler Samuel Campbell Leticia espvall-santoleri helena Friday to Sunday Castaneda Bob Crowmeat Andre Custodio Matt May 28 - 30 2004 Davignon Bryan Day Ernesto Diaz-Infante Thomas w @chester st 8th 1510 25th may tuesday $6-10 8pm noon to 7pm (music); 8:30pm to 10:30pm (video) 3: part 1510 @ improvisers swedish Dimuzio Tom Djll Tim DuRoche James Edmiston Will $10 - 1 day/$15 - 2 days Eizlini Dina Emerson Helena Espvall-Santoleri $30 for a festival pass Cuca Esteves Marcos Fernandes Scott Fraser Philip oakland . a benefit for the Henry Miller Memorial Library Gayle Eric Glick Rieman Lance Grabmiller Pawel Grabowski Jonathon Grasse Phillip Greenlief [The Henry Miller Memorial Library, Highway 1, Joseph Hammer Emily Hay Greg Headley Ron Heglin Big Sur, Calif.]tel: 831-667-2574 Matt Herman Damon Holzborn Anna Homler Bill Horist Jonathan Horne Wayne Jackson David Over 90 experimental musicians from the San Javelosa David Kendall Kitundu Adam Lane Markus Francisco Bay Area and Beyond are coming together Launsburry Marina Lazzara Bill Leikam David to play a freely improvised seven-hour piece of "d.bug" Leikam Eric Leonardson Nathan Levine music each day.