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CONCERT REVIEW BY AMAR CHAUDHARY / CATSYNTH | FEBRUARY 15 Matt Davignon/Hugh Behm-Steinberg duo and Bill Walker, Luggage Store Gallery

Today we review the February 8 concert to compare our respective performances. During his performance, Walker played at the Luggage Store Gallery, featuring Pitta of the Mind took a more traditional compositions in tribute to his father, as poetry, music and virtuosic guitar. The approach to the use of words, preserving well as to Kim Flint, who was very ac- evening opened with the music-and- the structure of the poetry and practice of tive in the looping and electronic-music Location Recording poetry duo of Matt Davignon and Hugh reading alongside a variety of electronic communities, and the founder of Loop- 8-Channels of Audiofile Behm-Steinberg. sounds and stage performance, while the ers Delight. There were also moments of I had seen them perform together before, Davignon/Behm-Steinberg duo took a humor in his set, such as a piece based Gear at a Low Rate: and it was interesting to see how the col- more abstract approach blending words on samples of Mr. T. Metric Halo ULN-8 laboration has evolved since then. The and music into a single soundscape. Overall, this was another strong perfor- B&K 4011s structure has become more abstract, mov- The next set featured a solo performance mance in the Thursday-night series at the ing from a poetry reading accompanied by by Bill Walker on guitars and electronics. Luggage Store Gallery, and I was glad I $50 hr. live electronics to an electronic-music duo He brought a variety of electric and lap- braved a downpour to go see it. [email protected] using Behm-Steinberg’s words and voice steel guitars and array of electronics for as the sound source. Snippets of poetry looping and other effects. March 2013 were transformed through the many ped- His guitar-playing was itself virtuosic, eas- als, wires and other bits of electronics ily moving between different styles and into percussive loops, slowly undulating playing and textures ranging from long calendar continued from inside Sunday March 24 Patrick Breiner and Cathlene Pineda met at a sustained sounds, and other elements. workshop in Banff, Canada in May of 2012. Their drones to fast-moving percussive sounds. Friday March 22 Shotwell Studios • 2pm $15-20, $10 student, seniors mutual love of Duke Ellington sparked a friendship There still were places where the words His use of looping allowed him to build up Footloose presents: The Green Wood which almost immediately blossomed into an and phrases remained intelligible amidst more complex layers with different tex- Duende • 9pm $15 Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 exploratory musical relationship. the electronic sounds, particularly at the tures. The lap-steel guitar sections, which The Bill Horvitz Expanded Band CD release concert 8 pm: Daniel Bachman - acoustic guitar 9 pm: Joshua Marshall - tenor saxophone beginnings of pieces. I thought it was included a visually interesting custom-built for The Long Walk. The Long Walk is a suite of eight Touring off and on since the age of 17, Bachman Eli Wallace - piano good to have this in order to stay con- instrument, were haunting without resort- pieces composed by Bill Horvitz for the 17-piece Bill has managed to cover thorough ground across the Joshua Marshall (tenor saxophone) and Eli Wallace nected to the idea that there was poetry ing to some of the instrument’s cliches. Horvitz Expanded Band as a tribute to his youngest US, sharing stages with like minded folk such as (piano) have recently formed a new musical involved and that it wasn’t just an elec- It was an impressive display of both brother Philip Horvitz, who passed away suddenly fellow Fredericksburg native Jack Rose, for whom relationship and are currently in the process of tronic improvisation duo. Having just instrument technique and coordination of a heart failure in 2005 at the age of 44. The music he fashioned the artwork for the posthumous release defining and cultivating their own sonic sphere, which performed there the week before in a of electronics, and was quite a beautiful includes a wide range of styles drawing on jazz, funk, of ‘Luck In The Valley’. His newest effort is the full emerges from divergent backgrounds while sharing poetry-and-music duo, it is quite tempting performance overall. folk, and new music. Each piece relates in some way length LP ‘Seven Pines’, sprung from a year living and certain propensities. to a part of Philip’s life. working in the city of Philadelphia. Kyle Bruckman oboe/English horn; Aram Shelton 9 pm: hearts and horses: jeanette steed - prepared clarinet/bass clarinet; Steve Adams flute/alto rhodes, piano, voice; wes steed - analog synthesizer Thursday March 28 saxophone; Cory Wright tenor saxophone; Jon Raskin thomas monson - drums Luggage Store New Music Series • 8pm $6-10 baritone saxophone; Hal Forman trumpet; Darren 8 pm Mountain vs Building Johnston trumpet; John Chapman French horn; Ned The Hearts & Horses Method creates beautiful sound- Michael Grandi - guitar, Brian Lucas - bass Haran trombone; Nathan Riebli tuba; Wayne Horvitz scapes that merge the groove-elements of trip hop Mark Pino - percussion and drums, Sheila Bosco - piano; Sarah Jo Zaharako violin; Crystal Passucci with electro-acoustic improvisation. Jeanette Stead’s drums and keyboard cello; Dan Seamans bass; Vijay Anerson drums; Bill vocals add a dream-like moodiness to Wes Stead’s 9 pm The Use (Michael Durek) Horvitz guitar modular synthesizer exploration, while Cake drummer Thomas Monson keeps the music grounded in pulse. Friday March 29 Saturday March 23 Tuesday March 26 Berkeley Arts • 8pm $10-20 Shotwell Studios • 8pm $15-20, $10 student, seniors 8 pm: Jasper Hussong Quartet with Schott, Cass, and Footloose presents: The Green Wood - A (super) Tom’s Place • 7:30pm Glenn; natural opera by David Samas. For sonic painting, Dave Hatt, solo piano, playing contemporary works 9 pm: John Schott conducts 15 member String extended technique voice, piano, strings and invented including Elliot Carter’s Piano Sonata, with special Orchestra. instruments a genre-bending, sonic romp through guest Gino Robair 9:20 pm: Peter Knight - Solo trumpet, prepared flugel the world’s forests with an orchestra of invented instruments fashioned from raw materials.Keith William Walker Cudaback-piano, Rob Wright-upright bass, Lee Wednesday March 27 Davignon/Behm-Steinberg duo Photo: PeterBKaars.com Photo: PeterBKaars.com Charlton-percussion. Very modern. Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 8 pm: Patrick Breiner - tenor saxophone, clarinet the san francisco bay area monthly publication for Cathlene Pineda - piano experimental/improvised/noise/electronic/freejazz/outrock/21st century transgenred music and sonic art the transbay Creative Music Calendar

Friday March 1 David Slusser / Len Paterson / Steve Clarke / TBA meaning all of the sounds that reach the human ear cracked up, splitting out sounds. “Sounds like ARAM SHELTON’S TON TRIO II from a given source. In this wide-ranging conversation, death via sasquatch.” Sutherland, percussion; Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 venue The Lab • 7:30pm $8-10 Aram Shelton / Scott Brown / Alex Vittum composer Charles Amirkhanian, soundscape ecologist Katelus, Hammond Organ; Matt Hartman, Electric 8 pm: Sheldon Brown’s Distant Intervals Fred Frith / Jason Hoopes / Jordan Glenn with Bernie Krause, and film editor and sound designer Saxophone Sheldon Brown - Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet; guests information Tuesday March 5 Walter Murch consider the environmental implications Lorin Benedict - Voice; Andrew Joron - Theremin, and artistic possibilities of aural landscapes and Julia Mazawa plays loops. A simple set up - one Poetry; Dave MacNab - Guitar; John Finkbeiner Turquoise Yantra Grotto • 8pm free Actual Cafe Berkeley Arts Festival • 7pm $10-20 ambient sounds. sound source, looped and amplified - is all that - Guitar; Michael Wilcox - Bass; Vijay Anderson - 6334 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland [at Alcatraz] Plastic Critters CD Release Party: Plasticity, for 8 pm: Chris Brown - piano, electronics is required to create infinitely varied sound. Drums Sonoglyph and Chamber Orchestra, was written in Berkeley Arts Festival Nate Wooley - trumpet Center for New Music • 7:30pm $15 General/$10 Ritwik Banerji’s Whiskey Book - a collection of Distant Intervals explores the overlapping 2133 University Ave., Berkeley 2009 for Tom Nunn. His remarkable invention is one East Coast trumpeter Nate Wooley is visiting the west Members compositions for improvisers, with Ritwik Banerji, boundaries of music, speech and sense. Much of of the most versatile instruments a composer will coast and making an appearance at Berkeley Arts Berkeley Art Museum Larry Ochs will be joined by Nate Wooley, Sam Aram Shelton, Aaron Bennett, saxophones; Tom the music is derived from the speech melodies of 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley find, with many materialsMARCH arranged fluidly on the with local electronic music legend Chris Brown in a Ospovat, and Jason Hoopes for an evening of Ferguson, bass; Jordan Glenn, drums. poets, specifically Bay Area Surrealist poets Andrew Center for New Music board, offering endless combinations of color, touch, live set of improvisations. improvisation. This will be Nate Wooley’s only Joron, Ivan Arguelles and the late Philip Lamantia. resonance. 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco 9 pm: Greenlief & Raskin’s 2 + 2 + 2 appearance in San Francisco. Wednesday March 13 9 pm: Ouroboros: Clark Coolidge - Drums; Andrew Phillip Greenlief - alto & tenor saxophones, composer Joron - Theremin; Joe Noble - Flute, Soprano and The Crane House Saturday March 2 Jon Raskin - alto & baritone saxophones, composer; Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $15/$10 for Meridian Gallery • 7:30pm $10, $8 Alto Saxophones; Sheldon Brown - Clarinet, Bass Near Ashby BART. For address/directions contact Kris Tiner - trumpet; Nate Wooley - trumpet; Miya [email protected] duende oakland • 10pm $10 underemployed Meridian Music Composers in Performance Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone Masaoka - koto; Zeena Parkins - harp New Keys; newfangled music for the piano--Spring Series presents new works by Nils Bultmann, San duende duende oakland presents: Fred Frith - electric guitar Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin have enjoyed a long- 468 19th Street, Oakland Phillip Greenlief - saxophones - poised to make a Show! Friday March 8, 2013 8pm at the Berkeley Arts Francisco-based violist, improviser, and composer. Wednesday March 20 term relationship with their 2 + 2 project, combining Festival! Spankin new sounds for the piano! Works by The Lab duo record that explores the notion of drone, this duo pairs of similar instruments with their saxophone 2948 16th Street, San Francisco will play one set at 10 pm Jason Bolte, Sarah Stiles, Ingrid Lee, Bob Marsh and Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 Shotwell Studios • 8pm $15-20, $10 student, duo. On this occasion, saxophones and trumpets are Mike Dale. www.newkeysconcert.org 8 pm: First Day: Roger Kim - Guitar, Jacob Richards seniors Long Haul joined by a pair of long-string instruments to create an - Drums, Oscar Westesson - Bass The Green Wood: A (super)natural opera by David 3124 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Sunday March 3 intriguing sextet! Turquoise Yantra Grotto • 8pm $10-15 First Day strives to demonstrate that music is a Samas. For sonic painting, extended technique Luggage Store Gallery Actual Cafe • 5pm free Masters of Sound Invention language that is at once more specific yet more voice, piano, strings and invented instruments 1007 Market Street, San Francisco [at 6th] Guitarist-vocalist Schott joins with John Hanes Wednesday March 6 Raub Roy universal compared to a language structured by a genre-bending, sonic romp through the world’s Makeout Room and Dan Seamans to play outside originals, inside Edward Schocker w/ Suki O’Kane & Betsy Bigs words, grammar and definitions. forests with an orchestra of invented instruments 22nd Street, San Francisco [at Mission] standards, blues and country chestnuts, and spur- Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 Eric Glick Rieman 9 pm: Alex Pinto - Guitar, Doug Stuart - Bass fashioned from raw materials. Meridian Gallery of-the-moment fun. First Sunday of every month, 8 pm: Chris Brown - piano, electronics; Nate Wooley Shaun Lowecki - Drums 535 Powell Street, San Francisco 5-7pm. - trumpet Mills College Concert Hall • 8pm free The Alex Pinto Trio will be presenting Pinto’s Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 9 pm: Greenlief & Raskin’s 2 + 2 + 2: Phillip Greenlief Mills College Signal Flow 2013: Graduating degree candidates original music that showcases his unique sound 8 pm: Kati Pienimäki Schenker - soprano; Marja 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland SIMM Series • 7:30pm $10/8 - saxophones, compositions; Jon Raskin - alto & participate in Mills’ New Music and Intermedia and concept. Pinto is an active performer across Mutru - piano baritone saxophones, compositions; Nate Wooley - Musicians’ Union Hall 7:30 pm: Virtual Assembly Festival—Signal Flow—an annual four-day musical the Bay Area and recently co-founded the new SF Finnish soprano Kati Pienimaki Schenker will be 116 9th Street, San Francisco [at Mission] Bob Marsh - cello; Jim Ryan - flute; Eli Wallace - trumpet; Kris Tiner - trumpet; Miya Masaoka - koto; event. Performers/composers include: Rachel Trapp, Offside Festival. joined by the extraordinary pianist Marja Mutru, Zeena Parkins - harp Joshua Marshall, Andrew Weathers, and Tim Black. Shotwell Studios piano also from Finland, a graduate of Sibelius Academy, 3252 19th Street, San Francisco 8:30 pm: Noertker’s Moxie Thursday March 14 to present works by greats such as Berg, Sallinen, Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin have enjoyed a long- Temescal Arts Center Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute; Jim Peterson - Sunday March 10 Sibelius and Whitacre, featuring special guest, 511 48th Street, Oakland alto sax, flute; John Vaughn - baritone sax, flute; Bill term relationship with their 2 + 2 project, combining Luggage Store New Music Series • 8pm $6-10 Philip Santos, on violin. Noertker - contrabass; Dax Compise - drums pairs of similar instruments with their saxophone duo. Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 Guest Curation from Greedmink 9 pm: Noah Schenker - bass; Keith Saunders - Tom’s Place 3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley On this occasion, a pair of saxophones and trumpets 8 pm: Dark Precursor; Jim Ryan - saxophone and flute Black Thread, Madalyn Merkey, and Sun Poisoning piano; Smith Dobson Jr - drums Berkeley Arts Festival • 8pm $10-20 are joined by a pair of long-string instruments to Scott Walton - double bass; Mark E. Miller - drums Noah will perform a set of swinging jazz with a Trinity Chapel 8 pm: Emily Hay - flute; Scott Looney - piano; Brad create an intriguing sextet to explore the graphic Special Guest: Dave Sewelson - baritone saxophone Saturday March 16 stellar trio of Keith Saunders on piano and Smith 2320 Dana Street, Berkeley Dutz - percussion compositions of Greenlief & Raskin along with free Dave Sewelson is originally from the East Bay but Dobson Jr. on drums. Turquoise Yantra Grotto Los Angeles based flutist/vocalist Emily Hay and improvisations. arrived in New York City in the Summer of 1978, Trinity Chapel • 8pm $15/$10 32 Turquoise Way, San Francisco settled in the East Village, played in many bands percussionist Brad Dutz team up for the first time Wiener Kids has been described as whimsical and Thursday March 21 Uptown with bay area pianist Scott Looney to create aural Thursday March 7 in the area including the 25 O’Clock Band, Jameel raucous, blurring the line between the poignant 1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland palettes of wicked grooves, mesmerizing improvs, Moondoc’s Jus Grew Orchestra, Noise R Us, and the humorous. The concert will premiere new Luggage Store New Music Series • 8pm $6-10 Mills College Concert Hall • 8pm free Mofungo, Freedomland, and Fast ‘n Bulbous. pieces taking advantage of the Chapel’s space and bluesy moodiness and provocative stream-of- Signal Flow 2013: Graduating degree candidates 8pm: Carver Audain BE MOST WELL-ROUNDED consciousness narratives. Jordan’s recent venture into homemade percussion. 9pm: Jacob Felix Heule and Danishta Rivero participate in Mills’ New Music and Intermedia Center for New Music • 2pm $15-25 UNTO EACHOTHER 9 pm: Lotte Anker - saxophone (denmark); Fred Frith Festival—Signal Flow—an annual four-day musical - guitar WILLIAM PARKER, solo bass + Lisa Mezzacappa’s The Crane House • 8pm $6-10 event. Performers/composers include: Robert Lopez, Bait & Switch **afternoon concert** Rare West Coast 8 pm: A vocal set featuring Ron Heglin and Kattt Friday March 22 This duo has developed over the course of the last Scott Siler, Evelyn Davis, Katherine Harrell, and dude see also appearance by the master bassist and improviser, one Atchley. Shotwell Studios • 8pm $15-20, $10 student, few years during several of Danish saxophonist Lotte Andrew Jamieson. Anker’s numerous projects, most recently the What of the luminaries of improvised music! 9 pm: RTD3 w/ Doug Carroll, Ron Heglin and Tom seniors anouman.net/sfshows/ [scraper site] Nunn. Footloose presents: The Green Wood River Ensemble. Luggage Store New Music Series • 8pm $6-10 creepsville.com/cal [noise and weird music] A (super)natural opera by David Samas 8:00 pm Matt Herman - solo guitar Monday March 11 dardardar.org [shows under $12] For sonic painting, extended technique voice, piano, 8:40 pm CJ Borosque - solo analog electronics Sunday March 17 jon.luini.com/thelist/ [still!] Monday March 4 Long Haul • 9pm $5-10 strings and invented instruments a genre-bending, 9:15 pm dead western theiroldershitwasbetter.com [it’s true] Make-Out Room • 8pm free John Wiese, Waxy Tombs, Jim Kaiser, F.T.P., SIMM Series • 7:30pm $10/$8 sonic romp through the world’s forests with an Gorgeous Suntan Monday Makeout: 7:30 pm Eurostache orchestra of invented instruments fashioned from the persistent caveat AI AI (Karl Evangelista / Eli Wallace / Rei Scampavia Friday March 8 8:30 pm Lucio Menegon Ensemble raw materials. Ross Hammond - guitar, Shawn Hale - double bass, Schedules are subject to change, and the Evangelista / Robert Lopez Berkeley Art Museum • 6pm $7 Tuesday March 12 Dax Compise - drums reasons can be totally appalling, flying in the The NEW DAVE SLUSSER QUARTET Surrounded by Soundscapes: Charles Amirkhanian, calendar continued on back Uptown • 9pm donation “...Disharmony... is simply a harmony to which many face of human reason. Please confirm details Bernie Krause, Walter Murch - Canadian composer Wiggwaum is a spell of reeds, vox, percussion are unaccustomed.” - John Cage provided in this publication R. Murray Schafer coined the term “soundscape,” and A100 Hammond organ; amped up, melted, by visiting transbaycalendar.org.