I will be performing electro-acoustic improve with some friends and PD patches at this all day barbeque music extravaganza in Qakland California this weekend. If your in the neighborhood, come by - its free$

Sunday, Jul 15 2007 12:30 PM

21 Grand 416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland Click for Venue page on bayimproviser

In conjunction with 21 Grand's 7th anniversary celebration, the 7th annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ is an all-day marathon music and BBQ extravaganza. Admission is free, but we'll pass the hat for the benefit of the Transbay Creative Music Calendar. We'll have a couple of charcoal grills out in the alleyway for your gustatory pleasure (BRING STUFF TO GRILL!) and a double load of the Bay Area's best creative musicians inside for your listening pleasure.

If you are unable to attend, you can listen to a live internet stream, provided by sfSoundRadio.

Schedule (subject to change!):

Time Performer 12:30 The Transbay Circulation Desk Folding, labeling, stamping and skronking with the Transbay Calendar staff: Matt Davignon, Tom Duff, Matt Ingalls, Aurora Josephson, David Slusser 1:00 womans worth matthew grothman, alto, wilson drozdowski, trumpet, randylee sutherland, drums; dense yet melodic improvised outbursts with a strong focus on dynamics and form. 1:30 Recursive Heretics Scott R. Looney uses his laptop to process Aaron Bennett's saxophone, resulting in a creative feedback loop of rare improvisational beauty. 2:00 Polly Moller & Company Guitarist Grant Gardner and bassist Jim Carr have come to Oakland from New Jersey and Kentucky, respectively just to do Polly Moller's bidding. The result should be poetry, flutistry and otherworldly atmospheres. 2:30 Cornelius Cardew Choir The Bay Area's own community new music chorus performs new works and Avant Garde classics 3:00 Jonathan Segel 3:30 Davignon/Brumit Matt Davignon, drum machine, Jon Brumit, drums 4:00 David Slusser project 4:30 jay korber & mikey yeda duo guitar+drums 4:50 Heule/Dryer duo Jacob Felix Heule, Tony Dryer 5:15 The Dark Side of Genius Funk/Psychedelic/Fake Jazz improv 6:05 SOPHISTICUFFS loud crazy abrasive improvised music: Jeremy Kearney, tenor sax, Alan Anzalone, saxophones, Micaela Petersen on, drums 6:30 Generally Midair electro-acoustic chamber ensemble: Pauline Oliveros [via the net], Joe Zitt (electronics and voice), Scot Gresham-Lancaster (electronics), Adria Otte (violin), Beau Casey (electronics), Margot Bevington (voice), Thea Farhadian (electronics), Bob Marsh (cello), Tom Bickley (electronics), Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi). 7:00 Amar Chaudhary solo digital 7:30 RTD3 Ron Heglin, trombone, Tom Nunn, homebrew percussion, Doug Carroll, elec cello 8:00 Dr. Bob David Michalak, Bob Marsh, drummer: Cautionary surgical music and video (incl. Man Ray's DADA film masterpiece Return To Reason) 8:30 Mute Socialite Alee Karim, Bass, Ava Mendoza, Guitar, Moe! Staiano, Drums, percussive guitar, Shayna Dunkleman 9:00 Tim Thompson interactive video+music: theme music and title sequence graphics from a 70's TV action series gone horribly wrong. 9:30 Jorrit Dijkstra (Netherlands)/Phillip Greenlief (Oakland) saxophone duo: Improvised explorations into the sonic possibilities of the saxophone 10:00 The Whassuptet Gino Robair, Matt Ingalls, John Shiurba, Tim Perkis, Tom Djll+ maybe one Very Special Guest; re-enacting the 1878 Siege of Cleveland, employing 10-penny nails, unpeeled bananas, and a live crow BONUS! SL Morse - Albert Camus - "The Myth of Sisyphus" Sarah Lockhart and Suki O'Kane, morse code drumming about death/absence of God, lifting weights, success and failure, scheduled at their leisure in the afternoon in front of God's Gym.

Cost : free