Big Sur Experimental Music Festival

["matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>]

Here's an event that may interest some. It contains looping musicians, as 
well as avant-jazz, electronic, noise, and experimental music.

THE BIG SUR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2004 PRESENTS:
Sound/Shift and The Anais Nin Video & Film Diary Festival

Friday, May 28, 8:30pm to 10:30pm (Video)
Saturday, May 29, noon to 7pm (Music); 8:30pm to 10:30pm (Video)
Sunday, May 30, noon to 7pm (Music)

Henry Miller Memorial Library
Highway One
Big Sur, California USA
831-667-2574
http://www.henrymiller.org/
$10 for 1 day / $15 for both days / $30 festival pass
(This is a benefit for the Henry Miller Memorial Library).

We are really excited about the diversity of talent and good nature that
make up this year's event, as well as the addition of The Anais Nin
Video & Film Diary Festival. We hope that this is an awesome experience
for everybody involved, as both participant and spectator.

The music portion of the festival is organized on the Sound/Shift
concept, which is ideal for bringing musicians from different
geographies, ideologies, and experience together with no aesthetic
constraints other than that the music be wholy (holy?) improvised in
order to discover the musical outer limits as a new common ground.  We
hope to have an extremely varied experience, one that stretches
perceptual, psychological, and social boundaries. This year Sound/Shift
Big Sur 04 is collectively creating two large compositions with each day
consisting of a 7 hour single "piece" (subsets that create an ongoing
larger piece). At the time of writing this (a week before the show),
there are over 99 musicians scheduled with the equivalent of 80
different ensembles. This event may be the largest grouping of free
improvising musicians ever attempted in North America.

BIG SUR SOUND/SHIFT04 FEATURES THE FOLLOWING MUSICIANS:
99Hooker--sax/spoken word, New York
Ausberto Acevedo--double bass, San Francisco
Joe (MetaMan) Balesteri--trumpet/laptop, San Francisco
Bob Bellerue--feedback/homemade electronics/flutes, Los Angeles
Jorge Boehringer--violin/electronics, Oakland
CJ "Reaven" Borosque--noise pedals, El Cerrito
Mitchell Brown--electro-acoustics, Los Angeles
Lara Bruckmann--voice, Bay Area
Kyle Bruckmann--oboe/english horn/suona, San Francisco
Jon Brumit--turntable, Oakland
Jared Butler--guitar/fx, Santa Rosa
Leticia Castaneda--various electronics & objects, Los Angeles
Chris Cory--sax/electronics, Sebastopol
Andre Custodio--synth, Pleasant Hill
Matt Davignon--drum machine, Oakland
Bryan Day--guitar/taisho-goto/self-built, Omaha NE
Ernesto Diaz-Infante--acoustic guitar, San Francisco
Thomas Dimuzio--sampler, San Francisco
Tom Djll--trumpet, Bay Area
Tim DuRoche--drums, Portland
David Dupuis--upright bass, Bay Area
James Edmiston--upright bass, Palo Alto
Dina Emerson--voice, Bay Area
Helena Espvall-Santoleri--cello, Philadelphia
Cuca (aka Maria) Esteves--computer/objects/bandoneon, Los Angeles
Philip Everett--percussion/autoharp, San Francisco
Marcos Fernandes--electronics/percussion, San Diego
Leah Fenimore--banjo/tapes, San Francisco
Scott Fraser--electric guitar, Los Angeles
Eric Glick Rieman--prepared rhodes piano, Berkeley
Lance Grabmiller--laptop, San Francisco
Will Grant--electronics, Larkspur
Jonathon Grasse--7-string brazilian guitar, Los Angeles
Phillip Greenlief--soprano saxophone, Bay Area
Joseph Hammer--tape, Los Angeles
Emily Hay--flutes/voice, Los Angeles
Greg Headley--guitar/electronics, Los Angeles
Ron Heglin--trombone, Berkeley
Matt Herman--stick, San Francisco
Damon Holzborn--guitar/electronics, San Diego
Jonathan Horne--guitar, Bay Area
Wayne Jackson--laptop/circuit bend toys, Santa Cruz
David Javelosa--synth, Santa Monica
David Kendall--laptop/found electronics, Los Angeles
Kitundu--phonoharp, San Francisco
Scot Gresham-Lancaster--electronics, Bay Area
Craig Latta--double theremin, Palo Alto
Markus Launsburry--guitar/electronics/percussion, Chicago
Marina Lazzara--voice/guitar/fx, San Francisco
Bill Leikam--percussion, Palo Alto
Claudia Lehan--percussion, San Francisco
David "d.bug" Leikam--synthesizer/electric bass, Palo Alto
Nathan Levine--double bass, Seattle
Scott R. Looney--laptop, Oakland
Fred Malouf--guitar/electronics, Bay Area
Bob Marsh--mutil-instruments, El Cerrito
Ben McAllister--guitar/circuit-bent Instruments, Seattle
Marianne McDonald--harp, Oakland
Thollem McDonas--electric piano, Pacifica
Kristen Miltner--laptop, San Francisco
Polly Moller--flute/vocals, Bay Area
Luis Monne--guitar/pedals/voice, Santa Monica
W.T. Nelson--homemade synth & hurdy gurdy, Los Angeles
Hal Onserud--bass, Santa Barbara
Albert Ortega--amplified resonant objects/laptop/oscillators, Los Angeles
Jesse Quattro--voice, San Francisco
Alwyn J.S. Quebido--electric guitar, San Francisco
Jeff Ridenour--double bass, Los Angeles
Jason Robinson--sax/electronics, San Diego
Rent Romus--sax/things, El Cerrito
Jess Rowland--AM radio, San Francisco mp3
LX Rudis--synth, San Francisco
Jonah Rust--guitar/theremin/keyboard/saw/samples, Santa Monica
Thomas Scandura--electronic percussion, Oakland
Ignaz Schick--electronics, Berlin, Germany
Jeff Schwartz--upright bass, Los Angeles
Jason Shanks--laptop/windsynth/sax, East Bay
John Shiurba--electric guitar, Oakland
Robert Silverman--theremin, Oakland
Simon Wickham-Smith--digital media, Oxford, U.K.
Michael Sokolowski--violin/synth, Charlottesville, Virginia
Moe! Staiano--percussion, Bay Area
Marjorie Sturm--flute, San Francisco
Ron Thompson--guitar, Bay Area
Steven Tobin--vox/harmonium, San Francisco
Carolyn Torrente--alto sax, San Francisco
Cory Thrall--Juno 60 synth, percussion, Santa Rosa
Toyoji Tomita--trombone, Oakland
Max Valentino--bass guitar/loops, Tehachapi CA
Douglas C Wadle--trombone, Bay Area
Seth Warren--percussion, Bay Area
Ellen B Weller--flute/sax/fife/recorder/clarinet, San Diego
Marc Williams--sax/guitar, Bay Area
Theresa Wong--cello, Danville
Ian Yeager--electric guitar, Rohnert Park
Alex Yeung--guitar, San Francisco
Aaron Ximm--field recordings, San Francisco

For a complete schedule and more info please visit:
http://www.paxrecordings.com/News_events/soundshiftbigsur.html

The first-ever Anais Nin Video & Film Diary Festival of personal
first-person narratives (no sexual or political limits)  will be taking
place on Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th at 8:30pm. Works by Amy 
Happ, 
Gabriela Bohm, John Church, Marjorie Sturm, Monica Gazzo, and Caveh Zahedi 
will be featured. For a full schedule of the film festival, please visit:
http://www.paxrecordings.com/News_events/filmprogram.html

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