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Hello all The final update of the year, extending into the next... I am very excited about these CA performances, each a unique situation with a brilliant collaborator. I hope those of you in the area can attend. FALL/WINTER 2005 DECEMBER \ SAN FRANCISCO 12/28 @ The Hemlock Tavern 9pm Part of the "Brink" series presented by Other Minds and curated by Bernard Kyle. Solo and duo improvisations with Matt Davignon. Matt's website: http://www.ribosomemusic.com/ Matt Davignon is an experimental musician living in Oakland, California. Since 1993, he has developed his own unique style of music, which focuses largely on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Currently, he works almost exclusively with a drum machine. Instead of using it as a rhythm device, he plays the pads manually while processing the sounds through an array of effects devices and samplers, improvising music made of organic-sounding textures, hums, gurgles and crackles. 12/29 @ The Luggage Store Gallery 9pm Duo improvisations with Dominic Cramp. Dominic's website: http://www.snurp.net Dominic Cramp is a founding member of the outwardly thinking power trio Modular Set and co-founder of the electronic music label Gigante Sound. Cramp is currently producing and engineering for Borful Tang. He has an ongoing collaboration with visual/sound artist Bruce Tovsky. He has his fingers in various depths of a variety of pies around the San Francisco Bay Area. 12/30 @ 21 Grand 9pm Improvisations with Kim Cascone. Kim's website: http://www.anechoicmedia.com/ Kim Cascone has been involved with electronic music for more than 20 years since his studies at Berklee College of Music and at the New School (with Dana McCurdy) during the 1970s. In the 1980s Cascone worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. He left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier electronic music label. He sold Silent Records in 1996, at the height of its success, in order to pursue a career as a sound designer. He has worked for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer and for Staccato Systems where he oversaw the design of new sounds for games using algorithmic synthesis. Since 1980, Kim has released more than 15 albums of electronic music and has collaborated with Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Oval, Scanner, Carsten Nicolai, Doug Aitken, and David Toop among others. He has performed at festivals in North America and Europe (Lovebytes, Micro 2 Mutek, Transmissions, Observatori) and has lectured on Post-Digital Music internationally. His articles have appeared in Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Artbyte, Mediamatic and Parachute. DECEMBER \ LA 1/7 @ Il Corral ?pm Improvisations with David Kendall David's website: http://davidkendall.net/ David Kendall began by experimenting with multitrack recordings of degraded sound sources in the early nineties. David Kendall's focus soon shifted to feedback, as an audio phenomenon and as a general principal of recursion in the sound world: first explored in plucked string instruments, then in found objects, found electronics, found computers, and (in the present day) very expensive "top-of-the-line" computers with tons of RAM. Improvisation has always played a central role in the practice of David Kendall, and most of his performances have been in collaboration with other performers. Some of these projects are called, or were called, the invisible Music Production Ensemble, Improvisatyrs, Honeycomb Wheels, and the Kentucky Knobs. Collaborators with David Kendall include Jeremy Drake, Jessica Catron, Sandor Finta, Bob Bellerue, Bryan Eubanks, David Rothbaum, Rachel Thompson and Jonathan Zorn. David Kendall earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. ||||| || || |||| || | ||||| || ||| ||| | | ||||| | ||| | |||| || DIRECTIONS ||||| || || |||| || | ||||| || ||| ||| | | ||||| | ||| | |||| || SAN FRANCISCO The Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street, between Post & Sutter. www.hemlocktavern.com The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street near 6th in downtown San Francisco. 415.255.5971 www.luggagestoregallery.org 21 Grand 416 25th St. Oakland, CA 94612 510.444.7263 www.21grand.org LOS ANGELES Il Corral 662 N. Heliotrope Dr. (just south of Melrose) Los Angeles, CA 90004 bruce tovsky www.skeletonhome.com "Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.." Philip K. Dick bruce tovsky www.skeletonhome.com "Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.." Philip K. Dick