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OK, seriously people. This is the year of the absolute high-speed fast-forward flying by of time. Brief summary news reporting:
1. Live Edits: Natoma, from Tarentel. Simultaneously our most acoustic and most noisy record to date. Available via Root Strata. Holy hell people, I blinked again and now it's June! I've been very busy with many boring things, and am now leaving for the land of British people for three weeks. I will update more when I return, but in the meantime...
Some reviews have been coming in for Light In The West. Read what people have to say at foxy digitalis, dead angel, and smother.
Live Edits: Natoma is out and available through Root Strata. This is the latest from Tarentel, and it chronicles our last show at the venerable and legendary 964 Natoma before the hell-gods of industry shut it down.
Reviews have also been coming in for Xavier and I will post links when I get back from Britannia. But suffice it to say that most of those reviews compare us to either traffic jams or ship horns. I like it!
Whoa! 2006 started like two days ago, and now it's March. What the hell?!
In the news: Xavier! Part minimalist, part wall of sound, part pre-dawn dream - the first record from Santo Subito is out! It can be obtained through Accretions Records or by sending me an email. If you like bass clarinet, violin, homemade horns, piano, electronics - or more specifically, all of those things at once! - then check it out.
Holy merde! I got reviewed in French! Thank you Constantin DuBois, though I have no clue what you said. If you'd like to read the "chronique," just clique le link to Millefeuille si'il vous plait, you know. And if anyone can send me a good translation of it, I'll send you a copy of le CD. Merci!
First thing in 2006 will be the release of Xavier, the first record from Santo Subito, a group I've started with my friend Steve Dye. Steve plays bass clarinet and several homemade horns with names like "The Vestigial Organ," "The Bass Flubaphone," "The Clairaphone," and other assorted strange names for his creations. I play violin and piano. Each CD features a hand-made cover. We recorded this record (just coincidentally) on the day the pope died last April, and it's finally ready to go.
I've finished an EP of solo work, called Light in the West. Layers of violin, harmonium, field recordings and other anonymous sounds, recorded mostly outside in the Marin Headlands, and some at home. You can almost hear the cold! Anyway if you want a copy, send me an email and we can negotiate a price. I promise I'll be reasonable.
I'll be playing a show in El Paso on November 26th with my friend Caley O'Dwyer. I'm working on writing music to a bunch of his poems, and then he's gonna read em and I'm gonna play the music and we're just gonna see how that turns out. It's what's commonly referred to as a cross-disciplinary experiment, but we're gonna stick with "setting poems to music."
A whole new batch of mp3s are on the page called mp3s.
It's been a busy summer. Lots of recording and playing and listening to sounds in the woods in the middle of the night.
Home Ruckus is out, in all its beautiful and very limited edition splendor. Each cover and LP label is hand-painted and hand-printed. Available via Root Strata or Aquarius Records.
Come to L.A. in October - I'll be playing on the 1st at the MoCA. In November there will be a show at an undisclosed location in El Paso, TX. Things are getting weird!
Ghost Weight is out! And available at Tarentel.com. Home Ruckus is next. Keep an eye on the Root Strata web site.
A little late announcing this, but I co-wrote a piece of music with cellist Zoe Keating that was featured in Frozen Angels, a documentary which explores the social and scientific repercussions of high-end reproductive technology, and which was featured at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It will also screen at Toronto HotDocs and the Nyon Festival International de Cinema.
Paper White and Big Black Square are out and can be acquired via mail order at Tarentel.com. Rumor has it that Ghost Weight will finally be coming out on Acuarela, though the release date is not set in stone.
Home Ruckus, the latest Tarentel opus, will be released next month on Root Strata. This will be a 12" LP, and features all home-recorded material, including some loops and contact mic work from me. Last, I'm currently working on a few projects: a collaboration with bass clarinetist Steven Dye, a collaboration with J.C. Ledesma, and a solo record, all of which I hope will be out by the end of the summer.
Paper White and Big Black Square are out and can be acquired via mail order at Tarentel.com. The official release date is in March, but they're available now!
There are a few new performances listed on the shows page.
Anthony Bonet, a good friend, lead singer of the brilliant band A Night of Serious Drinking, and erstwhile booker at the Bottom of the Hill, has suffered an aneurysm and has been in the hospital for quite some time. There are many people, myself included, who are dreadfully worried for him. There will be a benefit show at the Bottom of the Hill on December 16th, at which I will be joining Laughingstock for a portion of their set. Also playing are American Music Club and Etienne De Rocher. Please come out and help support Anthony.
We Move Through Weather has been out for a month! It's available directly from Tarentel, or you can get it through Temporary Residence or Aquarius Records, among others.
Look for three EP releases in approximately March of 2004: Paper Whiteand Big Black Square will be released by Temporary Residence, and Ghost Weight will be released by Acuarela Discos.
1. Another small piece of my writing was published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Click here: An Open Letter to Hummingbirds
2. In early November, We Move Through Weather, the new opus from Tarentel, will be released in both CD and 2LP formats. Both are equally beautiful and feature lots of nice art in the inserts. I'm very proud of this record. You can pre-order it now at Temporary Residence. After November 2, it will be available everywhere.
3. Early next year, there will be 3 more CDEPs by Tarentel, all the fruit of our sessions last January: Ghost Weight will be released by Acuarela Discos in Spain; Paper Whiteand Big Black Square will be released by Temporary Residence.
Neurot Recordings has just released Various Artists, Volume 1 a double CD/DVD compilation. Tarentel and filmmaker Paul Clipson contributed to this compilation in the form of a piece called Put It On the Ground. I played with Tarentel on this piece and also did the recording. It's available for just 10 bucks on the Neurot website, or at Amazon.com.
Last month, I read my Open Letter to Penguins on a new-ish public radio show called Public Radio Weekend. This piece was previously published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and it was the kind people at McSweeney's who arranged for the reading. You can hear a webcast of it by clicking here.
This page will no longer contain performance listings except in the form of anecdotal references to performances officially listed on the page called shows. Instead this page will contain the discussion and/or description of various goings-on. So for brass tacks, times, dates, cold hard data regarding performances, please visit the page called performances. For other news, please stay right where you are.
I've recently been performing quite a bit with Tarentel. We will have a few (yes) records coming out this fall. There will be both an LP and an EP released on Temporary Residence, an EP released on Acuarela Discos in Spain. Another EP may be forthcoming.
| February 20, 04 |
Forthcoming is a DVD collaboration between Tarentel and video super-genius Paul Clipson. Our piece entitled Put It On the Ground will be released as part of a compilation on Neurot Recordings. This is a little extra-exciting for me, as it's my first engineering credit. And I play a bunch of stuff on it too.
A small piece of my writing was published on the website for the quarterly literary journal McSweeney's. They have a regular feature called "Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond." Click below to read my letter:
Uncovering Glen Canyon will be appearing at two upcoming film festivals: the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival in February and the Durango Film Festival in March. It also appeared at the Santa Fe Film Festival last December.
| November 19, 03 |
Performing with The Ambulance Ensemble Performing with Laughingstock Underskin, the new release from Laughingstock is out and can be found here.
Uncovering Glen Canyon has made it into another film festival - the Eclipse Film Festival in St. George, Utah. The festival takes place November 14-15, 2003.
Performing with Tarentel
Friday, October 17th, 8 p.m. Performing with Laughingstock Dr. One has been released and is available through the Dielectric Records web site. This is a double-cd release of a drone-based improvisation session I did with the Dielectric Drone All-Stars.
Uncovering Glen Canyon, one of the films I scored last summer, will be appearing at the Taos Mountain Film Festival in New Mexico and the Winslow International Film Festival in Arizona. Both festivals take place in October. The No Name Trio finally has a name. After several hours with a whiteboard and a bottle of bourbon, we decided to keep the name No Name Trio
To celebrate our christening, we will be recording a full-length album in late September. Engineered and produced by Drew Webster of Dielectric Records along with Dan Voss, we are hoping to release it by the end of 2003 (once we entertain and subsequently reject offers from all the major labels, that is). I'm proud to say that one of my field recordings has been posted by The Quiet American, a.k.a. Aaron Ximm. Aaron posts a new "one minute vacation" every week, and my recording of a man singing in a subway station can be found here. Scroll down to the entry for August 18th, 2003. While you're there, be sure to explore the rest of Aaron's site - he's a rising star in the field of phonography, and has much interesting work to offer. The next month will see the release of Dr. One, a double-cd set by the Dielectric Drone All-Stars. This release comes from an improvisation session I did with five other musicians: accordian, stand-up bass, gong, electric train set and didgeridoo. The brain-child of Producer Drew Webster, this release will be available at the web site for Dielectric Records, Drew's up and coming record label for experimental music. I've just finished work on the soundtrack to Uncovering Glen Canyon, a documentary by Chris Van Bebber chronicling the history of the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Excerpts can be heard on the page called listen. Performing with No Name Trio On Saturday, May 3rd, Zoe Keating and I will perform at a benefit for Workspace Limited, a non-profit that works to secure affordable studio space for artists. Come celebrate the opening of their brand new, 54,000 square foot space.
2345 Harrison St., between 19th and 20th On Saturday, April 12th, I will be performing some improvised music with two of my favorite musicians, cellist/genius Zoe Keating of Rasputina and drummer/super-genius Mark Bernfield of Laughingstock. Please join us for a casual evening of improvisation in a warm warehouse environment. There will be many, many pillows.
964 Natoma Street, between 10th and 11th On Friday, December 13th, I will be presenting a new work called "in the hands of god". This piece is a compilation of field recordings made during two trips to South America, seven years apart. More information on the event can be found at Quiet American.
This web site is launched, finally. Sort of. Feedback is appreciated.
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3. Early September show with Tarentel at Bowery Ballroom.
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Friday, November 21st at 8 pm
Adobe Books
3166 16th Street, btwn. Guerrero and Valencia
Improvisation on acoustic instruments and non-amplified sound thingies. This event is an art opening so come and see the pretty art.
| November 15, 03 |
Saturday, November 15th at 8 pm
Caffe Sappore
790 Lombard Street, corner of Taylor
This show is part of the "world chapman stick convention".
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Forum Building, 701 Mission at 3rd Street, San Francisco.
Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door.
For more information, visit the Yerba Buena site.
Tuesday, October 21st, 8 p.m.
Slim's
333 11th Street, San Francisco
Tickets are $15
Opening for Rasputina and Bonfire Madigan. An evening of many female cellists.
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964 Natoma Street between 10th and 11th
Doors at 8:30, show starts at 9.
$6-10 sliding scale donation.
Also performing are Zack Bernstein of Capacitor, and Greg Cowley, slide-animation wunderkind.
| May 3, 03 |
8 p.m. sharp
$10-$20 sliding scale donation
Click here for more information.
| April 12, 03 |
Doors open at 8:30 pm, music begins at 9
Donations taken at the door. There will be some wine and snacks, but bring whatever you like.
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