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2009 edition of this thread. As always this thread is to notify people of shows coming up, i.e. not reviews, not shows attended, etc. If you are putting on, playing, or otherwise involved then I Hate Promotions is the place for you.

just gonna post to remind everyone that the no idea festival in austin/houston is happening feb 26 through march 1. there's no detailed schedule yet, as far as i've seen, but the people who are gonna be involved are:

annette krebs
bonnie jones
chris cogburn
cooper-moore
dave dove
jason kahn
jawwaad taylor
joshua beckman
mario de vega
melanie noel
tatsuya nakatani

i guess more info is due soon at http://www.noideafestival.com/

m

Pacific Northwest:

02.13-15.09
Seattle Improvised Music Festival (musicians TBA)
Chapel Performance Space / Gallery1412
Seattle WA USA

02.15.09
Stockhausen's Ylem
The Cultch's Vancity Culture Lab
Vancouver B.C. Canada

02.15.09
Christine Sehnaoui / Andrew Drury / Greg Kelley
Location TBA
Portland OR USA

02.20-22.09
Seattle Improvised Music Festival (musicians TBA)
Chapel Performance Space / Gallery1412
Seattle WA USA

03.05.09
Ives String Quartet
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Vancouver B.C. Canada

03.29.09
The Tallis Scholars
Town Hall
Seattle WA USA

05.09.09 (this date may be wrong)
Olivia Block
Chapel Performance Space
Seattle WA USA

05.23.09
Deep Listening Band
Chapel Performance Space
Seattle WA USA

some NYC shows:

The Stone

1/27 Tuesday
8 pm
The Magnets
Annette Krebs (electric guitar) Anthea Caddy (cello) Magda Mayas (piano)

2/8 Sunday

10 pm
'and/OAR' label showcase
Olivia Block with Adam Sonderberg, Kenneth Kirschner with Asher

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January 30 (Fri.) Gene Coleman ensemble with Toshimaru Nakamura, Ryuko Mizutani, Marina Peterson, Magda Mayas, and others at 15th Street Meeting House, New York, U.S.A.

February 13 (Fri.) Hideki Kato, James Fei, and Toshimaru Nakamura at Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

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and The International Nothing (Kai Fagaschinski/Michael Thieke) are in the EI fest sometime in March.

jon abbey wrote: February 13 (Fri.) Hideki Kato, James Fei, and Toshimaru Nakamura at Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

really? is there anything Hideki Kato can't ruin?

first couple ground zero albums.

after that, i dunno.

m

This Saturday Genesis P and Tony Conrad are apparently playing together at Issue Project Room. I doubt I'll enjoy it but I'm sort of really really tempted to go anyway.

Other much more promising music news:

The Stone
1/22 Thursday
8 pm
Duo: Gregory Reynolds (alto sax) Gust Burns (inside piano)
Quartet: Gust Burns (piano) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Reuben Radding (bass) Andrew Drury (drums)

1/23 Friday (GG)
8 pm
Quartet: Gust Burns (piano) John Mclellan (drums) Andrew Lafkas (bass) Jack Wright (saxophones)

then Gust (with at least Gregory I think?) go on to Baltimore and Philly over the weekend though I don't have specifics about that for the board....


edit: and Jon. You forgot to note the 8pm set of that and/OAR slash m/OAR showcase: solos by Billy Gomberg, Sawako, and John Hudak. I'm still (unsuccessfullly and without much hope) working on convincing Billy to let me help him freak people out with an Other Vultures set instead of the mild mannered laptop solo he's expected to play.....

all I did was list the shows I'm aware of over the next few months here that I'll be likely to attend.

January 30 (Fri.) Gene Coleman ensemble with Toshimaru Nakamura, Ryuko Mizutani, Marina Peterson, Magda Mayas, and others at 15th Street Meeting House, New York, U.S.A.

January 29th and 31st Gene Coleman and company (yes that includes Namamura) will be playing in Philadelphia as part of the month long Nexus Radio series (http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/nexusradio.html). Sadly I must report that Ryuko Mizutani has recently passed away. I'm not sure if she will be replaces in this group or not but her presence will be missed. Her and Gene have had a long running collaboration together.

c_sns wrote:

January 30 (Fri.) Gene Coleman ensemble with Toshimaru Nakamura, Ryuko Mizutani, Marina Peterson, Magda Mayas, and others at 15th Street Meeting House, New York, U.S.A.

January 29th and 31st Gene Coleman and company (yes that includes Namamura) will be playing in Philadelphia as part of the month long Nexus Radio series (http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/nexusradio.html). Sadly I must report that Ryuko Mizutani has recently passed away. I'm not sure if she will be replaces in this group or not but her presence will be missed. Her and Gene have had a long running collaboration together.

I din't see this listed on the link you provided, just something with Gene Coleman on the 14th.

Check the Nexus Radio Google calendar (linked on the site) and you'll see Sound Field bookmarked for that 29th (strangely not the 31st yet). If you want more details you can go to www.soundfield.org or keep you're eye on www.bowerbird.org (I'm pretty sure he'll have it updated in the next week with info on that show).

I just got word from Gene Coleman that the 31st is not happening anymore. So if you wants to see Nakamura on the East Coast, check out Nexus Gallery on the 29th and NYC on the 30th.

for those in the norcal region

3/13: eat skull @ luigis fun garden (sacramento)
3/26: nurse w/ wound @ gamh (sf)
3/27: eat skull @ ??? (prolly somewhere in davis)
4/26: vivian girls @ ??? (also put on by kdvs, so prolly somewhere in davis)
5/16: kdvs operation: restore maximum freedom vii @ ??? (somewhere in davis. acts TBD)

I'm a little behind on updating websites - this should be up on the soundfield site in the next day or so...


January 29th, 8:00 PM

Concert at Nexus Gallery, part of the NexusRadio Project

Two new works by Gene Coleman

"Pachinko-Zen II" (2009)
for ensemble, speaker and recorded sounds
(text by Nicole Bindler)

Played by Ensemble N_JP (USA/Japan)

Tom Kraines (cello)
Gene Coleman (bass clarinet)
Ko Ishikawa (sho)
Gabe Globus-Honich (percussion)
Toshimaru Nakamura (no input mixing desk)
Karina Kacala (speaker)


"I, Radio" (2009)
for ensemble and recorded sounds
Played by Ensemble Noamnesia

Audrey Chen (cello and voice)
Ko Ishikawa (sho and voice)
Toshimaru Nakamura (electronics and voice)
Alban Bailly (guitar, oud and voice)
Shinjoo Cho (accordion and voice)
Gene Coleman (bass clarinet and voice)

These works have been created in part with support from the Argosy Fund for Contemporary Music, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center's Composer Assistance Program, Shofuso House Philadelphia and Soundfield, NFP


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January 30th, 7:00 PM
Soundfield Showcase #2
15th Street Friends Meeting House
15 Rutherford Place, NYC
$10 donation

Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing desk)
Ko Ishikawa (sho)
Gene Coleman (bass clarinet)
Audrey Chen (cello)
Maria Chavez (turntables)
Jenny Walshe (voice)
Magda Mayas (piano)
Anthea Caddy (cello)
Annette Krebs (guitar)
Jesse Peterson (violin)

01.22.09
Karman, Adams, Jenkins
Enterbeing
Portland OR USA

Peter Karman: Computer Music
Drew Adams (and guests): Composer/ensemble performance
J.P. Jenkins: lovely soloness.

Dunno about Karman and Adams, but JP is always worth seeing. Being Thursday in Portland, I probably can't make it down, but for those in town: go.

So this year's SIMF Schedule has been posted, looking great again, with Greg Kelley, Kai Fagaschinski, lê Quan Ninh plus a bunch of East Coast-ers and PNW-ers. There does seem to be a bit more "large group" then normal, which in general I'm not so high on. But I suppose it's possible those are following some sort of loose structuring system that could help with that. We shall see.

As always there is a benefit featuring a bunch of locals doing "one minute solos" which I am once again taking part in. This is of course much more about raising funds then the music, so I wouldn't hold it to those standards. So if you can come and donate!

Saturday, January 17, 2009
1-Minute Solos: A benefit concert for the 2009 seattle improvised music festival
Chapel Performance Space
Seattle WA USA


Seattle Improvised Music Festival Schedule

All Shows start at 7pm

friday 2|13 (chapel)
(1) greg kelley / doug theriault / kelvin pittman trio
liz tonne solo;
(2) greg kelley / gust burns / mara sedlins / mark collins / wilson shook quintet
andrew drury solo;
(3) christine sehnaoui solo
large ensemble

saturday 2|14 (chapel)
(1) greg kelley solo christine sehnaoui / liz tonne / mara sedlins trio
(2) kelvin pittman solo wally shoup / greg kelley / andrew drury trio
(1) doug theriault solo
large ensemble

sunday 2|15 (gallery 1412)
(1) kelvin pittman / andrew drury duo;
(2) christine sehnaoui / greg kelley / doug theriault / gust burns quartet;
(3) large ensemble

friday 2|20 (chapel)
(1) international nothing (kai fagaschinski / michael thieke duo);
(2) rachel thompson / jonathan zorn duo;
(3) lê quan ninh & special guest duo

saturday 2|21 (chapel)
(1) lê quan ninh solo
special guest / andrew drury / tari nelson zagar trio
(2) lê quan ninh / gust burns / michael thieke trio
special guest solo;
(3) lê quan ninh / special guest / jonathan zorn / rachel thompson / kai fagaschinski / michael thieke sextet

sunday 2|22 (gallery 1412)
(1) michael thieke / jonathan zorn duo,
michael thieke / jonathan zorn / mark collins / wilson shook quartet
(2) kai fagaschinski / rachel thompson duo, kai fagaschinski / rachel thompson / gust burns / mara sedlins quartet;
(3) large ensemble


Additionally:

Saturdays 2/14 & 2/21 @ 12pm
Hands-on workshops with festival improvisors
Gallery 1412
FREE

Sundays 2/15 & 2/22 @ 12pm
Panel Discussion with festival improvisors
Gallery 1412
FREE

jon abbey wrote:and The International Nothing (Kai Fagaschinski/Michael Thieke) are in the EI fest sometime in March.

pretty sure they're touring - i know a philly show is happening.

re: gust - working now on either a philly show or i might join him doing something in nyc.

-jesse

hatta wrote:So this year's SIMF Schedule has been posted, looking great again, with Greg Kelley, Kai Fagaschinski, lê Quan Ninh plus a bunch of East Coast-ers and PNW-ers.

hey, I'm looking forward to this.
thanks for the post.

Not much info yet, but Olivia Block is coming back to Toronto and Montreal in April, and apparently Seattle in May. I don't know who's organizing the Toronto show, but my guess would be Yatra Arts.

I thought I read about a Marianne Amacher appearance/sound installation in Los Angeles this year, but now can't find any word on it. Can anyone confirm this?