Tonight is a special show. My first conducted composition for large ensemble. It’s big. It’s beautiful. Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and the Death of John Lennon on the only date it can happen – Mon Dec 7 @ The Makeout Room in San Francisco. Rehearsal last night was very productive, [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
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Tagged: Bobby Ray, Brian Good, CD Cummings, Daryl Shawn, Dave Jess, David Slusser, Dylan Champagne, Eli Crews, Geo Kitta, Glenn Branca, John Shiurba, Katherine Copenhaver, Moe Staiano, Nils Erickson, Pat Spurgeon, Reid Johnston, Rhys Chatham, Suki O'Kane, Wayne Grim
Played a fun show at this past saturday night at a Harley Davidson/Waylon Jennings/Slayer/San Jose Sharks fan/dive bar in Pacifica, CA with Reid Johnston’s tongue-in-cheek country rock project, The Ray Johnson Band. With CD covers like Gone (pictured left), patriotic tunes with sing along choruses like ‘Lets take one in the ass for America!’, good [...]
My friend Tom French made this video a few years ago. It is a nice little story that stars his daughter and uses Blindfold from the Soundtrack Instrumentals CD as a score.
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Posted 09 September 2009
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The Overdub Club is proud to announce the completion of the HD video version of Nightsoil. We have worked long and hard to bring this former performance piece to a place where it can be screened. The premier is slated for Sept 30 at the The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Nightsoil is a single channel video [...]
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Posted 28 August 2009
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Tagged: Alphonso Alvarez, Jenya Chernoff, John Hanes, Jonathan Segel, Laurie Amat, Mark De Gli Antoni, Nightsoil, Rebecca Seeman, Suki O'Kane, Thad Povey, The Overdub Club
Prehistoric Horse plays a very intense and dynamic form of improvisational music that sometimes borders on sheer noise but also incorporates the dramatic and absurd. Our sets morphed with the miles logged and the tenor and pacing changed dramatically from the first chaotic show in Albany CA to the final mellow moments in NYC. There [...]
Suki O’Kane and I have launched yet another new project: Delicate & Destructive. We played at the Sacramento ‘In the Flow’ Jazz festival this past Saturday. 105 degrees in Sacto that day and driving to the afternoon gig in a AC car sans AC, I thought I might melt. The festival featured ‘jazz’ (and the [...]
This is a trailer for the great short film by John Harden that I scored (all of the music is on the Soundtrack Instrumentals CD)
links:
Independent Exposure
John Harden
Improvised Music & Butoh Dance performance featuring Christina Braun and Lucio Menegon @ Bare Bones Butoh October, 2008. A blues bum delivers the news to a high flying banker. Concept inspired by the Financial Panic of 2008.
Are We There Yet? from luci lightning on Vimeo.
This is why the Experimental/Improv Hootenanny rocks. It is also why folks should stay late, because it always gets…nutty. The below example comes courtesy of ‘Lude, the Narcotics addicted Clown.
Michael Z’s photos
Michael Z’s audio (KAP/Myles Boisen, ‘Lude, Lords of Outland, Michaela Peterson)
South Bay Talent Center Improv w/ Christy Matson 2008
Rob Price, David Grollman & Lucio Menegon @ BEMF2 2007
Scratch Film Junkies performance in Prague, Czech Republic (2005)
