Tag Archives: Jonathan Segel

Nightsoil, finally

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 [...]

Dark Art

Two projects are finished just before the bell of the coming summer is rung and I couldn’t be more pleased. They are both beautifully dark pieces of work, a perfect juxtaposition to the gorgeous sunshine, which is in perfect juxtaposition to the economic realities that are in juxtaposition with the recent Wall Street running of [...]

October Ivy Room Improv Hoot

October 27 saw another great Ivy Room improv/experimental hootenanny and social club session.
The featured act was Pluto performing with all its original members (David Slusser – keyboards, woodwinds, Ralph Carney – horns, Len Paterson – guitar, electronics, Ellen Schoenwetter – bass, Steve Clarke – guitar, trumpet, Marc Weinstein – drums and Ken Kearny – misc, [...]

Albany CA, coincidentally.

Albany CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the [...]

Strangelet

Strangelet had its first gig last night and we decided to dress up a bit. Jonathan Segel wore a nice steampunk ensemble, Suki O’Kane a santa suit and myself, a gold lame w/ black fringe jumpsuit that Scottie Chapman scored at a clothing swap party last weekend.
‘Case you didn’t know, the Ivy Room has [...]

Back in the saddle

I have not been playing or listening to much music for the past four or five months, partly to minimize exposure to sound due to aggravated levels of tinnitus. This experiment has had some benefit in the realization that I can still perform, create and record with a more sensible, stripped down approach. And since [...]