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[microsound] Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (This weekend!)



Hey everyone, a huge experimental/improvised music
festival is happening in Big Sur, California this
weekend. 

THE BIG SUR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2004 PRESENTS:

Sound/Shift and The Anais Nin Video & Film Diary
Festival

Friday, May 28, 8:30pm to 10:30pm (Video)
Saturday, May 29, noon to 7pm (Music); 8:30pm to
10:30pm (Video)
Sunday, May 30, noon to 7pm (Music)

Henry Miller Memorial Library 
Highway One 
Big Sur, California USA 
831-667-2574 
http://www.henrymiller.org/
$10 for 1 day / $15 for both days / $30 festival pass 
(This is a benefit for the Henry Miller Memorial
Library).

We are really excited about the diversity of talent
and good nature that make up this year's event, as
well as the addition of The Anais Nin Video & Film
Diary Festival. We hope that this is an awesome
experience for everybody involved.  

The music portion of the festival is organized on the
Sound/Shift concept, which is ideal for bringing
musicians from different geographies, ideologies, and
experience together with no aesthetic constraints
other than that the music be wholy (holy?) improvised
in order to discover the musical outer limits as a new
common ground.  We hope to have an extremely varied
experience, one that stretches perceptual,
psychological, and social boundaries. This year
Sound/Shift Big Sur 04 is collectively creating two
large compositions with each day consisting of a 7
hour single "piece" (subsets that create an ongoing
larger piece). At the time of writing this (a week
before the show), there are over 99 musicians
scheduled with the equivalent of 80 different
ensembles. This event may be the largest grouping of
free improvising musicians ever attempted in North
America.

BIG SUR SOUND/SHIFT04 FEATURES THE FOLLOWING
MUSICIANS:
99Hooker--sax/spoken word, New York 
Ausberto Acevedo--double bass, San Francisco 
Joe (MetaMan) Balesteri--trumpet/laptop, San Francisco
Bob Bellerue--feedback/homemade electronics/flutes,
Los Angeles 
Jorge Boehringer--violin/electronics, Oakland 
CJ "Reaven" Borosque--noise pedals, El Cerrito 
Mitchell Brown--electro-acoustics, Los Angeles
Lara Bruckmann--voice, Bay Area
Kyle Bruckmann--oboe/english horn/suona, San Francisco

Jon Brumit--turntable, Oakland
Jared Butler--guitar/fx, Santa Rosa 
Leticia Castaneda--various electronics & objects, Los
Angeles
Chris Cory--sax/electronics, Sebastopol 
Andre Custodio--synth, Pleasant Hill 
Matt Davignon--drum machine, Oakland 
Bryan Day--guitar/taisho-goto/self-built, Omaha NE
Ernesto Diaz-Infante--acoustic guitar, San Francisco 
Thomas Dimuzio--sampler, San Francisco 
Tom Djll--trumpet, Bay Area 
Tim DuRoche--drums, Portland
David Dupuis--upright bass, Bay Area
James Edmiston--upright bass, Palo Alto 
Dina Emerson--voice, Bay Area 
Helena Espvall-Santoleri--cello, Philadelphia 
Cuca (aka Maria) Esteves--computer/objects/bandoneon,
Los Angeles 
Philip Everett--percussion/autoharp, San Francisco 
Marcos Fernandes--electronics/percussion, San Diego 
Leah Fenimore--banjo/tapes, San Francisco 
Scott Fraser--electric guitar, Los Angeles
Eric Glick Rieman--prepared rhodes piano, Berkeley 
Lance Grabmiller--laptop, San Francisco 
Will Grant--electronics, Larkspur 
Jonathon Grasse--7-string brazilian guitar, Los
Angeles
Phillip Greenlief--soprano saxophone, Bay Area 
Joseph Hammer--tape, Los Angeles 
Emily Hay--flutes/voice, Los Angeles 
Greg Headley--guitar/electronics, Los Angeles 
Ron Heglin--trombone, Berkeley
Matt Herman--stick, San Francisco 
Damon Holzborn--guitar/electronics, San Diego 
Jonathan Horne--guitar, Bay Area
Wayne Jackson--laptop/circuit bend toys, Santa Cruz 
David Javelosa--synth, Santa Monica
David Kendall--laptop/found electronics, Los Angeles
Kitundu--phonoharp, San Francisco
Scot Gresham-Lancaster--electronics, Bay Area 
Craig Latta--double theremin, Palo Alto 
Markus Launsburry--guitar/electronics/percussion,
Chicago
Marina Lazzara--voice/guitar/fx, San Francisco 
Bill Leikam--percussion, Palo Alto
Claudia Lehan--percussion, San Francisco
David "d.bug" Leikam--synthesizer/electric bass, Palo
Alto
Nathan Levine--double bass, Seattle 
Scott R. Looney--laptop, Oakland 
Fred Malouf--guitar/electronics, Bay Area
Bob Marsh--mutil-instruments, El Cerrito
Ben McAllister--guitar/circuit-bent Instruments,
Seattle
Marianne McDonald--harp, Oakland
Thollem McDonas--electric piano, Pacifica 
Kristen Miltner--laptop, San Francisco 
Polly Moller--flute/vocals, Bay Area 
Luis Monne--guitar/pedals/voice, Santa Monica
W.T. Nelson--homemade synth & hurdy gurdy, Los Angeles
Hal Onserud--bass, Santa Barbara
Albert Ortega--amplified resonant
objects/laptop/oscillators, Los Angeles
Matthew Purdon--action painting, Bay Area 
Jesse Quattro--voice, San Francisco 
Alwyn J.S. Quebido--electric guitar, San Francisco 
Jeff Ridenour--double bass, Los Angeles
Jason Robinson--sax/electronics, San Diego 
Rent Romus--sax/things, El Cerrito 
Jess Rowland--AM radio, San Francisco mp3
LX Rudis--synth, San Francisco 
Jonah Rust--guitar/theremin/keyboard/saw/samples,
Santa Monica
Paul Santoleri--action painting, Philadelphia 
Thomas Scandura--electronic percussion, Oakland 
Ignaz Schick--electronics, Berlin, Germany
Jeff Schwartz--upright bass, Los Angeles
Jason Shanks--laptop/windsynth/sax, East Bay 
John Shiurba--electric guitar, Oakland 
Robert Silverman--theremin, Oakland
Simon Wickham-Smith--digital media, Oxford, U.K.
Michael Sokolowski--violin/synth, Charlottesville,
Virginia
Moe! Staiano--percussion, Bay Area 
Marjorie Sturm--flute, San Francisco 
Ron Thompson--guitar, Bay Area
Steven Tobin--vox/harmonium, San Francisco 
Carolyn Torrente--alto sax, San Francisco
Cory Thrall--Juno 60 synth, percussion, Santa Rosa 
Toyoji Tomita--trombone, Oakland
Max Valentino--bass guitar/loops, Tehachapi CA
Douglas C Wadle--trombone, Bay Area
Seth Warren--percussion, Bay Area
Ellen B Weller--flute/sax/fife/recorder/clarinet, San
Diego 
Marc Williams--sax/guitar, Bay Area
Theresa Wong--cello, Danville
Ian Yeager--electric guitar, Rohnert Park 
Alex Yeung--guitar, San Francisco
Aaron Ximm--field recordings, San Francisco 

For a complete schedule and more info please visit:
http://www.paxrecordings.com/News_events/soundshiftbigsur.html

The first-ever Anais Nin Video & Film Diary Festival
of personal first-person narratives (no sexual or
political limits)  will be taking place on Friday the
28th and Saturday the 29th at 8:30pm. This year's
films includes:


Friday, May 28th 8:30pm
Henry Miller Library lawn 

RESILIENCE
Amy Happ, USA 1997 (14 mins.)

PASSAGES
Gabriela Bohm, USA 2000 (60 mins.)

WHY, ARIZONA
John Church, USA 1996 (8 mins.)

Saturday, May 29th 8:30pm
Henry Miller Library lawn 

HONEY AND EGGS- THE END OF FANTASY
Marjorie Sturm, USA 2001/2004 (30 mins.)

TENDING ECHO PARK
Monica Gazzo, USA 1999 (16 mins.)

IN THE BATHTUB OF THE WORLD
Caveh Zahedi, USA 2002 (80 mins.)

For film info, links, bios, and festival notes, please
visit:
http://www.paxrecordings.com/News_events/filmprogram.html


....

DIRECTIONS:
from the San Francisco to Big Sur: take the 280 to 17
to Highway 1 route or...take the 101 South to 156 West
(Monterey Peninsula)  to 1 South (Monterey/Carmel)

from the East Bay/Sacramento/North take 880 South to
San Jose In San Jose, take 101 South to 156 West
(Monterey Peninsula)  to 1 South (Monterey/Carmel)

from Los Angeles to Big Sur: Take Highway 101 North to
San Luis Obispo. Connect to Highway 1 North. Follow
Highway 1 all the way to Big Sur

Please remember it's a 3+ hour drive south from San
Francisco. From LA, going north, the total drive time
is about 6 1/2 hours. If you need more detailed
directions, please use mapquest.com. If you get lost
or delayed call 831-667-2574. Again, The Henry Miller
Library is located in Big Sur on highway 1 (45 minutes
south of Carmel/Monterey), a quarter mile south of
Nepenthe Restaurant, (a quarter mile north of
Deetjen's Big Sur Inn) in a redwood grove on the
mountain side of the road.

....

BSXMF 2004 CREW:
Ernesto Diaz-Infante--Co-artistic Director
Matt Davignon--Co-artistic Director/Artist Coordinator
Marjorie Sturm--Co-artistic Director/Co-curator Film
Festival
Maja Manojlovic--Co-curator Film Festival
Kate Thompson--Co-curator Film Festival
Marina Lazzara--Lodging/Campsite Coordinator
Andre Custodio-Staffing/Volunteers Coordinator
Scott R. Looney--Technical Director
Lx Rudis--Stage Manager
Marcos Fernandes--General Assistance
Lance Grabmiller--General Assistance
Angela Hile--General Assistance
Rent Romus--General Assistance
CJ "Reaven" Borosque--General Assistance
Tohru Kanayama--Graphic Art and Design
Robert DeFord--Video Documentation
Jeff Petersen--Anais Nin Illustration 
Magnus Toren--Henry Miller Memorial Library Director

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