[microsound] Thu, 3/12 Droneshift (in Oakland, CA)

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DroneShift
Saturday, Mar 12 2005 
21 Grand 
449B 23rd St (Between Broadway & Telegraph)
Doors: 6:30pm
Show: exactly 7:00pm to 11:00pm
$8-12 sliding scale

Sick of wanky guitar solos, unintelligible lyrics,
cheesily programmed beats, and hard-to-figure-out
highbrow ideas? Overreact by coming to DroneShift,
where over 40 musicians will present four hours of
continuous long tones and unusual textures that
wouldn't develop anywhere else!

With a wide variety of musicians from different bay
area experimental music communities playing 4 to 10 at
a time in overlapping shifts, the music will gradually
evolve from lovely all-acoustic moments to sheets of
peeling noise and back with many points in between. At
times, it will sound like several different
instruments are contributing to a single, complex,
unique note.

All the funds will go to 21 Grand, a venue that has
made huge efforts to provide a place for unusual shows
like this one. The current space is going to be turned
into condominiums, so we're trying to raise funds for
them to move into another space nearby.

Since the music goes nonstop for 4 hours, it will be
perfectly normal to get up and walk around while the
musicians are playing.

Currently, the musicians are:

Mara Arrowood - Laptop/Sampler
Elise Baldwin - Laptop
Tom Bickley - Recorder/Software
www.metatronpress.com/artists/tbickley
Jorge Boehringer - viola
Amar Chaudhary - Graphics Tablet/Laptop
www.amar-music.info
Che Chen - Acoustic Guitar/Electronics
Ronnie Cramer - Laptop www.cramer.org
Matt Davignon - Drum Machine/Accordion
Ernesto Diaz-Infante - Acoustic Steelstring Guitar
http://www.paxrecordings.com/ernesto
Thomas Dimuzio - sampler/electronics www.gench.com
Tom Duff - Computer www.4-33.com
Dina Emerson - Voice/Wine Glasses
Christopher Fleeger - Powerbook/Controllers
www.acousmatic.com
William Fowler Collins - Guitar/Electronics
http://www.wfowlercollins.ath.cx
Larnie Fox - Reed Organ http://www.infoflow.com/larnie
Eric Glick Rieman - Prepared Rhodes Piano
http://www.accretions.com/artists/eric.asp
Lance Grabmiller - Laptop www.praemedia.com
Will Grant - E-Mu UltraProteus www.greyotter.com
Phillip Greenlief - Tenor Sax www.evandermusic.com
John Hanes - Floor Tom www.purelovepower.com
Jeff Hobbs - violin/upright bass/clarinet
Craig Latta - Voice/Circular Whistling www.netjam.org
Bill Leikam - Conch
Norman Long - no-input mixer, contact mic, minidisc
Bob Marsh - Accordion www.bayimproviser.com/bobmarsh
David Michalak - Lap Steel Guitar
Kristin Miltner - Laptop www.paxrecordings.com/miba
Polly Moller - Flute/Bass Flute www.silverwheel.com
Nihil Communication - Synth http://myspace.com/nihil
Suki O'Kane - electric guitar, sampler, quadraverb
http://zoka.com/noodles
Tim Perkis - portable "acousticish" setup
www.perkis.com
Mike Perlmutter - Alto/Tenor Sax, Clarinet
Joel Pickard - Pedal Steel Guitar
Steve Polta - Feedback/VU Meter
Gino Robair - Cymbals
Rent Romus - Zitherod
Jeff Schwartz - Bass www.geocities.com/jeff_l_schwartz
Jonathan Segel - Electronics/Violin
www.magneticmotorworks.com
David Slusser - Electric Sax www.breathears.com
Moe! Staiano - Bowed Metals www.moestaiano.com
Liam Staskawicz - Trombone
Allen Whitman - Treated Bass www.zoka.com/noodles
Aaron Ximm - Field Recordings/Oscillators
www.quietamerican.org
Michael Zellner - Midi Wind Synth & Effects
http://zoka.com/noodles

Schedule posted at: http://www.4-33.com/Droneshift.bmp

(Sorry non-local folks, there aren't any plans to record.)

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