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Matt's Exciting Mailing List Full of Action for August 2006
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Matt Davignon
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Aug 08, 2006 10:24 PDT
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Hey everyone,
August is possibly the busiest month I've had ever. Just got finished
working at the Edgetone Music Festival last week. This week, I had a
midnight live set on KPFA, played a show with Larnie Fox's Cranks
Ensemble, hosted a performance at Luggage Store, mailed out promo cds,
and volunteered/played at the Skronkathon Barbeque.
And I'm sorry that I didn't get this list out until now, Monday at 1am.
1) New CD "SoftWetFish" is out!
2) Wed 8/9, rare appearance in San Jose
3) August 10-13: San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
4) Sunday, August 20, even rarer appearance in Brooklyn
5) Luggage Store Shows this month
1) New CD "SoftWetFish" is out!
For anyone who may have been waiting, the wait is over. Discs are now
available at all my shows and mailorder at Edgetone Records.
(http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4039.html)
Like last year's cd "Bwoo", the only sound source is my trusty drum
machine, run through all sorts of effects to make it the most expressive
musical instrument I've ever played.
2) Wed 8/9 rare appearance in San Jose
Wednesday, 8/9
Anno Domini Gallery
366 South First Street
(btwn San Carlos & San Salvador)
San Jose, CA 95113
doors 9pm show 10pm
admission: $8 general, $5 students
Anno Domini presents...
NIGHT CULTURE
after-hours parallel programming for ZeroOne San Jose festival
featuring Matt Davignon and Rick Walker
Rick Walker's Loop.pooL is a fascinating and creative one man journey
through the world of sound and rhythm. Using digital live looping
technology and a lot of audience interactive participation, Rick is able
to play a completely different set of instruments on every single song
in this early twenty first century version of a "one person band". He
uses these looping devices to record a huge palette of sound, drawing
from found and invented instruments, world percussion, wind instruments,
keyboards, string instruments and a fascinating repertoire of unusual
and exotic vocal techniques (overtone singing, warble singing, trill
singing, guttural singing, hum-whistling, mouth percussion and effects,
yodeling and pygmy bottle blowing/falsetto singing). He also
incorporates state of the art digital processing and production
techniques, using analog filters, vocoders, digital delays and
modulators to add a more timeless patina to his performances.
3) August 10-13: San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
I'm honored to be part of the SFEMF this year, but even more thrilling
is that my electronic music heroes ALOG will be here from Norway to
perform their first concert in North America. Lots of other great
performers too - you might not know all their names, but check out the
artist page for the festival (http://www.sfemf.org/artists2006.html) and
see what they do!
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006 through Sunday, August 13, 2006
SomArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan Street, San Francisco)
Doors at 8PM, performance at 8:30 PM
Further Information: http://www.sfemf.org
For ticket purchases:
http://www.sfemf.org/buy2006SFEMFtix.html
The 2006 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
consists of four evenings of electrifying performances by
internationally recognized artists and musicians in the electronic music
field. This year's impressive line-up features both respected pioneers
and emerging artists whose work spans the sonic spectra -- from ambient
to rhythmic, from atonal to melodic. As the only San Francisco music
festival dedicated solely to electronic music, the SFEMF brings together
the varied practices of artists working with laptop generated sound,
processed live acoustic instruments, amplified found objects, projected
video, improvisation, and performance art.
For this year's festival, SFEMF has invited a wide-ranging field of
artists from across the globe, including the United Kingdom's
audiovisual duo Semi-Conductor (in a late-night performance on Saturday
at Recombinant Media Labs); Norwegian duo Alog (in their first North
American performance); Mexico City-based sound artist Manuel Rocha
(performing with a refrigerator); Los Angeles-based James Tenney whose
piece will feature a performance by percussionist Willie Winant;
Montreal-based automaton builder Maxime De La Rochefoucauld; New
York-based voice and computer musician Dafna Naphtali; and Los
Angeles-based lowercase music pioneer Steve Roden, who will present a
piece based on Nam June Paik's "primitive music" sculpture. SFEMF 2006's
local artists include composer/intermedia artist Elise Baldwin, long
tube performer Brenda Hutchinson, multimedia artist Barbara Golden,
experimental drum machinist Matt Davignon, sonic explorer Joe Colley and
electro-acoustic trio shudder.
More artist info: http://www.sfemf.org/artists2006.html
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
SomArts 8:30pm
Elise Baldwin
Manuel Rocha
Brenda Hutchinson
Friday, August 11th, 2006
SomArts 8:30pm
Barbara Golden
Steve Roden
James Tenney
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
SomArts 8:30pm
Matt Davignon
Joe Colley
Alog
Also Saturday:
Recombinant Media Labs 10:30pm
(763 Brannan St, SF)
Semiconductor
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
SomArts 8:30pm
Shudder
Maxime De La Rochefoucauld
Dafna Naphtali
SomArts Doors open at 8pm, Concerts start at 8:30pm all nights.
(Order within a given evening subject to change.)
Also stop by Recombinant Media Labs 5:30-8pm on Friday and Saturday to
see Installations by SEMICONDUCTOR, Miba (Kristin Miltner & Mark
Bartscher), Patrick Parnell, & Pamela Z
Tickets & Festival Passes: $16 General; $12
Student/Discount for all SomArts performances;
Semi-Conductor performance at RML $10 General; $8
Student/Discount (combined Saturday ticket $20
General; $16 Student/Discount); Full festival
pass: $48 General; $40 Student/Discount,
purchases online via Paypal at www.sfemf.org or
at the door.
Information: Festival hotline: 415.861.3257;
SomArts 415.552.2131;
RML location info:
650.255.8947
http://www.sfemf.org
4) Sunday, August 20, even rarer appearance in Brooklyn
...and lastly, I finish out this month by leaving the relative safety of
the west coast to do my first ever nor'east show. Have any NYC friends
who were bummed when Ikue Mori switched to laptop? Send 'em to see that
other person who plays the drum machine! (Other good people on the bill
too, including the Japanese minimal electronic musician Sawako Kato.)
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Issue Project Room
400 Carroll Street
between Bond and Nevins
Brooklyn, NY 11231
8:00 p.m., $10
082006 Meetings III : Improvisational music / video performance
Bay-area improvisor Matt Davignon pays a rare visit to New York City,
and this setting pairs him with a diverse group of local improvisors.
Know for his prowess with drum machines and processing, coaxing curtains
of sound from his boxes, Davignon also co-curates one of the Bay Areas'
most adventurous music series' in one of its most inviting spaces - The
Luggage Store Gallery. Joined by David Linton, Ben Owen, Richard Garet,
Sawako and Bruce Tovsky, the group will be augmented by video artists
Shimpei Takeda and Chiko, who will provide two screens of
improvisational video. Sound designer Stephan Moore will sculpt the
resulting soundscape with his innovative 16-channel hemispheric speaker
installation.
5) Luggage Store Shows this month
(Weekly experimental music series at 1007 Market Street in San
Francisco)
Thu, 8/10:
8pm: Kaiser/Hsu duo
Jim Kaiser - bicycle wheel/electronics
Angela Hsu - violin/electronics
9pm: Cactus Daniel Hintz - solo noise guitar
Thursday, Aug 17 2006 8:00 PM
8pm Subjects of Desire, WORDS AND SOUNDS
Scott R. Looney, laptop computer
Bob Marsh words and sounds
Jim Ryan words and sounds
9pm Toni Pope vocals, efx with Ray Schaeffer, elec bass
Thursday, Aug 24 2006 8:00 PM
8pm: Jimmy Bennington (Chi)- drums with Phillip Greenlief (sax)
9pm: Kristian Aspelin (guitar) plus guests
Thursday, Aug 31 2006 8:00 PM
Alee Karim
The Norman Conquest (aka Norman Teale)
Travis Johns
I think that's it for now. Thanks for reading all the way to the bottom!
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