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Matt's year-end mailing list of repetitive low end piano notes.
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Matt Davignon
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Dec 27, 2006 15:14 PST
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Hey everyone,
I know it's been a while since I've posted to any announcements. It's
been a period of quietude for me. But here's the news for the upcoming
several months:
First of all, this thursday we're doing a show of "end of year
reflection" at the Luggage Store Gallery. If you're like me, you
probably lament the lack of live shows for bizarre and beautifully
experimental music between Christmas and New Year's. So, if you're back
from holidays, in the Bay Area for the holidays, or don't believe in
holidays, come by, grab a tasty burrito/Vietnamese food next door, and
hear some music!
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Thursday, Dec 28 2006 8:00 PM
Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series
1007 Market St. @ 6th Street
San Francsico
$6-10 sliding scale
8pm: So Long Flatfoot
9pm: Organ of Qwerty (John Hanes)
So Long Flatfoot is the instrumental/experimental/ambient project of
Oakland's Glenn Nelson and Hal 9000. With fuzzed, murky and beautiful
'songs' featuring looped feedbacky guitar, tape recordings, and
occasionally violin, their music brings to mind listening to a decaying
tape of breakup songs from the other end of a warehouse - in other
words, perfect post-holiday "end of year" music.
http://www.geocities.com/solongflatfoot
http://www.purevolume.com/solongflatfoot
Organ of Qwerty is the laptop-improvisation identity of local drummer
John Hanes. In his work, a few notes from simple sound sources (like
violin or bicycle pump) are molded, reworked, and stretched into
immersive and reflective sound spaces.
http://www.myspace.com/organofqwerty
www.purelovepower.com
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Speaking of the Luggage Store series, we have some exciting changes
coming up. We're in the process of inviting more people from the Bay
Area experimental music community to be co-curators. Hopefully they'll
join us and you'll see more friendly faces in the space. Also, that will
give us more ears to the ground to find out about interesting artists to
have perform.
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I'm currently working on a duo cd with Lance Grabmiller. Hopefully it
will be finished in 2007.
My next solo cd will most likely take more than a year to complete. I'm
going to try to re-learn the craft of constructing multitrack recordings
at home. This cd will have all sorts of different instruments, like
accordion, strings and objects. Many of them will be played by me, but
I'll probably also bring in people who can play them well. The cd will
also have words, which currently is the most daunting prospect for me.
Musically, I'm hoping to work some of the musical ideas and moods that
occur in "Bwoo" and "SoftWetFish" into songs.
Ernesto Diaz-Infante's self titled cd (http://cdbaby.com/cd/ernesto10)
is a big inspiration, as is the work of Coil, Stina Nordenstam, Pram and
Beck's "Sea Change" disc.
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In "Exciting Music Coming Up" news, 23Five will be holding the 10th
Annual Activating the Medium festival on January 26th and 27th at the
Exploratorium. The list of artists this year looks pretty exciting,
including BJ Nilsen (fka Hazard - excellent Norwegian sound artist),
Steve Roden, Aaron Ximm, Keith Evans, and several more.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-1Activating.html
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That's it for now. Thanks for listening!
Matt Davignon
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