Sunday August 5
8pm - set order tba

	From Questa, New Mexico! Jeff Gburek is a multi-instrumentalist following the path of a butoh-inspired transformational music. Using a modified javanese gamelan percussion set up, he deploys a cyclical structure of tones, texture, resonances and ruptures reminiscent of classical javanese music. For his ACME performance, he will present electronic sound from rewired devices other objects forged and found with balinese rythmic ideas mixed and deconstructured into modern percussion feeling no sense of cycle but shifting sound horizons interweaving ear or two Gburek, a self-taught guitarist for 26 years, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Poetics from the New College of California and has studied various literatures and ethnomusicology. He studied classical Javanese gamelan with Pak Suhardi in Yogyakarta and has been strongly influenced by Indian music, microtonalists, experimental improvisors and freedom jazz. His composition for two microtonal guitars and micro-incremental movement, "Aint Observin Increments", premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin in March, 2000. Last year he did concerts as guitarist, violinist and rebab player throughout Germany with Konrad Bauer, Joachim Gies, Michael Vorfeldt, Michael Walz, Joe Williamson, Panik Musik and his free jazz trio ON. He toured Djalma last September along with Neel Murgai, Chris Forsyth and Rich Gross. In New York he has performed alongside Toshi Makihara, Daniel Carter and Graham Haynes. He composed/ performed the music for Djalma"s performance of Null Achtzehn in Italy, Germany and Poland. He continues to modify his gamelan set-up with diverse preparations and integrates disintegrated circuitry sounds into his performances.
	Henry Kuntz will present an AN AVANT-SHAMANISTIC MULTI-INSTRUMENTAL SOLO IMPROVISATION. Instrumentation will include Javanese gamelan, rhaita (Moroccan double-reed instrument), Mexican Indian violin, flutes, and tenor saxophone. In this solo presentation, Henry applies in concentrated form "avant-shamanic" concepts he has developed over many years both on his own and with the group OPEYE.. Henry notes: "The alertness demanded by the free improvisation process shifts one's state of being into a place not unlike that described in various accounts of trance, dream or shamanic reality. The inherently creative and explorative aspects of free improvisation -- the manner in which it seeks to alter, realign, and reconfigure cultural paradigms -- place it on a path that is parallel to that of the shaman. Yet while the shaman seeks to restore individuals who are out of cultural sorts to harmony with their surroundings, the avant-shamanic free improvisor does not so much seek to restore connections with a particular culture, but to find and experience One's True Self /Our True Selves in the midst of a culture/world cultures that are in many ways lacking in wholeness."
	Kuntz has been intimately involved in free jazz and free improvisation for more than 25 years. From 1973 to 1979, he was editor and publisher of the internationally-acclaimed newsletter-review BELLS. He first recorded on tenor saxophone in 1977 on Henry Kaiser's Ice Death (Parachute 005). He has played musette and various flutes since 1981, miniature violins since 1983, gamelans and xylophones since 1988. On Humming Bird Records, he has released 2 LPs, 16 cassettes, and 3 CDs of solo, group, and multi-tracked free improvisations. In 1986, he co-founded the "avant-shamanic trance jazz" group, Opeye. He has traveled extensively (over 20 years) to Mexico, Central and South America, Asia, Indonesia, and North Africa recording, studying, and drawing upon aspects of music, ritual, dance, and performance -- from which 5 ethnographic cassettes have also been produced. Henry's recently released solo tenor saxophone music, One One & One (Humming Bird CDs 2&3), has been critically acclaimed in various publications, including Jazz Journal International, Cadence, One Final Note, Musings , and New Creative Music.

Sunday August 19
8pm - set order tba

From Zürich! Jason Kahn drums, metals, electronics "minimal kit drum percussion pieces, very inventive, simple and original, where rhythm is a mirror through which shifting sonorities and melodic modulations are explored. a strong concept excellently realised. sound counts (engineered by bob drake)." - Chris Cutler Jason Kahn has been active in the European new music scene since moving from Los Angeles to Berlin in 1990. He has given concerts with, among others, Sainkho Namtchylak, David Moss, Evan Parker, Shelley Hirsch, Christian Marclay, Dietmar Diesner, Johannes Bauer, Günter Müller, Dieb13.... Kahn was originally a drummer / percussionist but later began integrating sampling into his playing, at first with hardware sampling units; later using the computer and live sampling software. Kahn was a guest of STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, working there on combining STEIM's interactive sampling program LiSa with live drumming. Over several trips to Japan Kahn has performed with Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Utah Kawasaki, Uchihashi Kazuhisa and Koji Asano. In 1997 Kahn formed the project "Repeat" with no-input mixing board player Toshimaru Nakamura. Repeat has toured both Japan and Europe several times as well as releasing three CD's to critical acclaim. While living in Berlin Kahn was from 1994-99 a member of American composer Arnold Dreyblatt's ensemble The Orchestra of Excited Strings, performing in installations, multi-media pieces and concerts. Kahn has also composed music for theater, dance and sound installations (most recently: klangturm ) Kahn currently lives in Zürich, where he curates a series of concerts for new improvised and electronic music, "sonique serie". He started the cut label in 1996, releasing to date five CD's.

The Brown Bunny Ensemble "has not decided if they are a band, a collective, or a new music ensemble. The Brown Bunny Ensemble has not decided to compose, install, improvise, or program. The Brown Bunny Ensemble has only decided to make absurd, challenging, and beautiful music at the highest level." - Village Voice

Sunday September 2
8pm - set order tba

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