Transbay Skronkathon BBQ
Sunday August 8, 2004
Provisional Schedule

Start Duration Performer Description

12:00 0:20 cypod rhythmic electronica
12:20 0:30 Thea Farhadian/Nina Egert samples+extended vocals+percussion
12:50 0:10 BREAK
1:00 0:30 Lx Rudis videogame synthpunk detritus
1:30 0:20 Phillip Greenlief solo saxophone
1:50 0:10 BREAK
2:00 0:30 Ernesto Diaz-Infante solo acoustic guitar
2:30 0:20 RYAN AND WILSHUSEN'S TAKLIMBA electronified kalimba+tabla
2:50 0:10 BREAK
3:00 0:25 Moe! Staiano/Vicky Grossi percussion+guitar/bass+viola
3:25 0:25 thollem piano
3:50 0:10 BREAK
4:00 0:25 Out of the blue Quartet Chicago quartet relocates to Bay Area
4:25 0:25 Devil Lovers George Cremaschi, John Shiurba, Scott Rosenberg
4:50 0:10 BREAK
5:00 0:25 Josh Allen/Damon Smith sax/bass free jazz
5:25 0:25 Davignon/Djll trumpet/drum machine, uc/lc noise
5:50 0:10 BREAK
6:00 0:25 Joe Zitt/Katherine Setar folk songs w. improvised accompaniment
6:25 0:25 Grey Otter / Will Grant art songs, sort of
6:50 0:10 BREAK
7:00 0:25 People Middle-eastern "jazz"
7:25 0:25 Scot Gresham-Lancaster electronics/guitar
7:50 0:10 BREAK
8:00 0:25 Ghost In The House Oboe/Percussion/Lap Steel/Gongs
8:25 0:25 Amar Chaudhary laptop/acoustic+toy instruments
8:50 0:10 BREAK
9:00 0:25 Alexander Kort & Olivier Hamant electric cello/bass clarinet
9:30 0:40 Skronktet West Electric with Live Dancers

cypod

Contact
Beau Casey, beau25@access4less.net
Personnel
Beau Casey, electronics
Description
Sonic Artist Cypod has developed a strain of rhythmic electronica, using DJ style step-sequencing sythesizers.
Web
http://geocities.com/recursionvideolab/

Thea Farhadian/Nina Egert

Contact
Thea Farhadian, theafarhadian@yahoo.com
Personnel
Thea Farhadian, electronics
Nina Egert, voice
Description
Nina Egert (voice) is trained in western classical, North Indian classical, Tibetan ritual, and and jazz vocals to explore pre-verbal emotions and instrumental sounds with her voice. She worked with the €Composer€s Cafeteria, €Ovaryaction,€ and ensembles ranging from the Berkeley Stage Company to Venue Nine. She has an M.A. in Mills College in music composition and a doctorate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. More recently she wrote several choral pieces, which were performed by the women€s choir, €Voci.€

Thea Farhadian (electronics) has performed Arabic, Sephardic, and North African music in addition to contemporary classical music and free improvisation. She has performed in New York City, Berlin and Armenia. Thea has composed music for film and has sound art pieces played in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, she curated for the first Armenian Film Festival in New York City and in San Francisco.

Some information about the piece: "MRI.5" considers the topic of the locations of consciousness in the brain. Structurally, the piece consists of a set, pre-recorded format using samples of synthesized sounds, recordings of MRI machines, and spoken citations from a variety of sources. Overlaid upon the recorded format is a live, extemporaneous performance using extended vocal techniques and percussion (two types of Tibetan ritual drums).

Lx Rudis

Contact
Lx Rudis, lx_rudis@sbcglobal.net
Personnel
Lx Rudis, electronics
Description
i'm one of the pax recording artists. i'm not on the mail-lists, but i'm a fairly active performer on the experimental/new music scene. i can send you references and/or material if you need.
Web
http://www.paxrecordings.com/Artists/LX_Rudis.html

Phillip Greenlief

Contact
Phillip Greenlief, pgsaxo@pacbell.net
Personnel
Phillip Greenlief, saxophone
Description
Saxophonist Phillip Greenlief exemplifies the well-known quote by Thelonious Monk: "I've made all the wrong mistakes..." Write perplexing emails and send them to him at pgsaxo@pacbell.net
Web
http://www.evandermusic.com/philbio.html

Ernesto Diaz-Infante

Contact
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, itzat@earthlink.net
Personnel
Ernesto Diaz-Infante, acoustic guitar
Description
Ernesto Diaz-Infante plays guitar and other instruments. He makes music with a bunch of groovy people and has released a bunch of cool CDs. He likes taking walks, contemplating dualities, and co-parenting his 4-month old baby, Ezra Octavio.
Web
http://www.paxrecordings.com/ernesto/

RYAN AND WILSHUSEN'S TAKLIMBA

Contact
Jim Ryan, jim@majornet.com, Andrew Wilshusen, liberatednsf@yahoo.com
Personnel
Jim Ryan, Andrew Wilshusen
Description
YES!!! RYAN AND WILSHUSEN'S TAKLIMBA (Wilshusen amped tabla, Ryan kalimba rig and processed flutes&voice) WANNA DO IT . . . REAL BAD . . . WE WANNA SKRONK . . . WE IS SOUND SCIENTISTS and TONE ARTISTS. . . PLEASE INCLUDE US IN YOUR MOST PROFOUND DELIBERATIONS, O ACME Observatory (skronkothon) Staff . . . . We play doublepolyrhythmic IndiAfroUberArtSkronk and can set your ass on fire in a mere 20 minutes like in mid to late afternoon. We are horridly underrepresented and terribly arty so please choose us! TAKLIMBA will agree to ANYTHING for 20 minutes (30 preferred), (15 accepted), of fame at the SKRONKATHON . . . we'll do it whenever you want us to but like we said mid to late afternoon would be great . . . don't forget our group that's TAKLIMBA unloved and underappreicated we need recognition bad . . . Yours, Truly, Jim Ryan and Andrew Wilshusen, SOUND SCIENTISTS and TONE ARTISTS, EXTRAORDINARE!
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Moe! Staiano/Vicky Grossi

Contact
Moe! Staiano, moestaiano@juno.com
Personnel
Moe! Staiano, Vicky Grossi
Description
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thollem

Contact
thollem mcdonas, thollem@yahoo.net
Personnel
thollem mcdonas
Description
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Out of the blue Quartet

Contact
Bob Marsh, laoze@myrealbox.com
Personnel
Bob Marsh, cello
George Cremaschi, bass
Matt Ingalls, clarinets
Kyle Bruckman, double reeds
Description
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Devil Lovers

Contact
George Cremaschi, geocrem@yahoo.com
Personnel
George Cremaschi, John Shiurba, Scott Rosenberg
Description
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Josh Allen/Damon Smith

Contact
Damon Smith, damon@balancepointacoustics.com
Personnel
Josh Allen, tenor sax
Damon Smith, string bass
Description
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Davignon/Djll

Contact
Matt Davignon, mattdavignon@hotmail.com, Tom Djll, td@djll.com
Personnel
Matt Davignon, drum machine Tom Djll, trumpet
Description
I believe Tom Djll and I would like to do a trumpet/electronics duo for Skronkathon. ...just putting that out there so it's not all last-minutey
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Joe Zitt/Katherine Setar

Contact
Katherine Setar, setar@pacbell.net, Joe Zitt, jzitt@josephzitt.com
Personnel
Joe Zitt, voice
Katherine Setar, piano
Description
Improvisation for piano and voice based upon traditional folk songs
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Grey Otter / Will Grant

Contact
Will Grant, will@greyotter.com
Personnel
Will Grant
Description
Vocal settings of poems (art songs so to speak), which I would perform live, accompanied by a CD track
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People

Contact
Brian Hawlk, mail@brianhawlk.com
Personnel
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Description
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Scot Gresham-Lancaster

Contact
Scot Gresham-Lancaster, sgresham@bay.csuhayward.edu
Personnel
Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Description
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Ghost In The House

Contact
David Michalak, dmichalak@sbcglobal.net
Personnel
Kyle Bruckman, oboe, English horn
Tom Nunn, percussion, waterphone
David Michalak, lap steel
Karen Stackpole, gongs
Description
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Amar Chaudhary

Contact
Amar Chaudhary, amar@ptank.com
Personnel
Amar Chaudhary, electronics
Description
Experimental electro-acoustic music, both composed and improvized. I use a laptop running my own music software, a graphics tablet as my controller, and often a variety of acoustic and toy instruments as live input. Tends to lie somewhere between "academic art music" and "experimental noise".
Web
www.amarchaudhary.com

Alexander Kort & Olivier Hamant

Contact
Olivier Hamant, olivierhamant@yahoo.fr
Personnel
Alexander Kort, Olivier Hamant
Description
To keep it short, can we just say that it's a free improvised dialog between Alexander Kort on electric cello and Olivier Hamant on bass clarinet...?
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Skronktet West

Contact
John Shiurba, shiurba@pacbell.net, Scott Rosenberg, rosenb@core.com
Personnel
John Shiurba, guitar
Scott Rosenberg, reeds
Gino Robair, percussion
others?
Description
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