[Squishy] [964][THIS WEEK] TWO shows THIS week at 964

[Aaron Ximm]

Hey everyone,

Aaron here; it's my pleasure to let you know that post-election
we're having TWO shows at 964 Natoma this week. True, I didn't
curate them, but I will be happily co-hosting! They offer a nice
departure from my regular Field Effects series! Of course we'll have
the usual 964 vibe pulled out to counteract November blahs... so come
on by to relax on a futon, kick back in a beanbag, and forget
the surprises of November with transporting sounds! Looking forward
to seeing you --- aaron

As always let me know if you'd like to be removed from this list!

PS I know you've heard it a million times, but, uh, VOTE please!

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--- 1 of 2: Wednesday November 3           ------------------------
--- Arve Henriksen and Maja Ratkje         ------------------------
--- part of the Northwest Passage Festival ------------------------
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Friends, please join us for an evening of intimate solo improvisations.

Arve Henriksen and Maja Ratkje, two remarkable musical voices on the
contemporary music scene in Oslo, perform the opening night program of the
Northwest Passage - a festival of jazz & electronic music from
Norway.  Arve's trumpet and electronics soundscapes are beautifully
rendered on two remarkable Rune Grammofon recordings.  Maja's voice and
processor compositions/improvisations, also recorded on Rune Grammofon,
have taken her around the world.

WHEN: Wednesday, November 3 at 8:00pm
TICKETS: $10 at the door
MORE INFO: www.northwestpassagefestival.com

Thomas M. Welsh
Artist Director
The Northwest Passage
www.northwestpassagefestival.com

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ARVE HENRIKSEN is a graduate of the Trondheim conservatory. He has played
with many musicians familiar to ECM listeners, including Jon Balke (of
whose Magnetic North Orchestra he is also an alumnus), Anders Jormin,
Edward Vesala, Jon Christensen, Audun Kleive, Nils Petter Molv=E6r, Misha
Alperein, Arkady Shilkoper, Marc Ducret, Bj=F8rn Kjellemyr and the Cikada
String Quartet, as well as Sten Sandell, Frode Gjerstad, Peter Friis
Nilsen, DJ Bj=F8rn Torske and many other Scandinavians committed to free
improvisation. He was also heard recently on No Birch with the trio of
pianist Christian Wallumr=F8d.

MAJA RATKJE, composer and performer (born Dec. 29th 1973 in Trondheim,
Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of
Music in Oslo in 2000. Her music has been heard all over Europe as well as
in Japan, Canada, USA and eastern Russia. Her composed work has been
performed by Oslo Sinfonietta, Arve Tellefsen, Cikada and Vertavo string
quartets, Quatuor Renoir, Ticom, crashEnsemble, Torben Snekkestad, SPUNK,
Frode Haltli and POING among others.  Among prizes she has won the
International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for composers below 30 years of
age. She has received the Norwegian Edvard prize (work of the year), second
prize at the Russolo Foundation, and in 2001 she was the first composer
ever to receive the Arne Nordheim prize. Her solo album =91Voice=92, made i=
n
collaboration with Jazzkammer, got a Distinction Award Prix Ars Electronica
in 2003. Ratkje is active as a singer/voice user and electronics player as
well as studio engineer, mainly in connection with the contemporary
improvisation ensemble SPUNK and the noise duo Fe-mail. Other main
collaborators are Jazzkammer, POING, Lotta Melin and Jaap Blonk. Ratkje has
performed her own music for Ibsen's play =93Ghosts=94, and her voice has be=
en
heard in Icelandic film music as well as in contributions to numerous other
projects. In 2003 Ratkje played a leading part in her own opera, which is
based on the texts from the Nag Hammadi Library.  Her scores are found at
the Norwegian Music Information Centre and her records are released on rune
grammofon, ECM, Kontrans, Albedo, Aurora, Important Records etc. Her
homepage may be visited at www.ratkje.com

* This concert, part of the Northwest Passage, is sponsored in part by
23five and the Thendara Foundation.

Please join us on Thursday, November 4 at the Great American Music Hall for
the San Francisco debuts of Supersilent and Jaga Jazzist, and Friday,
November 5 for the final night party at 111 Minna featuring three of
Norway's most popular djs.


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--- 2 of 2: Friday November 5              ------------------------
--- 3rd Annual FOUND OBJECTS FESTIVAL      ------------------------
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As with last year, we're happy to present night two of the
Third Annual San Francisco Found Objects festival at 964
Natoma.

Curated by Field Effects co-founder Matt Davignon, the night will
feature:

The Noodles
Joshua Churchill
Garth Powell
Justino
Andrew Wilhausen

WHEN: Friday, November 5 at 8:30pm
TICKETS: $6-10 sliding scale, no one turned away

About the 3rd Annual San Francisco Found Objects Festival:

Artists from different approaches of experimental
music improvisation (acoustic, electronic, noise,
ambient, free-jazz, etc) will perform using sounds
from a pool of objects submitted by the audience.
Please bring something from home for the artists to
smack, rub together, shake, squeak, sample and
process.

Our night at 964 Natoma features artists:

Andrew Wilshusen
Whether drumming with avant-garde or Coltrane
influenced jazz groups or recording his own twisted
lyrics, Andrew Wilshusen is always seeking to explore
the boundaries of music. His keen ears and fluid
coordination make him a drummer whose rhythms, which
range from minimalist colorations to polyrhythmic
tirades, always perfectly compliment his band mates
while propelling them to new heights of their own.
When he's not playing the drums, he can be found
instructing, inspiring and encouraging his students.
His devout interest in sound and rhythm coupled with
this patience and musical focus makes him an
extraordinary teacher.
www.bayimproviser.com/andrewwilshusen

Justino [ruidobello] is the alias for Jorge Bachmann,
an artist [sculpture-photography-sound] living in San
Francisco. Since he was young he has been obsessed
with the sounds surrounding him. In the early 80.s he
started collecting his own field recordings with an
old Nagra IV-L, then with a DAT recorder - always
trying to get the strangest everyday sounds. It was
later that he started using them to create sound
atmospheres for his sculpture installations. After he
discovered MAX/MSP year and a half ago, he started
using it for real-time processing and producing tracks
for his studio compositions.
www.anihilo.com

Garth Powell
As a veteran of the Trans-Bay-Area Improvised Music
Community, Garth is just as much at home with
classical orchestral and world percussion as the trap
set. On stage, his large collection of percussion
instruments and household objects (many of which Garth
designed and/or adapted to his own needs) can be a
visual treat by themselves. .Powell plays in a
deceptively serene manner, establishing an illusion of
tranquility that is often shattered by his breakaway
tactics. He is a mercurial performer who turns the
direction of the performance around with his dynamic
execution and just as easily reverts to pensive,
pastoral expression. Segments filled with tenderness
and compassion often follow his most robust playing..
Frank Rubolino . One Final Note
www.bayimproviser/garthpowell

Joshua G Churchill is an interdisciplinary artist
whose interests and work revolve around interpersonal
relationships and our relationships to our
surroundings and the ways in which those relationships
affect, and are affected by, communication and
representation. Utilizing appropriated materials from
everyday life, such as sounds, images, language, and
existing technologies, Churchill aims to compel the
listener/viewer/participant to become critically aware
of these relationships on both global and intimate
scales by creating work that focuses on details and
anomalies of the familiar. His recent work includes
installation environments that challenge a
viewer/listener.s expectations, often by activating
spaces or objects that transpose the roles of the
operator-device relationship, photographic work where
images of anonymous memories are literally reshaped
and distorted, and experimental sound performances and
recordings involving live processing and manipulation
of field recordings, radio, and guitar.
www.joshuachurchill.com

The Noodles are Suki O'Kane, Michael Zelner, and Allen
Whitman, a trio of sonic collagists improvising
with acoustic, electronic, sampled and concrete sound.
They are emerging from the culture jamming tradition
of media ecology into the big, bright light of sweet,
narcotic noise. Like true experimentalists their
performances vary in shape and scale from brief pieces
transmitted to strategically placed transistor radios
to five-hour sleep sets, but their peculiar brand of
distorted samples and heartbreaking ambient beds lie
at the center. Much of their work is event-specific,
built on sonic capture of audience, performers, and
environment. They bring to bear countless hours of
diverse research and field recordings to create fixed
pieces that contemplate a variety of subjects: 100
Days of Jerry Brown, English Lessons on Chinese Radio,
and Tell Me What To Do, a meditation on instructional
audio presented by the San Francisco Tape Music
Festival in 2004. http://zoka.com/noodles