[Squishy] [964][THIS Friday!] Zoe's last show

[Aaron Ximm]

Hey folks,

My own Field Effects show NEXT week notwithstanding, which you should
have gotten mail about in the last couple of days (if not, see the
series site, www.fieldeffects.org...) ---

I thought you all might like to know about ANOTHER event at 964 which
is THIS week. Tommorow -- Friday. Zoe will be playing music composed
in response to the truly AMAZING work of Yvette Molina. Expect loveliness
for multiple senses! I forward the comments of DJ Vordo whose PA we at
964 have been blessed to make much use of in the past years...

Given that it's Zoe's last show, 964 could be crowded with well-wishers,
consider yourself warned!  (And as ever, just ask to be removed) - aaron

(PS I sure am HOPING we can have Zoe back to 964 in coming years!!!)

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:01:16 -0800
From: vordo <vordo at vordo.org>
To: abstraktions at abstrakt-zone.com
Subject: [Abstraktions] zoe keating is leaving town :-(

<a dear friend and collaborator, zoe keating is leaving town soon and
she will be doing her last concert at her home, 964 natoma this friday
night.  if you haven't seen zoe, you must.  she is one of the most
amazing musicians I know and Sf's loss will be portland's gain.
anyway, the prospect of not being able to see her regularly is enough
to make me get on an airplane and get my ass back to the bay.

if you have seen her, you know, if you haven't, you should.

peace out and see ya there.>


Dear cello-list friends,

It's true! After many happy, creative years, we are moving out of 964
Natoma in order to experience many more happy, creative years in
Portland, Oregon.  January 21st is possibly your last chance to see me
play at the warehouse. I'm sure I'll be back to play again in SF, but
who knows when, so, I guess what I'm trying to say is....if you're in
the SF Bay Area...COME TO THIS SHOW.

I will play two sets on January 21st with an intermission in the
middle. The first set will be my usual brand of looped cello, the
second will be a new work to accompany paintings by Yvette Molina.

Yvette Molina is a painter I met on a plane last year.  We got to
talking about this and that and she showed me her portfolio. I found
myself thinking about the images for weeks afterwards. I felt that she
expressed something with her painting that I was trying to express in
music. Just a simple, mist, shrouded silhouette of a trumpet vine
seemed to whisper something about beauty, sorrow, and the fleeting
fragility of life. I can't explain it in words without making it sound
trite, I guess that's what art is for! I've included below a short
description of her work from a recent gallery show.

Jeff Rusch and Okeanos have converted some of her paintings to digital
form and will project them on multiple screens around the warehouse
while I play. The goal is to create an immersive environment of sight
and sound.

Here are all the details:

Zoe Keating: looped cello
Yvette Molina: paintings
Jeff Rusch and Okeanos: projectionists

Friday, January 21st
964 Natoma
(in SOMA btw 10th & 11th streets)
doors at 8:30
music at 9:00

$5 to $10 suggested donation

more about Yvette from a recent exhibition entitled "Unquiet Preserve":
http://www.artnet.com/event/70156/Yvette_Molina_Unquiet_Preserve.html

Yvette Molina brings together a series of meticulously rendered oil
paintings that are both a celebration of nature and an invitation to
consider its tenuous existence. For the artist, Unquiet Preserve
ìrefers to both the act of choosing to document the beautiful elements
in the natural world and the unsettling reality that paintings and
photographs are quickly becoming the last preserve of nature...In the
modern age, to gaze upon the beauty of nature is to bear a shadow of
sorrow over its passing.î

Inspired by traditional Chinese landscape painting, Molinaís work comes
from detailed observations and recordings of plants, vistas and sky
experienced in her own backyard in Oakland, California. The artist
isolates and removes her subjects from the urban elements she chooses
not to memorialize and paints a single branch or hilly landscape in
crisp silhouette over an indeterminate space. These are spaces for the
imagination where glowing moths flit about along with seeds, pods and
subtle graphic markings.

The works are painted on aluminum panels which reflect light through
twenty to thirty layers of paint, creating a deep luminosity. Molina ís
restrained, slate-like palette holds the work in a meditative, abstract
domain where beauty is company to reflection on loss and possibility,
regret and hope.
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