Uptown Nightclub
1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland
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Mwahaha. Psychedelic ebb & flows, electronic undercurrents, and elated pop flourishes bring into focus an attention to detail that’s staggering.

Fibers + The Gargantius Effect. The Gargantius Effect is the brainchild of Murray Campbell (violin, oboe and electronics) and Randy McKean (reeds). Like the Stanislaw Lem story of the same name, in which armies of warring soldiers are linked together to form a peaceful, blissfully­aware omni­ mind, so, too, these longtime collaborators and Nevada County natives transform the connections and crossfires of the various genres in which they usually find themselves—the Euro­café of Beaucoup Chapeaux, Balkan swing of Chickenbonz, chamber jazz of Bristle—into scintillating bits of free improvisation, compositional constructs and mechanized mayhem. Fibers is the improvisational duo of Wes Steed (electronics; Sacramento) and Kevin Corcoran (percussion; San Francisco) who have worked together since 2010. They explore texture and tone in a music at times expansive and at others restrained, with an interest in the broad sonic potential of their instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay356BoTYWI

mchtnchts. Lance Grabmiller and Kyle Bruckmann have been partners in shudder (with Phillip Greenlief) since 2004, on digital electronics and double reeds, respectively. In 2012, the two began exploring a duo configuration employing exclusively modular analog electronics. The results have thus far been delightfully nasty, unapologetically invoking a mutual love of vintage electronic (preciding the “-a” appendage) music and old-school industrial crunch.

Active Music Series - Second Tuesdays at the Uptown
Music at 9 No cover, donations accepted.
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Uptown
1928 Telegraph
Oakland

Cost: Donations

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