CMAU and Radiolara
CMAU (Contact Mic Arts Union) evolved out of a performance at Mills College's legendary Thursday Night Special concert series. The quartet uses contact microphones to amplify homemade instruments and found objects (dry ice, toy piano, motors, cracked cymbals, springs, etc.) as well as samples and live computer synthesis and processing. They can't predict where their improvisations will go and have quit trying to structure their music in any way. CMAU has performed at several music festivals in California including CEAIT 2002 at Cal Arts (Valencia), the 4th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs (San Francisco), Signal Flow 2002 (Oakland), 2002 NWEAMO (North-West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization) Festival (Portland and San Diego), and Sound/Shift 2002 (Oakland). They are currently working on an album with Myles Boisen at Guerilla Euphonics in Oakland.
Kendra Juul - laptop, dry ice
Doug Michael - "Walker Soundboard", circuit bends, samples and synthesis
Sudhu Tewari- modified stereo receivers, springs, electronics
Mark Bartscher- toy piano, motors, samples and synthesis
Radiolaria:
Radiolaria is a group of musicians dedicated to the performance of original experimental music conceived of and distributed by its members. The group features a unique instrumentation, utilizing anything from tubas and computers to greywacke sandstones. Influenced by the unique acoustical properties of the Presidio Native Plant Nursery, Radiolaria has a particular fondness for unusual spatialization, free improvisation and humming like a refrigerator.
Radiolaria is comprised of at least 8 people living in the SF Bay area. Members performing in tonight's ensemble include Eric Glick-Rieman, Alicia Byer, Michael Perlmutter, Jesse Olsen, Robin Hiroko Walsh, James Livingston, Kristin Miltner, and David Mairs.
Cost: $6
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Normal Give or Take (Fred Frith, Sudhu Tewari, and Lotte Anker)