964 Natoma
964 Natoma Between Mission and Howard SF
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Thursday, Nov 4 2004 8:00 PM

3rd Annual San Francisco Found Objects Festival, night 1 of 2

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.

Friday's performers will include, in performance order:

Andrew Wilhausen
Justino
Garth Powell
Joshua Churchill
The Noodles

Please bring objects from home for the artists to smack, rub together, shake, squeak, sample and process.

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 that works with
sound in the context of performance, recordings, and installations. Most of his performance and recording work consists of multi layered instrumental improvisations created by processing, looping, and layering sound sources such as acoustic guitar, field recordings, and live radio signals. Often taking cues from math rock, free jazz, avant music, noise, and even metal, Churchill's compositions transpose and recontextualize familiar (and unfamiliar) sounds so that they begin to transform and fade into one another as they slowly shed their original voices and adopt new ones along the way. www.joshuachurchill.com

The Noodles are 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. www.zoka.com



Cost: $6-10

Audio samples in which musicians at this event play: