The Noodles:
Suki O'Kane - samples, prepared guitar
Michael Zelner - electronics, wind synth
Allen Whitman - treated bass guitar, electronics
The Noodles are a trio of sonic collagists improvising with acoustic, electronic, sampled and concrete sound. They have emerged from the culture jamming tradition of media ecology into the big, bright light of sweet, intoxicating noise. 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
Last Chance for the Loneliest Kitten:
Kurt Kotheimer - bass, electronics
Joshua Smith - saxophones, electronics
Ava Mendoza - guitar, electronics
This group consists of three improvisers who draw from their acoustic instrumental backgrounds to create a distinctive, highly expressive and organic approach to electro-acoustic improvisation. Making entirely abstract music that defies boundaries of collage, lowercase sound, noise, soundscape, the trio's vocabulary enters widely varying realms of texture and volume, turning on a dime from chunks of abrasive noise to blocks of silence and barely audible hisses and crackles. Their battery of mainly analog sounds is produced using cassette tapes, mixing board, feedback, and effects pedals. Their comfort zone of long silences and scrutinizing sound exploration suspend's audiences ears in a space of hyper awareness, luring even the least cooperative listeners into being vulnerable and exposed.
Cost: $6-$10 sliding scale