Community Music Center
544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF
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The 2007 EDGETONE NEW MUSIC SUMMIT

Pre-Concert Composer Q&A 7:30pm
Time in Transmission, a night of electro-acoustic performance

Doctor Bob(Bob Marsh/David Michalak/Stephen Flinn), Tom Nunn/Matt Davignon,
Nihil Communication & Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic,Darwinsbitch


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Darwinsbitch Oakland-based sound artist and violinist Marielle Jakobsons aims to reclaim performance as a “breathing system” of sound, people, and space. Her work explores the physical and social dimensions of instruments and the unique perspective of each perceiver-performer to his or her surroundings.
At the Edgetone New Music Summit she will perform a work entitled Undercurrents in Flight. The piece is scored for one electric five-string violin, a unique Max/MSP program, two stainless steel pans, three speaker-objects, and MIDI controllers [foot and keyboard]. The sound sources are violin, oscillators, and field recordings of birds.
Three speaker-objects will be passed around to the audience; when the object is brought to the ear, special parts and partials of the sounding piece are highlighted and audibly revealed to the perceiver. These objects will be designed and crafted around the theme of birds, trees, and bones.
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Nihil Communication is dark and droning sound sculptures that evolve slowly over time describe this performance Solo semi-improvised electroacoustic music are meditative spaces that incorporate noise. Nihil Communication may be comprised of Tom Nunn’s T-Rodimba, synthesizer/s, percussion and digital effects.
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Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic is a performance artist with eclectic influences. Her music background includes Balkan Singing and Jazz Composition. She trained in Central Asian Dance with Carolyn Krueger and Viloyat Akilova, People's Artist of Uzbekistan. Additionally she studied Egyptian Dance with Sahra C. Kent, and Japanese Butoh Dance with Judith Kajiwara, Don McLeod, and Shinichi Iova-Koga. Currently she is a member of Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble and Alleluia Panis Dance Theater. She is excited to be collaborating with Nihil Communication again.
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Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1976, having received a B.Mus. and M.A. in music composition from the University of Texas at Austin and S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and post-graduate work at U.C. San Diego. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity.
In addition to the nearly 100 instruments he has made, Tom has performed extensively throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years, as well as in other parts of the U.S., Canada and Europe, both as soloist and with other musicians.

Matt Davignon has developed a unique form of improvisation over the last 10 years, focusing on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. Creating music that is at once elemental and intricately ambient, he explores the outer dimensions of experimentation, often hovering around the threshold between chaos and order. While the sounds he generates are initially created using a drum machine, Matt avoids its traditional use as a device for making beats. Instead, he processes the sounds beyond recognition, providing a result that is surreal, haunting and otherworldly.
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Doctor Bob plays songs for a dark and bitter world. They range from scary to the surreal to the abstract and frequently dwell in a space between idea and word.
Doctor Bob is a project of Bob Marsh (whose mother always wanted him to be a doctor) and David Michalak (whose favorite TV show was Mr. Wzard). Bob Marsh sings, rants and yowls whilst playing unnatural cello and other electronic devices creating a unique chemistry with the equally unnatural lap steel guitar style of David Michalak.

David Michalak plays a Fender lap steel guitar and an assortment of odd percussion instruments. While he is more commonly known as a filmmaker (50 films with original soundtracks since 1971), the visual art side of him seeps inherently into his solo performances and group compositions, which are characterized by shimmering passages, abstract snapshots and haunting representations of natural elements.
Bob Marsh is a well seasoned improviser whose work has involved shaping sounds words images ideas. Originally from Detroit, Marsh arrived in the Bay Area in 2000 after ten years in Chicago where he played with most of the avant improvisers in that rich and varied scene. Since his arrival on the west coast, multi-instrumentalist and composer Marsh has been busy with several projects. He currently is active with cello, accordion, violin, voice, vibraphone and electronics.

Cost: $10/5

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