Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Thu, Apr 24 2008 8:00 PM


8pm: Andrew Kaluzynski solo electroics
9pm: Mathieu Werchowski(violin)& David Chiesa(double bass)

Andrew Kaluzynski makes music from live instrumentation, found samples, and prerecorded material. His work in music began with elaborate audio visual setups and theatrical site specific performances. Recently he has been focusing more on live production of sonic content with less emphasis on conceptual performance and integration of video art. Andrew was born in Lansing, Michigan, but his family packed up a U-Haul and drove down to North Carolina with Andrew, before he was yet able to walk or speak. He spent most of his early years running through the woods, hiking and truly enjoying the Appalachian mountain range although, if you were to ask him about it, he might tell you that he would rather have been somewhere else. Throughout his early life, Andrew fostered a love for photography and performing that led him to Bennington College in Vermont. At Bennington, he studied photography, theater, music, and film as though they were the same subject, and is now living and working in the San Francisco East Bay as a Production Assistant on documentary films.

Matthiew Werchowski & David Chiesa
"...Carving slow luminous shapes into resonant space. Both players have connections to the European avant garde, with Werchowski forging alliances with Jerome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti and John Russell, while Chiesa has worked with Michel Doneda and Xavier Charles as well as danceers like Yukiko Makamura and Veronique Albert. ...The duo bookend dark pools of silence with thin smears of light, the strings singing with glissing overtones and ...intimately focused dronework. ...Moving from dense harmonics through cyclical minimalism and hypnotic raga-esque duets wtih an organic logic." (clipped from review of CD, "Sharp Claws Cats" from the Wire)
http://mwerchowski.free.fr, http://david.chiesa.free.fr

Cost: $6-10 sliding scale