Karl Evangelista (Games) Trio
Karl A.D. Evangelista: guitar
Cory Wright: baritone saxophone
Jordan Glenn: drums
Improviser, composer, and guitarist Karl Alfonso Evangelista was born in Van Nuys, California, USA, on April 28, 1986, the son of two Filipino immigrants. His music explores the intersection between improvisation and composition in a multicultural, transidiomatic social space. Karl's trio mines the gap between free jazz, New Orleans parade music, and fast-food commercials, utilizing a unique bass-less format to negotiate more open-ended grooves.
Jacob Felix Heule/
Kanoko Nishi Duo
Jacob Felix Heule is a drummer and electronic musician whose music directly expresses sonic texture and timbre through the discipline of free improvisation. Spanning extremes of physicality and intensity, stasis and restraint, his music follows from the traditions of electro-acoustic improv and noise.
Kanoko Nishi is an improviser currently based in SF/Bay Area, CA. Although her primary training is in classical piano performance, her most recent interest as a performer has been in improvisational music making, both in a solo context and in collaborations with other artists. She has been exploring on the piano, as well as on her second instrument, koto (13, or 17-string Japanese zither), various extended techniques, in addition to more traditional techniques, in order to widen the rage of vocabularies on each instrument to enable them to adapt to different musical genres.
Shelton/Stuart/Glenn
Aram Shelton: reeds
Doug Stuart: bass
Jordan Glenn: drums
Shelton is a multi-instrumentalist on saxophones and clarinets, a composer & improviser, and creates electroacoustic music with computer-based electronics. While the music he makes is spread across a variety of aesthetic lines, it is connected by the importance of improvisation to develop material and express the individuality of musicians.
Cost: Donations