| FEBRUARY 2010 |
Thursday, Feb 18 2010 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
Click for Venue page on bayimproviserOutsound Presents
Cost : $6-10
8pm Doctor Bob - Bob Marsh, David Michalak
9pm Michael Straus (Amsterdam-based saxophonist/improviser)with Ken Ueno, Matt Ingalls and Ted Coffey
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 committing unnatural acts with his cello and other electronic devices creating a unique chemistry with the equally unnatural lap steel guitar style of David Michalak.
Amsterdam-based saxophonist Michael Straus is responsible for the commissioning and premieres of over seventy compositions and can regularly be seen collaborating with composers, visual artists, robots, turntablists, conductors, dancers and other instrumentalists around the world. His extensive performance career has led to concert appearances throughout the United States, Holland, Canada, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Ireland. He is founder of the multimedia performance and commissioning project What are you looking at? and regularly performs with the chamber ensembles quux, portals of distortion and rare degree. He is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for studies in Amsterdam and holds M.M. degrees in saxophone performance and computer music from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a B.M. from Louisiana State University.Audio samples on which musicians at this event appear:
Artist Format Song (Click To Play) CD Title Doctor Bob MP3 Give Me A Sign Dark Times Doctor Bob MP3 Seahoeses & Flying Fishes Dark Times Bob Marsh MP3 Bell Buoy The Left Coast Improv Group Bob Marsh MP3 Track 01 Triangle Bob Marsh MP3 Track 03 Triangle Bob Marsh REALAUDIO Track 4 Hill Music Bob Marsh MP3 Don't touch my Shit Sonic Conspiracy Bob Marsh MP3 Tweet-tweet, Twitter-twitter-squawk Birds in the Hand Bob Marsh MP3 ready for the revolution Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America Bob Marsh MP3 Take Yourself Seriously Novo Navigatio