An Evening of works with
Daniel Steffey,
Pete Rat Martin,
Benjamin Ethan TinkerNight Critter Pt. 1 (2012)
Molly Tascone - vocals, Christina Stanley - violin/vocals
Giselle Eastman - Clarinet, Daniel Steffey - chinese water bowls
Pete Rat Martin - chinese water bowls
Steffey's Utensils of Mass Destruction (2011)
Daniel Steffey -percussion
Cadenza for Solo Cello (2011)
Devon Thrumston
For Clarinet Solo and Percussion
Giselle Eastman - Clarinet
Daniel Steffey - Percussion
Surf Designs
Tammie Dyer - Violin
Christina Stanley - Violin
Benjamin will be performing electronic improvisations with Aux Yux Crux and Ryan Page as the trio: Odori-don!
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premiering his composition for pedal steel (David Phillips), trombone (Andy Strain), bass trombone (Jack Madden), violin (Christina Stanley), cello (Crystal Pascucci), and double double bass (Edward Stumpp & Adam Lowdermilk) : i wanna take all te sadness and use it to give me strength like megatron.
Pete Rat Martin is a composer, multi-instrumentalist. His music is influenced by street, folk, and chamber music. Amoeba Records calls it "sexy avant garde." The key key component in his work is physicality and entrainment, the running thread of a desire to functionally blend ritual, roots, and concert music.
He has released electro-acoustic music on Edgetone Records, Negativland's SEELAND and the Entartete Kunst labels. He has composed music for theater, notably Spring Awakening and the Investigation, both directed by Floyd Labar. He has composed music for ballet and dance, and has collaborated with Indonesian dancers such as internationally known Didik Nini Thowok. He is also leader of the art rock band, Eddie the Rat, and rotating member of Big City Orchestra, one of oldest and most notorious noise bands in the Bay Area.
Daniel Steffey is a composer and percussionist located in the San Francisco Bay Area. His newest album of electronic works titled "Chloros" was released on Edgetone Records in which Foxy Digitalis went on to say, "It is as abrasive as it is meditative, and bold as it is voyeuristic. He has surprisingly found new meanings within noise." In 2011, Daniel was commissioned by the Fifth Wall Gallery in Las Vegas, Nevada to contribute a solo exhibition for their inaugural opening; the resulting sound installation Sonic Trichromacy was met with critical acclaim. His work String Quartet No. 1 garnered him the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for string writing from Mills College. In 2009, Daniel also contributed the music and sound design for Helen Pau's award-winning play "The Stone Wife", which ran at The Berkeley City Club throughout December of that year. Currently, he is composing a series of chamber pieces, including a saxophone quartet to be premiered in Italy in August 2012.
Daniel is also an active member of the William Winant Percussion Group where he as played in the US premieres of works by Peter Garland and Christian Wolff respectively, and worked with several other composers and performers such as: Petr Kotik, Thomas Buckner, the Eclipse String Quartet, Bob Ostertag, David Abel, Julia Wolfe, the Strata String Quartet, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He received his MA in Music Composition from Mills College where he studied composition and music theory with Roscoe Mitchell and David Bernstein, and percussion with William Winant. His BA is in Music Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he studied percussion with Tim Jones and Dean Gronemeier.
Benjamin Tinker (New York, 1969) is a multidisciplinary artist and electronic musician who lives in San Francisco. He chooses to work primarily with analogue synthesizers from which he composes electroacoustic music, and performs regularly with the improv ensemble White Pee. In addition, he curates and writes about experimental music. He has a BFA in sculpture from SUNY Purchase and is currently pursuing a MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College.
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Cost: $6-10