Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Sun, May 4 2025 7:00 PM

West Oakland Sound Series
2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland
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CELEBRATING 2 CD RELEASES!

CRACKING THE SURFACE (David Michalak + Scott R. Looney + Thomas Dimuzio)
Chris Brown + Ben Davis


CRACKING THE SURFACE (David Michalak, instruments of skatch; Scott R. Looney, piano, hyper-piano, and Thomas Dimuzio, buchla 200E, processing) CD release show celebrating our new release recorded at Fantasy Studios with Tom Nunn, released by Chris Cutler's ReR Megacorp in the UK, Gench Music in the US. This was Tom Nunn's last recording.

" There’s real structural depth; no repetition, no settling into a groove, nothing obvious, but everything is in constant motion and there’s never any fat, or waiting for the next idea... an exemplary release, not least because these sounds are organic and mechanical and played interactively by people in real time and with a high level of musical sensitivity." -- Chris Cutler

Chris Brown (piano, electronics) and Ben Davis (cello) perform an improvisation celebrating their new duo album release.

Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
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Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Scott R. Looney, Lisa Mezzacapa, and Donald Robinson at Berkeley Arts Fest space - May 31, 2014