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Strohan now a staff writer for technology music webpage : RootJam

Mochipet @ Club Roo SF

Mochipet ripped it up with MC Joey thursday night in San Francisco, as an ecstatic club group got down to the awsomeness



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMebHAhjAeU


Earlier in the night UltraViolet thumped the crowed dubstep'n with an MC



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nW5H2ckWQ

DecemberMusicAtTomsPlace

Music at Tom's place, in Berkeley, festive birthday edition.

Scot Looney - Piano



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KE0wfdIQw


Killick - H'arpeggione (with Gino Robair, percussion) 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bd5h2srdD8


Sarah Cahill perorming piano works by Henry Cowell



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAsxpfLK0Xk

Tony Aquarious does Hendrix

Performer Tony Aquarious playing Hendrix in Los Angeles




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-kkLuWBYQ

DroneShift @ the LuggageStore Gallery

Video from the large ensemble DroneShift performance conducted by Matt Davignon


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtSrauNELM




Thursday, Nov 19 2009 8:00 PM

Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
Click for Venue page on bayimproviser

8-10pm: Droneshift - a 2 hour drone

CJ Borosque - trumpet
Beau Casey - violin
Amar Chaudhary - computer
Matt Davignon - bowed glockenspiel, microKorg
Jeff Hobbs - alto clarinet
Kadet Kuhne - shruti box
Brendan Landis - prepared/processed guitar
David Leikham - Moog Rogue synth
Cheryl Leonard - viola
Melissa Margolis - accordion
Lucio Menegon - guitar
David Michalak - lap steel guitar
Suki O'Kane - no input kitchen appliance
Ferrara Brain Pan - bowed psaltry
Rent Romus - electronics
Lx Rudis - synthesizer
Edward Schocker - sho
Errol Stewart - guitar
Lena Strayhorn - tsaaj nplaim
Tim Walters - computer
Bill Wolter - guitar
Michael Zelner - analog monophonic synthesizer, iPod Touch

LoveTech SF

Moldover - Glitch / Breaks
Triumphantly returning from his East Coast tour!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWKqMLZFB0




Chelsea Faith - House
Skillfully sequencing sexy beats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVzENh2KgNo

Video from Ivy Room Hootenany

Video from the Ivy Room experimental hootenanny organized by Suki O'kaine in Albany California.

The first clip comes from the freeRein ambient trio




the clip comes from a 5 piece combo feature Rent Romus on multiple saxophones

Gravity's Angels

College of Marin Dance recital excerpt
Title: Santorini
Choreography: Gina Auland
Music: Yanni
Costumes: Gina Auland/Virginia Stapleton
Dancers: Jessica Bacchi, Ally Byer, Lauren Huff, Emma Burgis, Victoria Pereira

Ivy Room Experimental Improv Hootenany next Monday (11/16)

Ivy Room Experimental Improv Hootenany next Monday (11/16).

Amar Chaudhart - laptop/synthesizer/small percussion
Drew Ceccato - Electronic Valve Instrument and other electronics
DJ Cypod - Violin

The performance will be at 9PM at the Ivy Room, 858 San Pablo Ave, Albany.

Sara Judge Live @ El Rio



expcert from folk rock sensation Sara Judge at the El Rio theater in San Francisco's Mission District. Singer song writer Sara is joined on the mandolin by Mike Watson and on the violin by Perry Spinali. After the set Sara and Perry sat down with me to talk about their influences and the SF music scene.

Camper Van Beethoven @ Filmore 10/31

A song from Camper Van Beethoven front man Jonathan Segal set opening for Built to Spill at the Filmore San Francisco Halloween night.

Terry Riley @ Pacific Film Archive, Berekely

Terry Riley and Son play the University of California at Berkeley avante garde modern classical 1st Friday of the most L@te concert series. The two hour performance entranced an enormous crowd who camped out on blankets around the piano, and looked down from balconies on to the performance. The event was hosted by Bay Area new music angel Sarah Cahill Nov 7, 2009.

Gesture drawing 11/01/09

11/19 Droneshift @ Luggage Store SF

Thursday, Nov 19 2009 8:00 PM

Luggage Store New Music Series
1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF
Click for Venue page on bayimproviser

8-10pm: Droneshift - a 2 hour drone

CJ Borosque - trumpet, electronics
DJ Cypod - violin
Amar Chaudhary - computer
Matt Davignon - bowed glockenspiel, objects
Adam Fong - contrabass
Jeff Hobbs - alto clarinet
Sebastian Krawczuk - upright bass
Brendan Landis - prepared/processed guitar
David Leikham - Moog Rogue synth
Cheryl Leonard - viola
Lucio Menegon - guitar
Suki O'Kane - some instruments or objects
Rent Romus - electronics
Lx Rudis - synthesizer
Edward Shocker - sho
Lena Strayhorn - wind wand
Michael Zelner - some instruments or objects
Cost : $6-10 sliding scale

Sleeplistening

The down tempo movement has been taken a step lower by inflating the air mattress and turning out the lights. In a radical paradyme shift, the deeplistening dream festival invites you to become completely relax. While so much of today's music serves as penny sweets to prop you up and keep you going, total relaxation challenges this very notion of purpose. Lust for excitement and instant gratification has left a vacum for the pendulum to swing powerfully towards investment in the revitalizing properties of sleep.

Sound walks is a moving journey through a distant landscape. Composed mainly of field recordings that have been looped and rearranged into a mosaic soundscape. Abstract musical etudes dot the landscape, augmented by multiple-tambral electronic tones and resonance. Animals and insects call and chirp through a clouded ecoscape perpetually shifting in the swaying breeze.

The musician trades focussed alert attention from the conciousmind for a chance to communicate directly with the subconcious imagination. In the sleeping state the normal cognetive defenses of built up to categorize and reference perceptive stimuli are released. Alert focused memory regions of the brain are a rest while subconcious areas of memory activiely recailibrates processing events during the sleep cycle.

The audience experience also provides interesting opportunities for personal cultural development. More than just sleeping with the television on, the dream festival relies on a cummunal trust. With legislature banning sleep in towns across the state, communal sleep challenges that notion. If the risk is to let yourself become unaware in a group situation the reward is the valuable possibility of experiencing art at a precognitive stage. At night the traffic noise subsides clearing the air for an undiluded musical experience.
Mobile test blog

noisebug


After wild night of expressive artistry at the CK cafe, in Claremont, open mic hosted by VJFranzK, I found my self staring at an impressive rack of electronic gear. Located in the Pamona arts district Noise Bug is a true oasis of electronic musical instrument delights in the desert. With so many knobs to twiddle its hard to pick just one, thankfully you don't have to and the fun can last for hours. This is a great place to find that essential item to take home with you, there are plenty to choose from at this store. Whats more this weekend the festivities include Ezra demoing the new Buchla kit and the guys from Arturia raining down with their storm of beats.

Mr House's Midlife Crisis (music video for Claustrophobia) demo 9

another hard hitting social commentary by VJFranzK

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new facebook app for dj cypod fans:

http://apps.facebook.com/reverbnation_fb/artist/cypod

FlipQuartetAtBookZoo

video from the Flip Quartet performance at Book Zoo

chakaharta

<a href="http://chakaharta.bandcamp.com/album/echoproject">Rikanji by Chakaharta</a>

Rock and Read

The Flip Quartet to play Book Zoo this friday

Maker Faire Performance/Presentation

@ the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) stage of the Maker Faire

Schedule of Presentations and Performances
Presentations and performances will be for scheduled for each day in the computer music zone presentation area. Targetted presentation length is 20 minutes but they can be longer or shorter if appropriate (20 - 40 minutes). Email Kristina Forester on this list about scheduling.

Note:
- The following times are tentative and may move as I sort out the scheduling with people.
- Having a performance / presentation is not required. You can just exhibit. Exhibits are all day Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday - May 30th, 2009

11:00am - Chris Hanson - LUMI presentation
12:00pm - Luke Dahl - SLOrk performance
01:00pm - Ed Christensen, Sonic Palette
02:00pm - Aaron Leese Flyloops performance/presentation
03:00pm - Star Pause - perform (requested Saturday time)
04:00pm - Jason Asbahar - entranced http://monstro.us/

Sunday - May 31st, 2009

11:00am - Chris - dj/vj application http://code.google.com/p/dvj
12:00pm - Proyekto Collective - live pd patches
01:00pm - Holly - SN76477 complex sound generator chip performance
02:00pm - DJCypod
03:00pm - Mr. E



CCRMA perform / present
Luke Dahl - SLOrk performance
Chris Hanson - LUMI presentation

BArCMuT Perform / Present

Aaron Leese Flyloops performance/presentation (http://www.flyloops.com/)
Jeff Stot (biofeedback process using EEG and GSR data thru Max into Ableton and Jitter for audio and visual feedback)
Jason Asbahar - entranced http://monstro.us/
Chris - dj/vj application http://code.google.com/p/dvj
Ed Christensen - http://www.sonicpalette.com

Proyekto Collective - live pd patches
Holly - SN76477 coance and lofi hackery
DJCypod - performance
Star Pause - perform
Blue Fire - Handsome Voices - Kyma interactive

BArCMuT Exhibit
Aaron Leese Flyloops performance/presentation (http://www.flyloops.com/)
Jeff Stot (biofeedback process using EEG and
GSR data thru Max into Ableton and Jitter for audio and visual feedback)
Tom Duff neural relaxation oscillator synth
Jason Asbahar - entranced http://monstro.us/
Chris - dj/vj application http://code.google.com/p/dvj
Ed Christensen - http://www.sonicpalette.com
Kial Knickerbocker Will Grant (Blue Fire) - particle chamber

Ink on the Scene

DJ Cypod scores the cover story in this months issue of the transbay calendar:


http://www.transbaycalendar.org/archive/TB_2009_05.pdf

Rest In Peace Matty



4-19-2009







barking and causing trouble; wherever you are






Running with the Wind








Wild and Free for Ever!









Calendar Confloption @ Sonoma Film Festival

Caitlin is a young lady with a big idea: to keep the universe from moving forward. But stopping time has unintended consequences, and she soon finds herself at the epicenter of a Holiday-themed temporal tussle. In the course of a single night, it will take all of her courage to find her way clear, and to make the decision she dreads most.

Venue: Highway 12 Lounge
276 E Napa St, Sonoma, CA 95476

9:15 PM Fri, Apr 03
plays with...

* Shorts Program Two
* Stasis | Brendan Beachman 2008
* I Kicked Luis Guzman in the Face | Sherwin Shilati 2008
* Desert Wedding | Alexandra Fisher 2008
* The Story of One-Eyed Ophelia Jackson | Katherine Morris 2008
* Made Men | Nick Ferraro 2007
* Gerald$(B!G(Bs Last Day | Justin Rasch, Shel Rasch 2008
* Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant | Esperanza Hung 2008
* Tile M for Murder | Andrew Edison, Katie McDowell 2007

12:30 PM Sat, Apr 04
plays with...

* Shorts Program Two
* The Story of One-Eyed Ophelia Jackson | Katherine Morris 2008
* Stasis | Brendan Beachman 2008
* I Kicked Luis Guzman in the Face | Sherwin Shilati 2008
* Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant | Esperanza Hung 2008
* Desert Wedding | Alexandra Fisher 2008
* Made Men | Nick Ferraro 2007
* Gerald$(B!G(Bs Last Day | Justin Rasch, Shel Rasch 2008
* Tile M for Murder | Andrew Edison, Katie McDowell 2007

New Single "Soulstice" out now

New single "Soulstice" now available for a variable price in an eclectic array of formats from http://djcypod.bandcamp.mu/track/soulstice

<a href="http://djcypod.bandcamp.mu/track/soulstice">Soulstice by djcypod</a>

Meridian Gallery Podcast

Meridian Gallery Music Podcast Presents: March 2008 Composer in
Residence Philip Gelb & Jie Ma. selections include "Comp. 40 N abd Comp. 110 A" [Braxton and "Kojo no Tsuki" ("Moon Over The Ruined Castle") [Taki]. Event curated by Tom Bickley on March 12.

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