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14th Annual Music for People & Thingamajigs

Night Three

Electric Junkyard Gamelan [NY] http://www.electricjunkyardgamelan.com/

T.D. Skatchit
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/tdskatchit.html

Tracey Cockrell [OR]
http://poemophone.wordpress.com/


About the Artists
Electric Junkyard Gamelan plays the original groove driven music of composer...

To help support artists traveling from overseas and other parts of the country to join Thingamajigs for its Annual Music for People & Thingamajig Festivals, a special fundraising concert will be held at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. Local Bay Area artists will volunteer their time to perform music and demonstrate their special instruments...

Gen Admission: $20
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM

http://www.gamh.com/artist_pages/cosa_brava_081411.htm

Three bands who love songs and bring unique perspectives to the art of writing and performing them.

Semi-popular music?

The art of melody?

Walking, running, and standing still?

The passionate pursuit of dirt and disorder?

Personal and...

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA

Friday, August 12
Sir Richard Bishop / Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles
7:30 p.m.

Programmed by George Chen

This L@TE event runs the gamut from electric guitar music to heavily noise-centered performance art. As Sun City Girls, Sir Richard Bishop, along with brother Alan Bishop and drummer Charles Gocher, traversed...

FRIDAY, JULY 29TH
AT THEE PICTURESQUE PARKSIDE BATH HOUSE, SF
9PM, 21+, $10
$30 weekend passes to all 3 Parkside shows available at:
http://www.theeparkside.com/calendar.html

MEAN JEANS (Portland)
BLACK JASPERS (Berlin) - First live show EVER!
GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH (Portland)
THE TEUTONICS (Ostfriesland, Germany)

PLUS THE RETURN OF STINKY'S...

THURSDAY, JULY 28TH
@ THE KNOCKOUT
3223 MISSION ST, SF
9PM, 21+, $5

SF's finest:
THE FLAKES
SWISS FAMILY SKIERS
POONTANG WRANGLERS

DJs ERIC DAGGERMAN
& POPPERS

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Swiss-Family-Skiers/228321112934

Our label turns 10 and our store is 3 this year! We're throwing a weekend of shows at The Metro in Jack London Square to celebrate! We'll be holding other events as well TBA.

NIGHT TWO

Saturday July 23rd
$13 advance | $15 Day of show
All Ages with bar for those 21+
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm

Hosted by Master of Ceremonies BLAG...

King Khan will be giving you a taste of what's to come later in the evening at our new space! It's gonna be raw inside but so will the music. Starts at 5pm SHARP. NO KIDDING. Totally free. All ages.

JUST ADDED! The Coathangers will be opening this show!

Our label turns 10 and our store is 3 this year! We're throwing a weekend of shows at The Metro in Jack London Square to celebrate! We'll be holding other events as well TBA.


NIGHT ONE

Friday July 22nd
$12 advance | $14 Day of show
All Ages with bar for those 21+
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm

Hosted by Master of Ceremonies BLAG...

Saturday June 4, Toronto w/ Catl & Black Walls
@ The Music Gallery http://www.musicgallery.org/

197 John Street
Toronto, Ontario
416-204-1080

Monday June 6, Ottawa
@ Raw Sugar http://www.facebook.com/pages/x/183838094996843

692 Somerset W
Ottawa, ON K1R 6P4
613-216-2850

Tuesday June 7, Montreal w/ Les Beyond (Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival)...

Omar Souleyman US/Canada dates 2011
–––more to be announced soon...

JUNE
June 3 - Austin, TX / EMO's (Chaos in Tejas Festival)
June 5 – Chicago, IL / Do Division Festival / Damen stage / 4PM
June 7 – San Francisco, CA / Mezzanine
June 8 – Portland, OR / Dante’s
June 9 – Seattle, WA / Neumo’s
June 11 – Manchester,...

ELECTRIC BARDO is a trio of electric sarod, bass, and drums played by Ben Kunin, Jason Hoopes (The Atomic Bomb Audition/Jack O' The Clock), and Peijman (Secret Chiefs 3/Omens of Awe), respectively. They play an improvised hybrid of North Indian Classical Music and amplified Rock. Hear samples at http://electricbardomusic.bandcamp.com/

ALEE...

Considered one of the world’s greatest sleight-of-hand artists, the magician, actor, author and producer Ricky Jay is a cultural contributor in numerous fields. His stage credits include the one-man show Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet, with whom Jay has collaborated on many films, both on-camera (House of Games,...

Trimpin leads an up-close-and-personal tour of the musical instruments in his new work the —a rare opportunity to see the fire organ, water harp, and musical teeter-tooter demonstrated firsthand!

For more information about Trimpin's residency, please visit: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/trimpin/

Two sound artists at the vanguard of their field—Trimpin, visiting artist-in-residence, and Paul DeMarinis, Stanford Art faculty—reflect on the power and place of sound in humanistic inquiry. Trimpin, a MacArthur fellow, sound artist and musical inventor, also discusses the new performance work he has been developing on campus, The Gurs Zyklus....

Hello friends, I've decided to throw myself a last minute birthday soiree. The weather this weekend is supposed to be beautiful, so why don't you all come over to our house and backyard for some brunch and conversation on Sunday, May Day? We'll have a bunch of basics to eat and drink, but if you have a favorite dish or beverage to...

Sunday, April 10, 2011 | Noon to 4pm
White Plaza, Stanford University
Free Admission (all ages welcome to participate)

Stanford University and Thingamajigs present a meet-up-style afternoon of demonstrations, sharing, and performances by and for the Bay Area instrument-building community. Two dozen instrument builders and musical inventors from...

Each Contemporary Insights event focuses on a single piece from the following evening’s concert. Composers and musicians talk about the piece, and the musicians demonstrate parts of it. After performing the work in its entirety, the musicians elicit reactions, answer questions, and talk with the audience. The audience is invited to stay for wine...

Dick Higgins wants to be your friend on Facebook.

THE CREATURES OF BALINESE MYTHOLOGY

Gamelan Sekar Jaya, the Bay Area ensemble acclaimed for its innovative work with the music and dance of Bali, collaborates with I Made Moja, local Balinese artist from the village of Batuan. The Creatures integrates visual and performing arts to explore the role of legendary characters in Balinese mythology and...

http://signal-flow.org/

THURSDAY 3/10
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Lona Kozik
Chris Golinski
Carson Whitley
Michael Walker
Ralph Lewis
Drew Ceccato


FRIDAY 3/11
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Jason Harris
Daniel Steffey
Sean Price
David Douglas
Evan Adams


SATURDAY MATINEE 3/12
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Andrea Williams

SATURDAY 3/12
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Peter Wong
Rob Seaback
Farley...

February 27-March 5, 2011
Other Minds Festival
Other Minds Composer Fellowship Concert
Wednesday, March 2
7:30pm
Toyoji P. Tomita Performance Gallery
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco
$20 General, $12 Standing/Floor
www.otherminds.org

Jill Heinke will premiere Chase's "Gin Blossoms and Broccoli Boutonnieres," a new...

The following John Cage works will be broadcast over the course of 4 hours on UMFM's [101.5 FM or via the web from Winnipeg, Canada] The Komodo Dragon Show.

7am-9am CST

Two3 (1991) [121 minutes]
suite for shō and conch shells in 10 movements
Tamami Tono, shō; Glenn Freeman, conch shells
[World Premiere Non-Internet Radio Broadcast]
...

The Meridian Gallery presents the Thingamajigs Performance Group (TPG), which will offer new works that combine Eastern sensibilities with modern American technologies and performance practices. Creating pieces in a group collaborative process that sometimes incorporate voice and other unusual musical instruments, this ensemble of musicians expands...

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Music for the Banal, the Obvious, the Everyday by Vanessa Tomlinson

Meridian Music presents a performance by Australian percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson. Music for the Banal, the Obvious, the Everyday are a series of manually operated installations of objects, activated by ropes, water, rice, or the...