thesupercoda

Saturday, May 5th at Vaudeville Park, 26 Bushwick ave. 7-midnight.

The Super Coda and Jason Anthony Harris team up to present a night of decadence, delirium, featuring artists from DC, also to celebrate Jason’s birthday! Performances by Public Speaking, Valerie Kuehne, Jon Mizrachi, Dead Beat Dad, Blue Sausage Infant (DC), Pilesar (DC).

“A voice magnificent and morose, lost in a world of single being in performance.” [Deli Magazine] Public Speaking is the music of Brooklyn solo artist Jason Anthony Harris. Utilizing found objects, radio, tape recorder, and vocoder, he pores over pedals to loop, warp and augment these sources. His performances are highly improvisational, with an emphasis on immediacy and site-specific sound. – http://jasonanthonyharris.tumblr.com/

Valerie Kuehne has been described as an “electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose cello.” Her work shatters genre and expectations, fusing together experimental, classical, heavy metal, stand-up comedy, poetry, punk rock, and folk idioms. She actively tours the world with cello in tow, performing for audiences in Europe, South America, Canada, and the States to great acclaim. She augments her performances with work as an impresario, organizing the Brooklyn based experimental cabaret The Super Coda, which seeks to promote artists working in uncategorizable genres, and educate audiences through establishing visceral and theatrical performance contexts. She regularly contributes writing to The Deli magazine and is a published poet. – http://www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com

Jon Mizrachi is a multi-inistrumentalist and record producer residing in New York City who has worked with a wide range of incredibly talented people over the course of his ten year career. He toured Europe performing with Essie Jain, who was signed at the time to Ba Da Bing Records (of Beirut fame) and also opened for Bon Iver at The Music Hall Of Williamsburg. As a producer, he did drum programming work on Angus & Julia Stone’s Platinum-selling album “Down the Way”, but you can’t really hear any of it unless you listen really closely to this one song. You can Google it though, he’s credited on there. During the making of the record he went to the beach with Julia Stone. As a young man he often hung out at Bruce Springstien’s house, but not where he lives now, the one where he was born in Freehold, New Jersey. There’s a Mexican family living there now. – https://www.facebook.com/pushitgood

BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT is the work of Chester Hawkins of Washington DC. Since 1986, BSI has produced music that combines aspects of noise, drone, Krautrock, sample-plundering, dark ambient, and kosmische electronics to produce a multi-layered feast for the brain. Hawkins describes his music as “mean-spirited euphoria,” an improvised form of psychedelia with a glaze of paranoid tension. – http://www.bluesausageinfant.com/

Pilesar (pronounced pie-LEE-zur) is a percussionist and songwriter who specializes in lo-fi home recording techniques. Instrumentation may include microphone, voice, toys, broken effects pedals, borrowed instruments, thrift store finds, tapes, a rotating cast of guest musicians and various other environmental factors.
As a soloist and collaborator, Pilesar has releaseddozens of fiercely independent recordings on his DIY netlabel, Chameleon Dish Archives. Many of those projects have also found a home on Soundclick.com and are free to download.
Although the project began in late 1998, it wasn’t until recently that Pilesar ventured into the world of live performance. Since February of 2009, Pilesar has played a dozen or more shows in and around Washington DC (including the DC Counter Culture Festival, Artomatic,Sonic Circuits Festival, and the Kennedy Center) and he hopes to begin touring regionally next year. – http://pilesarmusic.com/

Dead Beat Dad is the solo work of Roy Neil Hunter, member of Ice Cream, Animal Tropical, MEAT and a recent Miami-to-Brooklyn transplant. Hunter uses an MPC and effect pedals to manipulate samples both lush and abrasive. This is his debut solo performance in New York as Dead Beat Dad.

Beer for donation provided by Brooklyn Brewery
5-15$ suggested donation for traveling artists at door.

A night of Lady Pianists. Curated by The Super Coda and Hosted by Vaudeville Park.

I am delighted to announce that The Super Coda will once again be curating the next installment of the Ladies of Experimental Music at Vaudeville Park. 4 astronomically talented experimenters, performers, and composers of the piano will share their work, with poetical interludes by the inestimable Niina Pollari – http://​de-cidered.blogspot.com/

Doors @ 7:

(in order of appearance)

Lara Downes - A captivating presence both on and offstage, critically acclaimed Steinway Concert Artist Lara Downes is redefining the solo recital format with visionary, cutting-edge performances at prestigious concert venues worldwide. Lauded by NPR as “a delightful artist with a unique blend of musicianship and showmanship” and praised by the Washington Post for her stunning performances “rendered with drama and nuance,” Lara presents the piano repertoire – from iconic favorites to newly commissioned works – in new ways that bridge musical tastes, genres and audiences.
http://www.laradownes.com/​web/home.aspx

Motoko Honda – Motoko Honda is a pianist, keyboardist, improviser, composer, and sound architect living in Los Angeles. Graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Motoko has been active as a Electro-Acoustic-Prepared Piano soloist, Band leader, Sound artist collaborating with visual artists and dancers, and Recording artist for films covering wide range of music from classical, avant-garde, jazz, punk, contemporary, world and new music.
http://​www.motokohonda.com/

Areni Agbabian - Born in Santa Monica, CA, Areni Agbabian began humming melodies at the tender age of 11 months. She started playing piano at age 7 and continued a classical education in piano for 20 years. Studying at California Institute of the Arts gave Areni the opportunity to learn from musical masters Vicki Ray, Vinny Golia , Charlie Haden and many more. After finishing school she decided to move on from the classical keyboard world and committed herself mainly to voice and improvisation. Areni has become a unique improviser, combining elements of contemporary classical music and Armenian music.
http://www.myspace.com/​arenismiles

Nicole Zaray – Nicole Zaray is a vocalist, songwriter and producer. She was born on the LES, was raised in Brooklyn and attended Barnard College. She studied classical piano for 10 years, but was greatly influenced by stride piano players Fats Waller and James P. Johnson when no one was looking. Her solo music work has been presented at PS 122, the Roulette Concert Series, and the SuperCoda music series. Dedicated to studying the evolution of ‘The American Songbook’, she was commissioned by The American Music Center to write about American film music history. She was featured vocalist on Moby’s CDs “Feeling So Real” and “Next is the E” (Mute/Elektra); and starred in the eclectic scifi flick “The Sticky Fingers of Time” which premiered at the Venice Biennale, played over forty other festivals, and was released worldwide.
http://nicolezaray.com/wp/

5-20$ sliding scale donation. libations by brooklyn brewery.

This event predominantly explores solo instruments alongside different vocal techniques, dramatically so. It shall be epic.
This event is DOWNSTAIRS at The Delancey (168 Delancey st). As always there is no cover and the fine folks in charge of this joint offer 2 for 1 drinks all night long. Boy oh boy.

Violins, Voice, Errata:

8:30: Mark Golamco (brooklyn) – esteemed visual artist Mark Golamco performs new works for viola and voice. http://markgolamcomusic.com/

9: Love n defeat songs solo Violin + Voice (belguim)

9:30: Tess Tennessee Miller (amsterdam) – sculptor and singing drummer from the Netherlands. http://www.tesswalkowski.com/

10: Jeffrey Young - Jeffrey Young is a composer and violinist from Brooklyn, NY who specializes in experimental classical music and rock music
http://www.jeffrey-young.com/index.html

10:30: 50$ Trumpet w/ Dao Anh Khanh – (NYC/Vietnam) – 50$ trumpet is the ever evolving solo project of Brett Zweiman – at this show he will be joined by Dao Anh Khanh, performance artist and vocalist from Vietnam – www.daoanhkhanh.com
(Michael Hafftka, Lawry Zilmrah, and Valerie Kuehne will also be joining!)

11:30: Victor Grinenco (argentina) – improvisations for Norwegian Violin and Voice. http://victorgrinenco.com/

Laurie Amat – fiercest vocalist that I know, extraordinary human, and former tourmate to the Residents, will be in NYC next Thursday, April 5th for a very special performance at Vaudeville Park. Here’s how it will work.

Laurie will present a group of her choosing, then perform a short improvisation with the following 4 performers/ensembles, all, for the record, that she has never heard before. Also, for the record, these performers/ensembles will perform sets of their own. It’s gonna be a world tour and everyone is going to get along and smile until the aurora borealis swallows the upper east side and then everybody goes out for soy milkshakes, yay:

Taka Kigawa – The New York Times says, “Mr. Kigawa’s feat deserves the highest praise, especially since it was combined with such alacrity and sensitivity to the musical material … brilliantly done … a careful and serious-minded musician, quietly poetic and considerate”. The New Yorker says, “Unbelievably challenging program. Kigawa is a young artist of stature.” He is, in the opinion of many that I know and trust, the best concert pianist actively performing at this time.
http://www.takakigawa.com/start/index.html

Bernd Klug – will be performing as a Cupreous Donkey, his project for solo bass and electronics. Currently residing in New York and Vienna, Klug works as a double bass player in a wide variety of contemporary contexts with a focus on improvisation.
His solo work focuses on the world inside the double bass: the bow, the body, and room frequencies lay the groundwork for a radical reduction of both the composer-performer’s role and the traditional musical narrative.
http://klug.klingt.org/

FAHEY – is the new duo project of Jeremy Gustin and William Graefe. These fellows infuse comedy, virtuosity, and youth in an ecstatic mix of drums, sax, and entrancement. This particular project combines original compositions with those of, you guessed it, John Fahey.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FAHEY/151713221585824

Natura Morta – is the improvised trio of Sean Ali (bass), Carlo Costa (drums), and Frantz Loriot (viola). dedicated to exploring musical structures and relationships through collective all-acoustic improvisation. The Brooklyn-based ensemble creates acoustic sound-sculptures and sonic landscapes through the use of nontraditional techniques and instrumental preparations. The musical range of the trio stretches from heated silences to relentless drones to frantic hyperactivity. Natura Morta crafts a single sound into a stillness that gains density and momentum from an unwavering insistence upon non-development. It’s music is an experience that traumatizes as it soothes, cleanses as it soils, and wounds as it heals.
http://www.frantzloriot.com/Natura_Morta.html

and of course – LAURIE AMAT: Laurie Amat is an acclaimed vocalist, improvisational performer, experimental composer and teacher. Her approach to singing is informed by broad experience including pop, rock, traditional and inventive opera, spoken word, video, dance, theatre and performance art.

Ms. Amat’s talent for inspiring upcoming vocalists and other artists stems from her focus on the power of the voice as an instrument to convey a pure expression of direct human emotions and story through technique, raw talent and experimentation.
She has performed pure-voice, site-specific resonant space pieces internationally in such traditional venues as concert halls, museums and galleries, cathedrals and alternative spaces including castles, bunkers, cisterns, rivers and concrete overpasses. She is also well known for her solo and collaborative performances throughout Europe, including projects with The Residents, Czech scholar/keyboardist Mirek Vodražka and the Sad Song Singers (Deutsch Nepal and Der Blutarsch).
http://bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=337

The Super Coda unfolds twice this weekend. To celebrate the opening of a new space for new music, and to kickoff my upcoming tour: Valerie Kuehne and Clara Engel Draw Blood. Here’s the nitty gritty:

FRIDAY, March 9th. 7:30-11:
A Musical Round Robin @ Spectrum: 115 W. 23rd St NYC buzz 22

Valerie Kuehne
http://dreamzoo.bandcamp.com/

Clara Engel
http://claraengel.bandcamp.com/

Spiff Wiegand
http://www.spiffwiegand.com/

Elime Sorbsel
http://www.myspace.com/elimesorbsel

Lucio Menegon
http://kingtone.com/

Upholstery
http://upholstery.bandcamp.com/

Charmaine’s Names
http://charmainesnames.bandcamp.com/album/limited-release

An Historic
http://gzarapanecko.bandcamp.com/

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
There will be 2 sets of round robins, with a break in between. First set is Clara Engel, Spiff Wiegand, An Historic, Elime Sorbsel. Second set is Lucio Menegon, Upholstery, Charmaine’s Names, Valerie Kuehne.
What’s a Round Robin? – The term round-robin was originally used to describe a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified.[1] The term has evolved to account for any activity in which a group of resources is interacted with singularly and in a circular order. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin

Beer and wine available. 5-15$ sliding scale at door.
This is the FIRST SHOW at this space, Glenn Cornett’s new loft, that will feature the best and brightest musicians from new and experimental worlds. Come. Support. And ye shall have MORE.

SATURDAY, March 10th. 8-midnight.
The Super Coda presents: darkdarkdarkdark @ Sidewalk Cafe:

Yossarian Feedback 8:00 PM

Adrienne Anemone 9:00 PM

Clara Engel 9:30 PM

Valerie Kuehne 10 PM

Jonathan Wood Vincent 10:30 PM

Public Speaking 11 PM

YOSSARIAN FEEDBACK – http://www.benkrieger.com/

ADRIENNE ANEMONE
Adrienne Anemone is the former ringleader of Mimicry Records’ The TunaHelpers (http://thetunahelpers.org/) and currently the lullaby banshee that visits Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, Adrienne Sneed, in her slumber. Her operatic vocals and gentle guitar pickings tug at the listener’s heart through thoughtful ruminations on fear, Christianity, child abuse, eating disorders, witchery, bravery and utter despair, all the while still bringing them back to that warm bit of sunlit earth that feels both vulnerable and exciting, terrifying and magical. Adrienne Anemone often uses handmade props, prerecorded tracks, and costumes in her (more) theatrical performances.

JONATHAN WOOD VINCENT
Jonathan Wood Vincent has played music since the old days when his father would submerge beautiful flowers into steaming liquid nitrogen.
Early on, it was apparent that making art was utterly impossible. Despite this, he has played, recorded and toured as a pianist, accordionist, singer, actor, dancer, and other things with lots of musicians and artists. These include Masashi Harada who conducts bands by flapping his hands in faces around a recording studio with chains and ribbons and Katt Hernandez and Tatsuya Nakatani, free improvisers who reinvent their instruments every day, and Zack Fuller, post Mortem neolicious scary dancer, and post Torah folk rockers Girls in Trouble, and mainstream alt country singer songwriter Eileen Rose, and a multilingual stripper rap band called Un Cuerpo Exquisito, etc., etc.
His newest project of complex yet tragically familiar piano songs connects the imbroglios between all of these projects to gently pierce your solicitous hearts.
http://www.reverbnation.com/jonathanwoodvincent

PUBLIC SPEAKING
“A voice magnificent and morose, lost in a world of single being in performance.” [Deli Magazine] Public Speaking is the music of Brooklyn solo artist Jason Anthony Harris. Utilizing found objects, radio, tape recorder, and vocoder, he pores over pedals to loop, warp and augment these sources. On stage, he’s often joined by a revolving roster of accomplices on saxophone, harmonium, piano, accordion, electric guitar, and clarinet. His performances are highly improvisational, with an emphasis on immediacy and site-specific sound.
http://jasonanthonyharris.tumblr.com/

VALERIE KUEHNE + CLARA ENGEL DRAW BLOOD, March 2012

Valerie Kuehne has been described as an “electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose cello.” Her work shatters genre and expectations, fusing together experimental, classical, heavy metal, stand-up comedy, poetry, punk rock, and folk idioms. She augments her performances with work as an impresario, organizing the Brooklyn based experimental cabaret The Super Coda, which seeks to promote artists working in uncategorizable genres, and educate audiences through establishing visceral and theatrical performance contexts. She regularly contributes writing to The Deli magazine and is a published poet.

Both fierce and delicate, Clara Engel’s music is reminiscent of an era in history when theatre, art, and music were an integral part of a bigger and more vital whole, an era that the 21st century is craving more than ever. Poet Janaka Stucky describes Engel’s work as “timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.” The underground, multi-faceted Canadian artist has independently released seven albums, and collaborated with musicians from the UK, Germany, Brazil, and the USA. In the words of Jeremy Reed, Britain’s most dynamic, adventurous, and controversial poet: “”Clara Engel’s voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song. I’d say ‘Madagascar’ beats them all, and it’s only a beginning at harnessing poetic inspiration to the resonating dynamic of voice and the lyrical ache of a great individual singer.”

3/9 – IN NYC @ A musical Round Robin @ Spectrum – 115 23rd st. 7:30-11:30. w/Spiff Wiegand, Elime Sorbsel, Lucio Menegon, Upholstery, An Historic

3/10 – IN NYC @ The Super Coda @ Sidewalk Cafe – 94 ave. A – w/Adrienne Anemone, Jonathan Wood Vincent, Public Speaking, Yossarian Feedback

3/11 – IN NEW HAVEN @ Never Ending Books – 810 State St. w/An Historic

3/12 – IN WORCESTER @ The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show @ Ralph’s Rock Diner – 148 Grove st.

3/13 – IN LOWELL @ UnCharted – 126 Merrimack st.

3/14 – Recording Session in Boston

3/15 – IN BOSTON @ The Lilypad w/Ronald Reagan *Boston’s premier 80′s pop saxophone duo* – 1353 Cambridge st.

3/16 – IN MANCHESTER @ H.O.G.O w/Steve Norton, Arkm Foam/Kate Lee.

3/17 – IN PHILY w/Extreme Fishkin, Helena Espvall, Owen Stewart Robertson.

3/18 – IN PITTSBURGH @ Garfield Artworks w/Middle Children – 4931 Penn ave.

3/19 – IN CLEVELAND @ All Go Signs Warehouse

3/20 – IN LOUISVILLE @ The Bard’s Town w/Dane Waters and The Sandpaper Dolls – 1801 Bardstown rd.

3/21 – IN MORGANTOWN @ 123 Pleasant st.

3/22 – IN BALTIMORE @ 2640

A mind-altering dose of inspiration to overturn your binary tragedy.
Monday 3/5 @ The Delancey. 8p-1a.
And 2 for 1 drinks!

Incomprehensibly beautiful and inexorably fucked up, featuring:

8:30 – Elisa Flynn – cited as spearheading a genre of literate rock songs, Ms. Flynn writes songs that explore historical themes, allusively. Sometimes she unleashes a swirling dreampop cyclotron, other times a savage roar, often both at once. http://www.elisaflynn.com/

9:15 – Le Cowboy – If Meaghan Burke (cello), Bernd Klug (double bass), and David Schweighart (drums), three of Vienna’s most thrillingly high-energy improvisers, were to release their full power in the trio “le cowboy,” they would likely end up with a graveyard of (lovingly) destroyed instruments. Fortunately, they don’t. Le cowboy lets its story unfold slowly – a story of a music on the brink of self-destruction, a music that simmers, stutters, scratches against its own boundaries in the constant drama of expectation of a climax which is never to be indulged. (WOW). http://www.reverbnation.com/lecowboyband

10 – PARTY PACK – Party Pack! is a band dedicated to exploring the combination of late-90′s grunge rock with free improvisation in a trio setting. Dustin Carlson and Adam Hopkins contribute compositions. The trio covers a lot of varied ground and let their influences run rampant, feeling equally at home opening for a band like Sonic Youth as they would opening for Tim Berne. http://adamhopkinsbass.wordpress.com/projects/party-pack/

10:45 – Animal Tropical – four friends from childhood who – despite their varying interests — always wanted to be in a band. Pabona, the guitarist, is an amateur anthropologist and mystic; Norge, the drummer, is a filmmaker and dabbler in fashion photography; Jose Jose, the piano player, writes poetry and paints pictures of rottweilers; Jarrett, bass player, is a full on gourmand and food scholar. But Saturday nights (or any time you care to party), they forget all of that: handi-camera and dagga sprout, pencil and spatula are toweled stowed, amps switched on, and soon enough Cuban heels spiral off of feet, and cymbals crash, and all of Miami is set in muggy motion (and the fun isn’t limited to Miami, of course: this contagion has, over the years, spread up the peninsula to every corner of the south and midatlantic and Midwest; Johnstown! Wichita! Brooklyn! Peroria! Sioux Falls!) Indeed, after their peculiar fashion sense (a sultan’s wardrobe of cuban heels, perfumed hankies,leisure suits and open collared oxfords, all dismissed as “natural elegance”), AT are best known for their under-the-big-top flavored live performances, spectacles of an intensity that belies the craftiness of their music. http://animaltropical.bandcamp.com/album/just-between-us-girls

11:30 – Clapperclaw - “clapperclaw” ..v. to claw with the nails, heap obscenties upon; n. an argumentative woman.. ……………………………….:.mct.:………Clapperclaw is the heavily conceptual solo project of ..BAD CREDIT NO CREDIT..’s Carrie-Anne Murphy. It is intended to be listened to only when the time finally arrives that all the problems in the world have been resolved and new problems need to be created in order to alleviate boredom…
http://soundcloud.com/clapperclaw

12:15 – Necklace Sandwich – Jeremy Gustin. Xander Naylor. They are the best. Surgeons of the disgruntled groove. Rest assured you’ll here a disruptively alchemic masterpiece this evening.

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This is going to be mystical, intense, hyper-active, and incredibly focused. Also it’s my birthday celebration. All unfolds at Vaudeville Park, the best place ever. (26 Bushwick ave.) doors at 7, begins at 7:30 sharp, concludes with a round of musical chairs.

Gelsey Bell – performs regularly as an experimental vocalist, culling from a wide range of techniques and styles to create her own performance works, to literally voice those of contemporary composers, and to explore improvisation. She is a core member of the new music ensemble thingNY, with whom she has premiered over a hundred works. They have performed at such venues as the Stone, Issue Project Room, the Tank, Judson Memorial Church, ABC No Rio, Nuyorican Poets Café, and Secret Project Robot, among others. She is also a core member of the collective Varispeed, whose successful site-specific adaptation of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives landed on both Time Out New York and The Los Angeles Times best of 2011 lists for classical music and opera. http://www.gelseybell.com/

Jill Burton – Jill Burton is a singular and extraordinary performance artist, vocalist, dancer and energy worker who has been consciously synthesizing her art form for over 40 years. She has developed such a unique style that it is difficult if not impossible to label or categorize her work. Performance healing? Energy art? Improv shamanism? With an extensive background in many traditional and modern music and dance techniques, she has always held a special interest in experimental performance and free improvisation. She has also studied and practiced many bodywork, energy work and spiritual healing modalities, always incorporating these with her performance work. http://www.jillburton.net/

Pat Muchmore – is a cellist/composer and social gadfly currently living in New York City. When people ask what kind of music he writes, he generally requests that they never ask again–but, if they press, he tells them punk-classical. It doesn’t really mean anything of course, but it sounds neat and vaguely approximates his approach toward music these days.
At the end of 2009, he completed his PhD at the City University of New York Graduate Center, meaning he can officially call himself DR. Pat Muchmore so long as he doesn’t care about the fact that 95% of the people around him would consider him a pretentious ass for doing so. His dissertation is called Humanity and Mechanicity in the music of Nine Inch Nails and is an analysis of the first four albums by Nine Inch Nails(with a brief bonus analysis of one track from the fifth album, [With_Teeth]).
http://www.patmuchmore.com/

Claire Elizabeth Barratt – a dancer based in both Asheville NC and New York, and founder of “Cilla Vee Life Arts”, a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization, and has performed in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Claire has been featured in Art Basel Miami, the Washington DC International Improv Festival, the Transmodern Age and High Zero Festivals in Baltimore, MD and the Dans/CE Kapital Festival in Ottawa. Much of her work focuses on collaboration with live music in an improvisational context. She also specializes in “Installation”.
http://www.cillavee.com/claire.html

David First - It seems reasonable to assert that David First has had a rather eclectic musical career. He has played guitar with renowned jazz innovator/pianist Cecil Taylor (culminating in a legendary Carnegie Hall concert) and the rock band Televisionís Richard Lloyd. He has created electronic music at Princeton University and led a Mummerís String Band in bicentennial parades. He has played in raucous, drunken bar bands and in concert halls with classical ensembles. As a composer he has created everything from finely crafted pop songs to long, severely minimalist soundscapes. And his influence on modern music may be incalculable: a 45 single release, The Zipper, by his punk-era rock band, The Notekillers, was cited by Sonic Youthís Thurston Moore as one of the songs he played for the rest of the band when they were starting out.
http://www.davidfirst.com/

Michael Evans – Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/thereminist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. As well as being a drumset player, his work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics. On the theremin he has performed with dancers and in group settings playing experimental, jazz, rock, ersatz lounge and chamber music. In 2000, he was photographed playing a Moog ether wave theremin for the front of Bob Moog’s Big Briar catalog. He has performed in multiple performances of the NYC Theremin Society’s Issue Project Room concerts during 2005, 2006 and 2007. He has studied movement/sparring/drumming with Professor Milford Graves, drum technique with Joe Morello, tabla with Misha Masud, kanjira with Ganesh Kumar and Haitian/Afro-Cuban hand drumming with John Amira. He has studied musicianship with Helen Hobbs Jordan, composition with Richard Cameron Wolf, Blue Gene Tyranny and the theremin with Pamelia Kurstin.
http://www.michaelevanssounds.com/

Jane Scarpantoni - is a classically trained cello player who has made a name for herself as one of the pre-eminent cellists and string arrangers in alternative music in the 1990s. Graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, in 1982, Scarpantoni soon joined the jazzy folk-pop quintet Tiny Lights. Her unique style of playing with Tiny Lights led to her performing with a number of other musicians. Some of her most recognized work has been with Kristin Hersh, Bob Mould, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, R.E.M., Indigo Girls, and the Beastie Boys, as well performing with 10,000 Maniacs and Nirvana on MTV’s Unplugged
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Scarpantoni

Valerie Kuehne - curator and birthday recipient, will premier new works for cello and voice. Valerie Kuehne has been described as an “electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose cello.” Her work shatters genre and expectations, fusing together experimental, classical, heavy metal, stand-up comedy, poetry, punk rock, and folk idioms.
http://www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com/

I invite you all to take part in the celebratory mayhem of the premier of C.O.N.C.H. in the form of a mass wedding. A wedding for honest experience, true performance, intellectual sex, all the things that have been lost in each of our computers. Understanding grows raw as the heart continues to beat. Blood flows, time accelerates.

C.O.N.C.H. is a curatorial collective newly formed by Cat Gilbert of the 22 Magazine, Esther Neff of Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), and Valerie Kuehne of The Super Coda. We investigate the various distinctions–and lack thereof–defining our respective mediums of curatorial focus: visual art/installation, performance art/experimental theatre, and creative/experimental music.

http://conchart.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CONCHarts

This Friday, C.O.N.C.H’s acronym becomes Chilled Oily Nicely Corrupt Hearts for an inter-disciplinary examination of Valentine’s Day’s visceral horizon bearing down on all artistic creation.

Equal parts raw harmony and kitsch, the blasphemy of Valentines is, for one night only, wedded to a more vibrant, primal metaphor. For our first show, C.O.N.C.H. presents an all-encompassing wedding for your hungry and/or jaded souls. The bloody psychological implications, the anatomy and symbolism of a heart nicely oiled by cultural expectation, experiential drama, and the dark genealogy of the holiday and its patron saint, all fuse into a show of scars, sounds, and sex on a silver platter Man to man, man to woman, woman to cantaloupe, pigs heart to chair, Klaus Nomi to Angelica Houston. Arrive at the quintessential Bushwick loft prepared to be wed to a person, object, or idea of your choosing. Feel free to dress in any aesthetic of wedding you desire: traditional, zombie, ABBA, church of Satan, Staten Island, the whole shebang. Best dressed = free bottle of champagne.

DARA MALINA/INVERTED HERMIT, MATTHEW SILVER, PENDULUM SWINGS, ADRIENNE ANEMONE, HELVETICA TRIO AND MORE TBA!

http://www.daramalina.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGaWPSwDTOY
http://www.maninwhitedress.com/
http://www.pendulumswings.com/
http://helveticatrio.blogspot.com/

RED VELVET WEDDING CAKE from Champs Family Bakery. Brews, Punch, Bloody Mary’s.

8pm-1am at Wildlife Loft
(245 Varet Street, L to Morgan)

$5-$20 sliding scale donation at the door.

At the Delancey – 168 Delancey. 8-late.

Sweet becomes savory. Sweat will soar. Primordial groans will surface and we will lose our flesh unto the progression, in the best of all possible ways. I mean it. I am so excited for this lineup and for the ongoing beast that is Small Beast. You should be too. You should also be excited for the fact that there are 2 for 1 drinks all the livelong evening. And for those of you who don’t imbibe, I’ll supply some sugar.

Here we go:

8:30 – Monsoon in Bloom – compositions of swirling, circular rhythmic patterns, mainly static harmony, intense dynamics and bursts of infectious melody. Starring Lucas Brode, Isaac Jaffe, Gabe Yonkler, Sam Wagner. http://www.lucasbrode.com/

9:15 – BISAFURI - (Seattle/NYC) There is so much great fury to come with this new project featuring Jessica Lurie, Beth Fleenor (Crystal Beth) and trumpet player Sam Boshniak (Reptet)
http://www.jessicalurie.com/

10 – Cracked Vessel – twisted takes on Americana, and sly, just beneath the surface references to Eastern European folk music – which is to say, you will dance to the most fractured of musical fables like your aunt spilled gravy on you, lovingly, and the gravy smells like vanilla, luckily. Featuring Ben Syversen, Jeremy Gustin, Xander Naylor.
http://bensyversen.com/album/cracked-vessel

10:45 – Kalan Sherrard (San Francisco) - is a controversial figure known for his eccentricity, as well as his love of art and literature and his involvement in both contra-dancing and guerrilla street theater. Kalan and his friends were embroiled in controversy when they put on a performancethat entailed vomiting recently-eaten beets.
http://enormousface.com/

11:15 – YOLT – the hyperactive trio of David Grollman, Nathaniel Morgan, and Weston Minissali is consistently driven by histrionic character and incongruous comedy. After already having witnessed David strip down to a sporty thong, waving and yelling, “Are my shorts too short?!” you own the smirking breed of assurance that grows in knowing that absurdity is forthcoming.
http://www.promnightrecords.com/artists/yolt

12 – Manburger Surgical - The tricks in this Brooklyn group’s satchel of lunatic sound(s) provokes something more than romantic idealism, more than sappy emotion. And whatever that sensation is, whatever you want to name it, it kicks you in the eustachian tubes and bursts through your alimentary canal like the finest Punk of old. These ‘songs’ are an interconnected cornucopia of drones, blasts and spurious chatters from what can only be imagined as ankle-biting robotic court jesters fed up with their creators. http://manburgersurgical.com/

Last night’s Night of Singing Cellists was a smash. We got a shout out in Time Out NY, a lovely mention in Gemini and Scorpios event listngs, and enjoyed an absolutely packed house. So many thanks to Ian M. Colletti and Vaudeville Park, Meaghan Burke, Leah Coloff, Audrey Chen, Michelle Leftheris, and the Ladies of Experimental Music NYC for a truly fantastical evening.

The Super Coda presents one final January event before we take a couple weeks off. Here she is:

A Prom Night Records Showcase @ Vaudeville Park.

This Thursday will feature 3 Prom Night artists: VaVatican, Fester, and Jason Anastasoff’s Obscure Directions. Also on the bill is Andrew Bernstein of Baltimore fame, performing a solo set for sax and sine waves.

8pm – Fester: featuring the gnarly stylings of David Grollman on snare drum and Sean Ali on upright bass.

8:45 – Andrew Bernstein: Andrew Bernstein is a musician and composer from Baltimore, MD. His compositions and live electronic music often run in place, using repetition to explore subtle changes and the physicality of sound. As a reed player he is influenced by equal parts free improvisation and minimalism, always trying to feel the other pulse. Active in Baltimore’s musical underground, Bernstein is a member of the Red Room/High Zero collective and in addition to performing solo has played and plays with the groups Horse Lords, White Life, Teeth Mountain and The Dan Deacon Ensemble.

9:30 – VaVatican: featuring Weston Minassali on synthesizer, Nathaniel Morgan on sax, Owen Stewart-Robertson on guitar, and Booker Stardrum on drums.

10:15 – Jason Anastasoff’s Obscure Directions – graphic scores for a large ensemble featuring Jason Anastasoff on upright bass, Sean Ali on upright bass, Owen Stewart-Robertson on guitar, and Nathaniel Morgan on sax.

For more info on Prom Night Records and their recent releases, check out their website:
http://www.promnightrecords.com/