Upcoming at the Gallery
friday, july 3	Aphonia Recordings Showcase 09-vii	more info:
	featuring... Midday Veil Noise Poet Nobody The Precambrian Midday Veil began as the musical offspring of composer, improviser, & vintage synth freak David Golightly & Emily Pothast - a visual artist, singer-songwriter & suspected reincarnation of Hildegard von Bingen. The current lineup also includes visionary multi-instrumentalist Simon Henneman & funk/soul brothers Timm Mason (Aphonia Recordings artist, Mood Organ) & Chris Pollina.  Diverging from the trajectory of previous psych-rock gigs, Midday Veil is planning a unique set for this showcase.  Noise Poet Nobody is Casey Jones.  Utilizing an array of samplers, slide guitars, loopers, amps, filters, piezo transducers, bass guitar, MIDI & voltage control sequencers, voice, gongs, voltage control sequencers, reel tape, household items, & electric motors, Jones has been an active collaborator with a variety of projects & performers, including:  Lube Fondue, Noancer, Midnight on Europa, Vance Galloway, & Vox Vespertinas.  For Friday’s set, Noise Poet Nobody will be performing an all analog signal path, as modular, voltage control synthesizers & a “Voice of Saturn” sequencer will be patched together the old fashioned way; by hand soldered coaxial cable.  Can you handle it? Around the time of Aphonia Recordings’ inception, label founders, Ben L. Robertson & Andrew Senna teamed-up as The Precambrian. In concept, this project is a constantly evolving interactive synthesis environment/instrument, engineered by Robertson using the graphical programming language, Max/MSP. In its current incarnation, The Precambrian utilizes a slide zither, a three-bridge guitar, & various pitch recognition & re-synthesis algorithms to coax out microtonal intervals & derivative harmonic partials from a graphical system of 11-limit, just intonation matrices & traditional Arabic Maqams.	aphoniarecordings.com
thursday, july 16	Triptet, Prehistoric Horse	more info:
	Triptet is a meeting of minds and spontaneous electrical impulses between Michael Monhart (saxophones and percussion), Tom Baker (guitars and effects), and Greg Campbell (percussion and cheap electronics). The group spends most of their time inventing modes of flight, and trying to get lift. They practice and practice, working on   the length of the running start, size and texture of the wings, the speed and rate of acceleration of the flapping. They have enjoyed momentary freedom from gravity, and vow to keep trying for sustained orbit. Meanwhile, they also play music, exploring the space between Sun Ra and… Space. Prehistoric Horse: David Grollman and Valerie Kuehne are a duo of cello and drums who play freely improvised music. Both musicians are from New York City.  They have played in various performance spaces and galleries in New York. They excel in bowing, scraping, slapping, rubbing and hitting their instruments. They will be joined by Oakland, CA based improvisational sound artist Lucio Menegon. Lucio has performed and collaborated with a plethora of renowned rock, experimental and new music artists including Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Moe! Staiano!  Carla Kihlstedt, Jonathan Segel, Mark Degli Antoni and Devin Hoff. The trio of David, Val and Lucio are collectively known as Prehistoric Horse.	michaelmonhart.com tombakercomposer.com gregcampbellmusic.com kingtone.com/2009/06/23/ prehistoric-horse
saturday, july 25	allport / wilcox / burns trio & sextet	more info:
	Vancouver-based percussionist Jeffrey Allport approaches the physical nature of his chosen instrument through a variety of preparations and implements to liberate a unique palette of sounds. Respecting each carefully extracted tone, thump and scrape in addition to the silence from which they are borne, his exploratory improvisations inhabit minute sound worlds, eschewing the grand gesture. In addition to solo work, Allport has enjoyed a lengthy collaboration with Tim Olive, releasing three CD's since 1998. They have also toured in Canada, the US, Western Europe and Japan. Summer 2007 saw the LP release of his duo with Tetuzi Akiyama, recorded during a small tour of the Northwest in the summer of 2006. Frequently participating in once-only groupings has led him to performing and recording with a wide variety of improvisers from around the world including Annette Krebs, Nate Wooley, Gust Burns, Andrea Neumann, and Keith Rowe. Tyler Wilcox was born 1979 in silver spring maryland. grew up in columbia, maryland, an unincorporated interracial planned city. listening mostly to hip hop and dancehall.  moved to inner city baltimore at the age of 21. began to compose glacial electronic music based on prime numbers, pure sine tones and field recordings. fed up with the lack of physicality in electronic music began to experiment with a wide range of acoustic instruments (the reed family, contrabass bugle, trombone, cello, viola, bassoon). settling finally on the soprano saxophone and a rotating member of the clarinet family. in 2003 began playing duos with baltimore percussionist paul neidhardt. in 2005 formed trigenarational sextet birds in the sky drawing on the space/time of gagaku, bebop and morton feldman's crippled symmetry. the same year baltimore was left behind for the dark mystery of the wet fir woods and knife edged peaks of northern washington. Gust Burns is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Seattle, Washington.  Foremost an improvising pianist, Burns continues to develop new routes into improvisation on the piano, working with diverse areas of music such as silence, density, structure and alternative narrative approaches, extending traditional piano technique, and developing new techniques for inside the piano. Burns performs on both traditional piano - playing the keyboard - and ‘inside piano’ or re-assembled and altered piano soundboard and strings, with or without electronics. Burns counts diverse perspectives and lines of tradition as influences.  Both jazz and classical traditions, the avant-garde lineages in Europe and America, the traditions of improvised music over the last 40 years, traditional musics from around the world, the hip-hop and grunge he grew up with… However, he does not attempt to assimilate these influences/ interests into one melting-pot musical identity. Instead, he seeks to further develop a relevant vocabulary and identity within several different areas of contemporary Improvisation. He also has a keen interest in how music functions as discourse within the social-political world at large and what this can mean to us as musicians/ listeners.	myspace.com/jeffreyallport rasbliutto.net/artists/gustburns.html
sunday, july 26	gallery 1412 readings	more info:
	details coming soon...
wednesday, august 3	Ideal Bread	more info:
	Josh Sinton : baritone saxophone Tom Varner : french horn Geoff Harper : bass Paul Kikuchi : drums dedicated to the music of Steve Lacy	joshsinton.com