Pamela Z

Pamela Z is a fixture at most of the bay areas avant garde events. She not only attends most of them, she performs in many as well. I have seen her perform a few times, most recently at the chapel of chimes this past Sunday. Its always a pleasure. Her style is unique and most certainly an extension of her personality which is outgoing to say the least. Rather then try to describe her music Ill show you. Below is a video of her piece, The Pendulum. Since it isn't blatantly obvious from the video Ill just mention that the hand motions you see her doing are controlling this small box which is some sort of midi control box. Watching her use it is similar to seeing someone play a theremin but more elaborate.




PamelaZ.com

(I found this video on a blog I recently discovered called Iron Tongue of Midnight)

Welcome to San Francisco...

Ikue Mori

One of the pioneers of laptop electronics, Ikue Mori has been breaking new ground on the musical frontier for three decades. From her early days in the landmark No Wave band DNA, to her years as a regular in the downtown improvisation community and more recently as one of the epicenters of the international laptop electronic scene, Ikue has become an underground hero—yet her work is still sorely underappreciated. This newest solo CD features Ikue’s idiosyncratic take on contemporary dance rhythms and electronica. Fascinating ambient textures, detailed improvisations and pulsing hypnotic rhythms clash and combine in this complex and charismatic electronic masterpiece.

Released on Tzadik's Key Series

www.ikuemori.com
www.myspace.com/ikuemorimusic

Ikue Mori - Master of Deception


Originally posted from Tzadik.

Buried at Sea

Heavy as a fully loaded cement truck...

Anthony Saunders

This is a video from one of the shows I saw during my recent trip to New York. This guy is way cool dude. Check out his blog here.



Two other rad guys played that night. One was James Amoeba. You can check out his myspace here. The other was Eli Keszler and you can check out his page here. Eli is going on a US tour this summer. Check out the dates on his page. I definitely recommend checking out his show if you can make it.

Rachel Lattimore

Very excited to be working with this excellent artist.

www.rachellattimore.com
www.rachellattimore.blogspot.com

William Duckworth

William Duckworth (born 1943) is an American composer who also is an author, educator and Internet pioneer. He has written more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition of the first postminimal piece of music, The Time Curve Preludes (1977-1978), for piano. His other notable compositions include Thirty-One Days (1987), for alto saxophone, and Southern Harmony (1980-1981), a choral work which uses certain features of shape note singing. Duckworth is a Professor of Music at Bucknell University. Nora Farrell, his wife, runs Monroe Street Music, which publishes many of his pieces. In recent years, Duckworth has concentrated on releasing music at his Cathedral Web site and has shifted much of his attention from music composed for traditional acoustic instruments to electronic music which utilizes world music influences and invites active participation from the listener. He obtained a bachelor's degree in music from East Carolina University, then master's and doctorates in music education from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He studied composition under composer Ben Johnston and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the notation of composer John Cage.

Two of my most valued books were written by this guy. I wondered what his music was like a few years ago when I first read them but never actually heard it until recently. His music is excellent and his ideas are awesome.
Check him out yourself www.billduckworth.com