Archive for April, 2006
April 27, 2006 at 3:51 am · Filed under Music
Overlap.org presents LISTEN
April 28th, 2006 – 8-10pm
June 23rd 2006 – 8-10pm
Admission: $10 in advance, $12 day of event.
Studio Rasa
933 Parker St.
Berkeley, CA
LISTEN is a new audio series that will explore the art of intense listening. In collaboration with Audio Rasa and Overlap.org, Christopher Willits has commissioned * unreleased * sound works from an international pool of acclaimed contemporary sound makers. These unique recordings will be amplified within the beautiful Studio Rasa in Berkeley CA. Come prepared to tune in and zone out.
April 28th 2006
Frank Bretschneider
Sebastien Roux
Taylor Deupree
Kenneth Kirschner
Strategy
June 23rd 2006
Keiichi Sugimoto
Gregg Kowalsky
Greg Davis
Sawako
April 23, 2006 at 5:34 pm · Filed under Music, NYC
Got to NYC yesterday — stayed up all night with Dana and Tara. Snippets from our conversation:
- Jimmy Carter says yes.
- Green fingernails need you…
- The humpty dance rocks eggs. But few other things, mind you, like tubs of vasoline.
- Waking up in a pickle barrel house with leaves falling on the skylight over your head… then bonking your head on the curved roof.
- Russian Pig Olympics!
- Moments most missed: licking the back of a postage stamp right before mailing a letter to a friend.
- They were wrong – learning math did NOT matter!
- Check out Amadou and Miriam – cute blind couple from Mali, produced by Manu Chao
- There IS such a thing as cat scratch fever.
- Happypot cookies that you freeze, not bake.
- Vintage shopping in Chelsea is the perfect antidote to rainy Sunday afternoons in NYC. And a cuppa coffee at Push Cafe.
Feels good to be back in NYC.
April 21, 2006 at 4:10 pm · Filed under Music
I’m back in Philly, where the cherry trees are in full bloom and spring is at its lovely best.
It’s nice to reconnnect with old friends as we set up for Arts In Motion’s show tonight at the Trinity Center — a mix of classical fusion with electronic composition guided by 3-D synchronous music visualization projections across the hall.
Then off to Fluid for late night electro dancing @ Sex Dwarf!
April 14, 2006 at 12:32 am · Filed under Music
Hello dear friends, I’m very excited to share with you OVERLAP 02! Come out, and bring friends witcha for a merry evening of experimental music, dance and performance art hailing from the Bay Area, Berlin and Japan. Also Greg’s album release for Kranky!
Live sets by:
Wobbly (Tigerbeat6)
Kyoka (from Groopies, Japan) + Christopher Willits
Yuko Kaseki (experimental dance performance, Berlin)
Gregg Kowalsky (Kranky)
The Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street (between Post and Sutter)
San Francisco, CA
$10
http://overlap.org
http://upcoming.org/event/64428/
April 7, 2006 at 7:03 pm · Filed under Design, Music
Went to the DMV yesterday to finally switch over my driver’s license to California. The entrance was prominently marked with a graf tag that read, “DMV IS HELL,” which was clearly legible from afar despite repainting. It actually wasn’t so bad, even if I did have to take a written exam again (and only missed 2 questions!) ‘Twas funny how the peeps there still had record of my original license for which I had applied when I was 16, so I received my old CA license number back!!
Also this week, I’ve been hanging out w/ Danish designers from Jutland, listening to new FoundSound material (straight outta Philadelphia), and in general feeling like the luckiest girl in the world. Oh yes, and I had weird dreams about rolling in mud with lots of lemons and chasing small teddy bears with bowties and hats around corners…
If you ever wander down to South Park, be sure to check out Koh Samui & the Monkey and order tea. The tea will arrive with celadon-colored drinking bowls with carved elephant handles. The tea-drinking experience is, according to Bigfoot, “like drinking bathwater from bathtubs made for baby elephants.”
Yummy.
