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SOUNDWAVE>SERIES ((2)): Producer|Curator: Alan So, Coordinators: John Moore, Estelle Fabre, Volunteer Coordinator: Wilma Mason Technical Consultant: Jorge Bachmann, Guest Curator: Matt Davignon, Technical Support: David A Graves, Stefan Smulovitz, Photography: Michael Smith, James Butler Videography: Michael Smith, Volunteers: Klover Kim, Robin Dee, Jackie Holland, Daniela Ogden, Melissa, Richard Park, Mike, Anna Isaksons, Phyllis Oscar, Lance Grabmiller, Equipment Angels: David A Graves, Mick Goldwater, Trey Butler, ATA: Fara, Kent HowieThe LAB: Kristen Chappa, Mark Edwards, Sherry Koyama Luggage Store: Matt Davignon, Rent Romus, Laurie. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT! |
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Oakland's
Matt Davignon is a experimental musician and
curator that has developed a unique form of
improvisation over the last 10 years, focusing
on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical
imperfections. Matt is active in organizing
experimental & unusual music performances
in the San Francisco Bay Area and is responsible
for such events as The San Francisco Found
Objects Festival, Sound/Shift Oakland
and helping to launch the Field Effects
series. He is one of the curators for the Luggage
Store Gallery New Music Series, the
longest continuously running series for experimental
and improvised music in San Francisco. 
Myrmyr
is the collaboration by Marielle Jakobsons
and Agnes Szelag to create an improvisational
electroacoustic music. myrmyr's music rides
on the tension between the slightly cacophonous
to flowing melodies, using their instruments,
voices, field recordings, live sampling and
programming skills. With performances based
on reaction and often invoking the element of
surprise, the duo keeps themselves and the audience
on their toes. Agnes Szelag work includes
songwriting, electronics, improvisation, cello,
voice, dance, as well as photography, sculpture
and video. Marielle Jakobsons
aims to rebuild musical performance as a breathing
system of sound, people, and space. She holds
a B.A. in Music Performance and Biology from
Case Western Reserve University and the
Cleveland Institute of Music. 
MOE!
STAIANO is a percussionist who usually uses
found objects, but has moved to doing drumming
on found objects on his trap set (i.e. prepared
percussion). Moe! (yes, he includes the exclaimation
mark in his name) has experimented through the
years though solo percussion using pipes, food
pans, pressure caps, sheet metals, nick-nacks
& other stuff that has been found, given
or stolen (mainly from Pizza Hut when he worked
there including a nifty Spatula that he bows).
One can expect to see Moe!'s show as a visual
eye pleaser: running around throwing pipes on
concrete, walking on pans with his feet to mute
sounds or running amok, throwing his body into
old cassette tapes or two dozen cymbals in any
given performance. 
LANCE
GRABMILLER straddles the gap between the
"avant-garde" and the "electronic".
He has played in improvisational groups and
has also opened for such notable electronic
acts as Kid606, Sagan, Wobbly, Uprock
and Meg Lee Chin among others.
SOUNDSPACE:
SONOLOGY 
David
A. Graves initially studied electronic music
composition at the University of Nebraska and
has composed music for multiple genres, including
ambient, jazz, and rock. He has also scored
music for film and theatre, including A
Period Piece, a play by Rachael Kerr,
performed in San Francisco and New York (1995-1998)
and ICON: The Photography of Gordon Parks
(2003), a movie by PCTV. In 2003, he was the
resident composer at the Djerassi Resident
Artist Program where he was awarded the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship.
His large-scale ambient piece, tree/sigh, was
installed in a redwood canyon during Djerassi's
2003 Open House. In the past three years, he
has been scoring new classical works, especially
in conjunction with the San Francisco
Composers Chamber Orchestra and is currently
studying composition with Alexis Alrich at the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 
A
moderate drinker with brown eyes and a fluid
agenda, sound and visual artist Garland Villanova
shares several ever-changing rooms in one of
Saint Paul, Minnesota's more mysterious neighborhoods
with cats (three), projects (more), and gear
(mostly cheap and/or ancient). When the moon
is full, she wanders. "I have a gift for
clouding people's minds," she says. Nobody
ever gives her any trouble, ever. 
Night
Night is the lap-pop alias for Dana Gumbiner,
producer, engineer and singer/songwriter with
the band Deathray. Night Night’s
music is composed using various acoustic, electronic
and junk-technology sources: Speak N Spell affirmations
over tone poems and stuttered rhythms, combined
with wry visuals create an atmosphere of pleasant
transcendental fuzziness, something akin to a
short flight on an airplane, or your first glass
of wine.The first Night Night EP “Stuntman
& Psychic” is available through
Tim
Gallaher is a San Francisco based mixed media
performance artist. With a degree in film production,
his primary mediums are music, film and writing,
and he combines them into unique performances
in which he accompanies his musical films and
their recorded soundtracks with live narration
and singing while standing up alongside the
projected images, creating musical cinematic
performance narratives. Spoken word and absurd
puppetry antics round out his shows. He has
performed his one-man show, Tim’s
Magic Lantern Show at the San Francisco
and Victoria, Canada Fringe Festivals and his
songs can be heard on numerous independent feature
films such as April is My Religion,
The Low Life and Tromeo
and Juliet. Currently, Tim is working
on his next musical film, set in the early 1960’s
US about a majestic ands seductive alien who
visits a lonely young ham radio buff and change
history in the process. 
Don
Seaver started songwriting with a country western
band in 1982, and wrote his first musical in
1983. He started composing for the Paul
Taylor Dance Company in 1990, which
began his 15 years in theater creating original
scores and sound design. He has worked with
numerous Bay Area theaters, including Magic
Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival,
Marin Theatre Company, Theatre Rhinoceros, Shakespeare
Santa Cruz, Aurora Theatre, Encore Theatre,
New Conservatory Theatre, and Shotgun
Players. In addition, Don has composed
scores for television, videogames, and ballet,
and is working on an opera about Leonard Bernstein.
He has been nominated for several Bay
Area Theater Critics’ Circle Awards
for best score/sound design over the years,
and won in 1999 for his score for “Mere
Mortals” and in 2004 for “Southern
Lights” (with Julie Jackson.) 
I
AM SOUND 
Albert
Ortega, a Los Angeles native, instrument builder,
and situationist, considers his immediate surroundings
as the primary energy in which to capture, blend,
and release sound using environmental instruments
/ instrumental environments that are modified
with each performance. His sound practice explores
the tactile relationships of the body with objects
among other bodies negotiating their presence
within a space. He has installed/performed both
solo and collectively at various Underground /
Experimental / New Music venues, festivals, residences,
and outdoor spaces such as The Museum of
Jurassic Technology, Villa Aurora, Field Effects
4, SCI-Arc, CEAIT Festival 2003,Sonorities 2005,
and Knitting Factory. He
is a recipient of the American Composers
Forum Subito grant and the Maybeck
Studio award. 
Stefan
Smulovitz and Viviane Houle seamlessly combine
the infinite possibilities of voice and computer
in an exploration of beauty and chaos. Together,
they weave through a terrain of free improvisation,
improvised songs and unearthly soundscapes to
immerse audiences into another world, and creating
unforgettable concerts in surround sound.
Stefan Smulovitz transforms the laptop into
an instrument using his custom software Kenaxis.
He is renowned for his “quicksilver
ability to morph and manipulate sound via digital
technology” (Georgia Straight). He
is a performer on both laptop and viola, and
has created over 40 live scores for film. As
a prize-winning composer, his electro-acoustic
works have been installed at the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and
his composition “eleven”
premiered
with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
in April 2006. Musical maverick Viviane Houle
is a vocalist and composer who defies categorization.
With her drop dead gorgeous voice, Viviane captivates
audiences wherever she performs, from the opera
house to the concert hall to the most intimate
of jazz clubs. She has performed with Vancouver
Opera, the Vancouver Symphony and Standing
Wave Ensemble and has released a CD
of original songs and improvisations with Existential
Angst Party.