Come see this amazing EARLY show, 1 of 3 Texas shows with Jaap Blonk (vocals, electronics), Damon Smith (double bass), and Lisa Cameron (drums and percussion)! This is also the only show with this trio lineup.
Also Bricoleurs , with Josh Ronsen, Vannesa Gelvin, and Mallory Watson will open the show with a special gamelan performance.
Please make note of the EARLY times!
6pm- doors
6:15 -6 :45 Bricoluers
7:00- 8:30 - Blonk/Smith/Cameron trio (2 sets with short intermission)
$10-20 sliding scale
Tickets at the door, cash and Venmo
Jaap Blonk
(born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a composer, vocalist, poet and visual artist. His studies in mathematics and musicology created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein. In the early 1980s he set out on a long-term research of phonetics and the possibilities of the human voice. The use of live electronics and visuals has expanded the scope and range of his concerts. Besides working as a soloist, he collaborated with many musicians and ensembles in the field of contemporary and improvised music, like Maja Ratkje, Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, The Ex, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Ebony Band. He premiered several compositions by the German composer Carola Bauckholt, including a piece for voice and orchestra. A solo voice work was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage. On several occasions he collaborated with visual computer artist Golan Levin, for the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.��Blonk's work for radio and television includes several commissioned radio plays. He also makes larger-scale drawings of his scores, as well as visual poetry, which is being exhibited.
Damon Smith
Damon Smith studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons
with Bertram Turezky, Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and
others. Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass
have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based
in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic
free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his
music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson’s
Variations for Double Bass, collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World,
and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Damon has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including:
Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra’s Arkestra), Henry Kaiser,
Keith Rowe, Jaap Blonk,Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo
Smith, Weasel Walter, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brötzmann
and Peter Kowald. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and
six great years in Houston, Texas working regularly with Alvin
Fielder, Sandy Ewen, Thomas Helton, David Dove & Chris Cogburn. Damon
moved to the Boston area in the fall of 2016 and began working with
Jeb Bishop, Pandelis Karayorgis, Joe McPhee and Ra-Kalam Bob Moses and
many others. Damon has run Balance Point Acoustics record label since
2001, releasing music focusing on transatlantic collaborations between
US and European musicians.
https://balancepointacoustics.com/
https://balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/
Lisa Cameron:
(aka Venison Whirled) is from Austin, Tx. Using amplified/acoustic percussion and
strings, she locates resonant frequencies in space to create oscillating overtones, which are then employed as sound sources for live improvisation.
She has improvised live with Jandek, Mani Neumier, Eugene Chadbourne,Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten,
Faust, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Claire Rousay, Alex Cunningham, Damon Smith, Raquel Bell, Tom Carter, Nathan Bowles, Fritz Welch, Sharkiface, Sandy Ewen, Thor Harris, Leslie Keffer, Jonathan Horne, Steve McKay, Rat Bastard, Raub Roy, and others.
In 2013, for the New Media Art and Sound Summit,in Austin, Texas, she composed and directed "Canopy Of Sound",involving 12 suspended cymbal players in an outdoor dynamic context.This led her to form Ommmg,
an ongoing acoustic percussion group with ritualistic overtones.
Lisa has turned her attention recently to making instruments and then learning how to play them.
In 2018 she was commissioned by Cloud Tree Gallery in Austin, to create an installation which became a joint effort with artist Brian Johnson. Entitled "Thee Mortal Coil",the sound sculpture consisted of a 20 foot tall spiral tube that incorporated ball bearings with timed bursts of pneumatic pressure,
amplified by contact microphones routed through a mixer.
https://lisacameronsisterskullrekkids.bandcamp.com/
