Lesli Dalaba is recognized as one of the most distinctive trumpet players in improvised music, combining a mastery of unorthodox playing techniques with a delicate, moving lyricism. She began performing in California in the 1970s with Wayne Horvitz. In 1978 she moved to New York, where she formed her own quartet and performed for 10 […]
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Tiny Manhood are Kendra Wight on ukelele and vocals, Jenessa Wight on bass and vocals, Blaine Sizemore on drums, and Aaron Long on trombone, toy instruments, and backing vocals. They are based in Seattle, Washington. Artist Support Program 2006: a CD of original pop songs performed on unusual acoustic instruments and toys.
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Christa Wells has been a performer for many years. She has played electronic/DnB/Dubstep music with KJ SAWKA (Destroid, Pendulum, Impossible Records) and released several records featuring songs she wrote under that name. Christa has recorded music with The Afghan Whigs, Carrie Akre (Hammerbox, Goodness), The Long Winters, C-Leb and the Kettle Black, Trick Deck, & […]
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One World Taiko, founded in 1990 in San Francisco, is led by founding members Gary Tsujimoto and Nancy Ozaki. OWT presents a contemporary style of Japanese drumming that incorporates dynamic and fluid movement. Their repertoire includes traditional pieces, which were taught to them by the world-renowned groups Kodo and Ondekoza from Japan, and their own […]
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Joe Diebes (b. 1972) creates works that converge around the categories of concert music, installations, and conceptual art. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1995, where he studied composition formally with Jonathan Berger and Michael Tenzer while pursuing a degree in Literature and Philosophy. He also studied at Juilliard with Stanley Wolfe and […]
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Joe Colley is a self taught artist investigating the conceptual possibilities of sound through music production, installations, or collaborations with video artists, dancers, and even prisoners. His earlier works were also created under the moniker Crawl Unit. His latest installations attempt to dissimulate the artist by concentrating on the instigation of unstable situations unique to […]
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S. Lyn Goeringer is a mixed-media composer/performer/sound artist who currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island. She writes music and creates sound art using whatever tools are available, from found objects to string quartets. She creates and builds her own electronic instruments and plays theremin, computer, piano, found objects and sculptures. She also makes interactive sound […]
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Richard Lerman was born in 1944 in San Francisco. He has worked in electronic music since 1963 and taught performance art, film making and sound art at the Boston Museum School from 1973-1994. Lerman has performed at many International and American festivals and has worked with John Driscoll, The Merce Cunningham Dance Co., The Dance […]
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Haynes is a multimedia visual and sound artist living in San Francisco. Since December 2001, Haynes has been active as the Editorial Director for 23five, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound art within the public arena. He has written extensively on sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music […]
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Paul Rucker is a cellist, bassist, composer, and visual artist. He has released two highly acclaimed CDs: History of an Apology features his compositions performed with prominent NW musicians, including Bill Frisell, Julian Priester, Jovino Santos Neto, and others; Oil, a CD of duets with saxophonist with Hans Teuber, was nominated for “Jazz CD of […]
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