Outpost 186

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, May 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Edrie Edrie - see 26 April

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

BULLETIN:The Moonship show for Sat 19 April is cancelled due to sched snafus. Apologies from the Moonship Krewe!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, no alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Starting January 8, regular gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday when exhibition is up.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

Saturday 26 April 8pm $5 or b/o
from the army of broken toys comes
Walter Sickert's "Plastic Powwow 89"
For a night of Rain Dances, intimate musical performances, video, communal sound making, honoring the Dead (people & animals) and above all merriment hysteria!!!

BYO: Food / Drinks / Instruments

http://www.myspace.com/armyoftoys, http://www.armyoftoys.com

Entry = 5$, Food, Drink donation and/or a kiss on the cheek
Walter Sickert
Wednesday 30 April @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics)plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Thursday, 1 May, 8pm
THE G. DAVID GROSS & FRIENDS BIRTHDAY BASH
featuring
forbes graham
greg kelley
the cloud cloud club
empty house collective
the epicureans
polly hanson
matt samolis
Microkingdom's Yesterday's Wizards

Friday 2 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Little Mystery
+
Skinny Vinny
Josh Jefferson - sax / Andrew Eisenberg - percussion.

LITTLE MYSTERY improvises music by drawing upon a vast array of jazz and experimental influences to create a free, spacious and frequently ethereal soundscape. This music is created in part by drawing upon a somewhat unusual line-up of instruments to create music that is both visually and sonically evocative.
:
Eric Dahlman - trumpet
Dahlman has performed with the late great free jazz icon Hal Russell and his NRG Ensemble, The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, The Travis Chandler Philharmonic, Auddity, The Calypso Invaders, and others. Dahlman’s newest CD “Ripped Echo” has met with rave reviews in many journals and features members of Auddity, John Voigt, Eric Royer, members of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Devil Music and others.

Michael Knoblach - Hat box drum set, percussion
A musician, artist, writer, antique dealer, Knoblach has played with Auddity, Yani Batteau, Reg Bloor (Glenn Branca Band), Boston Rock Opera, Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls), The Calypso Invaders and Cul de Sac among others.

Blair Raker - trombone
Also plays with the USAF Band of Liberty at Hanscomb Field, Massachusetts. He had played for a number of years with the Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Disneyland Band, Blast!, and was a busy freelance trombonist for several years in the Los Angeles area.

Jim Warshauer (aka Krivati) - Contra Alto Clarinet, other reed instruments
Jim has been playing saxophone since 1967 and has branched into contra alto clarinet more recently. He has played in a variety of settings in the San Francisco Bay area for over 25 years before coming to Boston for a Y2K gig and then staying there.

SKINNY VINNY
Inspired by speed chess, fast art, and all things Duchamp, Josh Jefferson and Andrew Eisenberg work together to define, refine and otherwise extend their understanding of music. Andrew Eisenberg plays percussion on an assortment of modified drum parts that he has reduced and eroded through a process of playing and breaking them. Josh Jefferson plays alto sax and bass clarinet and focuses on pushing the boundaries of his instruments with extended technique and abstract sounds...

Saturday 3 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents Ornette Coleman pianist
DAVE BRYANT QUARTET
Dave Bryant - piano / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums / Curt Newton - drums
www.accuraterecords.com/bryant.html

Sunday, 4 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
“Al’s Crockpot”
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set.

Thursday 8 May @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics) plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Friday 9 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Cello Alley presents:
Josiah Altschuler - “Murder Ballads & Love Songs for Cello & Voice” (www.TheBusKing.com)

Equally at home performing in front of a crowded club, or on the concert stages of prestigious classical music halls across the United States and abroad, Josiah Altschuler’s music summons a raw, primal energy, fused with a sophisticated, virtuoso technique. Although rooted in American Primitive music, he uses both cello and guitar to bridge many seemingly disparate genres into cohesive solo performances. His stage appearances balance an intelligent process of experimentation with pure and simple entertainment.

He now accompanies various musicians, and performs as a soloist, carving his own niche by presenting hybrid shows of folk, rock and classical music. A typical solo performance will cross over a wide variety of genres, from the ancient to the modern, incorporating several instruments. He has adapted a guitar-like fingerpicking technique to the cello, which brings a gothic, twisted and haunting signature sound to his music.

Josiah is currently recording his debut CD, "Murder Ballads and Love Songs for Cello and Voice," which will be available in June, 2008.

Saturday 10 May @ Outpost, 2-5pm, free
Artist Reception:
Markus Nechay - Paintings, Assemblage & Works on Paper

Sunday, 11 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $12 or b/o
“Al’s Crockpot” Mother’s Day Special
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set.
presents
BARITONE HORN and TWO BASSES
Eric Zinman - baritone horn / John Voigt - bass / Jacob William - bass

info 617-901-4624

Thursday 15 May @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics) plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Friday 16 May @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
“The Vortex other Dimension Ensemble”
+
“Let There Be Sound: Stretching The Boundaries Of Performance Practice In Contemporary Music”
Come see the saxophone as it has never sounded before with works by Luciano Berio, Francois Rosse, and the poetry and sounds of Dennis Shafer and Norma Szokolyai. A unique, non-stop adventure of new music and performance art.

A native of Lawrence, Kansas, Dennis Shafer returned to Boston this year from Paris, France where he studied with contemporary saxophonist Jean-Michel Goury. With engagements in throughout the US and Europe, Dennis Shafer has co-founded Sounds in Bloom (myspace.com/dnorma), the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet, Tapis Volant (www.dennisshafer.com/groups), and many other projects.

Diana Norma Szokolyai is a prize-winning performance poet and photographer, a member of the International Women's Writing Guild and is active on Boston and Parisian spoken word scenes and the Other Writers Group based out of Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris, France

Keith Sanders is a South Carolinian, no-limits violist who makes it a habit to push the limits of new music and performance practice. While pursuing his Masters at Longy School of Music, Keith performs and records regularly in Boston and New York City.

“The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble”
Neil Leonard - alto sax / Anthony Baldino - lap top / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Robert Rivera - Cello / John Mulrooney - poetry / Emil Tobenfeld - spontaneous visual art
A multi-faceted fusion of electro-acoustic music and sounds, augmenting words and visual images.

Thursday 15 May @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop) Ken Field (sax), Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics) plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Friday 16 May @ CAMBRIDGE YMCA, 8pm $15
subconsciouscafé presents
Pete Robbins Group

Friday 16 May @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
“The Vortex other Dimension Ensemble”
Neil Leonard - alto sax / Anthony Baldino - lap top / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Robert Rivera - Cello / John Mulrooney - poetry / Emil Tobenfeld - spontaneous visual art
+
“Let There Be Sound: Stretching The Boundaries Of Performance Practice In Contemporary Music”
Dennis Shafer - sax / Diana Norma Szokalyai - poet / Keith Sanders - violin
Works by Luciano Berio, Francois Rosse

A native of Lawrence, Kansas, Dennis Shafer returned to Boston this year from Paris, France where he studied with contemporary saxophonist Jean-Michel Goury. With engagements in throughout the US and Europe, Dennis Shafer has co-founded Sounds in Bloom (myspace.com/dnorma), the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet, Tapis Volant (www.dennisshafer.com/groups), and many other projects.

Diana Norma Szokolyai is a prize-winning performance poet and photographer, a member of the International Women's Writing Guild and is active on Boston and Parisian spoken word scenes and the Other Writers Group based out of Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris, France

Keith Sanders is a South Carolinian, no-limits violist who makes it a habit to push the limits of new music and performance practice. While pursuing his Masters at Longy School of Music, Keith performs and records regularly in Boston and New York City.

Sunday, 18 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Friday 23 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Improvelocity Intimate Public Experiments ~ presents:
"solos and galaxies - the sky’s the limit . . . or not "
Andrea Loretz Frey - soprano / Tonia Pinheiro - vocals / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Joel Cohen - cello / Paul Rodriguez - guitar / Ukumbwa Sauti - percussion / Grant Smith - drums / guest artists

A collective improvisational experience, fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, blues and elements from the other side of the universe.

Saturday, 24 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William's Secondary Deviations Quartet

Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax / Forbes Graham - Trumpet / Jacob William - Bass / Croix Galipault - Drums

Born in Madras (Chennai), India, Jacob William is a Boston-based bass player, composer and improviser working to stretch the multicultural paradigm - exploring the innate, ornate and the palpitating roots of diverse musical traditions.

" Jacob is a true breath of fresh air...special spirit...formidable bass skills...rare and wonderful...inspiring and motivational...one of the most exciting...” Joe Hunt

Jacob has performed and or recorded with musical luminaries such as: Anthony Braxton, Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Mariano, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Omar Sosa, T. Viswanathan and many more. He has appeared on records released on Warner Bros. and Intuition and has played numerous concerts and festivals internationally.

About Alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs, "ask around town, at least among the avant-garde set, and Hobbs’ name is evoked with near-reverence. Guitarist Joe Morris summed it up best in a radio interview a few years ago: “He’s as good as anyone who’s ever played that instrument.”

This group is rounded out by the fast establishing talents of Forbes Graham and Croix Galipault who are both fixtures on the Boston scene in different musical configurations.

http://www.transientones.com
http://www.myspace.com/jacobwilliambass
http://youtube.com/postethno

Sunday, 25 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
“Al’s Crockpot”
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set.

Saturday 31 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
“BeatBop: Jazz & Poetry
with
John Voigt's Friends & Lovers Band”
featuring
John Voigt - bass / Carolyn Wilkins - voice / Luther Gray - drums
performing works of
Kerouac, Joans, Ferlinghetti, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik

POETS whose poems will be read and performed:

Amiri Baraka / Jane Cortez / Ted Joans / Jack Kerouac / Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Joni Mitchell / Ishmael Reed / Sun Ra / Cecil Taylor And Others....

SONGS:
Goodbye Porkpie Hat / Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

John Voigt has published poetry in SUNY Baffalo’s “Intrepid” with LeRoi Jones, Charles Bukowski, Carl W. Solomon.

Carolyn Wilkins is a performer, composer, and educator [professor at Berklee College]. Author of Tips For Singers. Berklee Press, 2008. Appearances with her group SpiritJazz includes radio (WGBH-FM), and television (BET network); work as a Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and concert appearances with Melba Moore, Nancy Wilson, the Fifth Dimension, and the Pittsburgh Symphony under Andre Previn.

Drummer Luther Gray was born March 10, 1972 in New Orleans, LA. In 1995 he graduated the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Music, after which he taught privately and performed in the Washington , D.C. area with, among others, Butch Warren, Cecil Payne, Webster Young, Tsunami, Liquorice, Peter Edelman, Jenny Toomey, Bob Butta, and Buck Hill. Since moving to Boston he has resumed teaching private drum lessons and has played with Joe Morris, Jay Hoggard, Joe McPhee, Timo Shanko, Cameron Brown, Allan Chase, Joseph Daley, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Ida, Geoff Farina, Andrew White, Rob Brown, Bill Lowe, Greg Abate, Raqib Hassan, Bill Pierce, Mitch Seidman, Steve Swell, Joe Beck, Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark and many others.

John Voigt - Electro-acoustic-bass. Occasional performances with Ted Joans, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Tuli Kupferberg (Fuggs), Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Bill T. Jones, Captain Kangaroo, Rex Harrison, Jemeel Moondoc, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), William Parker. Broadway Musicals: Hello Dolly, Hair, My Fair Lady.

He was the Librarian at Berklee College, and taught at Mass. College of Art. Lectured and former member of the Board of Overseers at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers. Prose and poetry published by major publishing houses.

Recorded on Aum Fidelity, Ayler (Sweden), Box Holder, Cadence, Clean Feed (Portugal), Eremite, MoonFood, and RRRecords.

Media appearances on ABC's 20/20, Black Entertainment Television, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

QUOTES:
³JAZZ MORE THAN ONLY MUSIC: John Voigt with his super-modern sleek structured bass makes light as a feather dialogues with the drums, then trumpet...he [Voigt] says: ŒThere is much that's bad in the world, but even the worst hides sparks of divine light.' .... ³Here is music that celebrates the victory of life over death; [as Voigt mentioned] the victory of the glittering sparks over the darkness."
-- [Munich] Dachauer Nachrihten 12. März 2007.²

"In his hands the bass turns into a real talker, a mythical creature, a mouthpiece for the history of man. Voigt's very personal musical metaphors should not be missed." --The Improvisor, 1993.

John Voigt is "an avatar of creative music in Boston" -- Cadence, Dec. 1997.

"Friday night brought one of the world's most inventively alive bass players to Seattle. Boston's John Voigt has done everything from transforming his instrument into a conduit for readings of the Kabbalah to wringing from its neck the scream of an electrocuted pickle." Bill White, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 2002.

CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

IMPROVELOCITY - 4th Fridays, 8pm $10 or b/o
An interactive, improvisational "kaleidoscope for the ears" fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, indigenous, ambient, vocals, written words, and elements from the other side of the universe. Hosted by Toni Pinheiro and members of Improvelocity.
http://www.improvelocity.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occas. Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.

THE WHIMSY! - 3rd Sundays, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay

AL’S CROCKPOT - Sundays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, food, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set. Crackpots welcome. Hosted by Al Nidle, so it's only fair.

MOONSHIP presents - for kids - 3rd Saturdays, $5, under 3 Free 1pm, 1hr.
family shows for young and old. From pirates to dragons, fairies to magic beans, each month THE MOONSHIP will take you on a wonderful adventure with storytelling, music, puppets and more!www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

MOONSHIP - 2nd Saturdays 1pm(kids)+8pm, $5 or b/o
Pirates, aliens, poets and madmen, belly dancing goddesses and shamanic punks.
www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Improvelocity : Toni Pinheiro : improvelocity@comcast.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
Moonship : Jason Berube : jason.berube@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Al's Crockpot : Al Nidle - alanidle@hotmail.com
AMERANOUCHE - ameranouche@gmail.com
Eric Zinman: studioz@gis.net, ericzinman.com
Birdsongs: Michael Bierylo - mbierylo@berklee.net

DISCLAIMER:
All disclaimers are for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and should not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or outright fraudulent misrepresentations, real or imaginary, that may be contained in this notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

Labels: Cambridge, experimental, improvised music, jazz, Outpost, Zeitgeist Gallery

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, April 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:33:00 +0000

Edrie Edrie - see 26 April

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

BULLETIN:The Moonship show for Sat 19 April is cancelled due to sched snafus. Apologies from the Moonship Krewe!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, no alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Starting January 8, regular gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday when exhibition is up.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

APRIL 2008
Vlada Tomova
TUESDAY 1 APRIL @ OUTPOST, 6PM $20
Bulgarian traditional singing workshop
with Vlada Tomova (Balkan Beat Box, Balkan Tales, & Yasna Voices)

Bulgarian traditional singing
– village styles & arranged folk music –
(demonstration, warm up & vocal technique, singing)

The workshop will explore technique, sound and different styles of Bulgarian women’s traditional singing, and the difference between village styles and arranged folklore, a cappella and accompanied by instruments.

In two hours we will cover three areas:
- listening and brief overview (20 min),
- vocal warm up and specific vocal production exercises (20 min),
- learn two songs, one in diaphonic village style, and one arranged a cappella song, in the style of *.

Listening materials and copies of music will be provided. Please RSVP to vlada@vladatomova.com to ensure space and materials availability.

www.myspace.com/vladatomovabalkantales

See Vlada & Balkan Tales in concert - Ryles Jazz Club, Apr 2, 8-11pm www.ryles.com

Thurs. 3 April @ Outpost, 8pm, $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics) plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Members of the legendary electrified chamber ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic look forward to returning for an extended residence at Outpost 186. Our weekly sessions last fall produced some interesting music with the help of guests like Vessela Stoyanova from Fluttr Effect, Roger Miller from Mission of Burma and electronic artist Ben Cantil. The performances went into some uncharted territory for the group and we look forward to continuing this spring. We'll be joined once again by laptop/glitch master Encanti. http://www.myspace.com/bencantil

Updates on performers and guests will posted of the band's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/birdsongsofthemesozoic
Todd Brunel
Friday 4 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents
”Synesthesia”
Regie Gibson - spoken word, percussion
Todd Brunel - clarinets, Bulgarian double flute
Robert Rivera - violoncello, bass
Eric N. Peterson - middle-eastern percussion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si2Bm245-CM
Synesthesia: n. 1. A sensation produced in one modality when a
stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a
certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. 2. A
seamless marriage of word, song, chant, cello, percussion and bass
clarinet. 3. What happens when an Irish ballad meets Moroccan rhythms,when a Shakespearean sonnet hangs out with classical cello and when modern American poetry funks up with Egyptian Tabla or Latin cajon. 4. An artistic offering happening at Depot Square Gallery (Come see what you've needed to hear.)

Regie Gibson: n. 1.Word guy. "A talent rare charismatic and humane...when you perform you are supersonic and in the stratosphere...you sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left out" ~ Kurt Vonnegut 2. Has worked with artists as diverse as David Amram, Mos Def, John Legend,Richie Havens and Kurt Vonnegut. Has performed with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra "X". 3. He and his work appear in the film "love jones" (a film based on events in his life.) 4. Is a National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, has been featured on NPR, HBO, and has been nominated for a Boston Emmy Award for his featured performance on WGBH-2's Art Close-Up.

Clarinetist Todd Brunel: n. 1. A critically acclaimed advocate of new and improvised music. 2. Enjoys a dual career as a crossover jazz and classical musician. 3. Has premiered works by numerous composers and performed as a guest artist at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Preservation Jazz Hall in New Orleans. Robert Rivera n. 1. A classically trained acoustic/electric cellist. 2. Studied at the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, the Longy School of Music, the Boston Conservatory, and the Moscow Conservatory. 3. Has played extensively in the US and Europe, working in genres as diverse
as classical, jazz, and improvisational music. "Robert Rivera is a
rush." (Boston Globe).

Also Featuring Middle-Eastern Percussionist: Eric N. Peterson

Monday, 7 April 8pm $7 or b/o
Antennaloop presents:
“JAMES COLEMAN TRIO”
featuring James Coleman - theremin / Ricardo Donoso - percussion & electronics / Nathan Ahlers - prepared guitar
“MOSHI MOSHI”
G. David Gross - beetbox / Angela Sawyer - suitcase / Polly Hansen - drums / Vic Rawlings - Richard Marx Tapes
“Milo Jones” - solo acoustic guitar

...electro-acoustic music for body & mind

about Moshi Moshi:
moshimoshiiamthedecider is the leader of the new american rock. irreverent and deeply pious, the moshi (as they are known by their most devoted) are at one turn simultaneously attacking all that has come before with a switchblade and carefully loving each atom of everything and everyone around them. there is simply no description possible regarding their music except possibly to say that every performance of moshimoshiiamthedecider will lead all participants (and their friends too!) on a journey which will fulfill beyond all ecstasy.

Thurs. 10 April @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics)plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Friday 11 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
Cello Alley presents:
“The Brunel/Rivera Method & Guests”
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Robert Rivera - cello
With guest percussionist / composer Gary Fieldman
&
Ryan Tebo - Video Improv

Gary Fieldman is creative in a wide and eclectic variety of musical situations. He’s performed and recorded with Todd Brunel in The Circadian Rhythm Kings as well as in Ara Sarkissian’s group Mussaner. His recordings and compositions include Field Effect, The Gary Fieldman Quartet, on The Rotary Records, and Ratty’s Loving Surprise, rattyslovingsurprise.com, a narration with music composition featuring new music ensemble Know Trio, knowtrio.com. Mr. Fieldman is also the founder of Museaid.org, an artist supported funding organization concentrating on the victims of war in Darfur.

www.garyfieldman.com
www.myspace.com/riverabrunelmethod

Saturday 12 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
John Voigt
in
“Ring Tones : Saturn Calling”
Music from Enceladus & Poetry of Sun Ra
with:
John Voigt : solo electro-acoustic bass

MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE.
This piece uses the radio signals from Saturn's moon Enceladus. John will channel the Music of the Spheres from this moon.

NASA space probes have picked up radio signals from Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn. Enceladus has organic chemicals, and has steam pouring from it--other than our earth, it is the most likely place in our solar system for life. Scientists do not know why this is so. There are further mysteries about this which will only be revealed the night of the performance.

POETRY OF SUN RA.This piece has readings of Sun Ra¹s poetry, along with musical excerpts from the classic science fiction film Forbidden Planet.
john.voigt@comcast.net, http://art-energy.org

Sunday, April 13 @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Al’s Crockpot”
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set.
presents
“Eric Zinman’s Euphoric Trio”
Eric Zinman - euphonium / John Voigt - bass / Robert Rivera - cello
http://www.ericzinman.com/index2.html
Ths. 17 April @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics)plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Friday 18 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
“The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble”
Neil Leonard - alto sax / Anthony Baldino - lap top / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Robert Rivera - Cello / John Mulrooney - poetry / Emil Tobenfeld - spontaneous visual art

A multi-faceted fusion of electro-acoustic music and sounds, augmenting words and visual images.
Omega Moon
Sat. 19 April @ OUTPOST, 1-3pm - $5 or b/o A Family Event

NOTE: THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO SCHEDULING SNAFU!

MOONSHIP presents:
“SONG FEST POT LUCK!”
"Music is the universal Language of the Heart" Using this quote as our inspiration, The Moonship invites you to gather and share songs and dances. We will bring instruments and a hefty supply of great and simple songs for group singing and playing. A perfect way to warm the heart in cold January, we also welcome you to share your own songs that you love to spontaneously croon.
All ages welcome!! $5 donation FREE for 3 and under.
3pm: WAND WORKSHOP w/ Omega Moon from NY - $25 http://www.myspace.com/omegamoon
** We will learn how to make beautiful magic crystal wands and everyone will take one home!
All materials will be provided!
$25 - PLEASE PRE-REGISTER- We need at least 15 people to make this workshop happen!!

Sunday 20 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Thursday 24 April @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics)plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests
Friday 25 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Improvelocity Intimate Public Experiments ~ presents:
"elements & elementals - if we could hear them what would they say? "
Andrea Loretz Frey - soprano / Tonia Pinheiro - vocals / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Joel Cohen - cello / Paul Rodriguez - guitar / Ukumbwa Sauti - percussion / Grant Smith - drums / guest artists

A collective improvisational experience, fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, blues and elements from the other side of the universe.

Saturday 26 April 8pm $5 or b/o
from the army of broken toys comes
Walter Sickert's "Plastic Powwow 89"
For a night of Rain Dances, intimate musical performances, video, communal sound making, honoring the Dead (people & animals) and above all merriment hysteria!!!

BYO: Food / Drinks / Instruments

http://www.myspace.com/armyoftoys, http://www.armyoftoys.com

Entry = 5$, Food, Drink donation and/or a kiss on the cheek
Walter Sickert
Wednesday 30 April @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics)plus
Encanti (laptop/glitch master) & special guests

Thursday 1 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
"DAVID GROSS & FRIENDS BIRTHDAY CONCERT"

Dave Bryant
Saturday 3 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
"DAVE BRYANT QUARTET"
Dave Bryant - piano / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums / Curt Newton - drums

Friday 16 May @ Cambridge YMCA 8pm $15
subconsciouscafe presents
"Pete Robbins & Centric"

CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

IMPROVELOCITY - 4th Fridays, 8pm $10 or b/o
An interactive, improvisational "kaleidoscope for the ears" fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, indigenous, ambient, vocals, written words, and elements from the other side of the universe. Hosted by Toni Pinheiro and members of Improvelocity.
http://www.improvelocity.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occas. Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.

THE WHIMSY! - 3rd Sundays, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay

AL’S CROCKPOT - Sundays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, food, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set. Crackpots welcome. Hosted by Al Nidle, so it's only fair.

MOONSHIP presents - for kids - 3rd Saturdays, $5, under 3 Free 1pm, 1hr.
family shows for young and old. From pirates to dragons, fairies to magic beans, each month THE MOONSHIP will take you on a wonderful adventure with storytelling, music, puppets and more!www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

MOONSHIP - 2nd Saturdays 1pm(kids)+8pm, $5 or b/o
Pirates, aliens, poets and madmen, belly dancing goddesses and shamanic punks.
www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Improvelocity : Toni Pinheiro : improvelocity@comcast.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
Moonship : Jason Berube : jason.berube@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Al's Crockpot : Al Nidle - alanidle@hotmail.com
AMERANOUCHE - ameranouche@gmail.com
Eric Zinman: studioz@gis.net, ericzinman.com
Birdsongs: Michael Bierylo - mbierylo@berklee.net

DISCLAIMER:
All disclaimers are for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and should not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or outright fraudulent misrepresentations, real or imaginary, that may be contained in this notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

Labels: Cambridge, experimental, improvised music, jazz, Outpost, Zeitgeist Gallery

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, March 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:33:00 +0000

"SKRAELINGS' PROGRESS" 23 Feb thru 16 March
photo: Nicole Meinhart
OUTPOST + subconsciouscafe Concert & Event Listings, March 2008

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, no alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Starting January 8, regular gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

SKRAELINGS'PROGRESS" 23 Feb thru 16 March
photo: Nicole Meinhart
ART:
Continuing through March 16:
"Skraelings’ Progress": A Collaboration in Assemblages

SHOW DATES: 23 February - 16 March 2008

Closing Festivities: Sunday, 16 March 2-5pm

ARTISTS STATEMENT
"Skraelings' Progress" is an on-going work in progress of which all are invited to partake.
Nick Wyneken, Bob Smith, Ting Hoepfner, and guest artist Doug Howlett will be showing some finished work and hoping that you will join them in the production of others inside and out in the courtyard behind the "Outpost186", snow or shine.
photo: Nicole Meinhart
Nick, Ting, and Smitty have been inspired and enriched by collaborating on "Skraeling Garden Protectors" for years. Last summer we posed as "The Neanderthals for Climate Change" at the "Cambridge River Festival" and Somerville's "Art Beast", to which we brought a full-size teenage woolly mammoth sculpture made out of bamboo and wicker and other found objects. " Michelle the Woolly Mammoth" was then placed off the bike path at Davis Sq. where she delighted some and incited others to attack and destroy. A debate about public art ensued in the Somerville Journal and Somerville News. We were deemed "unemployable so-called artists" being "coddled" by public funding and "not adding anything to the revenue stream". Other works have their own stories to tell and we hope future works as well. Please join us. Kids and shamans of all ages welcome!

ARTIST/CURATOR: Bob Smith - 781.648.7078 minimumwageart@yahoo.com
Friday, March 7, 20088pm $5
VORTEX presents:
“The Daniel Bennett Group”
+
”The Rivera/Brunel Method”

"Bennett is adding his own British-folk/ American-minimalism sensibility to the mix."
- Jon Garelick (Boston Phoenix)

Boston Saxophonist Daniel Bennett has traveled the country, performing at venues like Lincoln Center, Merrill Auditorium, Eastman Theatre, George Eastman House, Jordan Hall, Hale Auditorium, Open Fest, Six Flags Darien Lake, and the Rochester Lilac Festival. The Daniel Bennett Group has recently performed in concert with guitarist Charlie Hunter, percussionist Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin, & Wood), saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, David Fiuczynski (Screaming Headless Torsos), Denison Witmer, and LA-based synth-pop group Joy Electric.

Daniel Bennett's music is a unique mix of minimalism, folk, and jazz. The music employs repetitious trance melodies over recurring chord structures. Bennett's group features well known classical guitarist Brant Grieshaber and percussionist Rick Landwehr.
Visit www.danielbennett.net to learn more!

Sat. 8 March @ OUTPOST, 1- 3pm - $5 or b/o, Free under 3 - A Family Event
MOONSHIP presents:
“SONG FEST POT LUCK!”
"Music is the universal Language of the Heart" Using this quote as our inspiration, The Moonship invites you to gather and share songs and dances. We will bring instruments and a hefty supply of great and simple songs for group singing and playing. A perfect way to warm the heart in cold January, we also welcome you to share your own songs that you love to spontaneously croon.
All ages welcome!! $5 donation FREE for 3 and under.

Sat. 8 March @ OUTPOST, 3-5pm $5 or b/o
MOONSHIP presents:
Science and Spirituality: God, Meaning, and the Material World
a lecture by Daniel Kriegman, Ph.D.

What do modern physics (relativity, quantum, and string theories) and the theory of evolution tell us about God, spirituality, and the meaning of human life? The evidence supporting our dominant sciences and their power to provide answers concerning the essence of matter and human origins continues to mount. What was once mysterious continues to yield to scientific inquiry.

So when we look at the BIG questions—purpose, meaning, morality, where we came from, the existence and nature (if any) of God, and why is there something instead of nothing—do these sciences tell us anything? And if so, what?

Dr. Kriegman was formerly Chief Psychologist and the Director of Supervision and Training at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Offenders as well as the Clinical Director for the maximum security, intensive treatment unit for adolescents in the City of Boston. Dr. Kriegman has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; a founder and faculty member of the
Psychoanalytic Institute for Couple and Family Therapy; co-author (with M. O. Slavin) of the acclaimed book, The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process (1992, Guilford Press) that created the psychoanalytic paradigm known as “evolutionary psychoanalysis”; co-editor (with J. G. Teicholz) Trauma, Repetition, & Affect Regulation: The Work of Paul Russell (1998, The Other Press); he has published widely (30+ articles and book chapters) on topics related to the evolutionary understanding of human behavior and the theory and practice of depth psychological (psychoanalytic) approaches to psychotherapy; he is in the full-time private practice of psychoanalytic treatment of individuals, couples, and families in Newton, Massachusetts as well as specialized work in forensic psychology (e.g., expert witness testimony in cases involving the prediction of dangerousness).

Dr. Kriegman is also one of the founders of Yoism, the World’s First Open Source Religion, and the author of “The Word according to Yo.”

Lawrence Cook & Eric Zinman
Sunday,9 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $12 or b/o
“Al’s Crockpot” (Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set).
presents:
“ERIC ZINMAN ENSEMBLE”
Eric Zinman - piano / Jacob Williams - bass / Laurence Cook - drums
www.ericzinman.com
music samples are available on my website
CONTACT: studio234@ericzinman.com or 617-901-4624 ericzinman.com
ERIC ZINMAN - piano
At the forefront of creative music for more than 20 years, Eric Zinman's piano playing is known internationally and has been described as a "fleet and appealing touch". Rooted in the language of the avant garde his vision embraces the role of the piano in the orchestras of the future, the piano's relation to the trap set drums, its touch, the way it can surround the other instruments and mark varying shifts in weight, the way the piano can also move lyrically within the whole from varying densities of sound masses to sparkling melodies spanning the whole keyboard.

"I am concerned about the sensual nature of sound, with the piano that is first and foremost TOUCH. FORM, then, is a manifestation from beggining to end of dynamics and within that the phrasing, silence and an arresting balance between the pedaled and un-pedaled sounds."

Eric Zinman has played with Craig Schildhauer, Raqib Hassan, Toshi Makihara, Sabir Mateen, Marco Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, Peter Valsamis, Tatsuya Nakatani, Glynis Lomon and Blaise Siwula, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Jan Roder, Thomas Rehnert, Mario Rechtern, Benjamin Duboc, Didier Lasserre, John Voigt and Laurence Cook. Mr Zinman has also composed music for dance and theatre using verbal directives as well as graphic scores.

LAURENCE COOK - drums
Laurence Cook studied painting at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston and later learned to play piano, vibraphone, and drums. He has been a major figure in the jazz avant-garde since the 1960's on twenty-two recordings, including Revenge, and Dual Unity with Paul Bley; Skillfullnes with Alan Silva,Ritti with Joe Morris; "Fuzzagainst Junk" from Vision 1997 Festival with Thurston Moore; Triplet and Fire in the Valley with Jemeel Moondoc; Divine Mad Love with Sabir Mateen; November 1981, Thoughts, and Son of Sisyphus with Bill Dixon. He has worked with Sam Rivers, Alan Silva, The Brecker Brothers, Robin Kenyatta, Mark Whitecage, and Barre Phillips among many others.

[a paraphrase]'The older jazz is like representational painting where you paint a portrait of a person or a thing. Thats playing on a song and its chords. The new music is like modern painting, Action Painting. You concern yourself with the surface of the canvas, with the brushstrokes, the texture of the paint, the total two dimensional surface, concern myself with the way the drum stick strikes the cymbal, the surface of the drum heads.'

Friday, March 14 8pm $10 or b/o
CELLO ALLEY presents:
Tom Abbs & M.P. Landis :
”Petting Zoo” - live multi-media performance
”To Give is to Receive is to Give” - documentary film

Tom Abbs - cello, percussion, flute, dijeridoo, video triggers
M.P. Landis - painting, light manipulation, sound triggers

For nearly a decade jazz musician Tom Abbs & abstract painter M.P. Landis have collaborated on everything from films to CD covers to live performances. Just over a year ago they shared in the ultimate collaboration when Tom donated his left kidney to save M.P.'s life.

From Friday, March 14th until Saturday, March 22nd, Abbs and Landis will be touring the North East and Midwest with their newly finished documentary, "To Give is to Receive is to Give" and premiering their new live work "Petting Zoo" (information below)

NOTE: This tour is sponsored by the great avant-jazz label ESP-Disk' (http:/./espdisk.com). ESP's entire catalog will be on sale at every stop on the tour, with profits going to the Petting Zoo tour fund. We would like to thank ESP's founder Bernard Stollman for his support and guidance.

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Dialysis
"To Give is to Receive is to Give" (45min) documentary film

A video collaboration by Ryan Tebo, Tom Abbs and M.P. Landis

This is a video that charts the emotional journey of two artists as they delve into the depths and ascend the heights of collaboration. Eight years after they began their artistic collaboration and
four months after they began the collaborative relationship of being neighbors in the same brownstone in Brooklyn, M.P. had kidney failure and began dialysis. In an act of tremendous generosity, Tom decided to donate his kidney and M.P. accepted. This not only saved M.P.'s life, it also became a beautiful extension of their previous collaborations as artists and friends.

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"Petting Zoo" (45min) - live multi-media performance

Live multimedia explorations by musician Tom Abbs and painter M.P. Landis.

Witness a set of improvised music and visuals that will keep you guessing from beginning to end. Using a mix of overhead projection and live video along with triggered sound manipulation,Abbs and Landis bring you a set of multimedia entertainment like you have never seen.

photo: Nicole Meinhart
Sunday, 16 March @ OUTPOST 2-5pm FREE
minimumwageart presents
"SKREALINGS" PROGRESS"
Please join in the invocation of an old world word into the local dialect.

Words are arguably the most unappreciated, innocuous, but undeniably powerful and mystical tools that manifest our destinies. Words start wars, heal the sick, bore the intelligent. They get us jobs and cause us to be fired. By words we are married and divorced. Yet we use and abuse the privilege of knowing them so often without a second thought of their incredible power!

On the closing of an art show in Cambridge, Massachusetts we intend to invoke into local usage, a word hard to find in any English dictionary. It is a noun with Nordic roots. It was used to define any person that was not "of our tribe" by the exploring Vikings.
Nick Wyneken and Bob Smith discovered this word for themselves in an obscure book from the turn of the 19th century that claimed with maps and serious research that the Vikings' Vinland was located on the Charles River and that a settlement existed on the present grounds of the Mount Auburn Hospital.
photo:Nicole Meinhart
In this book an unusual word appeared. When read aloud the word sounded rich, strong, and had a power to infuse meaning. We stood on a bridge overlooking the supposed site of this ancient settlement and in the gutter of the road over that bridge was a piece of metal about the size of a human head. It obviously had fallen off a passing vehicle. One of us picked up the piece and the word "SKRAELING" was invoked. Then "SKRAELING MASK" was invoked.
We walked on and we saw another such piece on the side of the road. Then we realized that all along roadways their were these masks violently discarded off vehicles, reeking revenge on bicyclists and motor vehicles' tires, wasted, unwanted, rusting away, just like the once powerful and fearful word, "SKREALING!"
photo:Nicole Meinhart
The show ending on March 16th is called, "SKREALINGS" PROGRESS". In the show are many such "masks" and other objects that have been assembled into beings which we call "SKRAELING HOME and GARDEN PROTECTORS", we intend to potlatch some of our work at the closing of this show. WE will also take a moment of time to say the word "SKREALING" many times with all present invited to join in the conversation with the intent to infuse this word back into local dialect out of honor and respect and the pure enjoyment of the expression of that word and its meaning and to show respect for the power of all words.
Bob Smith "Minimum Wage Art"

Sunday, 16 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Birdsongs - photo: Jane Philbrick
Thursday, 20 March 8pm - by donation
"Birdsongs of the Triozoic"

Michael Bierylo (guitar, loops)
Ken Field (sax, flute, percussion, loops)
Rick Scott (synth, loops)

Three of the four members of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic meet in the middle for a rare evening of improvisation and looping. All hell will break loose or your money back.
Admission by donation.

Production: Ken Field ken@kenfield.org http://kenfield.org
Friday, March 21st, 20088pm $5
VORTEX presents:
”Poetic Vision” An audio visual collective trance
featuring:
-Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetry
-John Mulrooney - audio poetry
-The Rivera/Brunel Method
-Anthony Baldino - Laptopology

Most if not all sensory perceptions will be stimulated.

Saturday, 22 March 8pm $5/10 dance/movement/music
Su Eaton presents:
"Zen of Being"
Improvisational Movement, Sound and Words

Su Eaton, Stan Strickland, Karen Psaledakis, Sparrowhawk aka Brittany Cox, , Dave Scandurra, Ethan Mackler will enter the unknown and share with you what is present. We will use musical instruments our bodies and voices. We will begin at 2:00 and invite you to be witness at 8:00 till 9:30 and then open the floor to you to join some improvisational structures until 10:00.

Fri. 28 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Improvelocity Intimate Public Experiments ~ presents:
"Life Lessons And Epiphanies: Paying Taxes And Tuition In The School Of Life"
Andrea Loretz Frey - soprano / Tonia Pinheiro - vocals / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Joel Cohen - cello / Paul Rodriguez - guitar / Ukumbwa Sauti - percussion / Grant Smith - drums / guest artists

A collective improvisational experience, fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, blues and elements from the other side of the universe.

Courtney Brown
Saturday, 29 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents:
“Courtney Brown + Carmen Caruso”
voice, electronics & multimedia performance

Courtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. Her most recent work, Every Night I Lose Control, is an electronic post-modern cabaret act that explores the ideas of disintegration and failure. Every piece is designed so that she, as a performer, will fail. This show follows the trajectory of her attempts to regain balance and composure in the wreckage. Heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, and early goth rock, this work explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer.

She is a founding member of Electrocab, a trio of performers/composers who invent new musical spaces with two soprano voices, an accordion, and a DJ. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and more. She is the founder of Seductivism, an art movement based on the play of appearances.
http://www.courtney-brown.net
http://www.myspace.com/courtneydbrown
http://www.electrocabmusic.com

Carmen Caruso is an experimental composer and a riotous vocalist who has been known to shriek, moan, grunt, and almost become possessed during performance. She creates sonic collages using electronics and her voice, and continues to probe the grey area between pop and computer music. She is currently debuting her piece, Roots, which uses her voice to create a virtual world within her voice. These compositions also incorporate her self-created instrument, affectionately dubbed “the Carmenizor,” a small electronic box that can transform her voice into its own orchestra. Some of her influences include chamber pop, alternative dance, modal music, ambient-techno, post-modern pop, experimental rock and minimalism.

Carmen currently performs with Electrocab, a trio of performers/composers who combine subversive pop and sound art into a strange beast. She has been featured at the Laila Lounge in New York, the Boston CyberArts Festival, the Spheris Gallery, and the Festival of New Musics at Dartmouth College.
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~carmen
http://profile.myspace.com/carmencaruso
http://www.myspace.com/electrocab
Ameranouche!
Sunday, 30 March @ OUTPOST, 7pm $20 workshop + concert, $10 concert only
“Al’s Crockpot”
(Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set)
presents GYPSY JAZZ with
“AMERANOUCHE” - guitar & bass workshop with Jack Soref of Boston's own Sinti Rhythm, concert to follow.
The Ameranouche Trio features guitarists Richard Sheppard, Ryan Flaherty and bassist Xar Adelberg. The nationally acclaimed Gypsy Jazz ensemble plays acoustic hot jazz, both original compositions and unique arrangements by American and Gypsy songwriters. Hailed as "The new sound of America" by National Lampoon's Kevin Wheatley, Ameranouche's whirlwind of Gypsy jazz is intense and spirited, drawing from French, Spanish, Latin and Flemenco influences."
7:00pm Workshop feat Jack Soref of Boston's own Sinti Rhythm.
8:00pm Chili and doors open for concert
8:30 Concert

http://www.ameranouche.com/aboutus.htm
Contact: ameranouche@gmail.com

CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

IMPROVELOCITY - 4th Fridays, 8pm $10 or b/o
An interactive, improvisational "kaleidoscope for the ears" fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, indigenous, ambient, vocals, written words, and elements from the other side of the universe. Hosted by Toni Pinheiro and members of Improvelocity.
http://www.improvelocity.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occas. Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.

THE WHIMSY! - 3rd Sundays, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay

AL’S CROCKPOT - Sundays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, food, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set. Crackpots welcome. Hosted by Al Nidle, so it's only fair.

MOONSHIP presents - for kids - 3rd Saturdays, $5, under 3 Free 1pm, 1hr.
family shows for young and old. From pirates to dragons, fairies to magic beans, each month THE MOONSHIP will take you on a wonderful adventure with storytelling, music, puppets and more!www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

MOONSHIP - 2nd Saturdays 1pm(kids)+8pm, $5 or b/o
Pirates, aliens, poets and madmen, belly dancing goddesses and shamanic punks.
www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Improvelocity : Toni Pinheiro : improvelocity@comcast.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
Moonship : Jason Berube : jason.berube@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Al's Crockpot : Al Nidle - alanidle@hotmail.com
AMERANOUCHE - ameranouche@gmail.com
Eric Zinman: studioz@gis.net, ericzinman.com
Birdsongs: Michael Bierylo - mbierylo@berklee.net

DISCLAIMER:
All disclaimers are for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and should not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or outright fraudulent misrepresentations, real or imaginary, that may be contained in this notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

Labels: Cambridge, experimental, improvised music, jazz, Outpost, Zeitgeist Gallery

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, February 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Richard Sandler, "Grand Central Station, NYC 1990"Continuing through February 10:
Richard Sandler, "Living For The City: Street Photographs Of Boston and New York, 1977-1992"
Closting Festivities Feb 9&10, Films & Reception,
details at those dates, below.

OUTPOST + subconsciouscafe Concert Listings, February 2008

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, no alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Starting January 8, regular gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

Continuing through February 10:
Richard Sandler, "Living For The City: Street Photographs Of Boston and New York, 1977-1992"

Richard Sandler began shooting pictures on the streets of Boston in 1977 during a heyday for Boston photographers. He crashed a photo class at Harvard with Ben Lifson and studied briefly with Garry Winogrand at the New England School of Photography.

Richard Sandler moved to New York in 1980 and intensively photographed on the streets there until 1992,the year he began shooting street video. Richard's photographs are in the collections of the New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston.

FEB 9 + 10 : Closing Reception featuring the films of Richard Sandler SEE LISTING AT DATES, BELOW

Concerts & Events

FEBRUARY

Fri. 1 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
VORTEX presents:
”Liquid Life”Jim Warshauer - woodwinds / Gregory White - oud / Sven Larson - bass Grant Smith - percussion

Liquid Life is a four-way collaboration featuring the unusual instrumentation of oud, woodwinds, string bass, and percussion. The band came together out of a desire to play fiery, rhythmic improvisational music at low acoustic volumes. Performances can flow from jazz to funk grooves to distinctly middle eastern feels, all seamlessly and organically. These skilled musicians create a musical empathy in the moment that audiences can immediately relate to. Fans of acoustic music, jazz, world fusion, and collective improvisation will all connect with this exciting music.
liquidlifemusic.com
myspace.com/liquidlifemusic

Fri. 8 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
Cello Alley presents:
Dennis Moser - Guitar and Looping
www.myspace.com/usrsbin
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=137259
+Emily Moore - Violin and Looping
http://www.emilymooremusic.com/
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Rivera Brunel Method
Todd Brunel - clarinets
Robert Rivera - cello
www.myspace.com/riverabrunelmethod

Sat. 9 Feb. & Sun. 10 Feb. - FREE

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION CLOSING: RECEPTION & FILM SCREENINGS
Closing Receptions, 2pm
"Living For The City: Street Photographs Of Boston and New York, 1977-1992," by Richard Sandler.

Renowned NYC photographer & filmmaker Richard Sandler will be present at his closing reception for his exhibit of New York black and white photography at Outpost. Reception @ 2 pm.

FILM SCREENINGS

Saturday, 9 Feb., 4:30 pm
At 4:30pm we will present a showing of his award-winning documentary feature film “The Gods of Times Square”, on the occasion of its dvd release by Brink Films.

Sunday, 10 Feb., 4:30 pm
At 4:30 pm, we will present his other films, as follows:

Brave New York, (2004, 57min)
SWAY, (2006, 33min)

Intermission

6:30pm:
Everybody Is Hurting, (2006, 55min)
Aka Martha’s Vineyard (12min.)

FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Saturday, February 9
The Gods Of Times Square, (1999, 112:00) is about religious zealots in the fabled square and about the grotesque process of "Disney-fication there. "Gods" chronicles the last days of the old Times Square and it's traditional function as a place of freer speech. "The Gods of Times Square" has won a number of film festival awards including "best documentary" at the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Sunday, February 10
Brave New York, (2004, 57:00) is a free form documentary that loosely chronicles the last 12 years of intense change in the East Village “hood.” From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in ‘92, to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, to the yuppie invasions of the dot com years, to the present era, indelibly stamped with post-9/11 grief, this durable, lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate gold rush that has excluded all but the well-to-do. The movie’s main voices are those of the artists and street people whose wisdom and commentaries upon the dominant culture give us pause amidst the speedy approach of a “Brave New World.”
SWAY, (2006, 33:00) is a free-form documentary about the underground portion of the NYC subway system; edited from 12 years of daily shooting on the trains and on the platforms.

Intermission

Everybody Is Hurting, (2006, 55:00) is a documentary about the day of 9/11/01 in NYC, and the muscular debate and soul-searching that raged in Union Square Park in the days and weeks after the attacks. The piece ends with a coda of contextual video of the World Trade Center towers from the previous 10 years.
A review from England:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600

Aka Martha’s Vineyard (12min.)
A powerful giant as big as a mountain, has a pet frog as big as an elephant.
They live on an island called NOEPE, which means "A PLACE OF REFUGE."
This is the island now known as Martha's Vineyard.

In a dream the giant, whose name is MOSHOP, saw that Europeans were coming and he mourned,
then he split from the scene, knowing that these people were truly
un-hip, and would not "get" the beauty that subsumed their world and culture.

MOSHOP dreamed that the shit was about to hit the fan, so he turned his pet frog into a stone.
The European people arriving on "floating islands" (sail boats) would cause them terrible harm,
in the form of small pox, Christianity and outright genocide.
But, their world, though seriously injured, would survive.
Fast forward to today where 350 people form the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah.

"Aka Martha's Vineyard," (shot on super-8 films) is a study for a feature documentary and a first glimpse through that giant stone-frog's eye.

Fri. 15 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
VORTEX presents:
Guitarist Doug Principato, aka
“The Grand Pepper of Reality”
+
Neil Leonard - saxophone & electronics,
Anthony Baldino - computer music
+
”The Rivera Brunel Method”
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Robert Rivera - cello /

DOUG PRINCIPATO
Doug has long been a fixture in the New York avante guard scene collaborating with such musicians as Sabir Mateen, Andre Martinez and Francoise Grillot. His earth shaking band ‘Earth People’ combines numerous influences and talent…the ‘real new York scene’:
youtube.com/watch?v=Dinfy34rxy8

NEIL LEONARD
Composer, saxophonist Neil Leonard will stir electro acoustic sound scapes and other worldy visions. Please check himn out online at:
http//:www.neilleonard.com or http//:www.neilleonardevents.blogspot.com

Saturday 16 Feb. @ Outpost - 1-3pm $5 or b/o - A Family Event
MOONSHIP presents:
“SONG FEST POT LUCK!”
"Music is the universal Language of the Heart" Using this quote as our inspiration, The Moonship invites you to gather and share songs and dances. We will bring instruments and a hefty supply of great and simple songs for group singing and playing. A perfect way to warm the heart in cold January, we also welcome you to share your own songs that you love to spontaneously croon.
All ages welcome!! $5 donation FREE for 3 and under.

Saturday 16 Feb @ OUTPOST, 3-5pm $5 or b/o
MOONSHIP presents:
Jason Berube : Lecture
“The Mayan Calendar & The Transformation Of Consciousness”

Jason wll show how the Mayan calendar can be used to track the evolution of human consciousness through its various cycles. Come learn what 2012 holds in store for us all!

Fri. 22 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Improvelocity ~ Intimate Public Experiments ~ presents:
"Crayons & Cray-Pas"
Bring colors, sketch pad or coloring book and let our "kaleidoscope for the ears" inspire your art! Improvelocity is Andrea Loretz Frey - soprano / Tonia Pinheiro - vocals / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Joel Cohen - cello / Paul Rodriguez - guitar / Ukumbwa Sauti - percussion / Grant Smith - drums / and guest artists

CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

IMPROVELOCITY - 4th Fridays, 8pm $10 or b/o
An interactive, improvisational "kaleidoscope for the ears" fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, indigenous, ambient, vocals, written words, and elements from the other side of the universe. Hosted by Toni Pinheiro and members of Improvelocity.
http://www.improvelocity.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occas. Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.

THE WHIMSY! - 3rd Sundays, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay

AL’S CROCKPOT - Sundays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, food, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set. Crackpots welcome. Hosted by Al Nidle, so it's only fair.

MOONSHIP presents - for kids - 3rd Saturdays, $5, under 3 Free 1pm, 1hr.
family shows for young and old. From pirates to dragons, fairies to magic beans, each month THE MOONSHIP will take you on a wonderful adventure with storytelling, music, puppets and more!www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

MOONSHIP - 2nd Saturdays 1pm(kids)+8pm, $5 or b/o
Pirates, aliens, poets and madmen, belly dancing goddesses and shamanic punks.
www.themoonship.com/calendar.html

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Improvelocity : Toni Pinheiro : improvelocity@comcast.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
Moonship : Jason Berube : jason.berube@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Al's Crockpot : Al Nidle - alanidle@hotmail.com

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Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

Labels: Cambridge, experimental, improvised music, jazz, Outpost, Zeitgeist Gallery