Outpost 186

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, July 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:59:00 +0000

Daniel Carter & Jeff Platz, Friday 10 July

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

OUTPOST NEWS:

28 June: please bear with us as we restore the listings from computor catastrophe. thanx

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please.

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per concert event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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&section=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

nonprofit jobs

july

Wednesday 1 July @ Outpost, 8pm - $10 or b/o
The Milling Gowns (Boston)
M - vocals /Sharon Crumrine - piano / Betty Widerski - viola
Allen Esser - drums / Dave Stoops - bass
+ The Boy Who Spoke Clouds (Australia)
+ Chris North

Sunday 5 July + 16 August - 7 + 8:15pm, $4 donation
FILM:
“The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy" by Susie Davidson
New one-hour documentary film on local Holocaust survivors

Thursday 9 July @ Outpost - 8pm - $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant - solo piano

Friday 10 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Jeff Platz/Daniel Carter Quartet
(Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Thurston Moore, Hamiet Bluiett, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, DJ Logic, Medeski Martin & Wood...)
Jeff Platz - guitar / Daniel Carter - reeds, trumpet, flute
Kit Demos - bass /John Mclellan - drums

Saturday 11 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Dirty Dishes
“…spindly guitar solos evocative of Dinosaur Jr.” -The Boston Globe
“…big guitar solos that stand out like clunky jewelry." -The Weekly Dig

Sunday 12 July @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
The Music of Morgan Evans-Weiler
Compositions, improvisations, arrangements and soundscapes
Morgan Evans-Weiler - violin / Will Thomas - percussion
Peter Evans - various instruments / Anna Ward - voice
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe - guitar, laptop
Kevin Overshiner - Tibetan bowls, sound

Monday 13 July @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons/Allan Chase/Luther Gray
Junko Simons - cello / Allan Chase - alto / Luther Gray - drums

Dave Tronzo & Bruno Raberg
Thursday 16 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Full Source

Friday 17 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tim Dwyer presents
A night of handsome summer breezes, acoustic thoughts and electronic pops
Full-Source Electronica / Indie / Acoustic
+The Young and Old Indie / Folk / Melodramatic Popular Song
+ACLU Benefit Country / Pop / Hardcore
+Water for Ivan Acoustic / Alternative / Folk

Daryl Shawn

Saturday, 18 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Daryl Shawn & Jonathan Lamaster
Daryl Shawn - cassette tape loops (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Jonathan Lamaster - violin (Winthrop)
Jonathan Lamaster

Tuesday 21 July, 8 pm @ Outpost - open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
David Blair, David Rivard & Sam Witt

Wednesday 22 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Pineapple Explode (Nashville)

Matt Davignon - photo: Peter Kaars
Friday 24 July @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
featuring on tour: Matt Davignon (Oakland, CA)
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet / Junko Simons - cello / Matt Davignon - electronics

Saturday 25 July @ Outpost, 3pm $by donation
Starving & Useless Presents:
A poetry reading with Francesco Grisanzio and Todd Letendre
And book release for Toxic Inpublication Vol. 1.

Starving & Useless was founded in 2007 by Letendre and Grisanzio with the goal of getting fellow young writers heard. Their chapbook, Toxic Inpublication, is their first DIY outlet for young, local writers. Copies of Toxic Inpublication will be available the night of the reading.
For any questions or comments, please go to: myspace.com/starvinganduseless
Or email us at: Starvinganduseless@gmail.com

Steve Lantner
Saturday 25 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Jim Hobbs & Forbes Graham

Sunday 26 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Forbes Graham presents
Fundraiser for Birgit Ulher and Leonel Kaplan's Feb 2010 East Coast Trip!
A performance of “Today’s Media”- an interactive compostion with:
FORBES GRAHAM QUARTET
Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Kevin Frenette - guitar
Forbes Graham - trumpet
DJ Jarrod Fowler on the wheels of steel (Laptop?)

"Today's Media" is an interactive, participatory composition for musicians and audience. Bring a copy of a newspaper and be ready to read!

Wednesday 27 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Search Music series presents
Nat Mugavero Trio
Nat Mugavero - drums / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / TBA bass

Friday 31 July @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Ginger Ibex
Sharon Crumrine - keys / Betty Widerski - violin

august

Thursday, 6 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity

Friday 7 August @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
“The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble”

Matthew Shipp @ Montreal Jazz Festival

Saturday 8 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
MATTHEW SHIPP - solo piano
(David S. Ware, Roscoe Mitchell, DJ Spooky, William Parker)
+Jim Hobbs - alto / Laurence Cook - drums

Marcia Deihl Birthday Flyer, 1980
Sunday 9 August @ Outpost, 2 - 5pm free
MARCIA'S DEIHL’S BIZARRE SONG CONTEST and TURNING 60 BIRTHDAY PARTY!
Settled? Settling? Unsettled? Come celebrate and bring your favorite bizarre song * * * Prizes for all * * * No gifts, please, but refreshments welcome.

Friday 14 august @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Saturday 15 August @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons/Jane Wang/Tom Plsek
Junko Simons - cello / Jane Wang - bass / Tom Plsek - trombone, electronics

Sunday 16 August - 7 + 8:15pm - $4 donation
FILM:
“The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy" by Susie Davidson
New one-hour documentary film on local Holocaust survivors

Thursday 20 August @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Saturday 22 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Thursday 27 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant Quartet
Dave Bryant - piano
Tom Hall - tenor sax
John Turner - bass
Eric Rosenthal - drums

september

Saturday 19 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Lance Bryant & Lyricalia String Quartet
Lance Bryant - sax
Andrew Eng & Miguel Garcia-Bender - violins
David Koonce - viola
Junko Simons - cello

http://www.myspace.com/lancebryant

october

Sunday, 11 October @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
matthew derby & kristen iskandrian

november

Sunday, November 22, 3 pm, @ Outpost - open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald, & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
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

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional 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.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as eluding responsibility for any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary,
Outpost World Enterprises

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, June 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Melissa Kassel - Saturday, 27 June, 8pm

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

OUTPOST NEWS:
OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please.

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per concert event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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&section=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

nonprofit jobs

june
Garrison Fewell
Wednesday 3 June @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
"Garrison Fewell and the Variable Density Sound Orchestra"

celebration for Miki's return to Boston, New Artist Visa in hand !

Garrison Fewell - Guitar / Eric Hofbauer - Guitar / Kelly Roberge - Tenor
John Voigt - Bass / Miki Matsuki - Drums

The Variable Density Sound Orchestra is veteran Boston-based guitarist/composer Garrison Fewell's newest working ensemble. As the band’s name implies, its original music, composed and conceived by Fewell, explores a wide range of textures and musical interactions. “The goal,” he explains, “is to create balance, not allowing individual soloists, collective instant composing or pre-composed material to dominate for too long.”

Fewell actively shapes the ensembles music with the other musicians. [The music]ranges from completely improvised to original compositions with a stronger framework for individual expression, takes its inspiration from longstanding interests such as ancient cultures, spirituality, and the music of Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra.

"Guitarist Garrison Fewell has never stopped moving forward on his musical journey from accomplished post-bop guitarist to free-jazz explorer. You can still hear the thoughtfulness, tenderness, and intimacy; careful listening; and the rigorous construction of line and feel for melody. The Variable Density Sound Orchestra is a group well suited to realizing Garrison's concepts and compositions." -Ed Hazell

Thursday, 4 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
An evening of diverse improv with Paul Metzger, Elaine Evans, Amen Dunes and Ernst Karel.

Paul Metzger
A virtuoso on a myriad of stringed instruments, Minneapolis-based experimental/progressive folk artist Paul Metzger focuses much of his creative energy on his 21-string modified banjo. A student of both Eastern and Western traditional music, Metzger first appeared on a split album that featured guitarist Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and lauded improv drummer Chris Corsano on one side and Metzger's unique improvisational guitar work on the other. He released the full-length Three Improvisations on Modified Banjo for Chairkickers Music in 2005, followed by Deliverance for the Locust
label in 2007. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

http://paulmetzger.net/
http://www.myspace.com/paulmetzger

Elaine Evans
Multi-instrumentalist Elaine Evans explores freeform improvisation with varied wind, string, and percussion instruments. Elaine’s current direction is improvisations with pocket trumpet and loop pedal, layering harmonies, dissonances, and rhythms. Elaine toured Europe with her trumpet and loop pedal in 2008. Elaine is a founding member of the International Novelty Gamelan, a group using the undeniable soul and approach of ancient Javanese musical tradition to create new, modern works of startling beauty and originality. Elaine composes for the group in addition to performing.

http://www.myspace.com/elaineevans

Amen Dunes
A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker DIA is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the diy soundz of the George Brigman's of the world. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -Damon McMahon calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that.

http://www.myspace.com/amendunes
http://www.locustmusic.com/index.php?option=com_artists&task=view&cid=97&Itemid=6

Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. His most recent albums are Electricals (another timbre, 2009) by EKG [], Falter 1-5 (Cathnor, 2009) with Annette Krebs, and Heard Laboratories, composed of recordings made in scientific research environments at Harvard University, to be released later this year on and/O

http://ek.klingt.org
http://ekg.klingt.org
http://anothertimbre.com
http://cathnor.com/
http://and-oar.org

Friday 5 June @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
the Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music presents:
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
Rob Bethel - cello / Todd Brunel - clarinets
Aubrey Johnson - vocals / Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetry
This multidimensional group will approach music and art from every corner of a wide imagination. Rob Bethel is a critically acclaimed classical and avant guard cellist who plays in numerous groups around New England. A recent New England Conservatory graduate, Aubrey Johnson is carving a bold path as a jazz vocalist, making numerous local appearances and in festivals around the United States. Dr T is a frequent Other Dimension traveler as well as Todd Brunel, who always enjoys a ride to the Other Side!

Rob Bethel on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvQf3X6PXdE
Aubrey Johnson on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson

Saturday, 6 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Michael Huse Trio (NYC)
Jeremy Quick - guitar
Alfred Marra - vibraphone
Michael Huse - bass

Wednesday 10 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
"Search Music"
Nat Mugavero - drums / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / John Lockwood - bass / Leo Genovese - piano + surprise guests!

Brian Ellis

Thursday, 11 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity
presents
Hartford Sound Alliance

Bill Solomon (percussion), Lief Ellis (laptop/electronics), Matt Sargent (laptop/electronics/guitars) are members of the Hartford Sound Alliance, a flexible, CT-based collective of composers, performers, sound engineers, and artists. They regularly perform as a trio, creating visceral, improvisation-based music that especially focuses on the real-time recycling of live sound, collaborative processing, incorporation of field recording in live performance, and group composition. They have recently performed as a trio at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT) [in collaboration with video artists Liz Stephens and Devan Mulvaney], the New Britain Arts Alliance Gallery (New Britain, CT), and the Hartford Art School (West Hartford, CT).

Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry

Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. For more information go to http://www.myspace.com/brianstephenellis

Sunday 14 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Bryant/Newton/Leonard/Song
Dave Bryant - piano / Curt Newton - drums / Neil Leonard - sax & electronics / Jeff Song - cello & kayagum
Please join us this Sunday for an adventuresome performance with this imaginative ensemble. I’m looking forward to my first opportunity to play with multi-instrumentalist Jeff Song, as well as the chance to reconnect with Neil and Curt.

Wednesday 17 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
"Search Music"
Nat Mugavero - drums / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / John Lockwood - bass / Leo Genovese - piano + surprise guests!

Thursday 18 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

NOTE: NOT ON FOR TONITE, THIS EVENT WILL CONTINUE IN JULY
Friday 19 June @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Monday 22 June @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
GODXILIARY PRESENTS: EAR THEATER
improvisations in sound design featuring:
futureboots (nyc), jerohme spye (baltimore), the machinist (chicago),
mikrosopht (boston), minusbaby (nyc), & protman (chicago)
for more information on artists and events please visit godxiliary.com
"...sounds, whether they be electronically generated, tapes, fields, ambient, spoken, or *gasp* traditional physical instrumentation - largely improvised...we are happy with the experimental and strange atmospheres of the best sound-designed film
and stage work and other experimental avant garde sonic explorations."

tues 23 June - private rehearsal.

James Merenda
Wednesday 24 June @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
TICKLE JUICE
playing the music of James Merenda

James Merenda - alto saxophone
Tom Duprey - cornet
John Turner - electric bass
Jared Seabrook - drums
Andrew Stern - guitar

This is a brand new project with all new music from James Merenda

James Merenda - alto sax

Creating a thriving jazz scene for musicians of all levels to play live and make connections, James has been hosting weekly and monthly open jam sessions at Costello’s in Jamaica Plain, the Center for Arts in Natick , Matt Murphy’s Pub and The Mission since 2001.

Always active, James has performed with; Ran Blake at the Knitting Factory, the Darmstadt Jazz Festival in Germany and recorded on Hatology Records; with Roswell Rudd and Beat Science, Cameron Brown, Joe McPhee, Joe Hunt, former Ornette Coleman keyboardist Dave Bryant and drummer James Kamal Kones, Grammy Award winning pianist David Maxwell, the Either/Orchestra, the Ardvark Orchestra, the Slip, contemporary guitarists Marc Ribot, David Fiuczynsdi, Dave Tronzo and with drummer Bob Gullotti. James has also performed on Radio France, Radio Europa in Italy and in Holland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium.

Tom Duprey - cornet

Tom and James met while attending New England Conservatory in the mid-late '80s. Between that time period and now, Tom has been involved in many trumpet pursuits in all genres. He has performed with Robert Gullet, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis and Tommy Tune, as well as local groups such as Newburyport Choral Society Orchestra, The Brass Connection Brass Quintet, and the Boston Gay Men's Chorus.

John Turner - electric bass

A veteran of the New England jazz scene, bassist John Turner has performed and recorded with many New England area and national artists, including the Either/Orchestra, Charlie Kohlhase, Scott Hamilton, Roswell Rudd, Lee Konitz, members of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, the White Heat Swing Orchestra, and many others.

Andrew Stern - guitar

Boston guitarist Andrew Stern keeps busy in a multiplicity of musical styles and settings. A musical character actor, he often finds himself making his sound contribution to new and adventurous musical situations. Andrew is a member of Fat Little Bastard, Beat Circus, Andromeda4, Union Suit, the Gill Aharon Trio and also performs regularly with his jazz combo at many fine establishments around Boston and New York.

Jared Seabrook - drums

Jared Seabrook was born in Foxboro, MA. He began playing drums at 11, and has since become one of the most active gigging drummers around. Jared has played a variety of musical styles throughout the US, Europe, and Canada. He has performed with a number of musicians including Wynton Marsalis, John Medeski, and Leo Genovese. Jared currently lives and performs in Boston.

Thursday 25 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Lo Galluccio
Friday 26 June @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
ERIC ZINMAN/LO GALLUCCIO DUO
Eric Zinman - piano / Lo Galluccio - vocals

LO GALLUCCIO (vocals)
has been performing spoken word and song since the early 90’s in NYC with a band called, “Fish Pistol” – bandmates were Dave Tronzo, Roy Nathanson and Brad Jones. Her first solo project was “Being Visited” an avant-garde pop CD on the Knitting Factory label, followed by a track for John Zorn on the Marc Bolan CD. Since moving to Boston in 2001, she’s produced a second solo CD, “Spell on You” featuring jazz/gospel pianist Geoffrey Dana Hicks and published a chapbook of poems called, “Hot Rain” and a book on Cervena Barva Press called, “Sarasota VII.” New York DJ Vin Sclesa wrote of “Being Visited,” “by turns mysterious, seductive, surreal and spacy.” She’s honored to be collaborating with Eric in an exploration of old and new works and welcomes ee cummings as a special guest.
http://logalluccio.atspace.com

ERIC ZINMAN (piano/keyboards)
Eric Zinman, piano, was born in Boston in 1963. 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 interested in 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, John Voigt and Laurence Cook. Mr. Zinman has also composed music for dance and theatre using verbal
directives as well as graphic scores. He is recorded on Ayler and Cadence Records.

ERIC ZINMAN UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Melissa Kassel

Saturday 27 June @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Melissa Kassel Group

Melissa Kassel - Voice / Tom Zicarelli - piano
Bruno Raberg - bass / Phil Grenadier - trumpet
Original Songs Mixed with Jazz Improvisation
This music represents the beautiful and mysterious side of improvised jazz. From the very first notes that Melissa Kassel sings, the audience is emotionally drawn in to the music. There is a direct line from her heart to her voice – If you have ever heard her sing you will never forget it. The songs are simple, but unusual and dreamlike. The almost telepathic communication between the musicians on stage is as fascinating as the music itself. There is space, suspense, and surprise. You won’t find a more lyrical trumpeter than Phil Grenadier anywhere. His tone is effortless. Notes hang in the air and slowly dissolve. When Phil and Melissa play together you can close your eyes and you won’t be able to tell which is the voice and which is the horn. Bruno Raberg is the engine of rhythm that propels the music forward but lets it turn in any direction at any moment. The sound of the bass is big and round and warm -- sometimes you think you hear a drummer but there is no drummer. Tom Zicarelli plays the keyboard like a palette of colors. He coaxes the piano from a whisper to a roar and back again as if he’s receiving signals from some invisible antenna. Just when you think you're drifting into orbit, the music comes back home to where it started. If you're searching for inspiration and a transcendent musical experience, look no further.

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, May 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:12:00 +0000

Joe Morris by Jonathan Sindelman29 May, 8pm

Junko Simons29 May, 8pm

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

OUTPOST NEWS:
OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - you must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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&section=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

nonprofit jobs

MAY

Santiago Latorre
Friday, 1 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe presents:
Órbita (Barcelona) with
Santiago Latorre
www.santiagolatorre.com
www.myspace.com/santiagolatorre

Santiago Latorre is a musician and sound engineer who lives and works in Barcelona.

At the age of 11 he began to play sax and a few years later, he started electronic engineering. These two parallel interests led to the development of his Sonification of the Human Genome, the project that marked the beginning of Santiago’s fascination with musical experimentation and new sounds.

He has composed music for dance, theatre, fashion and videoart including the contemporary dance piece PIEL, the play Radio-Patera and the video projects Fünf, On the terrace and Sobrevive, in collaboration with Ivonne Dippmann.

In 2005 he started working on his personal projects, searching for cyclical structures, surrounding melodies and subtle textures. He used layers of sax, accordion, piano, voice and synthesised sounds to progressively construct and deconstruct the tracks. This work is now compiled in Órbita, his debut album (Accretions, November 08).

Santiago Latorre has performed in several festivals and clubs around Spain SONAR, LEM, La noche en blanco de Madrid, Festival de músicas de verano de Ponferrada, Heliogabal...) and has toured in south-east China, collaborating with Hong-Kong based artist Dickson Dee.

He is the house engineer at Grabaciones Silvestres, one of the leading recording studios in Spain.

about ÓRBITA:

Órbita is the debut release from Santiago Latorre, a Barcelona-based musician and sound engineer, who has crafted an elegant and delicate work. Latorre uses layers of sax, accordion, piano, voice and synthesised sounds to progressively construct and deconstruct the pieces.

"Magical as a new world, subtle and delicate in every shade, melancholic and lively, Latorre can be considered a revelation." - All about jazz I Italia

"A mix of elegant jazz and gentle electrónica, Órbita is ostensibly inspired by the planets rotation and the unavoidable progress of time. […] A warm, optimistic hymn to experience." - Plan B, UK

According to the artist, Órbita is about turning and evolving, always the same journey but constantly changing, getting older, slowly dying. As a planet that goes around the sun, each track comes back to the same place a number of times. But everytime, something has happened, a year has passed.

For more info about the artist (and a video) please visit: www.santiagolatorre.com

For more info about this release please visit: www.accretions.com
Contact us at: sounds@accretions.com

Production for subconsciouscafe by : Rob Chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com

Saturday, 2 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Bern Nix/Dave Bryant Quartet

Featuring former members of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time

Dave Bryant - piano / Bern Nix - guitar / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums

“For years, keyboardist Bryant and guitarist Nix were cornerstones of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time band. Check them out if you want to hear why the best of the jazz avant-garde is as focused as it is ferocious.”
Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix, 24 April 2009

@ Lilypad 1353 Cambridge St. Inman Square, Cambridge
Sunday, 3 May @ Lilypad, 9:30-11:45pm $10 all ages
subconsciouscafe productions presents
“David Maxwell’s OutTakes Unlimited”
Jim Hobbs - saxes / Forbes Graham - trumpet /Luther Gray - drums /Jacob William - bass / David Maxwell - piano, ethnic reeds, gongs

Thursday, 7 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown & Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity
Mem1 http://www.mem1.com/
+Area C http://www.areacmusic.com/
+Courtney Brown http://www.courtney-brown.net

Friday 8 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex 4:
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Phil Neighbors - vibes / Tom Lubelczyk - bass / Jerome Deupree - drumset.

This band creates deeply hypnotic trance like music, experimental and
accessible...as previously advertised, "space music from the other
side of the universe..."

Saturday 9 May @ Outpost, 3pm - donation by jar
The Unaffiliated Reading Series presents

Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi was born in 1959 and grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from New York University, Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), Artificial Heart (1998), and Periplum (1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into numerous languages.

David Larsen
David Larsen is the author most recently of Names of the Lion just out from Atticus/Finch and The Thorn (2005) from Faux Press. He lives in New Haven.
http://bostonpoetry.blogspot.com/

Friday, 9 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Forbes Graham presents
Graham/Albro/Jefferson
Forbes Graham - trumpet / Tim Albro - guitar /Josh Jefferson - multi-reeds
+INSECT FACTORY

Insect Factory is the music of Silver Spring, MD guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing creates thick waves of textured sound, building hypnotic and atmospheric drone fields.

Insect Factory live performances frequently incorporate additional instrumentation, and Barsky has also collaborated onstage with the likes of avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham (of Tzadik’s Kayo Dot), bass player Joe Lally (of Fugazi), and the DC improv collective Kohoutek, which combines elements of abstract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock.

www.insectfields.org

Friday 15 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative present
INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE ART AND SPATIAL POETICS

Come see this ephemeral, ethereal art event featuring sculptors, video art, poetry, and music. Stretch your imagination of what is a performance in this interactive show!

Sounds in Bloom: www.myspace.com/dnorma
Dennis Shafer: www.dennisshafer.com

Lola Danza
Saturday, 16 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe presents:
Lola Danza and Friends!
Lola Danza - Voice
Nat Mugavero - Drums
Eric Hofbauer - Guitar
Justin Purtil - bass
http://www.myspace.com/loladanza
http://www.LolaDanza.com

BOSTON PHOENIX EDITOR'S PICK FOR THIS GIG!

"Ms. Danza gives hope to the future of jazz." - Boston Herald

"Lola Danza is a part of a new breed of jazz singer writing original material and experimenting. And she has the chops to pull it off." - Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

“With a stunning voice that elongates words and phrases with almost ethereal clarity, Danza follows her own muse stylistically, preferring the spare and airy to the busy and hot.” - Bob Young, Boston Herald

Lola’s interview on WGBH Boston’s, “Eric in the Evening” Jazz Show, February 25, 2009
Part I
Part II

Lola Danza
Exquisite, Unique, Extraordinary, Honest and Passionate are the ways to describe Lola Danza as a vocalist and composer. Ms. Danza’s music is innovative and the result is the creation of a new idiom in music. She infuses beautiful flowing melodies and creative improvised lines with effortless mastery.

With her four-octave range and vast array of vocal technique, Ms. Danza’s voice is rich, full and resonate. Lola’s music reveals a special connection to her soul that cultivates mutual inspiration between the musicians and enchants the audience.

Lola’s music and compositions encompass myriad musical styles that span the world: from Asia to Latin America and including the influences of classical, jazz, contemporary American, gypsy, folk, and Flamenco music.

Written with intensity and honesty, the songs are spiritual, her lyrics sheer poetry filled with insight that everyone can relate to and understand. The music evokes images of impressionistic and abstract paintings rich in texture and colour.

In 1997 Lola came to Berklee College of Music on scholarship, graduating with a bachelors degree in Vocal Jazz Performance in 2001. Lola has opened her own music school where she teaches and has been known to “Work Miracles”, said one student.

Ms. Danza has performed with world renown jazz artists such as Steve Kuhn, Sheila Jordan, Kevin Mahogany, Lewis Nash and Leni Stern.

Lola Danza; Recording Artist, Performer, Composer and Teacher.

Sunday 17 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Charles Licata Ensemble
Tom Halter - trumpet / Charles Licata - sax / Mike Shea - piano / Larry Roland - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Wednesday, 20 May @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Tyler Wilcox/Paul Neidhardt
Tyler Wilcox (Bellingham, WA) - soprano Sax
Paul Neidhardt (Baltimore) - percussion
+nmperign
Greg Kelley - soprano sax
Bhob Rainey - trumpet

Thursday, 21 May @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Josh Rosen - keys, effects / Bruno Raberg - bass / Dave Fox - drums

Friday 22 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sam Dickey Trio

Sam Dickey - Guitar
Aaron Darrell - Bass
Devin Drobka - Drums

Formed in 2008 in Boston and comprised of three long-time friends and like-minded musicians, the Sam Dickey Trio plays an innovative blend of Jazz, Rock, Malian Folk Music, Brazilian Samba and Capoeira, and Old-School Soul. Come for an evening of original compositions, deep grooves, and telepathic ensemble interplay.www.myspace.com/sammdickey

Saturday 23 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Cabiria Jacobson Wants to Sing You a Song
Joined by Danny Padgett and Molly Wood on piano, Cabiria will sing songs by Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Edith Piaf, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Reynaldo Hahn, Christopher Berg, and more. Cabiria draws on jazz, folk, and classical styles and memes, melding them together to form a deeply expressive, graceful, and inventive performance experience for her audiences.
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Sunday 24 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Steve Lantner
Tuesday 26 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano
Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Thomas Helton
Wednesday, 27 May @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe & VORTEX present:
Thomas Helton (Houston TX) microtonal bass
www.myspace.com/thomasheltonbass
playing solo and with:
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
Scott Dakota - fretless guitar
plus!
Trio Microcosmique:
Scott Dakota/Lainey Schulbaum/Rachel Jayson

Thomas Helton
For 15 years Thomas Helton has laid down basslines for jazz ensembles in Houston and around the US. He has deep-seated love and respect for jazz traditions, ingrained by instructors like Shelly Berg and Larry Slezak. In a tribute to Houston musicians, he compiled and published the first Houston Musician's Realbook. He has appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and has recorded with Joe LoCascio, Carol Morgan, Chris Connolly, Smitty, Kevin Patton, & Cindy Scott.

Thomas brings all of his passion and experience for jazz to the table when it comes to his other half, avant-garde music. Early in his jazz career, Thomas was inspired by the sounds of John Zorn and Peter Kowald to venture outside mainstream musical bounds. This journey began with the Rosta Jazz Avengers, a Houston-based quartet all about free improvisation and sonic exploration. Thomas quickly jumped into composition, beginning to develop a style that combines thematic composition with free improvisation, a sort of loosely controlled writing style showcasing his hand-selected performers.

Thomas has released three albums to date. "Good Robot" (2007) and "Experimentations in Minimalism" (2006) feature compositions for small ensemble. "Doublebass" (2003) is a collection of live, freely-improvised solo performances. Thomas also appears on the 2003 Norcal Noise Fest compilation CD, as well as the KUHF "The Front Row" 2006 compilation CD.
http://www.thomashelton.com

Todd Brunel
Todd Brunel is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist who performs extensively as a crossover classical and jazz musician. In the world premiere event 'From Requiem to Renewal' at Boston College, clarinetist Todd Brunel and pianist Synthia Sture played with “Tremendous virtuosity and heart," The Boston Globe. He has premiered works by numerous composers including: George ‘Skip’ Brunner, Matthew D. Harder, Rick Sowash, Ara Sarkissian, Jose Louis Hurtado, Johnny Reinhard, Vuk Kulenovic, Arnesto Klar, Pamela Watson, and Vache Sharafyan. “The perfect control over the instruments allowed the soloists the subtle at times almost jocular transition through different styles and genres.” Musical Horizons Magazine.

As a jazz/improvisational performer and composer, he produces The Vortex Series for new and improvised music, a frequent jazz "pick of the week" in the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe. Among his hundreds of performances at clubs and social establishments, Brunel has played at the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Bowery Poetry club, The National Black Arts Festival, The International Woodwind Festival, Preservation Jazz Hall, Ryles, CBGB’s Gallery, The Boston Music Festival and the American Microtonal Festival under the direction of Johnny Reinhard. He is a founding member of Neon Juju, a literary music ensemble, the Lilli Lewis Project, The Rivera Brunel Method, the Circadian Rhythm Kings (2008 Innova Recordings) Musaner, The DNB Trio, the Black Dust Ensemble and the Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble. His work with conductor and composer Lawrence ‘Butch’ Morris includes Conductions recorded in NYC and performances in Boston, with the New England Skyscraper. He collaborates frequently with the Jeff Robinson Trio and as a featured artist at Rob Chalfen's Subconscious Café with David Maxwell’s Ether Bandits and bassist John Voigt.

Trio Microcosmique (pronounced "tree-o mee-kro-kos-meek") presents live performance compositions and improvisations in Just Intonation and Microtonality

Vos amis le Trio:

~ Scott Dakota (The Moors, Valhalla Kittens, Producer) - wide range fretless guitar, loops and soundscapes

~ Lainey Schulbaum (The Steamy Bohemians, Calycadenia) - voice, loops and soundscapes

~ Rachel Jayson (Jaggery, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys) - viola, melodic and rhythmic fire

Don't be scared by the "microtonal" tag! The arid, astringent art thing is cool - don't get me wrong - but we're not about that. No frets or fixed pitches are present here, so from all possible notes we can choose to play the extra pretty and harmonically unified and interesting ones. Notes you don't ordinarily hear, new sounds! It's natural intonation, like a string quartet or a cappella vocal group. And for the math and history buffs among you, Just Intonation utilizes whole number frequency ratios in the style beloved of the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Vedics, and that Pythagoras dude, with some modern twists. Artsy this may be, but fun it will be as well. You know you are curious now.

Scott Dakota
Scott Dakota (The Moors, Valhalla Kittens, Producer of The Steamy Bohemians and others), fretless wide range guitar, microtonal and just intonated improvisations, live looping, and soundscapes.

Vic Rawlings
Thursday, 28 May @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10

Benny Nelson
+Vic Rawlings/Bryan Eubanks Electronics Duo
+Ouest (Brendan Murray / Howard Selzer / Jay Sullivan)

Ouest's music is full of warm, grainy textures and hazy static. Very little happens over the course of a Ouest performance; Stelzer has said that the goal of the project is to "create a sound that is devoid of human hands or specific gestures." To that end, various sonic elements (a gentle crackle, the murky outline of a melodic phrase) are often simply set in mesmerizing motion by the players and then left alone. Trust me, it's far, far more engaging in practice than it reads on paper.

Instrumentation is turntable, samplers, microphones, electronics, cassette tapes, various amplified objects, laptop computer, and similar stuff.

Joe Morris by Jonathan Sindelman
Friday 29 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons/Joe Morris Duo
Junko Simons - cello & Joe Morris - guitar

Junko Simons
Cellist Junko Fujiwara Simons is an active classical cellist and “creative musician”/ improviser. She has performed with Joe Morris, Allan Chase, Tom Plsek, Charlie Kohlhase, Jane Wang, and Jim Hobbs. Junko Simons has also participated in composer/conductor Lawrence 'Butch' Morris’s “Conduction©” series. She is also a member of the classical chamber groups Kalliope Piano Trio and the Palimpsest Ensemble. Junko Simons holds adjunct faculty positions at Boston College and Phillips Academy Andover, as well as teaching private students. Her work can be found on the Waterbug, Lucent Music, and Sonomu labels. She has a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.

Saturday 30 May - 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
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

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional 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.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, April 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:48:00 +0000

Santiago Latorre, 1 May

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

OUTPOST NEWS:
OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - you must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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&section=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

Thursday, 2 April @ Outpost - 8pm, $10
The Band That Can't Be Named presents The World Premiere of
“A Show that Can't Be Named”

Last year, in response to the Boston Foundation's request that small arts groups either merge or 'find an exit strategy,' Ian MacKinnon produced "The Small Arts Group Die-Off" at Outpost and put his Artezani Theater to death. Now, with Eric Zinman on keyboards, Stephan Ripke on drums, and other guests, Ian invites you to hear the first fruits of a multi-year effort to create his own kind of music theater. Is it a musical? Not really, since there's no 'book.' Is it a rock opera? It could be: over 20 songs tell a bizarre, 95% true story of nomads, bad science, and the American Prairie. If you know Ian or Eric, you probably know what the title is and why it cannot yet be named. Will you say you saw it when it was anonymous? Maybe: Ian's "Elect Better Actors" won a national manifesto contest for the future of American Theater that was judged by Tony Kushner and others.

Ian MacKinnon - voice, guitar
Eric Zinman - yamaha CP300
Stephen Ripke - drums

Friday 3 April - private rehearsal

SATURDAY 4 APRIL @ Outpost 8pm $15 or b/o
The Exchange:Paintings and Performances (#2)
Painter Linda Clave inspired by Austrian Saxophonist Mario Rechtern
for TransCultural Exchange 2009 "Here There and Everywhere" with
New Language Collaborative for live painting and musical performances.

New Language Collaborative
Eric Zinman - piano / Glynis Lomon - cello, voice / Syd Smart - drums
Linda Clave - action painting

What might new language be?

Coming out of these emotional ponds, lakes and seas spreading out and merging into each other- not a communication in the sense of pure conversation, discourse and interaction to the point of the said but rather grasping the sensuality and sensual expressions of the said by emotional shares and sensual contributions to the said, grasping the energies and shipping the vessel on them, waves surfing, drowning and getting rescued by drums or cello or piano and back on board through space and friendships among the travelers speaking, feeling and thoughts from the moment as necessary to describe flight position and desire to break even with the needed distinction of the status quo, to know who and where we are today.........tomorrow is another day another journey...............

- eric zinman www.ericzinman.com

Poetic Review of Linda Clave/New Language, 29 March:

Color form dissolves,

undefines the movement of the brush,

which licks the canvas while the three

musicians play--jam melodies that linger

and dissolve like the paint into inaccessible

phrases with nothing to grab onto, and then

caterwauling together finding their common

thread in a brush stroke.

I was sad to see the foot disappear into

layers of inarticulate overlap, color meld into

color, the artist taking a roller to smush the layers of paint

until they merge soft as down blurring the boundaries

between one and other, smears of color, layers of sound

all enveloping us, we dozen listeners, in their web of

enterprise, a journey that began at 8 and had an end

with the artist’s statement, “Well, it is 9:00 after all,

but I could paint forever.”

A promise made to get us home left us hungry for more of the

story, the unfolding dialogue between notes and

strokes. None of us knew what to expect but

loved that we were co-creators of the energetic space

and stayed long after for the wine and cheese,

the fresh baked bread, and conversation among the

disparate acquaintances who filled the space, and made

their own kind of jazz, the improviso of conversation,

the scat of ceremony, as the night rolled on and

Monday soon would call.

- Martha Thayer

Linda Clave painting

Sunday 5 April @ OUTPOST, 6pm $5/10 or b/o
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative present
Opening Concert: POETRY IN DIALOGUE

Sounds in Bloom: Diana Norma Szokolyai (Hungarian & American), poetry
Dennis Shafer, saxophone and musical guests
+ Ellom in Voice, Estonian poet: American debut performance

Drawing on Eastern European imagery, mystical connections to their Finno-Ugric ancestry, and a deep connection to forests and mountain rivers, Norma and Ellom explore "the deadly and wide oceans inside" and "the dusty gold of souls tangled inside the Earth, that cosmic ball" (excerpts of some of the poetic dialogue, Ellom's followed by Norma's verse). This is the first time they will perform together in the U.S., bringing their debut Parisian show to American audiences in April 2009. Musical direction by Dennis Shafer.

Sounds in Bloom: www.myspace.com/dnorma
Ellom in Voice: www.myspace.com/alonetimewithme
Dennis Shafer: www.dennisshafer.com

Tuesday 7 April - private rehearsal

Friday, 10 April @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Bird.Fly.Yellow
+ Low Road

Bird.Fly.Yellow
Joe Moffett: Trumpet
Dan Blacksberg: Trombone
Daniel Durham: Bass
Dave Flaherty: Drums
http://myspace.com/birdflyyellow

Low Road
Ruth Lepson - poetry / Noah Preminger - sax / Eric Lane - piano

Saturday 11 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
BURTON GREENE & PERRY ROBINSON

Burton Greene
Burton Greene - piano
Perry Robinson - clarinet
Burton Greene figured prominently in New York's free jazz movement of the '60s, performing with such major figures as Marion Brown, Sam Rivers, Gato Barbieri, and Alan Silva. As a child, Greene studied classical music at the Fine Arts Academy in Chicago; from 1956-1958 he studied jazz with Dick Marx. Greene moved to New York in the early '60s, as the city's free jazz movement was gathering momentum. There, he formed the Free Form Improvisation Ensemble with Silva in 1963 -- reputedly one of the first groups devoted to playing a wholly improvised music. In 1964, he joined the Jazz Composer's Guild. During the mid-'60s, he recorded for the ESP-Disk label as a leader, before moving to the Netherlands in 1969. Greene became something of a journeyman, performing all over Europe while maintaining a residence on a houseboat in Amsterdam. He recorded intermittently in the '70s and '80s. Greene became one of the few free jazz musicians to experiment with synthesizers. He's played solo and led various bands of unusual instrumentation; a recent project is a klezmer group called Klez-Jazz, which features clarinetist Perry Robinson. During the '90s, Greene recorded more frequently in the U.S., notably for the Cadence Jazz and C.I.M.P. labels. Greene's autobiography is entitled Memoirs of a Musical “Pesty Mystic” -- or -- From the Ashcan to the Ashram and Back Again, published by Cadence Jazz Books.

Perry Robinson
For over four decades, Perry Robinson has been the sui generis master of the clarinet in jazz, folk and avant-garde music. Early in his career he was a sideman with Tete Montoliu, and he has since worked with some of the world’s best musicians, including the Brubeck Family, Gunter Hampel, Henry Grimes, Bill Dixon, Naná Vasconcelos, Carla Bley, Archie Shepp, Charlie Haden, Badal Roy, John Carter, Anthony Braxton, Mark Whitecage, Pete Seeger and George Clinton. He has been a mainstay of Burton Greene’s Klezmokum and of Lou Grassi’s Po Band, which has recorded with Marshall Allen, John Tchicai and Joseph Jarman on CIMP. His own trio Raga Roni, featuring Badal Roy and Ed Schuller, released its self-titled debut disc in 2002 on Geetika Records. Robinson also performed on William Parker’s trio recording Bob's Pink Cadillac on Eremite. The Perry Robinson Quartet, featuring pianists Simon Nabotov and Christoph Adams, bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Ernst Bier, has released four CDs: Nightmare Island, Call To The Stars, Angelology and Still Traveling on the West Wind and Timescraper labels; the trio of Robinson-Schuller-Bier is featured on Children's Song (Konnex Records). Recently Perry has been playing with Wynne Paris and Groovananda, the band Centazzo-Robinson-Stowe featuring percussionist Andrea Centazzo and pianist Nobu Stowe, the Israeli clarinetist Harold Rubin, U.S. Pipe & the Balls Johnson Dance Machine, and the Israeli composer-pianist Anat Fort, whose new ECM release A Long Story features Perry. Perry's autobiography, The Traveler, was published in 2002.

Production: Rob Chalfen

Sunday 12 April @ OUTPOST, 4-6pm $5 or b/o
The Center for Arabic Culture presents
An afternoon of Arabic poetry
Come celebrate spring with an afternoon of Arabic poetry with your friends and family!

CAC is hosting a poetry reading at Outpost186 in Cambridge! Enjoy the poetry of Hamdi el-Dib, translated by Sara el-Dib. Hamdi el-Dib is a scholar and poet from Alexandria, Egypt who has taught Arabic literature in Egypt. Open mic is available after for any other poets or writers.

Suggested donation is $5. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. Families and children are welcome!

Contact: Fatima Jafri - fatimasjafri@gmail.com

Sunday 12 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Thursday 16 April @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Linda Clave presents talk #1 on her paintings & the music of Austrian composer & musician Mario Rechtern
Meet the artist and veiw the art work from the exchanges with Mario Rechtern, Eric Zinman and New Language Collaborative.
Video reveiew of the performances
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/hereandthere/thing/thing1/pages/page02.htmlhttp://www.
Dear Friends,
My friend Linda Clave will be showing a new series of music paintings based on recent work I have done with her, Mario Rechtern and New Language Collaborative. It is part of a juried cultural exchange that took place in 2008. To see these paintings is an experience you will not forget. Briefly, they are attractive in the visceral sense. Gradually you begin to see the layers unfold (as is often said in the arts)/I hope some of you can attend the performances. This promises to be fun in the Dionysian way as a grascious donation of wine from Vineyard brands features the 2005 Marques de Caceres. Many believe this is one of the best Rioja vintages in 50 years.................for all your senses and of course to your health...............Saluté

peace and regards,

Eric Zinman

Thursday, 16 April @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday 17 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative present

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Artists from all disciplines, from poetry to installation art to music, all combine in an extravaganza show at the OUTPOST, with hosts Sounds in Bloom and Momentum.

Saturday 18 April @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Linda Clave presents talk #2 on her paintings.

"Brain Plasticity and Paintings of Linda Clave" with the New Language Collaborative.

"Brain plasticity is about how the brain makes new pathways to make your task easier.
Example: The first time you get a new task you are responsible for 100 percent of
allt he work. A few days later you have to do only 80% as the rest of the job gets
done for you by your brain and body. Over time your task is to do 20% or less and
the brain and body know how to do the rest.

"An unusual aspect of this can be seen in some of Linda Clave's art.
You look at some of the paintings and there doesn't seem to be much there.
You come back five minutes later and the image starts connecting with you.
This effect can go on for a while, each time you get more out of the painting.

It seems that the initial image is taken by the brain and it is worked on so that the
second look five minutes later your brain inputs it's own impact on what the painting
represents.

-Walter Ness

Saturday 18 April - 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam

Sunday 19 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
Flow-N: Trio
Jacob William - bass / Jim Hobbs - alto / Luther Gray - drums

Monday, 20 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Scarecrow Mobius
Dave Bryant - piano / James Merenda - alto sax / Mike Rivard - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Thursday, 23 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
David Maxwell’s Eastern Front
David Maxwell - piano / Fred Stubbs - turkish ney /Warrick Moses - clarinet / Blake Newman - bass / Mac Ritchey - ud

www.davidmaxwell.com
http://www.myspace.com/maximummaxwellmusic

FRED STUBBS

Frederick Stubbs studied ney under Niyazi Sayin and Ihsan Ozgen. A founding member of Boston's Eurasia Ensemble and Euphony Groove, he has also worked with El Arte Flamenco, Dunya, Mercan Dede, and Subluna. He currently teaches music at the Lexington Montessori School and lectures in World music and Ethnomusicology at UMass Boston.

MAC RITCHEY

Once referred to as a "musical Swiss army knife", multi-instrumentalist Mac Ritchey has been plucking strings for decades. Studying electronic music at Oberlin College and anthropology at Brandeis University, Mac has been influenced by a vast palette of musical traditions and genres. His primary focus for the past 10 years has been on the oud, otherwise known as the Arabic lute. The other hat he most often wears is that of music producer and proprietor of Possum Hall Recording Studios in Carlisle MA. His primary music group 35th Parallel has been performing through the Northeast for the past 8 years. For more about Mac’s music and various projects: http://35thparallel.com and http://possumhall.com

WARRICK MOSES

Originally from South Africa, Warrick Moses holds a Master of Woodwind Performance degree from the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Warrick is currently a graduate ethnomusicology student at Tufts University, where his research interests include kirtan devotional chanting, and hip-hop in Cape Town. As a performing clarinettist, he draws inspiration from Greek and Turkish musical traditions, as well as Ethiopian jazz. Warrick also teaches in the greater Boston area.

Friday, 24 April @ Outpost, 8pm - $5/10
TRAVELIN’ LIGHT
3-part vocals, brass and guitar; Travelin’ Light is about taking jazz tunes and standards and finding new things to say with them. “Bright Moments” and “From This Moment On” meeting for the first time; Peaches En Regalia performed w. original lyrics covering every note in Zappa’s opus; “But Not For Me” with Chet Baker’s signature intro and solo lyricized; “Peggy’s Blue Skylight” with each of Mingus’ ferocious parts and Booker Irvin’s solo covered...

Travelin’ Light singers are Steve Provizer (also on trumpet and trombone), Gabriella Silva and Ed Meradith. They are all veterans of jazz, rock and classical music who find themselves on the same harmonic page. For more, got to www.sonicbids.com/travelinlight. Nick Grondin is our fine guitarist. An active bandleader himself, go to www.nickgrondin.com to find out more.

Saturday 25 April @ Outpost, 3pm
John Mulrooney poetics presents
Corina Copp & Dana Ward

Corina Copp's recent poems and performance texts have appeared in Aufgabe, Antennae, Poets on Painters, Denver Quarterly, EOAGH, 6x6, and Serie Alfa. She is the author of the chaplet Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and e-book Carpeted (Faux Press 2004). Her short play, "A Week of Kindness" was produced in the 2007 Tiny Theater Festival at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater; and she has performed in plays at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) and the NYC International Fringe Festival. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is pursuing graduate studies in playwriting.

Dana Ward lives in Cincinnati where he edits Cy Press. He is the author of books like Goodnight Voice (House Press, 2008) the Drought (Open 24hrs, forthcoming 2009) & others on the way. He works as an advocate for adult literacy. He's made some terrific new friends these last weeks, & for that he's very grateful.
Saturday, 25 April @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones
Steve Lantner - piano
Joe Morris – bass
Luther Gray – drums

Sunday 26 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Ian Thal presents
a staged reading of his play "Total War"

Press Contact: IanMThal@gmail.com • http://ianthal.blogspot.com • 617-547-2048

Ian Thal hosts a staged reading of his play, Total War which was recently named a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition.
Total War is a five-act play set at a Catholic university where the student newspaper has published a Holocaust denial advertisement. While faculty and staff attempt to show solidarity with the small Jewish community on campus, an anarchist-cell using the nom de guerre of “Total War” begins a campaign of guerrilla art attacks before a predictable dialogue on free speech and religious pluralism can begin.

Though a work of fiction, Total War was inspired by events Thal witnessed while attending graduate school, exploring the history (and potential futures) of Jewish-Catholic relations, historical memory, and the conflict between grass-roots activism and institutional power. It is a story made timely after the scandal surrounding Vatican’s recent lifting of the excommunication of the anti-Semitic Society of Saint Pius X and its Holocaust-denying Bishop, Richard Williamson.

The staged reading is for an audience to experience a stripped-down version of a work-in-progress, and an opportunity for the author to listen to actors and solicit feedback.

Bio:

Ian Thal is best known locally as a mime, puppeteer, and poet. He has performed with Bread and Puppet Theatre, was a founding member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and frequently performs with the commedia dell’arte troupe, i Sebastiani. He has taught mime and commedia at The Huntington Theatre, The Stoneham Theatre, and Open Air Circus. His poetry has appeared in such magazines as BOOM! For Real, Flash!Point, Poesy, Ibbetson Street Press, and Crooked River Press and the anthologies Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writings from Rising Generations (Andover, MA: Andover-Newton Publications), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (New York: P & Q Press.) and Out of the Blue Writers Unite, and the forthcoming Crude: Poetry After the Age of Oil (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Press) and has been exhibited at Boston City Hall and incorporated into a public installation at the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. His blog about his experiences with Bread and Puppet Theatre was recently placed on the reading list for a course at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Monday 27 April @ Outpost - 8pm, open donation
Small Animal Project presents
a reading by Noy Holland and Kate Schapira

Noy Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf), and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, NOON, and others. She is a Professor in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative.

Kate Schapira lives in Providence, where she writes, teaches, and runs the Publicly Complex reading series. In addition to making her own chapbooks, she's the author of four chapbooks published by other people, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press) and two mini-chaps from Rope-A-Dope Press. She just started working with first graders as a Writer in the Schools.

Tuesday 28 April
private rehearsal

Thursday, 30 April @ Outpost 8pm, $10 or b/o
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano
Curt Newton - drums www.jorritdijkstra.com

We now have a web page specifically for this trio, with sound:
http://karayorgis.com/DKNtrio.html

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
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

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional 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.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule,March 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:46:00 +0000

Linda Clave painting - see 29 March, 1 May, & gallery talks 16 & 18 April

MARCH

SUNDAY 1 MARCH @ Outpost, 8pm - $10 or b/o
JUSTIN PEAKE (New Oleans)
modified turntable, electrified metal percussion, tongue drum, drumset.

www.myspace.com/justinpeake
www.myspace.com/beautifulbellsmusic

+Sknny Vinny
Josh Jefferson - sax / Andrew Eisenberg - percussion
myspace.com/skinnyvinnyjjape

Wednesday, 4 March @ Outpost - 8PM, $10 or b/o
THE SERIES presents:
Walter Wright - interactive video
Lou Cohen - laptop powered by csound
+
Steve Norton - soprano, alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet

Thursday 5 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown presents
Sidewalk Tzara (series) --> electronics, experimental music, and absurdity, with:

MATT WESTON
Solo Percussion and Electronics
+
Woo!! Brown Duo
+
Courtney Brown - voice, accordion, laptop, electronics
Justin Woo - turntables, laptop, electronics
+
Justin Woo - poetry
+
Taber/Glancy/Allon Story Duble

Jon Glancy - drums
Abe Taber - bassist
Allon Story Duble - piano

Woo/Brown Duo performance:
"Water Torture"
A performance art improvisation with goblets of water, baking soda and vinegar, mad scientists, contact mics, and food coloring. Bring umbrellas.

"Breathing"
A non-meditative exploration of breath with bellows like lungs. Combining vernacular styles and experimental sensibilities.

BIOS:
Matt Weston:
plays percussion and electronics, and has performed throughout the US and in Europe. He has appeared on CNN, VH1, and CBS TV. His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the Wire, the Village Voice, Signal To Noise, Cadence, All About Jazz, Grooves, and Bananafish. His solo album Vacuums has garnered international acclaim, as have his recordings with Barn Owl, Tizzy, and Thrillpillow.

Woo!! Brown Duo
Courtney Brown and Justin Woo first started playing dance music together, but then things quickly got weird. Their first public collaboration occurred the Warper Party in NYC, exploring the sound of breath in bellows, motion sensors, electronics, and voice. Courtney is an experimental composer and performance artist inspired by tango, flamenco, John Cage, and early goth rock. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, SEAMUS, 60x60, and more. Justin Woo is a poet, writer, and dj/turntablist. He has been DJing since 2006 and has spun at events for numerous organizations in the NJ / NYC area.

Taber/Glancy/Allon Story Duble
Abe Taber and Jon Glancy have played in various unknown rock, improv and anti-pop bands
for over a decade with a rotating cast of bearded red-men. Allon Story Dubler is an exceptionally bearded red-man with both classical and pop tendencies formerly of the Thungs. They have all played together exactly once.

Friday 6 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:

"The Morris / Sandvik Duo"
Vanessa Morris - vocal
Scott Sandvik - guitar & vocal
+
"Dennis Shafer / Todd Brunel"
Dennis Shafer - sax / Todd Brunel - clarinet /

Vanessa Morris, vocalist, performs with the Morris/Merenda voice/saxophone duo, her own quartet, and with James Merenda’s Masked Marvels. Her unique vocal style is a blend of many influences ranging from Billie Holiday and Betty Carter to Ornette Coleman and Joao Gilberto. Ms. Morris teaches piano
and voice in the New England Conservatory Preparatory and Continuing Education Program as well as in her private studio in Roslindale.

Scott Sandvik brings all the musical diversity of his aural transcriptions and performances of traditional African-American a cappella music from his solo work to this duo with vocalist and educator Vanessa Morris. Formed in Fall 1998, the combination of a jazz and classical-influenced acoustic guitarist and a historically knowledgeable vocalist performing music that originally featured a single, sometimes wordless vocal line offers boundless potential. Using the originals to spark their creative imaginations, the duo creates a new, reverent approach to performing the nearly forgotten source material.

This year, Dennis Shafer was presented a Legacy Award by Meryl Streep from the Creativity Foundation. A native of Lawrence, Kansas, he returned to Boston this year from Paris, France where he studied with contemporary saxophonist Jean-Michel Goury.

Saturday 7 March @ OUTPOST - 8pm $5/10
Jeremy Harman/Keith Miller/
Jeremy Harman - solo cello
+ Keith Miller - solo bass,
+ Jeremy Harman and Christian Lilly - free music for electric cello/loops and drums

An evening of original composed and improvised music for strings... featuring solo compositions of Jeremy Harman (cello) and Keith Miller (bass), and a set of groove-based improvised music for electric cello/loops and drums with Harman and Christian Lilly (drums).

Sunday 8 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm %5/10
Gleason’s Twins performs composed/improvised settings of poems by its members:
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Kristin Slipp - voice
+
Jim Hobbs - solo saxophone
(Fully Celebrated Orchestra)

Wednesday, 11 March @ Outpost - 8PM, $10 or b/o
THE SERIES presents:
ernst karel - electronics
+ jay sullivan - turntable/ electronics

Thursday 12 March @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
"Adam Bartczak Republic"

World and funk inspired jazz.

Juan Chavez - violin
Tucker Antell - reeds
Will Caviness - trumpet
Adam Bartczak - trombone
Will Graefe - guitar
Alex Brown - piano
Tal Gamlieli - bass
Mike Calabrese - drums

www.adambartczak.com

Thursday 13 March @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents
Bryant / Leonard / Turner / Bowman
Dave Bryant – keyboards
Neil Leonard – saxophones and electronics
John Turner – bass
Chris Bowman – drums

Saturday 14 March 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Wing La - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Sunday, 15 March @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Charles Licata Ensemble
Tom Halter - trumpet / Charles Licata - sax / Mike Shea - piano / Larry Roland - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Wednesday, 18 March @ Outpost - 8PM, $10 or b/o
THE SERIES presents:
curt newton - solo drums
+ nate mcbride - solo bass
+ time & materials - newton/mcbride duo

Thursday,19 March @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday, 20 March @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
Andrew Eisenberg - solo
+lou cohen / josh jefferson duo
+jules vaseylenko / bhob rainey duo

Saturday, 21 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
KEVIN FRENETTE QUARTET
Kevin Frenette - guitar
James Rohr - fender rhodes
Curt Newton - drums
Ryan McGuire - bass
http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and contemporary improvisation. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Joe Giardullo, Pandelis Karayorgis, Daniel Levin, Andy McWain, Forbes Graham, Luther Gray, Jane Wang, James Rohr, Curt Newton, John McLellan, Croix Galipault, Gordon Allen, Sarah Weaver, Harvey Sorgen, Brian Melick, Michael Snow, Dan DeChellis, Gwen Laster, Larry Packer, Martha Colby, Lori Freedman, David Gamper, Al Margolis, Ryan McGuire, Jeff Kimmel, Adam Dotson, Joe Moffett, Chris Vellieux, Ricardo Donoso, Jules Vasylenko, Jonathan LaMaster, Andrew Hickman, Eric Platz, Todd Keating and Gabe Cabral. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin’s first date as a leader: CONNECTIONS. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.

http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette
http://cdbaby.com/cd/kevinfrenette

James Rohr has been wrestling with the piano since the age of 5. Sometimes he tries to play all 88 keys at once, sometimes just a few. He began playing professionally at 14 at a BBQ joint in New Mexico where he played a piano for ribs. In the mid 1990's, James formed a piano trio with Nate Mcbride on bass, and Curt Newton on drums. Together they released three recordings that a few people in Europe and Canada heard. James has had the honor and privelige of playing with many of the great improvisors in the Boston/NYC area. Currently, James is interested in writing and performing songs with his band, the blue ribbons, which he describes as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash meet Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra.

Curt Newton coaxes whispers from drumsets and swing from old tin cans, weaving the jazz, rock, folk, and experimental music traditions together in the spirit of serious playfulness. Over the past two decades he's performed across the U.S., Canada and Europe and recorded over 20 CDs with some of contemporary music's leading figures including Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris, Nate McBride, Pandelis Karayorgis and Charlie Kohlhase. Curt studied drumset with Bob Gullotti and has a Master's degree in Jazz Performance from New England Conservatory, neither of which bears any responsibility for his drumset arrangement of Lutoslawski's String Quartet.

Bassist and composer Ryan McGuire has performed with Luther Gray, Dave Gross, Greg Kelley, Kayo Dot, Ricardo Donoso, Raqib Hassan and the Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra, Forbes Graham and others, and has toured the U.S. and Canada on several occasions. Originally from Cape Cod, McGuire studied Performance at UMass Lowell and composition at the Berklee College of Music. He has also played on recordings released by Tzadik, Hydrahead, Robotic Empire, Sound Devastation, Semata, and Holy Roar Records. He currently performs with Ehnahre, the Epicureans, Dilettante, the Kevin Frenette 4, and the Calliope Quartet- and on occasion, plays solo.

Sunday 22 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Tuesday 24 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
Jacob William & Lewis Porter
Jacob William - bass / Lewis Porter - piano / Jun Young Song - Drums

LEWIS PORTER
Lewis Porter, PhD, is a jazz pianist and Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark, where he directs the Master's program in jazz history. He is known worldwide for his teaching and for his many books and articles, especially John Coltrane: His Life and Music (published in English in 1998; published in French and Italian editions in 2007). He edited the John Coltrane Reference which appeared in January 2008. He has also published books on jazz history and on Lester Young, and many articles. As a pianist and keyboardist, he is known for a free and open attitude, and an ability to contribute to any type of musical situation. For example, he has performed recently with such artists as Bela Fleck, Wycliffe Gordon, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Morris, Badal Roy, and Jane Ira Bloom; he performed in Europe in November 2007 with Dave Liebman and others. His latest CD, recorded live at Siena Jazz, is Italian Encounter, and it has received only rave reviews. Jazz Times says that Porter is "a helluva piano player," and other critics have written that Dr. Porter "is a deep thinker" whose music is "founded upon depth and cunning use of space." His performance schedule and extended audio and video clips are at http://www.Lewisporter.com

Wednesday, 25 March @ Outpost, 8pm
the SERIES presents
Jefferson/Livolsi/Voigt/Vela
+Ahser - solo electronics

joshua jefferson - alto saxophone
joseph livolsi - drums
john voigt - bass
computer visuals by Vela.

Thursday, 26 March @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
"IDIOLECT"
Greg Albert - bass
Devin Collins - drums
Tom Dowd - guitar
Jeremy Vovcsko - alto sax

IDIOLECT is a little-used term to describe the individual language each person develops within the larger context of their culture and society. In this vein, the members of the up-and-coming avant-jazz group Idiolect have pieced together a language that is entirely their own. A language made up of leftover scraps from once-proud mainstream styles like jazz, rock, reggae and funk; yet reinvigorated by the structural genius of 20th century classical music and the sheer violence and beauty of Idiolect's unique improvisational talents. The results are both groundbreaking and reassuring, alien and familiar. Despite the complexity of some of the musical concepts presented, Idiolect maintains a deep connection with open-minded musical audiences by using the terminology of these popular musical genres. Live performance video at www.youtube.com/toddowhams

Friday, 27 March @ Outpost - $10 or b/o
ami mills presents
"Silence Friction"
Ami Mills - trumpet
Derek Beckvold - Bari Sax
Andrew Hock - Guitar
Moses Eder - Drums
Logan Strosahl - Alto Sax
bass - TBA

+"Trio"
Dereck Beckvold - Bari Sax
Luke Moldof - Guitar
Bob Jordan - drums
+ "Toilet Phone"

Saturday, 28 March @ Outpost, 3pm $5/10
john mulrooney poetics presents
Jim Dunn & Simon Pettet

Jim Dunn’s first collection Soft Launch, is the first title in the publishing collaboration, B Is for Beans, between Bootstrap Productions and Pressed Wafer, featuring Boston based poets. Gerrit Lansing has written it contains "flashes of emotional perception that transfigure the sad remains of the City" Dunnʼs previous collection is CONVENIENT HOLE.

Simon Pettet's many books include most recently Hearth, Selected Poems and More Winnowed Fragments, all published by Talisman. He edited The Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler and collaborated with Duncan Hannah on Abundant Treasures and with Rudy Burckhardt on Conversations About Everything and Talking Pictures. British by birth, he lives in New York City.

Saturday, 28 March @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
steve lantner presents
"Steve Lantner Trio"
Steve Lantner - piano / Luther Gray - drums / Joe Morris - bass
http://stevelantner.com/

Painting by Linda Clave
OUTPOST 186 Presents a rare solo show of works by Linda Clave:
IMPROVISED ACTION, highly imaginative and accomplished music paintings in acrylic will be on display between March 29 through May 1

Art Exhibition and performances and reception including live painting:
March 29 and April 4
Gallery Talks: April 16 and 18, 3pm
Information: 617-470-9200
www.lindaclavearts.com
SUNDAY 29 MARCH @ Outpost 8pm $15 or b/o
The Exchange:Paintings and Performances
Painter Linda Clave inspired by Austrian Saxophonist Mario Rechtern for TransCultural Exchange 2009 "Here There and Everywhere" joined by Eric Zinman Ensemble and the New Language Collaborative for live painting and musical performances.

Eric Zinman Ensemble
Eric Zinman - piano / John Voigt - bass / Joe Livolsi - drums

Linda Clave - action painting

Dear Friends,
My friend Linda Clave will be showing a new series of music paintings based on recent work I have done with her, Mario Rechtern and New Language Collaborative. It is part of a juried cultural exchange that took place in 2008. To see these paintings is an experience you will not forget. Briefly, they are attractive in the visceral sense. Gradually you begin to see the layers unfold (as is often said in the arts)...I hope some of you can attend the performances. This promises to be fun in the Dionysian way as a gracious donation of wine from Vineyard brands features the 2005 Marques de Caceres. Many believe this is one of the best Rioja vintages in 50 years.................for all your senses and of course to your health...............Saluté

peace and regards,

Eric Zinman

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, February 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:15:00 +0000

"Potpourri" - Art from U of South Carolina: see 8 Feb.
image: Untitled #1, Nick Oleszczuk
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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&section=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

FEBRUARY

Sunday, 1 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano /
Curt Newton - drums
www.jorritdijkstra.com
myspace.com/jorritdijkstra

CDs:
http://cdbaby.com/all/jorritdijkstra

Wednesday, 4 February 2009, @ Outpost - 8PM sharp, $5/10
Brendan Murray and Bhob Rainey - laptop duo
Gordon Marshall - poetry

THE SERIES is every Wednesday at Outpost 186
For listings, go to http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 5 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Courtney Brown presents
Sidewalk Tzara --> electronics, experimental music, and absurdity, with:
COURTNEY BROWN
Her works are heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, flamenco, and early goth rock, and often cross into performance art. http://www.myspace.com/courtneydbrown

Kirstina Wolfe - electronics, gamba, video (solo)
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~kristina

Hair Style as Performance,with hair stylist,
Alissandra Hipona sound, video, and hair

Jacob Richman and Kirsten Volness
http://www.kirstenvolness.com/
http://www.jacob-richman.com/

Friday 6 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex 4"
Phil Neighbors - vibes
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
Tom Lubelczyk - bass
Jerome Deupree - drums

Space music from the other side of the universe...
www.clarinetconspiracy.com

Saturday 7 February 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Wing La - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Untitled, Jerry Slayton
Sunday, 8 February @ Outpost, 2-6pm free
ART OPENING: “POTPOURRI” ~
Artists from the University of South Carolina @ Columbia

Outpost 186 Presents works by MFA students from the University of South Carolina @ Columbia, highly imaginative & accomplished works in oil, acrylic & ceramic. Columbia's art scene is an underground mecca of talented artists in need of a little encouragement to show their faces. Especially USC's artists: they have talent and a new prospective on things and have rarely had a chance to show off-campus.

+Dennis Shafer presents Music by “Sounds In Bloom” (Longy)

Artists: Dana Childs, Huy Chu (ceramics), Nick Oleszczuk, and Jerry Slayton

Artist Contact: Heather Bauer - heatherraebauer@yahoo.com, 893.979.1024

Performances at the openings:
Dennis Shafer presents:
-Sounds in Bloom www.myspace.com/dnorma
-Norma Szokolyai - poetry, movement, spoken word
-Dennis Shafer - saxophones www.dennisshafer.com
-with Special Guest Simon Tedeschi www.simontedeschi.com

Sounds in Bloom will premiere works by David Krebs and compose performance art in reaction to the exhibition of art by Nick Oleszczuk, Dana Childs, Jerry Slayton and Huy Chu. Don't miss this exciting, fresh new art in all its dimensions!

Contact: Dennis Shafer, Longy School of Music - www.dennisshafer.com, 785-979-8675

Sunday, 8 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano /
Curt Newton - drums
www.jorritdijkstra.com
myspace.com/jorritdijkstra

CDs:
http://cdbaby.com/all/jorritdijkstra

Wednesday, 11 February @ Outpost - 8PM, $5/10
The Series presents:

Jorrit Dijkstra - solo saxophone
+
Jed Speare and Forrest Larson

THE SERIES is every Wednesday at Outpost 186
For listings, go to http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Thursday 12 February @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents
Bryant / Merenda / Turner / Rosenthal
Dave Bryant - keyboards
James Merenda – alto saxophone
John Turner – bass
Eric Rosenthal – drums

Jeff Platz by Jake Playmo
Friday, 13 February @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Jeff Platz Quartet
Jeff Platz - guitar / Jim Hobbs - sax / Kit Demos - bass / John McLellan - drums

Saturday, 14 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
The Jacob William Quintet
Laurence Cook - Drums / Steve Lantner - Piano
Jim Hobbs - Alto / Forbes Graham - Trumpet / Jacob William - bass

Sunday 15 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Wednesday, 18 February @ Outpost - 8PM, $5/10
THE SERIES presents:
Microtonal duet:
Matt Samolis - flute, with
Thadd Comstock - guitar
+
Charlie Kohlhase - saxophones
Jef Charland - bass
Mike Charland - drums

For listings, go to http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 19 February @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday, 20 February 8pm $10 or b/o
DANIEL LEVIN - solo cello
+ANDREW NEUMANN - solo live electronics
http://www.adneumann.com/ad.html

This solo cello concert is part of a new project entitled "The Seven Layers of Consciousness".
For this project, I use the cello to explore different areas of my psyche.

*Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to
aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional
concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves
to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are making a
mark in improvisational music.*
--John Kelman, All About Jazz Magazine

Daniel Levin was born in 1974 in Burlington, Vermont. He began playing
the cello at age six. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, Ken Vandermark, and others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and as a leader, for Riti Records, HatHut, and Clean Feed.

www.daniel-levin.com

Saturday, 21 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano /
Curt Newton - drums
www.jorritdijkstra.com
myspace.com/jorritdijkstra

Sunday, 22 February 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Wing La - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Monday 23 February @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Charles Licata Ensemble
Tom Halter - trumpet / Charles Licata - sax / Mike Shea - piano / Larry Roland - bass / Bobby Ward - drums

Wednesday, 25 February @ Outpost - 8PM, $5/10
THE SERIES presents:

Andrew Neumann - electronics

+Little Mystery
Lair Raker - trombone
Eric Dahlman - trumpet
Jim Warshauer - woodwinds
Michael Knoblach - drums.

Friday, 27 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Michael Cantor & the Goosepimp Orchestra
www.myspace.com/goosepimp
www.goosepimp.net

Saturday, 28 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
steve lantner presents
"Lantner/Chase"
Steve Lantner - piano / Allan Chase - alto

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
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 $5/10
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

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional 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.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

The Series - every Wednesday (exc holidays)
Experimental & jazz-related improvised music
David Gross - gdavidgross@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
David Gross : 'The Series' - gdavidgross@yahoo.com,
http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, January 2009

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:50:00 +0000

"Potpourri" - Art from U of South Carolina: see 8 Feb.
image: Untitled #1, Nick Oleszczuk
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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&section=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

JANUARY
Todd Brunel
Friday 2 January @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
Timothy Macri - flute / Harris Shilakowsky - violin and electronics
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetics / John Mulrooney - spoken word

This special evening of interactive multi-media will feature a transcription for solo flute of the JS Bach Tocatta and fugue in D, an adaptation of the Corelli Christmas Concerto, the JS Bach Chromatic Fantasy and solo clarinet microtonal improvisations.

Note: this show is rescheduled from the 19 Dec snowstorm.

Saturday, 3 January @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
JOE MOFFETT / LUTHER GRAY
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Luther Gray - drums

Wednesday 7 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
improvised/experimental/noise

Grizzler Big Band --- HUGE ---

Dave Gross, sax
Brendan Murray, electronics
Angela Sawyer, electronics, gadgets, toys
Polly Hanson, drums
Forbes Graham, trumpet
Jay Sullivan, turntable, electronics
Steve Norton, reeds
Ryan McGuire, bass
Jules Vaselenko, reeds
Jed Speare, electronics
Noell Dorsey, voice
Jarrod Fowler, percussion
Joshua Jefferson, reeds
David Michael Curry - viola, electronics
Lou Cohen, laptop powered by csound
http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Jim Hobbs
Saturday, 10 January @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
william / hobbs / gray
jacob william - bass / jim hobbs - alto / luther gray - drums

Note: the folling show is cancelled, to be resched tba.

Sunday 11 January 8pm
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Wednesday 14 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
experimental/improvised/noise
features:
ophibre
+empty house cooperative

http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Tronzo & Raberg
Thursday, 15 January @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
The Dave Fox 4:“Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar / Dave Fox - drums

Friday, 16 January @ Outpost - 8pm - $10 or b/o
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex 6
Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetry / John Mulrooney - spoken word / Tom Lubelczyk - bass / Phil Neighbors - vibes / Jerome Deupree - drumset / Todd Brunel - bass clarinet, reeds

clarinetconspiracy.com

Nat Baldwin
Saturday, 17 January @ Outpost 8pm $5
NAT BALDWIN (ex dirty projectors)
+Vitamin Seed
+Max Alper Family Band
+Glowing

Note: this show has been rescheduled to Friday, 20 March.
Sunday, 18 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
Birdorgan
+lou cohen / josh jefferson duo
+jules vaseylenko / bhob rainey duo

Wednesday 21 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
improvised/experimental/noise

Anthony Coleman

+James Coleman - theremin
Lou Cohen - laptop powered by csound

http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Marine Debris

Friday 23 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Marine Debris
Greg Glassman, Andy Fish, Chris Habetler

Marine Debris is a trio composing and improvising music with video accompaniment. The members all share duties playing electric guitar, bass, lap steel, drums, pedals and keyboards.

The Dirty Dishes

Jenny Tuite - guitar, vocals / Kevin Lynch - drums /Alex Molini - Synth

The Dirty Dishes are an experimental indie-rock band based in Boston. Jenny Tuite sings and plays a mean guitar. Kevin Lynch plays drums and sweats. Together they yearn to create a unique and emotive sound. The pair began performing as a duo during the summer of '08; crafting their distinct musical style which has been compared to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhoof, and The Smashing Pumpkins. The recent addition of Alex Molini on synthesizer further expands the Dirty Dishes' sound.

Saturday 24 January, 3-5 pm $5 or b/o
"John Mulroony & the unaffiliated series" - poetics & spoken word
presents
Mark Lamoureux & Katie Peterson

Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, NY. His first full-length collection, Astrometry Orgonon was published by BlazeVOX books in 2008. He is the author of 5 chapbooks: Poem Stripped of Artifice (winner of the New School 2007 Chapbooks Contest), Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film Poems and City/Temple. His work has been published in print and online in Fence, Mustachioed, miPoesias, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Lungfull!, Carve Poems, Coconut, GutCult and many others. In 2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. He is Reviews Editor for Boog City, a Manhattan-based literary paper, and teaches composition in the CUNY system.

Katie Peterson was born in California and is the author of This One Tree, a book of poems published by New Issues in 2006. She teaches poetry and the humanities at Deep Springs College in California.

Saturday 24 January 8pm
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Sunday 25 January @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Monday 26 January 8pm $10 or b/o
HUME performs
“HUMANIORA” by Britton Powell
'Humaniora' for upright bass and two reeds which runs about 25”. Some of my music available on myspace.com/humesongs. Influences: Gong, Micheal Hurley, Bela Bartok, Syd Barrett, Arvo Part, Larry Coryell, Laynes west african tapes & BANCO!

+SKINNY VINNY

+
NMPERIGN
bhob rainey, soprano saxophone
greg kelley, trumpet

"For me, there is nothing to be called 'minimal' in their music, in their choice of low and dangerously weak sounds. It would be nonsense to call this music 'minimal'; on the contrary, their way of making music refines our senses and gives precision to a double movement of internalization and openmindedness. So space is opened and landmarks disappear."
-Philippe Alen, _Improjazz_

Britton Powell is a composer and performer with HUME, based in Washington D.C.

SNOW CANCELLATION:

Wednesday 28 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
improvised/experimental/noise

Jorrit Dijkstra, solo saxophone

+Jed Speare and Forrest Larson

http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Friday, 30 January @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
Dave Bryant - solo piano
Dave Bryant was a frequent contributor to Ornette Coleman's "Prime Time".
http://www.accuraterecords.com/bryant.html

Steve Lantner
Saturday, 31 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
steve lantner presents
Steve Lantner Quartet
Steve Lantner - piano / Allan Chase - alto / Joe Morris - bass / Luther Gray - drums
celebrating the release of their new CD, Given: Live in Münster (Hat Hut 663)

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
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 $5/10
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

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional 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.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

The Series - every Wednesday (exc holidays)
Experimental & jazz-related improvised music
David Gross - gdavidgross@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
David Gross : 'The Series' - gdavidgross@yahoo.com,
http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, December 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:14:00 +0000

METALUX see Modern Sound Showcase, 16 December
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

DECEMBER

Wednesday December 3 @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
Kessler/Coleman/Paul
eli kessler - drums / anthony coleman - keyboard/electronics
ashley paul - reeds, etc.

+ jarrod fowler - percussion/electronics

Courtney Brown
Thursday, 4 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown presents
Sidewalk Tzara --> electronics, experimental music, and absurdity
features:
COURTNEY BROWNwith ALTAIRA

ALTAIRA
James Borchers - percussion, hyperkalimba
Christian Gentry - chordophones, boomboxes
Peter McMurray - saxophone, whistles, ocarina
Roth Michaels - laptop, melodica, miscellany

Formed in Waltham, MA, Altaira is a group of composer-performers interested in improvisation and electronic music. We perform both our own music and improvisational/aleatoric/intuitive "repertoire" by other composers from the past 60-odd years. Recent performances include a memorial concert series of intuitve music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborative performance with musicians from Queens College.
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 solo act, Every Night I Lose Control, explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer. Her works are heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, flamenco, and early goth rock, and often cross into performance art.

She has performed her solo cabaret act up and down the east coast, including New York, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, SEAMUS, and more. In 2008, her work "Places in Time become Magnetic" was selected for inclusion in the Vox Novus 60x60 project. Additionally, she has received mention in the Boston Globe and NHPR. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Friday, December 5, 2008 @ Outpost - 8:00 $5/10
The Vortex Series for New and Improvised music presents:

"The Vortex 5"

Todd Brunel - clarinets
Jonathan Lamaster - violin and electronics
Robert Rivera - cello
John Voigt - double bass, electronics and spoken word
Jerome Deupree - drumset and percussion

Mark Rothko "No.14 1960"
Saturday, 6 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
JOHN VOIGT & HIS HOT DOGS : jefferson-livolsi-voigt
John Voigt - bass
Josh Jefferson - sax
Joseph Livolsi - drums

Manifesto: Concept Jazz in which we three Com-provise (compose/improvise)
from found, imagined or accidentally discovered visual, word, or sound
structures. But sometimes we just go searching and don't find them

Tonight we use Mark Rothko, Mingus, Sun Ra, and radio messages from Saturn.

Wednesday 10 December @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
Strunk/Dorsy
chris strunk - drums / noel dorsy - voice

+duck that
angela sawer - reeds, game calls, etc. /steve norton - reeds, game calls, etc. / josh jefferson - reeds, game calls, etc.

Thursday, 11 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
NOTE: the series is on break for December & will return January 18 - thanks.

Saturday, 13 December @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
“Duocity”
Rich Greenblatt - piano / Gilson Schachnik - vibes

Sunday 14 December @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

NOTE: this show has been cancelled, to be rescheduled tba. thanx
Monday 15 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Russ Gershon presents

McLaughlin, Bencid, Gershon

Tuesday, 16 December @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
Weirdo Records presents
"A Modern Sound Showcase" with

JENNY GRAF
- weirdo other-world sounds from baltimore, md, of metalux, harrius, bride of no no, etc.
www.myspace.com/metalux

BILL NACE
- guitar wizzard of western mass, vampire belt, X.O.4, northampton wools, etc. www.ecstaticpeace.com

ASCENSION
- dylan hay of idiotunderground...nomadic student of blown speakers and busted electronics www.myspace.com/idiotunderground

ZERFALLT
- lee of astronaught, rotten brain-synth decomposition from boston, ma.
www.myspace.com/zerfallt

EXUSAMWA
- doug from fat day, nell from goat of arms, neil from ergot rot & angela from weirdo records, possibly inside a gingerbread house.
http://weirdorecords.com/cpCommerce/product.php?id_product=5969

Wednesday 17 December @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
Moldof/Kelley/Stelzer
luke moldof - guitar / greg kelley - trumpet
howard stelzer - tapes/electronics

+the epicureans
david gross - sax / ryan mcguire - bass /
ricardo donoso - percussion

Thursday, 18 December @ Outpost, 8pm
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

NOTE: THIS SHOW CALLED ONNACOUNNA SNOW, RESCHED DATE: FRIDAY 3 JAN 2009
Friday, December 19 @ Outpost 8:00 $5/10

"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble"

Timothy Macri - flute
Harris Shilakowsky - violin and electronics
Todd Brunel - clarinets
Glenn Dickson - clarinet and electronics
Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetics
John Mulrooney - spoken word

This special evening of interactive multi media will feature a
transcription for solo flute of the JS Bach Tocatta and fugue in D,
an adaptation of the Corelli Christmas Concerto, the JS Bach Chromatic
Fantasy and solo clarinet microtonal improvisations.

Saturday, 20 December @ Outpost - 8pm, by donation
Dave Bryant’s All Stars
Dave Bryant - piano / John Turner – bass / Curt Newton – drums / Eric Rosenthal – drums

Saturday, 27 December @ Outpost, 8pm
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
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 $5/10
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

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional 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.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

The Series - every Wednesday (exc holidays)
Experimental & jazz-related improvised music
David Gross - gdavidgross@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net
Courtney Brown
Dave Pryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, November 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:07:00 +0000

Howie Stelzer photo: Tom Worster/Word Press (see 12 November)

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

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

NOVEMBER

Sunday 2 November @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Wednesday 5 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross & "THE SERIES" presents

Andrew Eisenberg - solo percussion www.myspace.com/dilettantenoise

“slither”
Chris Pottinger & heath moerland - garbage electronics & damaged reeds
http://www.tastysoil.com/

“evenings”
Miles Hanley - electronics
http://www.tapewormtapes.com

Thursday 6 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

Alex Wan - guitar & electric bass
Wing La - drums
Mihoko Abe - keys
Matt Wan - trombone

Biography:

Alex Wan was born in Hong Kong and came to Boston in the late 60's, he plays both guitar, guitar synthesizer, and bass. He has played in various bands in and around New England, including his own band
"Cultural Fusion". He released his debute solo CD album in 1989, entitled "Cultural Fusion" which consist 11 of his original compositions and arrangements. The album was distributed in US and Europe.

http://alexwanculturalfusion.vpweb.com/
His music can be heard at:

http://www.reverbnation.com/alexwan
VIDEO LINK FOR ALEX WAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o_oqbUw5c

Friday 7 November @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
‘Sounds In Bloom”
with special guest Srdjan Grujicic
+ "Ara Sarkissian's Exultation"

“Sounds in Bloom “
Dennis Shafer - saxophones / Diana Norma Szokolyai - poetry
Srdjan Grujicic - guitar

Noted for his "Extreme musicality and originality" by French guitarist and composer Roland Dyens,
Srdjan Grujicic composes and performs in all musical genres, in chamber groups and solo perfromances. Since his debut concert at ag 10 in Serbia, he has toured all over Europe and Canada.

"Ara Sarkissian's Exulatation"
Ara Sarkssian - piano / Todd Brunel - clarinets and electronics / Ken Field - alto sax, flute and toys

Howie Stelzer photo: Tom Worster/Word Press
Wednesday 12 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross & "THE SERIES" presents

Howard Stelzer
+Kevin Frenette Quartet

Howard Stelzer - solo electronics
www.howardstelzer.com

Kevin Frenette Quartet
Kevin Frenette - guitar
James Rohr - fender rhodes
Ryan McGuire - bass
John McLelland - drums

http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette

Thursday, 13 November @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
“Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar / Dave Fox - drums
sound clips:
http://www.myspace.com/davidefox
http://www.reverbnation.com/davefox

Katt Hernandez
Friday, 14 November @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
Cello Alley presents
“Robert Rivera + Katt Hernandez”
Robert Rivera - cello
Katt Hernandez - violin
+
Limbic Trio
Liz Ehrman - cello / Phil Morimoto - guitar / Richard Ehrman - percussion

Saturday, 15 November @ Outpost, 3:30 pm
John Mulrooney presents poetry/word with
Damon Krukowski (former Galxie 500/Damon & Naomi)
+ Sarah Riggs.
+IsAbelle Garron

Damon Krukowski is an American musician and publisher. He was one of the founding members and the drummer for the band Galaxie 500. His drumwork with Galaxie 500 received widespread praise for its "simmering presence of jazz classicism"[1]

After Galaxie 500's demise due to guitarist Dean Wareham leaving the band, he went on to play drums in Magic Hour, with Galaxie 500's bassist Naomi Yang, Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar. After Magic Hour, Krukowski and Yang performed as a duo under the name Damon and Naomi. He also runs the Exact Change Press with Naomi Yang - a book publisher specializing in Dada and Surrealist literature based out of Cambridge, MA.

Isabelle Garron (b. 1968) is a younger generation French poet who teaches in Paris. She is the author of Qu'il faille (Editions Flammarion 2007), Face devant contre (Editions Flammarion 2002), Déferlage II (Editions Les Cahiers de la Seine 2002), and Le corps échéant (Editions Les Cahiers de la Seine 2000). Garron has also participated as poet and/or editor in various French journals, including Petite, Action Poétique, Action restreinte, Rehauts, and La Polygraphe. English translations of her poetry have appeared in Double Change, 1913: a journal of forms, and Verse. The chapbook Face Before Against, in Sarah Riggs's translation, was released by Seeing Eye Books in 2005. Garron's interest in Pierre Reverdy gave rise to a publication of La Lucarne Ovale in its original form (Théâtre Typographique 2001). She is a regular participant with Jean Daive in the France Culture radio broadcast, "Peinture Fraiche" ("Wet Paint") on contemporary art.

Sarah Riggs is a poet, translator, and visual artist. She is the author of Waterwork (Chax Press 2007), 28 télégrammes and 60 textos (éditions de l'Attente, translated by Françoise Valéry, 2006-7), and Chain of Miniscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street Editions 2007). She has also published a book of essays, Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O'Hara (Routledge 2002). The installation of her drawings, Isibilités, in collaboration with sound, video and cuisine, took place at the galerie éof in autumn 2007. A member of Double Change and director of Tamaas, she has taught at Columbia University in Paris with Omar Berrada. Together they co-translated Marie Borel's Wolftrot (La Presse 2006). She is at work on a translation of Ryoko Sekiguchi's Two Markets, Once Again (Post Apollo, forthcoming). About Waterwork, Ann Lauterbach said: "In five stunning sequences, Sarah Riggs has created a poetics of elastic migrations that imagines the world as clusters, skeins, and motions whose innate peril is miraculously saved in the act of naming..."

Saturday, 15 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

Alex Wan - guitar & electric bass
Wing La - drums
Mihoko Abe - keys
Matt Wan - trombone

Wednesday 19 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross & "THE SERIES" presents

Noell Dorsy - voice
James Coleman - theremin
Jules Vasylenko - saxophone
+
brendan murray - solo electronics

Noah Preminger
Friday, 21 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5-10
“Bird Fly Yellow”
+ "Low Road"

“Bird Fly Yellow”
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Dan Blacksberg - trombone / Dave Flaherty - drums / Daniel Durham - bass
Bird Fly Yellow is a quartet whose sound is like watching the final scene of Last of the Mohicans — highly dramatic, though you can’t believe you stuck around for the whole movie. Their sound can also be likened to watching a rainbow over Kansas City implode. The group swings violently, with shifts in feel even its members don’t expect. Bird Fly Yellow hails from Philly and Boston, so they are likely under-rehearsed.

opening:
"Low Road"
Ruth Lepson - poet
Eric Lane - keys
Noah Preminger - sax

Based out of the Northeast United States, poet Ruth Lepson, saxophonist Noah Preminger, and keyboardist Eric Lane formed Low Road, a group that sets Lepson’s poetry to music written and performed by Preminger and Lane. The repertoire includes a diverse selection of songs containing strict structure as well as very open, free form. Lepson is the current poet-in-residence at New England Conservatory. Preminger and Lane are recent graduates of the school and frequently perform in the Boston and New York areas.

Ruth Lepson:
I'm poet-in-residence at NEC, have been performing with musicians in recent yrs, & Low Road is making a CD of my poems & their music. My books are: Dreaming in Color, Poetry from Sojourner, and Morphology. I've given readings at the Bowery Poetry Club, La Mama, & on NPR's "All Things Considered," & my poems have been in many mags.

Little Mystery @ Outpost (photo Bill T. Miller)
Saturday, 22 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
Little Mysteries
+ Andrew Eisenberg - solo
+ Peter Bonos Trio

Little Mystery improvises music by drawing upon a vast array of jazz and experimental influences to create a free, spacious and frequently ethereal sound scape. 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,
Michael Knoblach - Hat Box Drum Set, Percussion
Blair Raker - Trombone
Jim Warshauer - Contra Alto Clarinet, other reed instruments

Andrew Eisenberg - solo percussion
Andrew plays percussion on an assortment of modified drum parts that he has reduced and eroded thru a process of playing and breaking them. myspace.com/skinnyvinnyjjape

Peter Bonos
Peter Bonos Trio

Peter Bonos - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Zach Iannazzi - Drums
Jeremy Phloyd Starpoli - Trombone

Peter Bonos
Creative composer, improviser and trumpet player Peter Bonos hails from Santa Rosa, CA and is currently based in Northampton, MA. Active in the areas of collective free improvisation, genre-defying solo playing, minimalist composition, klezmer, rock, electronic, and avant garde music, Bonos is currently a performing member of Zebu, Freylekh Valley Orkestr with Hankus Netsky, and Starpoli, Bonos, and Young. Bonos's solo work explores conceptually motivated modes of performance which exploit the outer boundaries of the trumpet's timbral palette in combination with scalar modes specific to the instrument. His varied body of studio-based recordings explore studio composition and sound collage. The Creative Music Collective of Hampshire College and the Purple House have featured concerts currated by Peter. His live and recorded sound design have been featured in recent works of dance choreography and movement performance. I have been a member of these no longer active groups: Perjokte, Triste Sin Richard, Effecto Partido, Sexually Transmitted People, and The Set Up. I have collaborated with Zebu, Tipsy, Bonedaddy, Red Youth, Jonas Golland, Jonathan Glancy, Matt Mondanile, and many others.

Mike Rivard
Monday, 24 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
"Scarecrow Mobius"
James Merenda - alto / Mike Rivard - bass / Dave Bryant - piano / James Kamal Jones - drums

Saturday, 29 November @ Outpost, 8pm
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

NOTE: THIS SHOW IS POSTPONED TBA - thanks

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, October 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:51:00 +0000

Neil Leonard - see Saturday 25 October

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

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

OCTOBER
Thursday, 2 Oct. @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
From Denmark
TRIO CHROCH

Omsider skete det !

- debut CD med Trio Chroch " Live at Dexter "

Spontan musik med et smil !

Trio Chroch " Live at Dexter " AACD 1009 blev optaget den 14 januar 2000 foran et oplagt og medlevende publikum, som overgav sig til varmen, humoren, det store engagement og den charmerende drengede facon. Publikum tog Trio Chroch på ordet og deltog i en rejse igennem farverige lydcollager - en rejse, hvor grænser blev brudt og døre blev åbnet til nye musikalske landskaber.

Trio Chroch er et ungt orkester på den danske musikscene, der går nye veje for at komme med et friskt og publikumsvenligt bud på spontan musik - musik skabt i nuet. Ny musik spillet på et højt kunstnerisk niveau, der opstår i en dialog med publikum og omgivelserne. Toner og lyde der taler til alle sanser og sætter fantasien i gang.

Trio Chroch holdt deres ord - der var noget for både øre og øje……

" Trio Chroch spiller musik der ikke plejer at være for alle - for alle ! "

Bo Stief

Trio Chroch er :
Christoffer Møller: piano, synth, trompet, vocal
Robert Cole Rizzi: guitar, elektronik, perc, vocal
Chano Olskær: trommer, perc, vocal

Trio Chroch, DK & Richard J. Rizzi, USA – creative music and spoken words

Trio Chroch play spontaneous music in a way that’s warm, honest, friendly and turned towards the audience. New music performed with excellence in an ongoing dialog with the spectators and the surrounding environment.
The music is innovative and imaginative. Trio Chroch is committed to guide the listeners on a voyage through colourful collages of sounds, and join them on a journey where boundaries will collapse and new musical landscapes will unfold.
Richard J. Rizzi has been writing and performing poetry for over 40 years in various settings and expressions. With Trio Chroch he recites and adapts his words to melt together in a united search for new unexplored territory
.

Trio Chroch; Christoffer Møller, Piano
Robert Cole Rizzi, Guitar
Chano Olskær, Drums

“A spellbinding evening of improvisation”
Stephen Pedersen (Arts Reporter Halifax Herald)
” They play music that usually isn’t for everyone – for everybody!”
Bo Stief (Danish musician & composer) about Trio Chroch)

Visit our homepage www.chroch.dk

Trio Chroch has among other places performed at: Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Århus Jazz Festival, Av – Art Festivals, Magic Music Festival, Kolding Kontempoary Festival, Live on Danish National Radio. Trio Chroch toured in and around New York in November 2000, October 2001, October 2002 and September 2003 among the venues we where fortunate to perform were “Knitting Factory” “CBGB’s” and ”Roulette” in NYC.
Apart from the US tours Trio Chroch had the opportunity to tour in Germany, Latvia, Estonia and Sweden over the past couple of years.

Robert Cole Rizzi, Hasselvænget12, 6091 Bjert, tlf.7557 1486 mob.2645 7480, email: rizzi@get2net.dk, www.chroch.dk

Friday, 3 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble/Sounds in Bloom/Momentum"
A SPECIAL COLLABORATION with:
Emile Tobenfeld - video art / Diana Norma Szokolyai - poetry, movement / Dennis Shafer - saxophones / Dawson Hill -keyboard and theatre / Chris Montecalvo - percussion / Jason Felitto - electric bass

http://www.myspace.com/dnorma
http://www.myspace.com/momentumboston

Join us for an evening where all forms of art converge! Start out with poetry and music, then add video art improvisation by "Dr. T" (Emile Tobenfeld) and then add masterful theatrical improvisation by Momentum. Momentum frequently appears in poetry spoken word nights at the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain and has also played at Matt Murphy's Pub and on WERS radio.

(please note change in lineup for this show)
Saturday, 4 October 2008
MAX ALPER - IMPROVISED DRONING ENERGY - WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MAXALPERMUSIC

max alper family band - sleepy compositions and free improvisation. for the young and old, combining minimalist classical and third stream free form structured compositions to bring a new, mood-bending sound. (image attached)
www.myspace.com/maxalpermusic

dan lawrence - energetic, loud, and tasteful. dan lawrence and his band bring a fun and trippy sound to their shows, definitely a crowd pleaser.

diamond mouse - raw and organic, Jamaica Plain's Diamond Mouse bring a folk sound like no other.

Sunday, 5 October @ Outpost 8pm $8 or b/o
bohemian vaudeville:
“Binding the Cosmic Beasts:Alien Bondage on a Sunday”
Join these other worldly creatures in a wild adventure tearing between dimensions. With Clara the Chanteusse and Ruckus Muckus http://www.ruckusmuckus.com

Pandit Ravinder Goswami and Ramchandra Pandit
Tuesday, 14 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

Pandit Ravinder Goswami and Ramchandra Pandit

Pandit Ravinder Goswami and Ramchandra Pandit are masters of the Varanasi style... on their Spirit of Banaras tour this year mostly playing colleges. Goswami is a senior performer of the national scene... truly brilliant musician.

Wednesday, 15 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“G. David Gross Presents”
bsc
unnamed bigband

bsc:
bhob rainey - soprano sax
james coleman - theremin
liz tonne - voice
greg kelley - trumpet
vic rawlings - cello/electronics
mike bullock - upright bass
chris cooper - guitar

unnamed bigband:
dave gross - alto saxophone
polly hanson - percussion
forbes graham - trumpet
angela sawyer - electroncs
josh jefferson - bass clarinet
jules vasylenko - alto saxophone
nathan aylers - guitar
jay sullivan - turntable
lou cohen - electronics

Friday, 17 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
“Dave Maxwell’s Ether Bandits”
Dave Maxwell - piano
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
Robert Rivera - cello
Lawrence Cook - drums

Saturday, 18 October @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
Greenblatt/Schachnik Duo

Rich Greenblatt - piano
Gilson Schachnik - vibes ‏

Roger Miller by Bill T. Miller
Sunday 19 October @ Outpost - 7pm $5/10
“MILLER, MILLER & WESTON”
Ben Miller - prepared stereo guitar, electronics www.benmiller.info
Roger Miller - samples, toy piano
Matt Weston - percussion, electronics

Bhob Rainey and friends
Bhob Rainey and friends, TBA
http://www.myspace.com/lloydlyson

Josh Jefferson - sax + Vic Rawlings - cello -

Monday, 20 October @ Outpost - 7pm $5/10
Forbes Graham presents
-Dave Dove/Paul duo
-Forbes Graham/Josh Jefferson/David Gross

Wednesday, 22 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“G. David Gross Presents”
Minority Unit - world premiere of this power/grind/thrash trio
featuring:
ricardo donoso - drums
luke moldof (ex-craniopagus) - guitar
jules vasylenko - sax

Josh Jefferson - saxophone
Lou Cohen - laptop powered by Csound

Charlie Kohlhase - saxophones
Jef Charland - bass
Chris Punis - drums

Friday, 24 October @ Outpost - 8pm $5-10
Richard Tarantino - homemade percussion and amplified/prepared sheet metal objects
(Emperor Nortons stationary Marching Band)
Grantley Smith - percussion/electronics (also of ENSMB and many other boston jazz/improv groups)

Neil Leonard
Saturday, 25 October /@ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents:
"Leonard/Wang/Newton/Bryant"
Neil Leonard – reeds and electronics / Jane Wang – bass / Curt Newton – drums / Dave Bryant - keys

Sunday, 26 October @ Outpost - 7pm $5/10
“Forbes Graham presents (tba)

note: The Dante piece will be scheduled for another time.

Jon Glancy & Peter Bonos
Wednesday, 29 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“G. David Gross Presents”
"PB 'n J"
+"empty house cooperative"

PB 'n J
Francis Jon Glancy - Percussion, homemade instruments
Nat Mugavero - Drums
Peter Bonos - Trumpet, Fluegelhorn
http://www.myspace.com/peterbonos

empty house co-operative
david michael curry - viola/electronics
http://emptyhousecooperative.blogspot.com/

Thursday 30 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

Alex Wan - guitar & electric bass
Wing La - drums
Mihoko Abe - keys
Matt Wan - trombone

Biography:

Alex Wan was born in Hong Kong and came to Boston in the late 60's, he plays both guitar, guitar synthesizer, and bass. He has played in various bands in and around New England, including his own band
"Cultural Fusion". He released his debute solo CD album in 1989, entitled "Cultural Fusion" which consist 11 of his original compositions and arrangements. The album was distributed in US and Europe.

http://alexwanculturalfusion.vpweb.com/
His music can be heard at:

http://www.reverbnation.com/alexwan
VIDEO LINK FOR ALEX WAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o_oqbUw5c

(some) 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

East Coast Chant - 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 East Coast Chant.
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.

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

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, September 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:59:00 +0000

BADAL ROY Saturday 27 September 8pm

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

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

SEPTEMBER
Shot X Shot
Friday, 12 September @ OUTPOST - 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
from Philadelphia
"SHOT X SHOT"
Dan Scofield - alto sax / Bryan Rogers - tenor / Dan Capecchi - drums / Matt Engle - bass
opening: "The ECTOPLASMIC TRIO" (Cambridge)
John Voigt - bass / Todd Brunel - bass clarinet / Robert Rivera - cello

Shot × Shot is an improvisational acoustic quartet performing original compositions steeped in jazz tradition, but with experimental sensibilities. Formed in 2003, while the members were students at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, has quickly established itself as one of the most groundbreaking bands in one of jazz’s most important cities. On its self-titled debut, the group showcases its compositional dynamism and transcendental vibrancy creating a unique balanced sound that is often missing in improvisational jazz.

Fellow Philadelphian, jazz critic and author Francis Davis hears the band’s vitality. “Something fresh and exciting is unfolding in jazz, and these talented young Philadelphians are doing their part to speed it along,” writes Davis. “It’s been ages since I’ve heard a debut recording this adventurous and assured.”

Usually in jazz, youth is seen as a liability, but for Shot × Shot the opposite is true. Having been exposed to and performed all sorts of eclectic music, Shot × Shot infuse their music with diverse modern influences and a daring spirit, creating an experimental mix of sounds and structures.

With Dan Scofield (alto) and Bryan Rogers (tenor) on dueling saxophone ballasted by Dan Capecchi (drums) and Matt Engle (bass), the band’s multi-dimensional, layered sound relies on each musician’s unique contribution. Both Scofield and Engle are key members of Sonic Liberation Front, the African percussion-infused jazz group, whose 2004 High Two album Ashé A Go-Go, was widely praised by the Village Voice, Jazz Times, The Wire, among others. Scofield is also a member of the noise-improv band Wolf Vs. and performs, alongside Rogers, in Bobby Zankel’s large ensemble. Capecchi, a recent transplant from Minnesota, is a former member of indie rock band Triangle and the folk ensemble Jackaroo, now also plays in the Jeff Baumeister Quartet.

Shot × Shot is reminiscent of Human Feel, the band that launched the careers of Chris Speed, Jim Black, Andrew d’Angelo, and Kurt Rosenwinkel when they were music students in Boston. Similarly, Shot × Shot unites unique voices who are poised to be important musicians individually and collectively.
http://www.hightwo.com/sxs.html
http://www.aumfidelity.com/hightwo.htm
http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/destinationout.aspx?csid1=122

THE ECTOPLASMIC TRIO
"The Ectoplasmic Trio" is the result of the felicitous collision of
longtime collaborators Todd Brunel and Robert Rivera (Andalusian
Dream) with Boston bass legend John Voigt at a recent Outpost event
backing improvising bard Sebastian Lockwood. This is their first
public appearance as a trio.

Todd Brunel: http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com
Robert Rivera: http://www.myspace.com/riveracellist
John Voigt: http://art-energy.org/johnmusician.html

Saturday, Sept. 13 and Sunday, Sept. 14 @ OUTPOST - 8pm, $15.
“BUSH-CHENEY: LOUNGE FORCE”

with Ian Maxwell MacKinnon and Eric Zinman

BUSH AND CHENEY INVADE CAMBRIDGE WITH NEW LOUNGE ACT

CAMBRIDGE, MA: Riding out the final year of their historic administrations, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney will unveil a new musical project in Cambridge Sept. 13-14 at Outpost 186.

“BUSH-CHENEY: LOUNGE FORCE” will be hosted by local operatives Ian Maxwell MacKinnon and Eric Zinman. The show, featuring President Bush on guitar and Mr. Cheney on keyboards, is a response to those who would criticize our leaders as “lame ducks.” The act includes Bush-Cheney compositions such as "Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "The Sunny Side of the Dark Side of the Street." John McCain gets a special tribute from fellow fighter pilot Bush (with Cheney as co-pilot) in a momentous rewrite of "Heaven in your Eyes" from the movie "Top Gun."

“The President and Vice-President have just been recharging their batteries, and the power that comes from a little R&R is what ‘Lounge Force’ is all about,” MacKinnon says. Come witness the birth of a new musical career for the leaders of the free world, due to leave office on Jan. 21. Bush and Cheney have been represented by MacKinnon and Zinman in three previous plays: “A Bush-Cheney Christmas,” “The Apotheosis of George W. Bush,” and “The Bush-Cheney ‘Top Gun’ Focus Group.”

Critics have raved: “The show was hilarious”(BOSTON HERALD). “Pick of the Week”-DNC, 2004 (BOSTON PHOENIX). “Provocative, unsettling humor”(BOSTON GLOBE). MacKinnon (Bush) won a national theater manifesto contest judged by Tony Kushner and others with an entry called “Elect Better Actors.” Zinman (Cheney) is an acclaimed jazz pianist. Their archives as Bush and Cheney are at www.thebushcheneytopgunfocusgroup.com

Friday, 19 September @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble"
with
Emile Tobenfeld - video art
John Mulrooney - spoken Word
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet, electronics
with special guest:
Ara Sarkissian - piano
"Pianist and composer Ara Sarkissian keeps himself busy with various musical projects. His interests include eastern music, tuning systems, and exploring multi-stylistic aspects of music. He leads the ethno-jazz ensemble MUSANER, as well as the improvisatory PALIMPSEST ENSEMBLE".

Saturday, 20 September @ Outpost, 2-8pm Admission: your face
art opening / cookout / piano jam
outpost186 presents
“PIANORAMA!”
Come help Outpost 186 celebrate the arrival of our snazzy new piano, a Yamaha U3 full-size upright, with an all-day blow-out cook-out jam-out! The creme of the local piano aristocracy will be wrestling each other off the bench for a chance to try out the beast...other instrumentalists are invited to get off your ax & jam! we should have a kit on site. WE ALSO HAVE A SPIFFY NEW PA SYSTEM! Ain’t we fancy? A grill will be in operation on the patio to slake your non-musical hungers. Bring grillables, swillables, ice.

ART OPENING & RECEPTION
Pianorama is offered in conjunction with our first GROUP ART SHOW, featuring artists:
MITCH AHERN - fresh from a featured exhibit at the Decordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., displaying his ANGRY DISHTOWELS, block prints on cotton fabric. http://www.electrocaster.org/
KRISTIN GOODFRIEND - paintings, photography
JESS LAWRENCE - paintings, works on paper

Production: Todd Brunel - www.clarinetconspiracy.com

Sunday, 21 September @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Geezeworld presents
“THE DOUBLE STOPS”
Adam simon - violin, bass, vocals / Ben Simon - vocals, guitar, piano / Isaiah Davidson-Weiss - Guitar, bass, vocals

Influences : The Raincoats, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, The Beatles, The Talking Heads, DE-VO, Mission Of Burma, The Real Kids, Marc Thor, The Who, The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Television, The Make-Up, The Velvet Underground, and YOU!

http://www.bostongroupienews.com/BGNphotos/RicheeJohn/ThorSail4.jpg

Saturday, 27 September @ OUTPOST - 8pm $15 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents:
70’s miles davis tabla star BADAL ROY with
"BADAL ROY / DAVE BRYANT / MIKE RIVARD"
Badal Roy - tablas & percussion (Miles,Ornette,Pharoah,Ono)
Dave Bryant - piano (Ornette Coleman)
Mike Rivard - bass (Club D’elf)

BADAL ROY
Roy began playing the tabla at age 10 or 11, studying with his uncle. After coming to New York, he began performing with Steve Gorn at a Manhattan restaurant called Raga, eventually attracting the attention of Miles Davis. Davis invited Roy to join his group, and he recorded on Davis's albums On the Corner (1972), Big Fun (1969-72; released 1974), and Get Up with It (1970-74). Roy subsequently performed and recorded with many leading jazz musicians, including Davis, Dave Liebman, Pharoah Sanders, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Mann, Pat Metheny, Lester Bowie, Airto Moreira, Charlie Haden, Purna Das Baul, Yoko Ono, and Ornette Coleman (playing in Coleman's electric band Prime Time). In the 1990s Roy began performing with the Brazilian guitar duo Duofel. He has also collaborated with Ken Wessel and Stomu Takeishi in a fusion trio named Alankar. They currently have one album entitled Daybreak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badal_Roy

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, August 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:33:00 +0000

“PROJECTION : ZERO”
Blaise Siwula - alto & tenor sax
Carsten Radtke (Munich) - guitar
see 9 August

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

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008: (when posted)

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

Wednesday, 30 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
“BREAKFAST AT PENDERECKI’S”
JULES VASYLENKO - reeds,etc.
NATHAN AHLERS - prepared guitar,etc.
LAUREN STROBEL - trumpet,etc.
+
Josh Jefferson - solo sax
+
peter bonos - solo trumpetwww.myspace.com/peterbonos

AUGUST
Daryl ShawnJonathan Lamaster
Friday 1 August @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Daryl Shawn & Jonathan Lamaster
Daryl Shawn - guitar, tascam loops, dictaphone
Jonathan Lamaster - violin, bass, guitar
"Expat Daryl Shawn, currently living in Oaxaca, Mexico, improvises using the uncommon medium of a Tascam four-track loaded with looping cassettes and a secretary's office dictating machine in conjunction with his able nylon-string guitar."

with TODD BRUNEL - bass clarinet

James Merenda
Saturday 2 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents
BRYANT/MERENDA/GRAY/CHARLAND
Dave Bryant - piano / James Merenda - alto sax
Luther Gray - drums
Jeff Charland - bass

Sunday, 3 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm 10 or b/o
Joe Moffett presents:
"Gleason's Twins"
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Kristin Slipp - spoken word
+
"Jackface Jones"
Joe Moffett - Trumpet / Derek Beckvold - Saxophones /Adam Dotson - Euphonium / David Sleininger - Guitar / Matt Rousseau - Drums

Sat. 9 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
“PROJECTION : ZERO”
Blaise Siwula - alto & tenor sax
Carsten Radtke (Munich) - guitar

Projection: Zero

Blaise Siwula has been involved with the New York music scene since 1989 and has worked with numerous improvising musicians as well as having toured through Europe, Japan, Korea, SE Asia, Canada and the USA.

Carsten Radtke is a resident of Munich, Germany and is intensely involved with the classical, new music and jazz scene in Europe. He is current curator of the summer MusicOmi International Music Colony fellowship in upstate NY.

A myspace page with bio and sound files:
http://www.myspace.com/projectionzero
additional information can be found at –
http://home.earthlink.net/~bbrjsiwula/

Friday, 15 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm 10 or b/o
Joe Moffett presents:
LOW ROAD
+
Liana Stillman Trio

LOW ROAD :
Ruth Lepson - poetry / Noah Preminger - sax / Eric Lane - keys

Based out of the Northeast United States, poet Ruth Lepson, saxophonist Noah Preminger, and keyboardist Eric Lane formed Low Road, a group that sets Lepson’s poetry to music written and performed by Preminger and Lane. The repertoire includes a diverse selection of songs containing strict structure as well as very open, free form. Lepson is the current poet-in-residence at New England Conservatory. Preminger and Lane are recent graduates of the school and frequently perform in the Boston and New York areas.

Ruth Lepson:
I'm poet-in-residence at NEC, have been performing with musicians in recent yrs, & Low Road is making a CD of my poems & their music. My books are: Dreaming in Color, Poetry from Sojourner, and Morphology. I've given readings at the Bowery Poetry Club, La Mama, & on NPR's "All Things Considered," & my poems have been in many mags.

Liana Stillman Trio :
Liana Stillman - voice, composition
Sam Swan - violin
Dean Capper - cello
Liana Stillman is a singer/songwriter who brings an eclectic mix of influences to her music, from classics to cabaret. Don't let her small stature fool you- she has a powerhouse voice, with biting lyrics to match. Backed by cello and violin, her audience finds themselves lulled by the gorgeous melodies, hardly noticing that she's singing about strangling someone with their own intestines.

Saturday, 16 AUGUST @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
Geezeworld presents singer-songwriter
GREG KLYMA - “Rust Belt Vagabond”
Greg Klyma - acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, harmonica, vocals... sometimes piano and bass

Sunday, 17 August @ OUTPOST, 7:00pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
poet & storytellerSEBASTIAN LOCKWOOD : "Painting Caesar Dead"
with
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
John Voigt - bass, word
plus painters and dancers!
plus! BEATBOP: Poetry & Jazz
performing works of
Kerouac, Ted Joans, Ferlinghetti, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc.

John Voigt - Spoken Word, Electro-Acoustic Bass / Carolyn Wilkins - Voice, Keyboard / Joe Livolsi - Drums.

“Painting Caesar Dead”
Written and performed by Sebastian Lockwood.
”Join the club, the twenty three knives – he's too much: Flamen Dialis, warrior, orator, lawyer, adventurer, lover, put horns on every man in RomAmoR, 53 Victories, engineer and poet with the blood of the Goddess Venus running in his veins, joins with Issis: He is too much: She is you. Join the club: Paint Caesar Dead.

Painters, sculptors & artists of all means invited to paint Caesar dead: all work created is for sale at end of show.

Sebastian Lockwood tells: The epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey, Caesar: the Man from Venus and Paint Caesar Dead – he also tells BEOWULF and Monkey: A Journey to the West.

BEATBOP: Poetry & Jazz
performing works of Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans, Jane Cortez, Joni Mitchell; Sun Ra,Cecil Taylor, Charlie Parker, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Production: Rob Chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com

Monday, 18 August @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Forbes Graham & Polyrhythmatics Presents

Kevin Hufnagel - solo guitar (Dysrhythmia, NYC)
+
Bruce Lamont - solo saxophone (Yakuza, Chicago)

Thursday, 21 August @ Outpost, 8pm @ 5/10
THE EASY TEASE
Daniel Bieber - cello
Maggie Carson - vocals, banjo
Michael Feld - drums, vocals
Adam Janos - vocals, piano

www.theeasytease.com
www.sonicbids.com/easytease

Friday 22 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
“a shaman cabaret” with
EAST COAST CHANT - Tonia Pinheiro & Ukumbwa Sauti
East Coast Chant is a cosmic cabaret of sound, song, spoken word, chants, journeys and world service. It's a contemporary tapestry of possibilities woven with threads of light and shared purpose by musicians and audience. East Coast Chant is an experience that brings Heaven to Earth through the power of spirit-inspired music and makes Earth more like Heaven through the shared participation. All are welcome!

Saturday, 23 Aug @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
Geezeworld presents jazz vocalist
MELISSA KASSEL
Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Bruno Raberg - bass / Tom Zicarelli - piano
“A powerful, emotional artist…she alters themes until they become paraphrases of the original melodies, employing microtones in the process. She brings all of her, by jazz standards, wide range into play. She swoops, she bends notes, she lays behind the beat, then catches up with it. Dynamically, and texturally her work contains a good deal of contrast, sometimes she shouts, she growls, sometimes she almost whispers the lyrics...she’s among the best jazz vocalists to emerge in years.”
--HARVEY PEKAR 90.9 WBUR BOSTON’S NPR NEWS STATION.

Monday, 25 August @ OUTPOST 8pm
Music and performance art from Baltimore with
"Los Tenedores"

Perform some, tour some, foursome! Los Tenedores are troubadours of the modern age, present to commit individual and collaborative acts of passion. A pronged quartet, these escape-from-Baltimore artists alternate reality by being fully participatory... they seek truth, joy and reflection with each other, and you! All this born from the urgent nature of life and art -- language, performance and social. A conscious action decision, they create an abstractly tangible experience, designed to bring water forth from stone, transform overgrown souls into manicured infants, break down misery into revelry, and turn aurora borealis into crystal heaven; anything can happen and the senses are hyper-real. Through divergent paths, Theresa Columbus, Andy Herschberger, Freda Mohr and Elisa Urtiaga converge to comprise Los Tenedores. Los agarradores, Los Tenedores, agarran de la presente. The graspers, The Forks (The Possessors), take hold of (grasp) the present. "It was a passionate moment we were groping for..."

(some) 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

East Coast Chant - 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 East Coast Chant.
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.

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

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, July 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:30:00 +0000

Kevin Frenette 6 - Now with Joe Giardullo! - see 12 July
Joe Giardullo
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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

JULY
Wednesday, 9 July @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross presents
the epicureans
+
empty house cooperative
+
jeffrey smith

photo: Jane Philbrick
Thursday 10 July @ 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 11 July
private rehearsal

Joe Giardullo
Sat. 12 July @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
The KEVIN FRENETTE 6 Now with JOE GIARDULLO!
Kevin Frenette - guitar /James Rohr - fender rhodes / Joe Moffett - trumpet / Ryan McGuire - bass / Tatsuya Nakatani - percussion
http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette
We are pleased to announce the late addition of composer & sax great JOE GIARDULLO to the lineup! more info below...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=1778
http://www.joegiardullo.com/bio.htm
Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and contemporary improvisation.

of KF4: Connections
"The Kevin Frenette 4 is the collaborative efforts of four like-minded, energetic musicians who approach the spontaneous inventions of Connections with a blank slate...

Most of the pieces are set in motion by Frenette, who presents quick-witted guitar motifs with plenty of melodic angularity and rhythmic motion to feed the imaginations of his cohorts. Frenette's bop-inspired opening lines on the title track, arpeggiated statements on "Network Theory" and chromaticism on "Correlation Coefficient" are quickly echoed by McWain who seems to anticipate the guitarist's every move. The last three tracks on the disc, "Amalgamation," "Combinational Mathematics" and "Merger Doctrine," stand out as the session highlights. This far into the disc, the melding of musical thought takes on a natural flow with a complete abandonment of any pre-conceived notions.

Nakatani displays his brilliance throughout the session by combining inventive manipulation of percussive sound with thoughtful moments of silence. He employs a well-stocked arsenal of percussion to create tension in unpredictable ways. There are moments of utter defiance where sound clusters seem to purposefully disregard the melodic developments of guitar and piano. On "Logic Synthesis," Nakatani sets the mood with eerie cymbal harmonics and sporadic clatter, setting up a reflective backdrop for the others to exploit.”

--- John Barron/JazzReview.com
http://www.jazzreview.com/cd/review-18906.html

Sunday 13 July
private rehearsal

Monday 14 July
private rehearsal

Thursday 17 July @ 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, 18 July @ Outpost, 8 pm $10 or b/o
Forbes Graham & Polyrhythmatics Presents
Polyrhythmatics Brass Quartet
Forbes Graham - trumpet, laptop / Joe Moffett - trumpet
Adam Dotson - euphonium / George Saenz - trombone

+
Jackface Jones
Joe Moffett - Trumpet / Derek Beckvold - Saxophones /Adam Dotson - Euphonium / David Sleininger - Guitar / Matt Rousseau - Drums

Saturday, 19 July @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Geezeworld presents
Rabid Owl
Gleason's Twins
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Kristin Slipp - spoken word

Friday 25 July @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
EAST COAST CHANT with Tonia Pinheiro & Ukumbwa Sauti
East Coast Chant is a cosmic cabaret of sound, song, spoken word, chants, journeys and world service. It's a contemporary tapestry of possibilities woven with threads of light and shared purpose by musicians and audience. East Coast Chant is an experience that brings Heaven to Earth through the power of spirit-inspired music and makes Earth more like Heaven through the shared participation. All are welcome!

East Coast Chant premiers July 25th and is led by Tonia Pinheiro. Tonia (tone-ya) is a seasoned and inspired vocalist, facilitator, intuitive healer, and Ascension Path practitioner. Ukumbwa Sauti is an accomplished percussionist, educator, and shamanic healer/seer who creates inspired acoustic and electronic rhythms, environments and sound atmospheres.

Saturday, 26 July @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William’s Parampara Quintet
Laurence Cook - Drums / Steve Lantner - Piano / Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax / Jacob William - Bass / Forbes Graham - Trumpet

Wednesday, 30 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
“BREAKFAST AT PENDERECKI’S”
JULES VASYLENKO - reeds,etc.
NATHAN AHLERS - prepared guitar,etc.
LAUREN STROBEL - trumpet,etc.
+
Josh Jefferson - solo sax
+
peter bonos - solo trumpetwww.myspace.com/peterbonos

(some) 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.

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

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, June 2008

noreply@blogger.com (rob chalfen) — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Forbes Graham see 26 June

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, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 20082008http://www.townonline.com/newenglandarts/music/x222996086/An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 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

Thursday 5 June @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Ken Field (sax); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion), & special guestshttp://www.myspace.com/birdsongsofthemesozoic

Friday 6 June @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
“Incantation and Dance”
Andrea Loretz-Frey - vocals / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Paul Rodriguez - guitar / Robert Rivera - cello / Grantley smith - drums
An exploration of sound meditations and celebrations of spirit.

Thursday 12 June @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Ken Field (sax)& special guestshttp://www.myspace.com/birdsongsofthemesozoic

Saturday, 14 June @ 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
Secondary Deviations is scheduled to go into the studio this summer to record and, these concerts are for you to preview what could be in store! Please come, your support is much needed to grow this group further.
http://www.transientones.com/
http://www.myspace.com/jacobwilliambass

Sunday, 15 June @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
NOTE: The Whimsy has taken up its summer residence in Markus' backyard, starting Saturday, 21 June, @ 202 Franklin St. off Central Sq, Cambridge

Thursday 19 June @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic Salon Series”
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Rick Scott (keyboards, percussion) & laptop musician Anthony Baldinohttp://www.myspace.com/birdsongsofthemesozoic

Friday 20 June@ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble in “Sounds in Bloom”
Todd Brunel - clarinets / John Mulrooney - poetry / Dennis Shafer - sax / Emil Tobenfeld - spontaneous visual art / Diana Norma Szokaolyai - poet
A multi-faceted fusion of electro-acoustic music and sounds, augmenting words and visual images.

Saturday, 21 June @ OUTPOST, 8pm $7 or b/o
Geezeworld presents
Dana Price and friends
http://www.myspace.com/danaprice
Classically trained on the piano and violin since the age of 4, Dana has since branched out to explore other genres of music (jazz, bluegrass, folk, blues, rock, cabaret, etc...). She's studied at New England Conservatory, Berklee, and Tufts, and currently plays both fiddle & keys with many talented local bands and singer/songwriters. She is also a songwriter, plays solo shows around town, and is in the process of recording her first cd.

She previously played keys in Ziaf, an Edith Piaf Tribute Band, and toured throughout the U.S. and Europe with them, and also with Ad Frank and the Fast Easy Women.

Dana has recorded for many solo artists and projects as well, some of which include: Eddie Floyd, Bill McQuaid, Ad Frank, Danielle Miraglia, Ryan Fitzsimmons, Brendan Hogan, KL Brown and Millenium Funk, SeepeopleS, thebettergimp, and others around the Boston area.

She sometimes plays in a classical, Celtic, jazz, etc. quartet, trio, or duo for weddings, parties, etc. For more samples in different styles, just ask.

Tuesday 24 June @ Outpost, 8pm $7 or b/o
“Birdsongs: A Terry Riley Birthday Party”
presents a performance of minimalist trance landmark celebrating the composer's birthday
TERRY RILEY’S ‘IN C’!
Michael Bierylo (guitar, laptop); Ken Field (sax); Erik Lindgren (keyboards, electronics) plus Vessela and Val from Fluttr Effect & Boston composer Marti Epsteinhttp://www.myspace.com/birdsongsofthemesozoic

Thursday 26 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Forbes Graham & Polythythmatics presents
Polyrhythmatics Brass Quartet
Forbes Graham - trumpet, laptop / Joe Moffett - trumpet / George Saenz - trombone / Adam Dotson - euphonium www.polyrhythmatics.net

“Stern” (ex-Time of Orchids) www.myspace.com/sterntheman

”Hazel-Rah” (ex-Friendly Bears) www.myspace.com/timbyrnes

Friday 27 June @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Improvelocity Intimate Public Experiments ~ presents:
"JJ’s Birthday Concert"
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 28 June @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
a performance art showcase with
MITCH AHERN +
“QFWFQ”- Greg Kowolsky & Andrea Pensado - interactive video art
With other special performing guests

Mitchel Ahern
Mitchel Ahern is a Multimedia Fiber Performance Artist. Performing and exhibiting on multiple platforms. He has performed on a variety of self-invented musical instruments such as the Crutch, the Lid, and the Electroluxopipeophone in a variety of performing ensembles such as the Invented Thing Quartet, PKD and the dadallama performance company. His printmaking practice involves hand-carving various alphabets and designs, and then using those in combination to create diatribatic textual monoprints on fabric such as dishtowels, bolts of fabric and shirts. His work has been exhibited in the Marblehead Arts Association, Gallery 119 and Mitchel is currently showing at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln MA as part of the 2008 Annual Exhibition. He combines both his printmaking and musical practices to produce contextual works such as Martha Stewart in the Underworld and Mencken's Memorial for the Gods.

http://www.electrocaster.org

QFWFQ
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland, in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. They moved to the US after having lived 5 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

http://www.qfwfqduo.com/

The Word Noise Project
Performing the works of Ken Nordine, the World Noise Project combines improvisational music, video, movement and the storytelling of Word Jazz. Featuring Walter Wright, Mitchel Ahern Joe Brown and movement 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
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, 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

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