The San Francisco Electronic Music Meetup Group

► Tomorrow Sat 28 Sep | 5 & 7 Oct ◄ MSP/Piano: Renga Games – Cage’d & UnCage’d: Cage’s Two² & Renga-kai (連歌会) for 9 musicians • Palo Alto, Berkeley & SF • w Deuter, Busse, & Renga-9 Ensemble

From:	Joe L.
Sent on:	Friday, September 27, 2013, 10:43 PM

Dear SF EMM'ers -

My colleague Patti Deuter and I are excited to present contrasting musical explorations of the unusual and fascinating Japanese poetry-improv form renga in a series of concerts.

The second half of these programs will combine MSP-based laptop synthesis with acoustic instruments and sample manipulation games.

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MSP/Piano: Renga Games – Cage’d & UnCage’d: Cage’s Two² w Patti Deuter • Renga-kai (連歌会) for 9 musicians • w dancer Nan Busse

— East Bay: Sat 05 Oct, 2013 at Berkeley Arts Festival

— SF: Mon 07 Oct, 2013 at Center for New Music

— South Bay: Two² alone in an additional concert: tomorrow Sat 28 Sep, 2013, house concert, Palo Alto (If you’d like to come to the Palo Alto concert, please contact me at [address removed] as soon as possible for directions)

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— One of John Cage’s renga-based masterpieces, the luminous two-piano Two²

— New Renga-kai (連歌会) game-like improvisational form for 9 musicians, combining synthesized, vocal, instrumental, and concrète sounds across an electroacoustic spectrum.

We’ll be joined by one of the Bay Area’s most exciting dancers, Nan Busse, for all concerts.

For the 05 Oct and 07 Oct concerts at Berkeley Arts Festival and CNM, we’ll also perform as part of Renga-9 Ensemble:

— Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi & percussion)

— Tom Bickley (recorders, electronics/radios & percussion)

— Rachel Condry (clarinets)

— Patti Deuter (piano & toy piano)

— Ben Kreith (violin)

— Joe Lasqo (MSP/laptop, piano, mṛdangam, & solkaṭṭu)

— Sangita Moskow (sarod)

— Suki O’Kane (percussion)

— Dean Santomieri (guitars & voice)

Join some great players for a serene and surprising game of structured interdimensional drift to destinations you can’t get to any other way.