Nettle at Vaudeville Park with Special Guests

DJ/Rupture's Nettle will be playing within a sculpture show at Brooklyn's Vaudeville Park. This will be part of the "Pairing Off" a.k.a "Music is Art/Music as Art" series at VP. These types of shows are always my favorite because they are intimate and provide an alternate landscape to hear live music. Opening the night are Korean musicians, Seungmin Cha--Eunsun Jung--Woojung Sim, who play shamanistic experimental flute and vocal music. Also, Lamin Fonfana will be doing a live set of sound oscillations from his profound musical vocabulary. This will be Nettle's last shows in a while, so please catch us if you haven't already: )

Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave. WillyB, Brooklyn
Saturday--April 9th--2011
8.30pm
$5

Nettle Plays Zebulon

DJ/Rupture invited me to join his group Nettle back in February. I would call a Nettle a dark chamber ensemble that is triggered by DJ/Rupture's brilliant electronic alchemy paying occasional homage to the music of North Africa(Gnawa). I'm also very fortunate to have Brent Arnold on cello, Lindsay Cuff on violin, and Bill Bowden on percussion/electronics in this outfit. We play at Zebulon this Thursday, March 10th at 9.30pm. The show is free!!

Tap Dancers at Danspace

I'm very honored to be a part of this special tap show. Michelle Dorrance is a member of STOMP and one of the most phenomenal tap dancers out there; and we go all the way back to Chapel Hill High School!!! I'll be playing guitar on a piece Michelle and I arranged a few months ago. Also, adding choreography is Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, another tap giant doing a tribute to Michael Jackson and Paul Kennedy. This is seriously incredible!!

For tickets >> Danspace

Michelle Dorrance & Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards: A Shared Evening!

Featuring "Blood On the Dance Floor", Dormeshia's tribute to Michael Jackson and Paul Kennedy and
Introducing Dorrance Dance, new works choreographed by Michelle Dorrance.

It runs:
March 10 - 12, 2011 [Thu-Sat] at 8PM
presented by Danspace Project, located in
St. Mark's Church in the Bowery: 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue).
The evening is a part of Danspace Project's Platform Series: Body Madness Part 2 - Rhythm & Humor and is curated by the lovely David Parker.

Video/Sound Collaboration

Derelict Daisy from Brian Zegeer on Vimeo.

This is "Derelict Daisy" a video project that Brian Zegeer created. It is inspired by the Frank/Leslie short "Pull My Daisy"(1959) staring Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, and beautifully narrated by Jack Kerouac.

I did an all electronic performance on this piece using my new inventions-- Tea Forte'(a three oscillator noise cracker), a theremin, various circuit-bent toys, a sampler, and a prepared speaker.

*note--this was a live performance at Vaudeville Park. The sound quality is not the best because we used a video camera mic. We hope to re-record and perform this again in the future. For right now, it will give you an idea of what could happen. Hope you enjoy: )

Living Room Residency Thus Far

Thanks to Dave Berger and Space Pimp for playing the opening night with me. Dave is now in New Zealand enjoying the warm scenery. Also, a big shout out to Emil McGloin for playing baritone and acoustic guitar with me last week. And, of course, Synth-Head#7 for making an appearance Earth all the way from planet Synthia with Anthony Johnson.

Next week, 2/16 at the Living Room will be awesome. We already got a nice writeup on BeaconPass site for this show. This will be the same lineup as my Crystalline Flux show last year. The incredible Emily Manzo on prepared piano, scintillating cellist Brent Arnold, synthesis master-mind Joey Johnson, and the drumming force of Mr. Anthony Johnson.

http://www.beaconpass.com/event/baby-copperhead-2

February Residency @ The Living Room

<< The Living Room>> 154 Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side.

*photo by Megan Senior, depicted within an installation by Caleb Nussear and Naomi Reis

Cat's Cradle 12/22/10

Thanks to all of you who came out to the Cradle last week. So great to be back in NC, seeing old friends and playing music at the Cradle with Lizzy Cook and Adam Sung Waldron. Also, a special thanks to Great Dog Almighty and Spaghetti Western for contributing their amazing talents to the bill. Here are some moments(~_^)

*photos by Ronnie Cruz