sundays @berkeley arts presents: Dream Team & Voicehandler
2133 University Ave, Berkeley, CA (near downtown Berkeley BART, wheelchair accessible)
9 pm
Voicehandler
Jacob Felix Heule: percussion & electronics
Danishta Rivero: voice, Hydrophonium, & electronics
Voicehandler is the San Francisco-based duo of Jacob Felix Heule and Danishta Rivero. This electroacoustic ensemble combines improvisation with original compositions, performing on voice, percussion, electronics, and Hydrophonium (a water-based electroacoustic percussion instrument). Their current project explores ideas of our origins and what it means to be human, as presented in mythology and literature, including works by Burroughs, Borges, and Hamsun....
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sundays @berkeley arts presents: Dream Team & Voicehandler
2133 University Ave, Berkeley, CA (near downtown Berkeley BART, wheelchair accessible)
9 pm
Voicehandler
Jacob Felix Heule: percussion & electronics
Danishta Rivero: voice, Hydrophonium, & electronics
Voicehandler is the San Francisco-based duo of Jacob Felix Heule and Danishta Rivero. This electroacoustic ensemble combines improvisation with original compositions, performing on voice, percussion, electronics, and Hydrophonium (a water-based electroacoustic percussion instrument). Their current project explores ideas of our origins and what it means to be human, as presented in mythology and literature, including works by Burroughs, Borges, and Hamsun.
Jacob Felix Heule is a percussionist and electronic musician focused on sound-oriented improvisation following the traditions of electro-acoustic improv, noise, and 20th-century composition. His playing embraces both rough-edged intensity and disciplined instrumental technique. In 2004 Heule founded the acoustic grind duo Ettrick with Jay Korber. Heule has worked extensively with double bassist Tony Dryer since 2006, in a variety of groups such as Basshaters and Addleds (with Kyle Bruckmann and Kanoko Nishi). He has recently been highly active touring and recording with Sult, his Norwegian/American acoustic noise quartet with Dryer, HÃ¥vard Skaset, and Guro Skumsnes Moe.
Danishta Rivero is a musician and sound artist who resides in San Francisco. She performs solo improvisations on the Hydrophonium, a water-based electro-acoustic percussion instrument, with which she has toured the Pacific Northwest. Danishta also does vocals and digital signal processing in Blood Wedding, a just-intonation noise duo with Chuck Johnson on lap steel guitar and modular synth. She was the lead vocalist of progressive metal band Aghora (1997-2006), and she co-founded Optiphonal Wonder Machine, a multimedia collaboration with Jennifer Rannells.
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DreamTeam
Jack Callahan (1990) grew up the midwest / writes music for people with/out instruments / studied with Jürg Frey / is interested in thresholds. He holds a bachelor’s in music composition and theory from hampshire college. His music has been performed throughout the united states and europe.
David Kant (1986) writes music for people, computers, people with computers, computers with people, people with people and computers with computers. He spends his free time attempting to reconstruct the natural language, searching for the sounds of ancient egypt, and building chaotic audio-visual synthesis systems. He holds a bachelor’s in mathematics from yale university and a master’s in digital musics from dartmouth university.
K.C.M. Walker (1985) was born in the foothills of the appalachian mountains in south carolina. His work has been performed in various cities in the united states and europe, in concert halls, rivers and caves. In both 2009 and 2011 he attended the ostrava days institute as a resident student. He holds a bachelor’s from the college of charleston and a master’s in composition from wesleyan university, where he worked with advisor Alvin Lucier. He cites eschatology, mythology, mysticism, and games as being important to his work.
Music: http://soundcloud.com/dream-team-ensemble
Website: http://dreamteamensemble.tumblr.com/
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