Virtual Assembly at Wednesdays & Sundays @ Berkeley Arts

friday february 22, 2013

8 pm
Virtual Assembly
Virtual Assembly is a chamber trio that doesn't know what it’s going to play before it plays. But when it plays, the problem of all the capacities and ideas it has within turns into live music. Before that the music is not actual, it’s virtual; yet real . . . i.e., concentrated in the assembly like the dream of a butterfly in the cocoon.

Bob Marsh - cello
Jim Ryan - flute
Eli Wallace - piano

9 pm
One Night Stand Band
Expands the Virtual Assembly's improvisational aesthetic; actualizing the problematic with additional forces and instruments: Rent Romus saxes, David Michalak lap steel gtr, Bob Marsh cello, Tom Nunn nunnstruments, Jim Ryan trumpet & processed kalimba, Eli Wallace piano...

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friday february 22, 2013

8 pm
Virtual Assembly
Virtual Assembly is a chamber trio that doesn't know what it’s going to play before it plays. But when it plays, the problem of all the capacities and ideas it has within turns into live music. Before that the music is not actual, it’s virtual; yet real . . . i.e., concentrated in the assembly like the dream of a butterfly in the cocoon.

Bob Marsh - cello
Jim Ryan - flute
Eli Wallace - piano

9 pm
One Night Stand Band
Expands the Virtual Assembly's improvisational aesthetic; actualizing the problematic with additional forces and instruments: Rent Romus saxes, David Michalak lap steel gtr, Bob Marsh cello, Tom Nunn nunnstruments, Jim Ryan trumpet & processed kalimba, Eli Wallace piano

*Bob Marsh considers the cello as one of his primary instruments. He has worked in sax/cello duo with Jack Wright for over 20 years.
*David Michalak is well known his films and his perennial group 'Ghost in the House' as well as his lap steel work with Bob Marsh in the group 'Dr. Bob.'
*Rent Romus is a master of the saxophone and perhaps the strongest promoter and supporter of Bay Area Experimental Music. He organizes and puts on over 70 shows a year, as well as a week-long festival in mid-Summer.
*Tom Nunn is a master builder and player of original instruments. His treatise 'WISDOM OF THE IMPULSE' (concerning the nature of free improvisation) is available FREE in PDF format on the web.
*Jim Ryan has been playing a kalimba from Tanzania since 1972 and has been struggling to gain proficiency on trumpet for the past 2.5 years.
*Eli Wallace has been composing, teaching, and gigging in the Bay Area since his return with a Masters in Music from the New England.

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