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Saturday, Jul 10 2004 9:00 PM 21 Grand 449B 23rd St. Oakland $6-10 Sensitive noise Solos, duos and quartet with: Joshua Churchill: Guitar/Field Recordings/Radio/Electronics Joel Pickard: Pedal Steel Guitar Chris Cory: Sax/Wind-Controller/Shortwave Radio Matt Davignon: Turntable/Drum Machine Joshua G Churchill is an interdisciplinary artist that works with sound in the context of performance, recordings, and installations. Much of his performance and recording work involves careful transposition and recontextualization of familiar (and unfamiliar) sounds. Through subtle processing, looping, and layering, the sounds he creates and affects constantly transform and fade into one another, losing their original voices and adopting new ones along the way. "The sounds of guitar become raindrops and a gurgling stream to the hush of radio static to the squeal of a bus, before reemerging once again as strings - all the while traveling slowly through space." http://www.infique.net Joel Pickard has worked as an improviser and composer and created music for dance, theatre, video, gallery installation and performance. In addition to traditional Western instruments his music uses a wide variety of musical materials including crickets, ping-pong balls, toy pianos, loose change, fireworks and walkee talkees. One of his most recent interests, and the subject of his masters thesis for his MA in composition from Mills College 2004 , has been the pedal steel guitar, an instrument long relegated to providing the weeping backdrop to generations of country music ballads. Joel is currently in the process of recording a cd documenting his explorations on this instrument and the development of a musical language that incorporates balloons, knitting needles, music boxes, and chopsticks. Chris Cory has been playing woodwinds since he was 8. After years of performing jazz and no-wave, he burnt out on conventional "songs" in about 1990. He spent the next 10 years paying close attention to sources of subtlely-organized white/gray/red noise - detuned AM/Shortwave radio, rock tumblers, car engines, etc. He now enjoys manipulating and composing with such sounds with a wind controller (midi saxophone device) and various sampling units. Matt Davignon of Oakland, California has been performing and recording experimental music for the last 10 years. Primarily self-taught, he has developed a unique form of intuitive improvisation focusing on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. He prefers to use fairly simple sampling devices to manipulate the sounds of what is already in reach, avoiding the tradition of many electronic musicians to seek the newest, shiniest tools. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/