Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/20/2015
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
509 Cultural Gallery
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$6-$15 Sliding Scale
- 8:00pm: David Katz & Friends
- 8:40pm: Rachel Austin – voice
- 9:15pm: zBug
The Luggage Store Creative Music Series is the longest standing experimental music series in the Bay Area, with weekly Thursday night shows since 1991. Founded by Luggage Store Gallery Directors Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith, the series has been curated by several Bay Area musicians.
Rachel Austin’s aim as a vocal improviser is split between two bipolar judgements:
- a. to playplayplay
- b. to seek the Sublime through narrative* in the shapes created by sound
A songwriter, performance artist and electronic composer, she has toured and recorded throughout Europe and the US. She taught voice and performance at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast and is currently studying at Mills College in Oakland.
She has performed with others.
People like: Okkyung Lee, Ellen Waterman, Maria Chavez, Bourne Davis Kane, Tom Arthurs, Simon Rose, maybe you (since you are here), etc. and is set to perform with Fred Frith in various upcoming shows.
Much to her surprise, Austin’s recent work has taken a more sublime bent with impulses toward computer interventions, narrative, noisenoisenoise and movement. Play, humour, the sublime, beauty… these [in- or de-]form her narratives. *let’s face it: she writes songs on the fly.
“diG your music. Eclectic ain’t the word. Film noir multiverse ethnic blade runner desert world. Love it!” — Nivek Ogre, ohGr/Skinny Puppy
“… zBug sounds very similar to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio!” — John Baffa, Sound Engineer – CalArts/Lou Reed’s MM3: The Creation Of The Universe
- David Leikam — moog rogue, electric bass-cello
- Sheila Bosco — drums, percussion
- Fred Malouf — electric guitar, electronics
- Patrick Cress — saxophones
David Leikam/zBug is the premiere industrial jazz unit based in San Francisco, CA that presents structured improvisational compositional music sets, based on architecture.