From Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, J. S. Bach (1685-1750).

I’ll be performing this suite (without the camera) at the fourth installment of One in the Chamber, a chamber music series curated by clarinetist / composer Shane Krause:

One in the Chamber Op 4

Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 PM. $8

Kozmik Zoo, 53 W Broadway

Also featuring Meris Goodman, voice; Patrick Jennings, guitar.

Meris Goodman is a multidisciplinary performer and member of the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, specializing in singing, Balinese Gamelan, dance, clown, and social awkwardness. Meris will be performing works by Puccini, Strauss, Mozart, and Handel with Robyn Jacob on piano.
Patrick Jennings is a guitarist who plays fingerstyle jazz, classical and flamenco. Hehas studied at Domaine Forget and at Uvic. Patrick will be performing pieces by contemporary guitar master Leo Brouwer and other selections.

The Sorrow and the Pity is D. R. Bastarde, drums and vocals, and Darren R. Williams, tenor saxophone.

Fist Full O’ Snacks is Robyn Jacob, voice and piano:

2011 was a busy year for the Institute for the Study of Advanced Musical Research. Continuing research directions included advanced musical research into human resources management, labour relations, manufacturing, steel production, military aviation, and nuclear testing. New research for 2011 included investigations of fuzzy animals and children. A textual cut-up technique was was applied to artist statements representing the state of the art in both improvisation and composition in contemporary practice. Montage was employed in applications that were found to be simultaneously ironic and non-ironic. The fourth Annual Report was produced with the help of the travesty generator found at Ben Johnson’s web site, the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, and 2011 recordings by Scarlioni’s Angle and the Solo Piano Unit Control Unit Unit, as well as an unreleased live solo piano recording from Vancouver Noisefest (Sept 2011) and audio sketches for prepared piano and midi piano.

Door 8:30 pm / $7

Robots On Fire is about taking musical traditions, blowing them up, and playing the pieces – including the tradition of taking the tradition, blowing it up, and playing the pieces. The Robots have been featured at Open Space (Victoria), the Art Gallery of Calgary, and more recently at Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival, and have also appeared at Vancouver Jazz Fest shadow shows backing up Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, and Mats Gustafsson. With a new-ish lineup and an all-original new set, the Robots will take over Kozmik Zoo, blow it up, and put it back together again using the awesome power of music.* With Dave Chokroun, bass; John Mutter, guitar; Kevin Romain, drums; Jonathon Wilcke, alto sax; Darren Williams, tenor sax.

The Bletchley Bombes play the music of iconoclastic jazz composers such as Thelonious Monk, Grachan Moncur III, Eric Dolphy, and Steve Lacy. This quintet performs with a focus on the spontaneous and the unexpected; bucking some of the common practices of jazz performance. The Bombes are led by baritone saxophonist/bass clarinetist Shane Krause, and features trumpeter Eric Weiden, tenor saxophonist Dominic Conway, drummer Ben Brown and guest bassist Tommy Babin.

http://www.myspace.com/thebletchleybombes

http://thekozmikzoo.wordpress.com/

* No we won’t.

we just stole a car – THE FIRST TIME WE MET live @ Thor’s Palace 12/09/11 from we just stole a car on Vimeo.

Credits: we just stole a car performs THE FIRST TIME WE MET from their CHAT TAMBOUR project live at Thor’s Palace in Vancouver BC on December 9th 2011. Recorded by jo_k_h_, shot by Elise Boeur with an Iphone, edited by John Mutter.

We Just Stole a Car plays on Wednesday January 18 @ the Biltmore with Inhabitants and Nam Shub. Details

This was made with midi files generated by the Sloane Index of integer sequences. Go midi!