Friday, March 2, 2007

Events For 9/19 to 9/25/2002

Events For 9/19 to 9/25.
partyvolcano@yahoo.com

Did you know that today is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Check out this story: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/4029728.htm .
(Thanks Franz for pointing it out. I mean: Arrrrr).

Thursday 9/19.
8:00 PM "Outsides: new tricks, old instruments" @ 964 Natoma (SFO)
8:00 PM Degenerate Art Ensemble @ CoCA
9:30 PM Three by One & One by Three @Northwest Actors Studio.

Friday 9/20.
7:00 PM Manslaughter @ Vital 5.
8:00 PM "San Francisco Found Object Festival" @ 964 Natoma (SFO)

Saturday 9/21.
7:00 PM Return of the Thing Equinox Celebration @ Greenlake Masonic Center.
7:15 PM Baroness Jzeannette @ Odd Duck Studio.

Wednesday 9/25.
6:30 PM Slender Means Society's Audio Hors d'Oeuvres @ SAW


Thursday 9/12.

Outsides: new tricks, old instruments" @ 964 Natoma (SFO).

For those of you who will be in SF during these days, Aaron's sound events are beautiful things. Enjoy lounging, cookies, and aural stimulation:

"Outsides: new tricks, old instruments" with: Matthias Ziegler (contrabass flute & electronics), zoe (cello & electronics), jhno (laptop & psychic emenations). Electronics extend the reach of traditional instruments (cello and flute), new sensibilities breed a new music of groove, drone and ambiance.

Seating mostly on futons to encourage comfortable deep listening. Hopefully we'll still have beanbags (courtesy of Blasthaus!). Depending on weather, hot or cold drinks will be available. Hopefully someone will make cookies again.

964 Natoma, San Francisco. Between Mission and Howard, 10th and 11th street, south of market. A few blocks from Civic Center BART, or the corner of Market & Van Ness. Bike parking inside!
Starts at 8pm, $6-10 sliding, no one turned away for lack of funds.
http://subminimal.com/ear/index.html
http://www.epitonic.com/artists/jhno.html


Degenerate Art Ensemble @CoCA

From their email:

Degenerate Art Ensemble will present an evening of new sketches and experiments in music, dance, sculpture, animation and more at the Center On Contemporary Art (COCA) on Capitol Hill. The evening will include an entire set of newly composed music by Joshua Kohl, Josh Stewart, Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff.

The night will also feature collaborations between composers and other artists. Composer Josh Stewart will team up with sculptor Nikolaus Weisend on a huge music making structure, which will be played by four suspended musicians and connected to dancer Haruko Nishimura. Composer Sam Mickens will collaborate with a butoh dancer and a break dancer. DAE percussionist Robert Walker will accompany a newly animated short film.

The evening is co-presented by COCA and Degenerate Art Ensemble with the support of the Seattle Arts Commission's Emerging Arts Organizations program.

CoCA, 1420 11th Ave (between Pike and Union on Capitol Hill), 8 PM, $5-10 donation requested.
CoCA: http://www.cocaseattle.org
www.degenerateartensemble.com

Three by One & One by Three @Northwest Actors Studio

Elizabeth Carpenter is letting us know that she will perform songs at Seattle Fringe Fest 9/19 - 9/29 as part of "Three by One & One by Three - Union Actors at Work", which is a play written by Larry Blamire:

Hi Music Friends - I've composed 5 songs for these mini-plays (kinda Waiting For Godot-lite) and will be performing them live at all 5 shows. On Monday, 9/23 they're doing a 2 for 1 deal (so that's the cheap way to go) and any union member of any kind of union gets a $3 buck rebate after any show.

About the comedy:

Shakespeare and pitted olives? Four actors in the actor's nightmare? An appointment kept three ways by three directors - forward, backward, and in-your-head? These are the questions explored by an all-union cast in the West Coast premiere of Larry Blamire's wry comedies. Spiked with the original blues vocals and guitar of Elizabeth Carpenter.

Northwest Actors Studio, 1100 E. Pike 2nd Floor (enter on 11th), 9:30 pm, $9 - $12.
http://fringe.phantomgeek.com/sff/bytitle.shtml?productionid=609&submit=view
http://fringe.phantomgeek.com/sff/

Friday 9/20.

Manslaughter @ Vital 5.

Vital 5 Productions proudly presents "Manslaughter" - a degenerate play written and directed by Greg Lundgren:

a Hooker
a Billionaire
Crack Cocaine
a Candy Bar and
a 9mm Handgun

Wanna Date?

Party Volcano talked to Greg Lundgren (the guy who runs V5) about it and it promises to be hyper-violent--with lots of crack smoking, gun play, prostitutes. Yeah!

Greg was very upfront about warning it might not be everyone's cup of tea (eg. a scene where dudes in a car try to sexually assault the hooker, Sugar; and Sugar winds up shooting them all--which, of course, is only justice served, but you get the idea, regarding it being uber-violent.)

The physical set-up of the play is a cool idea: the audience will be INSIDE Vital 5, looking out the front window and the play will take place OUTSIDE, literally on the street. The actors will be mic'd up with wireless microphones that will be patched into speakers in V5, so the audience will be able to hear the actors. Once the actors move off the "set"--eg. the hooker gets in a car with a trick and they drive out of view, the sound over the spearkers will switch to pre-recordded dialogue, thus, also, allowing the opportunity for realistic sound effects such as semi-auto gunfire.

The fact that the play takes place OUTSIDE means, of course, that it's entirely possible that random passerbys will happen into the scenes on the street and think that the actress standing on the corner really is a hooker....

Vital 5, 2200 Westlake Avenue, Seattle (on the Southeast corner of Denny and Westlake Ave.). The doors open at 7:00 and the show starts at 8:00. Be warned: Graphic violence, drug use and sexual content may be offensive to some audience members.

"San Francisco Found Object Festival" @ 964 Natoma (SFO).

If you happen to be in San Francisco don't miss the San Francisco Found Object Festival created by Matt Davignon (Tape Recorder, Field Effects).

For two nights, Bay Area musicians spontaneously create music using objects brought in by you, the audience! Please bring one or more objects (just about anything around the house or outside) to be used as sound sources by the artists. Of course, you'll get them back at the end of each night...
NOTE: Please do NOT bring hazardous or radioactive materials, live animals, or firearms... thanks!

I guess you can bring those to Vital 5's Manslaughter show...

964 Natoma, San Francisco. Between Mission and Howard, 10th and 11th street, south of market. A few blocks from Civic Center BART, or the corner of Market & Van Ness. Bike parking inside!
Starts at 8pm, $6-10 sliding, no one turned away for lack of funds.
http://subminimal.com/ear/index.html
http://www.epitonic.com/artists/jhno.html

Saturday 9/21.

Return of the Thing Equinox Celebration @ Greenlake Masonic Center.

Party Volcano reader Yuri is co-hosting an Autumnal Equinox event in the greenlake area on the 21st it will feature feature a "ritual" play written by Sir Aleister Crowley called "The Rite of Mercury":

Please come Masked to honour the God of Intelligence, Trickery and Splendour! Feel free to bring something for the altar that you would like charged with Mercurial energy (an orange candle- a stick of incense a hat- are all good ideas for the altar) and you can take them home to use as you see fit. There will be Raffles with prizes donated by local and guest Vendors, Hebrew Bingo before and after the Rite as well as a Deacon Flogging booth (two whips for a buck!). Come to this rare event and bring a friend. Enjoy this play written by the naughtiest of Victorians!

I wish I could go back to that great Wig and Skirt party earlier this year and recharge my voodoo doll with that Mullet Shrine's unique energy. I really need a hair cut.

Greenlake Masonic Center 307 NE Maple Leaf Place, 7PM, $7.
Tickets are 7 dollars advance from Edge of the Circle Books (206)PAN-1999 and 10 dollars day of show- with a three dollar discount day of show if you bring 2 canned food items for North West Harvest. Doors open at 7, show begins at 8 with vendors and bingo till midnight.
Schedule: http://www.internationalwebservice.com/event.htm

Baroness Jzeannette @ Odd Duck Studio.

I met Jeannette at Butler's Homo Garden show few months ago. She apparently used to live in Germany for a while and was telling some very funny stories. She will play at the Seattle Fringe Festival. Here is the press release:

Baroness Jzeannette (think: Marlene Dietrich meets General Patton and
won't take any scheisse weak love!) answers your questions on Love &
Life. Social critique in fishnets, cabaret style. Verbal jousting mit
oomphf!

ODD DUCK STUDIO (Stage 5), 1214 Tenth Ave. E. (Capitol Hill, one block off Broadway at Union), $10, 7:15PM.
http://fringe.phantomgeek.com/sff/bytitle.shtml?productionid=595&submit=view
www.warmupcomedian.com

Wednesday 9/25.


Slender Means Society's Audio Hors d'Oeuvres @ SAW

The press release says:

The Blow's EP release and Hors d'Oeuvre party! The whole gang will be there— The Blow (performing their new opera, Blue Sky vs. Night Sky, an elaborately orchestrated collection that extends The Blow’s focus beyond that of all previous incarnations.) Karl Blau (in particular the rare city appearance of Karl Blau, Anacortes native, the well-kept secret totem pole who's music runs deep and seeps through as a muse to many of the people who will be playing at the show [he is also a heavy influence on the Microphones, who sadly won't be at the show])

Calvin Johnson, Little Wings, Wolf Colonel, Yume Bitsu, The Badger King, Thanksgiving, Swastika Girls ...a bunch of the folks from the K family, playing alongside their best friends and those who give them heavy influence and inspiration.

Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 6:30pm. All Ages. $6, or $4 if accompanied with a plate of hors d'oeuvres.


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