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Three endless contortionist collaborators - TAKA, Motoko, & Mike Watt are performing this Sunday! If you can afford the tickets for this show, I definitely recommend checking it out. I'm sure its going to be AMAZING!
Blast! [6] - a benefit to support SASSAS (the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) and the 10th anniversary of the sound. concert series
Performers:
Tom Watson and his Clients (Flea, Petra Haden, Motoko Honda, Takafumi Kosaka, Tom Watson and Mike Watt), howardAmb, Jim Shaw & Dani Tull and DJs Kevin Hanley and Ale
Date:
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Time:
4:00 - 8:00 PM
Place:
At the home and garden of 33 1/3 club member Abby Sher in Pacific Palisades (directions provided with ticket purchase)
Show info:
www.sassas.org/blast or 323-960-5723
Admission:
$50 minimum donation, $40 SASSAS members and $30 students with valid ID (student tickets are limited); Special $300 SASSTER BLASTER event ticket includes a signed iPod Shuffle specially programmed by Henry Rollins and a one year membership to SASSAS
Purchase tickets on line:
www.sassas.org/blast
Fundraiser Aims to Benefit SASSAS and the Tenth Anniversary of sound. Concerts with Music, Performance and Art
Flea, Petra Haden, Henry Rollins, Mike Watt, Tom Watson, howardAmb and Jim Shaw are among the artists supporting SASSAS at Blast! [6]
(Los Angeles) An eclectic line up of musicians, performers, DJs, and artists will unite on May 31 to support the popular sound. summer concert series at Blast! [6], the annual SASSAS fundraiser. Produced by SASSAS—the arts organization committed to bringing challenging music and performances to Los Angeles—sound. celebrates its tenth year of experimental music with an amazing line up of concerts and events. Each year SASSAS organizes Blast! to help fund the summer series, and this year the fundraiser benefits a unique and special anniversary event—a day-long series of concerts featuring performers from the past 10 years of sound. concerts.
Confirmed concerts for the sound. summer 2009 series include the Seattle-based collagists Climax Golden Twins paired with Los Angeles sound experimenter Steve Roden at the Schindler House. And, SASSAS is excited to produce a very special event to cap off the tenth year of sound. concerts, Mapping sound.: the SASSAS 10th Anniversary Concert. This unique day long experience utilizes sites in nine Los Angeles neighborhoods and features more than 34 musicians drawn from the 10 year history of sound. for a day of concerts, presented free of charge. Funds from Blast! [6] directly support these concerts and assist SASSAS in presenting other concerts, workshops, and events including the free monthly open jam soundShoppe and the recent workshop series, Make It, Install It, Perform It: Listen.
“It wouldn't be summer in the City without these provocative concerts.”
—Los Angeles Times
Performing at Blast! [6] is Tom Watson and his Clients, a “free-jam” formed especially for Blast and featuring Flea, Petra Haden, Motoko Honda, Takafumi Kosaka, Tom Watson and Mike Watt, the minimalist electronic experimental sounds of howardAmb, and the duo of Jim Shaw & Dani Tull, who will provide a plethora of sounds using vocal improvisation, bass guitar and home made instruments.
DJs for the evening are Los Angeles artist Kevin Hanley and Ale (dublab, Languis).
In addition to the performances, there will be a silent auction featuring the donated works of acclaimed artists Vanessa Conte, Evan Holloway, Jason Meadows, Dave Muller, and Marnie Weber. And, musician, author, spoken word performer, TV host, film actor and host of the radio show Harmony In My Head, Henry Rollins has contributed a specially programmed playlist for signed iPod Shuffles to be presented to Blast! [6] attendees who pay $300 for a special SASSTER BLASTER ticket.
In consideration of stressful economic times, this year SASSAS reduced tickets prices for Blast! [6] by more than 30% and is requesting a minimum donation of $50. SASSAS members pay $40 and there are a limited number of student tickets at $30 each. Tickets may be purchased on line at www.sassas.org/blast.
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area. Programs include sound. at the Schindler House; sound. at the REDCAT; sound. workshops; soundNet.org, an online concert archive; soundNet recordings, CD compilations drawn from sound. concerts and soundShoppe, a monthly open jam for experimental musicians and sound artists. For more information on SASSAS visit www.sassas.org or phone 323/960-5723.
Participant bios
Ale has been playing records around Los Angeles since 1999. He is part of the bands Languis, Psychic Powers, and Pharaohs. Ale is also one of the people behind DUBLAB and the host of Elevation Through Sound, a radio show that broadcasts on dublab.com. He is also the creator of “Tonalism,” which currently features some of the best DJs in Los Angeles playing ambient music throughout the night.
http://www.languis.com,
http://www.dublab.com/ale
Flea is the founding bass player in Red Hot Chili Peppers. In addition to his work with the Chili Peppers, he has acted in a number of films including Back to the Future Part II (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and The Big Lebowski (1998), and has collaborated with many musicians, including Jane's Addiction, The Mars Volta and Alanis Morissette. In 2001, Flea along with Keith Barry, founded the Silverlake Conservatory of Music to facilitate music education by providing affordable or free lessons and instruments.
http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com,
http://www.silverlakeconservatory.com
Petra Haden was born into a musical family, one of the triplet daughters of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden. She's played and recorded with some of the biggest names of alternative jazz and rock for the last fifteen years. Petra currently lives in Los Angeles where she is working on her next solo a-cappella record. She will be in New York this summer finishing her collaboration with Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda which is expected to be released early next year. Petra and Bill Frisell are also getting ready for their second album together.
Kevin Hanley is an exhibiting multimedia artist and art teacher. His international group exhibitions include: The 50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Site Santa Fe Second Biennale, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Delta, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; and Index, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. His gallery exhibitions include: ACME, Los Angeles; I-20, New York; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; and Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne. Articles and reviews on Hanley's work have appeared in Artforum, Contemporary, Flash Art, Frieze, Kultureflash, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. Kevin Hanley has also been a DJ and club promoter since 1997, and has developed dance clubs such as Motionsick and Autobody. He currently DJs with Jan Tumlir under the name The Two. He works and lives in Los Angeles.
http://kevinhanley.net
Motoko Honda is a Japanese pianist/composer/improviser who has created a very distinctive sound through her holistic approach to music. Backed by an exceptional classical technique, and stylistic influences ranging from jazz to Indonesian music and contemporary prepared piano, Motoko composes structured improvisations intended to affect the skin, organs and minds of the listener instead of simply being heard as rhythmic and harmonic themes. She has recorded soundtracks for several independent films, was a featured musician in Steve Rudolf's documentary Good Ear and has performed with many renowned musicians and artists such as Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Jeff Gauthier, Alex Cline, Emily Hay, Joe Berardi, Andrea Centazzo, Jesse Gilbert, Fumiko Amano and Carole Kim.
howardAmb began in April of 2000 when James Hamblin purchased a brand new KORG TriTon pro-X and began releasing his works as “Howard Amb” (the name he gave the KORG) on handmade CDRs. In that same year Stefan Scott moved to Los Angeles and James and Stefan became fast friends. In 2002 the pair began working together and a couple of years later had their first live performance with James on guitar feedback and Stefan on the KORG. They decided to stick to it and form a new live music project involving live drums, guitar, synths, samples, FXs, and Vocoder/Vocal FXs—this was dubbed “howardAmb”. In 2006 producer Kramer took them under his wing and the result was the first howardAmb CD “PolyPhasic”. They overhauled their sound in 2007 resulting in a quiter, more harmonic sound. They have released or plan to release two other CDs with Kramer, “electricaLanguage” (2008), and “mini-SteRio's_MEGA-mix” (2009). Their work has been dubbed “like Stars on 45 redone by Jad Fair”.
http://www.howardamb.com/
Takafumi Kosaka is a Japanese noise artist/drummer. He grew up listening to “very angry music” such as death metal and grindcore in order to deal with his anger against the expectations placed on him from Japanese society. His perspective changed when he moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties. One of his main influences at the time, “Painkiller” by John Zorn, opened the door for improvisational music. He has played drums for Endlesscontortionist the past two years, and as their drummer got to meet bassist Mike Watt who shared with Takafumi the great teachings of Thelonious Monk. He is now “searching for the balance between conflicts, such as ‘doing without doing.'” His latest project is Avant Anticore.
http://myspace.com/avantanticore
Henry Rollins was in the band Black Flag and also made several albums and toured for two decades with his own band. He is the author of over 25 books and has been in many films, hosted his own television show and currently has a radio show on KCRW FM. He does voice over work in everything from cartoons to documentary work. He has shot documentaries all over the world and travels extensively and constantly. He blogs for VanityFair.com, does speaking dates worldwide, has done seven USO tours in the last few years to places as diverse as Iraq, Afghanistan and Djibouti, made several visits to Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital and works with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He sees sleep as compromise.
http://www.henryrollins.com
Jim Shaw was born in Midland, Michigan in 1952 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions of Shaw's work have been presented at P.S.1 MoMA, New York (2007); MAGASIN Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (2003); Kusthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2003); and the Swiss Institute, New York (2002). His work has been included in group shows such as Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art (2007); Masters of American Comics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2006); Disparities & Deformations, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2004); (The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2002); and The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1991, 2002).
Dani Tull is an artist and musician. Locally he has had solo exhibitions at Blum and Poe, Kim Light Gallery and Angstrom Gallery. As a musician he has collaborated and worked with a multitude of musicians including Marnie Weber, Eric Avery, Tom Watson, Raymond Pettibon, Jad Fair, Tracii Guns and Jim Shaw. Dani has also played in many bands including Polarbear, The Spirit Girls, Mythter, and BoyGeorgeMichaelJacksonBrown. Recently Dani has composed original scores for two films by Jim Shaw. Dani Tull and Jim Shaw have also collaborated on an epic performance for the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum and an upcoming performance in Turin, Italy.
http://www.danitull.com/
Tom Watson is a guitarist from south bay Los Angeles. Bands he has played in include Toxic Shock, Slovenly, Overpass, the Red Krayola, The Best of All, and most recently with Mike Watt & The Missingmen.
Mike Watt is a bass guitarist, singer and songwriter from San Pedro best known for co-founding the bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE. He also played with the reunited Stooges from 2003 to 2008, J. Mascis and the Fog, and Porno For Pyros. Currently he is performing as Mike Watt & The Missingmen, with Tom Watson and Raul Morales and is a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan. In 2008, Watt received the Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award.
http://hootpage.com
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