International Worker Day Celebration. $16.50 advance / $18.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison
Balkan dance lessons at 7:00 pm. $7. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo
May 1, 2013
Compositions by Phillip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Bob Marsh, and David Samas
A Celebration of The Cornelius Cardew Choir's 12th anniversary
Bob Marsh - Five One
The Five Elements: Sybil (seer), Ranter (psycho style street person), Carpenters, Clatter Chatterers (tea party with porcelain cups and saucers, Intone Nation (note singers). Three variations - The Sparseness (sound here and there), The Blastfulness (short-ish burst of sound, and the Thickness (continuous legato, depending on the Element). Conduction by Bob Marsh (dancer, mixicologist, puppeteer, etc).
Pauline Oliveros - The Tuning Meditation
Deeply engaging vocal interaction blossoms into elegant clouds of sound. Democracy manifest in beauty.
Philip Glass - Knee Play 3, from Einstein on the Beach
David Samas - The Wildwood Cantata
A buffet of delicious wilderness sounds in song and poetry with interjections of indigenous woodland musics set to unusual invented instruments made from the natural elements. Together we listen our way from wind and silence through the dawn chorus of birds with solos from Gusty Winds May Exist, down the river and into the heart of the trees while Bob Marsh dances butoh in Sonic Suit Tree. After a rainstorm we howl together, ending in the twilight choir of droning insects.
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8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue