A Benefit for BHS Jazz Program
Berkeley High School Award-Winning Jazz Ensembles with Alumni guests including Josh Jones, Dayna Stephens, Hitomi Oba, Sarah Cline, and more, with MC Jesse "Chuy" Varela
$20, $8 for students and seniors
525-5099
www.ashkenaz.com
7pm to 9pm, Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Ave
After collaborating in different ways since 2003, Charles Celeste Hutchins and Polly Moller decided to make their partnership official, becoming the performance art duo No More Twist! Charles Celeste Hutchins is a Californian abroad, testing Philip K Dick's theory that once you become a Berkeley radical, you can never leave. He explores issues of regional identity, plays music, goes to school and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth. Polly Moller is a flutist, vocalist, and composer equally at home in the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary composition, and rock, performing with Reconnaissance Fly, ReCardiacs Fly, and Ghost in the House and creating sound-art rituals based on natural phenomena and the Western occult tradition.
Konrad Sprenger (Joerg Hiller, born 1977, Lahr, Germany) is a composer/ producer and artist based in Berlin. Since 2000 he also runs the label choose records. He has produced recordings by such diverse artists as Ellen Fullman, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Ashley and Terry Fox and has performed for years as Konrad Sprenger with such luminary bands as Ethnostress and Ei and the art group Honey-Suckle Company. Since 2000 Hiller/Sprenger regularly tours and performs together with the minimal music composer Arnold Dreyblatt.
His music and installation work have been presented among others at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Cubitt Gallery, London; Podewil, Berlin; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Gallery Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Schaubuhne, Berlin; Pavillon der Volksbuhne, Berlin; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; Bundespressekonferenz, Berlin; Sonar-festival, Barcelona; Berghain, Berlin; Theatre Arsenic, Lausanne.
"Sprenger spends years in studio production on his work, and the compositions show his attention to detail in their luminosity and almost tactile presence. The range of musical styles is as diverse as on his first record, yet the pieces seem less like ironic quotations and short forays and more like personal statements and explorations into various genres. As always with Sprenger/Hiller, the instrumentation is infinitely surprising, including classical, folk instruments and electronics performed by professional musicians as well as the friends from other disciplines with whom he's worked together for many years."
--Arnold Dreyblatt on Versprochen
Konrad Sprenger will present a composed work for a computer-controlled electric guitar that he designed.
7:30pm to 10pm, 2133 University
$12.50 advance / $14.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison