Hosted by Caren Armstrong. $20 advance / $22 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street
8 pm Tom Djll - solo
Tom Djll, infamous for his trumpet hacking, returns to his first instrument, the piano, introducing a suite of hacked MIDI pieces for digital piano and electronics. The physical means are a circuit-bent Yamaha Keyar imposing its MIDI will on an otherwise harmless Yamaha Digital Piano. Djll will conjure up some of these bent compositions in real time, along with some other metasonic surprises.
9 pm Eric Glick Rieman, Piano and Chamber Music
In my brain I'm a pianist, first and foremost. Although I often perform on prepared Rhodes electric piano, I spend a good amount of my time scheming about how to compose piano music and playing the piano. So I wanted to put together a performance that would feature some of this composed work. "Knitting" (2012 - 2013) is a notated work, a work loosely based on the process of knitting - echoing its repetition and complexity of patterns. It revolves around the piano, and in this chamber rendition of the piece that pianist is the indefatigable Brett Carson (http://brettcarson.weebly.com), surrounded by a chamber ensemble of willing knitters.
Portions of my piano suite "Thy Devil's Waistcoat" (2013-14) will also be performed at this show by the vibrant pianist Julie Moon, notably, "The Questioning Resolve of Those Who Need To Move Forward Proves Successful."
The Knitting Ensemble is comprised of:
Brett Carson: piano
Masha Albrecht: violin
Joshua Marshall: saxophones
Jakob Pek: electric guitar and percussion
Scott Siler: vibraphone and percussion
Peter Sloan: trombone
www.ericglickrieman.com
8pm to 9pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
$12. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue