$12. 525-5054. www.aqshkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue
Dance floor open! $22 advance / $24 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street
8 pm
Tim Perkis - electronics
Karen Stackpole - gongs, percussion
Well known bay area improvisers Karen Stackpole and Tim Perkis will be seen and heard tonight playing together in duo for the first time. Karen specializes in extracting amazing resonances and rhythms from a collection of gongs and other metallic percussion instruments, and has performed an recorded with with metals/gongs duo Euphonics, Dean Santomieri, Ron Thompson, Myles Boisen, Moe Staiano, and John Schott's Ensemble Diglossia. Tim Perkis has been playing his self-designed computer/electronic improvisational instruments with many, many improvisers over the course of decades, and is a founding member of The Hub and Fuzzybunny.
9 pm
Aaron Bennet - saxophone
Teddy Rankin-Parker-cello
Matt Montgomery - bass
Daniel Pearce - Drums
We are an improvising ensemble which focuses on creating a sonic energy and vibrational fusion to synchronize the quantum microtubules and physical manifestations of the light/energy within the immediate universe.
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford