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Gothic ProN';">新年快樂！ </span>If you're in San Francisco, join 9 musicians + 1 dancer as we welcome the <b>Year of the Horse</b> with a mobile sculpture of unfolding lowercase sound and movement.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">
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<div><b>[1] MSP/piano — Full Renga-kai (</b><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';"><b>連歌会</b></span><b>) (</b><span style="color: #ff3816"><b>this Sun, 09 Feb</b></span><b> @ Outsound's SIMM Series, SF, </b><span style="color: #ff3816"><b>7:30pm</b></span><b>) + Set 2: Eli Wallace Trio (w Karl Evangelista & Jon Arkin), 8:30pm</b></div>
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<div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Shapeshifting duets based on the Japanese <i>renga</i> collaborative improv poetry form, with dances by Nan Busse</span></div>
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<div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Expanding on John Cage's renga-piece techniques, we've created a kaleidoscopic new <i>renga</i>-based piece <b><i>Renga-kai </i>(</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>連歌会</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>)</b>, for 9 electro-acoustic musicians, plus dance.</span></div>
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<div>Line-up: Nancy <b>Beckman</b> (shakuhachi, small percussion), Tom <b>Bickley</b> (Paetzold contrabass recorder, electronics/radios), Rachel <b>Condry</b> (clarinets), Patti <b>Deuter</b> (piano/toy piano/radio), Ben <b>Kreith</b> (violin), Joe <b>Lasqo</b> (MSP/laptop, piano, mṛdangam & solkaṭṭu), Sangita <b>Moskow</b> (sarod), Dean <b>Santomieri</b> (guitars), Jennifer <b>Wilsey</b> (percussion) + dancer Nan <b>Busse</b></div>
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<div>+ <b>Set 2, 8:30pm</b>: <b>Eli Wallace Trio (</b>w <b>Karl Evangelista</b>, guitar & <b>Jon Arkin</b>, drums<b>)</b></div>
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<div>— From super-cooled lowercase in set 1, to hot jazz from the best of Bay Area jazz’s new generation of players in set 2…</div>
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<div>Write-up, show details, venue map, and images: <a href="http://joelasqo.com/blog/2014/02/05/msppiano-full-renga-kai-%E9%80%A3%E6%AD%8C%E4%BC%9A-w-beckman-bickley-condry-deuter-kreith-lasqo-moskow-santomieri-and-wilsey-plus-dancer-nan-busse-sun-09-feb-simm-series-sf-730pm/"><b>http://joelasqo.com/blog/2014/02/05/msppiano-full-renga-kai-</b><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';"><b>連歌会</b></span><b>-w-beckman-bickley-condry-deuter-kreith-lasqo-moskow-santomieri-and-wilsey-plus-dancer-nan-busse-sun-09-feb-simm-series-sf-730pm/</b></a></div>
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<div>Additional <b>Examiner.com</b> preview of our show: <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/outsound-presents-will-again-celebrate-chinese-new-year-its-own-way">http://www.examiner.com/article/outsound-presents-will-again-celebrate-chinese-new-year-its-own-way</a></div>
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<div><b>[2] Video released of 15 Jan 2014 CNM show with Thollem McDonas, Joe Lasqo, Cheryl Leonard, ROVA ½tet (Bruce Ackley & Steve Adams), Nava Dunkelman, & Nan Busse</b></div>
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<div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Through the generosity of videographer Charles Smith, video of this unique double-piano double-trio's intense show last month at SF's Center for New Music is now available here:</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(44, 44, 251);"><span style="color: #000000">— Piece #1 (long) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1VKglmgtU"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1VKglmgtU</span></a></span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(44, 44, 251);"><span style="color: #000000">— Piece #2 (short) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YglpCG4zzMM"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YglpCG4zzMM</span></a></span></div>
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<div>Hope to renga with you this Sun at SIMM...</div>
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<div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Joe Lasqo</span></div>
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<div>Show calendar & news: <a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/">http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/</a></div>
<div>Weekly: Viracocha, 21st & Valencia, SF, 3-6pm, Wednesdays</div>
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