<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);"><img width="212" height="239" src="http://joelasqo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Erik-Satie-212-1.0.png" class="attachment-900x9999" alt="Erik Satie" title="Erik Satie 212 1.0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><b><i>The Re-vex'd Erik Satie</i></b><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dear µsounders -</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">This is to let you know about the return of a rare electro-acoustic event which was premiered a year ago at Berkeley Arts
Festival: <b><i>Vexations [Re-vex'd]</i></b>. If in the Bay Area, you may find it interesting.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333233"><b>MSP/Piano/+: at </b></span><b>Vexations [Re-vex'd], a 22-hour improv marathon on a structure by Satie, w 39 musicians + 1 dancer</b> <b>(</b><span style="color: #ff3816"><b>this Sat-Sun 22-23 Mar</b></span><span style="color: #333233"><b> @ Berkeley Arts Festival, Set 1, </b></span><b>beginning 2pm Sat 22 Mar, ending approx. noon, Sun 23 Mar</b></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family:
Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">In Sep 2012 Berkeley Arts' 19-pianist Satie/Cage <b><i>Vexations</i></b> marathon proved that many strange, wonderful, and unintended things happen when you try to repeat Satie's enigmatic theme 840 times (as specified...) over a 22-hour period.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Last Spring Equinox, 35 of the Bay Area's top improvisers in a wide variety of genres, ranging from electronic to free jazz to classical, followed-up with <b><i>Vexations [Re-vex'd] I</i></b> and found out what strange, wonderful, and unintended things happen when you create something <b><i>new</i></b> from the enigmatic
architecture of Vexations 840 times. Astonishing music ensued and a wonderful time was had by all.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Join us for up to 22 hours of magnificent and radical solo/duo explorations of Satie's structure by 40 local improvisers<span style="color: #333233">, from </span><span style="color: #ff1301"><b><i>2pm Sat 22 Mar</i></b></span><span style="color: #333233"> to </span><span style="color: #ff1301"><b><i>approx. noon Sun 23 Mar, 2013</i></b></span> at <b>Berkeley Arts Festival</b> - artists who, if last year is any indication, will use the architecture of Satie's Vexations to build idiosyncratic dream vehicles of digital and electronic sound art, pure percussion, music theatre/wordplay, searing abstract guitar & saxophone lines, and a wide range of acutely re-vex'ed piano interpretations.</div><div style="font-size:
14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Line-up (digital and analog electronic musicians highlighted in blue): </div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Kersti <b>Abrams</b>, Steve <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Adams</b></span>, Kenneth <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Atchley</b></span>, Jorge <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Bachmann</b></span> (<span style="color: #295ffb"><b>[ruidobello]</b></span>), Nancy <b>Beckman</b>, Tom <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Bickley</b></span>, Sheldon <b>Brown</b>, Nan <b>Busse</b>, Doug <b>Carroll</b>, Mark <b>Clifford</b>, Joe <b>Colombo</b>, Rachel <b>Condry</b>, Patti <b>Deuter</b>, Derek <b>Drudge</b>, Diane <b>Grubbe</b>, Ron <b>Heglin</b>, Jeff <b>Hobbs</b>, Motoko <b>Honda</b> (<span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic
ProN';"><b>本田</b>素子</span>), <b>Jaroba</b>, Heikki <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Koskinen</b></span>, Joe <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Lasqo</b></span>, Dominique <b>Leone</b>, Robert <b>López</b>, Fernando <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>López-Lezcano</b> </span>&<span style="color: #295ffb"> <b><i>El Dinosaurio</i></b></span>, Ric <b>Louchard</b>, Bob <b>Marsh</b>, Josh <b>Marshall</b>, David <b>Michalak</b>, Tom <b>Nunn</b>, Tim <b>Orr</b>, Mika <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Pontecorvo</b></span>, Teddy <b>Rankin-Parker</b>, Don <b>Robinson</b>, Rent <b>Romus</b>, John <b>Schott</b>, John <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Shiurba</b></span>, Shanna <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Sordahl</b></span>, Christina <b>Stanley</b>, Eli <b>Wallace</b>, Drew <span style="color: #295ffb"><b>Wheeler</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;
min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">☞</span> Write-up, show details, musicians' time slots, venue map, and images: <a href="http://joelasqo.com/blog/2014/03/16/msppiano-22-hour-improv-marathon-on-a-structure-by-satie-w-39-musicians-1-dancer-%E2%80%94-vexations-re-vexd-ii-berkeley-arts-festival-beginning-2pm-sat-22-mar-ending-approx-noon-sun-23/"><span style="color: #2c2cfb"><b>here</b></span></a><b> </b><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">☜</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);">Join us
on our journey beyond normal consciousness…</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Joe Lasqo</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://joe@joelasqo.com/">joe@joelasqo.com</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/">http://www.joelasqo.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Show calendar & news: <a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/">http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/</a></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Weekly: Viracocha, 21st &
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