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class="" style=""><tr class="" style=""><td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="520" class="" style=""><div style="text-align:right;" class=""><b style="font-size:12pt;" class=""><span class="" style=""><img border="0" src="http://www.pamelaz.com/jpgs/ROOM pix/ROOMuprightSmaller.jpg" width="500" height="286" alt="Carbon Song Cycle" class="" style=""></span></b></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;"><b class="" style=""><i class="" style=""> <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">Upright</span></i></b></span><b class="" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;"><i class="" style="">, an evening in The ROOM Series' , curated by diva-controllerista Pamela Z</i></b><br class="" style=""></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">This is to let you know about a once-only show featuring some of foremost new-music pioneers of the Bay Area (or anywhere), as part of the unique <b class="" style="">ROOM Series</b>, curated by voice and electronics diva <b class="" style="">Pamela Z</b>, on <span style="color: #ff3816" class=""><b class="" style="">Thu, 10 Jul</b></span>. <span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px;" class=""> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px; outline: none; letter-spacing: 0px;" class="">You may find interesting if you'll be in the SF Bay Area next week.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="color: #333233" class=""><b class="" style="">MSP/Piano/+: <i class="" style="">UPRIGHT</i> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">— </span>w Pamela <b class="" style="">Z</b>, Sarah <b class="" style="">Cahill</b>, Luciano <b class="" style="">Chessa</b>, and special guest, AI improvising agent <b class="" style="">Maxxareddu</b>, <span style="color: #ff3816" class=""><b class="" style="">Thu 10 July</b></span>, ROOM Series<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""> @ </span><b class="" style="">Royce Gallery</b>, SF</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);" class="">A <b class="" style="">ROOM series</b> evening often includes a groups of extremely varied artists of a certain instrument family, or curated around a specific theme, who each play solo works and also join together for ensemble improvisation or scored work.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #000000" class="">This concert's special instrumental focus is the </span>wonderful restored vintage-era upright piano (in a former life, also a player piano…) which has just come available in the space… in various <i class="" style="">unusual</i> polyamorous matings with laptops, voice, small percussion… perhaps even musical saw, megaphone feedback, and the Vietnamese <span style="color: #000000" class=""><i class="" style="">đàn bầu… </i>and<i class="" style=""> </i>maybe even an interlude of "piano 4-to-8-hands" insanity.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Tonight's line-up is unusually varied even for the ROOM Series, including: </div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">— brilliant new music pioneer Sarah<b class="" style=""> Cahill</b>: piano </div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">— 21st-century retro-Futurist crazy guy Luciano<b class="" style=""> Chessa</b>: piano and/or voice, body lights, saw, <i class="" style="">đàn bầu</i>, <i class="" style="">megafono</i></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">— Joe<b class="" style=""> Lasqo</b>: piano, laptop, small percussion</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">— <b class="" style="">Maxareddu</b>: algo's & event-grammars</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">— and of course, the indomitable Ms. <b class="" style="">Pamela</b> <b class="" style="">Z</b>, sporting a new generation of sophisticated wearable gestural controllers from the mad scientist labs of Donald Swearingen</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">I'll be surprised along with the rest of the lucky audience by the solo segments which Sarah, Luciano, and Pamela present in this show. For now these are still wrapped-up presents (except that I know Sarah Cahill will premier a new piece by Peter Garland and playing music of Luciano's)… Turning to my part of the program, I plan to present:</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">►<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""> <b class="" style=""><i class="" style="">Chōshi électro-acoustique </i> (</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class="" style="">電子音響の調子</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""><b class="" style="">)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">— <i class="" style="">elements from the oldest shakuhachi repertoire re-mapped onto piano + laptop</i></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">►<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""> <b class="" style=""><i class="" style="">Cyber Rengakai [Q]</i> </b>(</span><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class="" style="">サイバー連歌会</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""><b class="" style=""> </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class="" style="">～</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""><b class="" style=""> </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class="" style="">急</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""><b class="" style="">)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">— <i class="" style="">Rengakai-methodology duets w my AI improvising associate, Maxxareddu, for piano + laptop (I usually do this duet improv form with humans, but tonight we opt for trans-humanism...)</i></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">►<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""> <b class="" style=""><i class="" style="">Sa-Z Chissà?</i></b> in rāga <b class="" style="">Mandāri (</b></span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: InaiMathi; letter-spacing: 0px;" class="">ராகம்</span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class="" style=""> </b></span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: InaiMathi; letter-spacing: 0px;" class="">மந்தாரி</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""><b class="" style="">)</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">— <i class="" style="">an acoustic Indo-modernist piece in condensed </i></span><span style="color: #333233" class=""><i class="" style="">rāgam-tānam-pallavi form</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class=""><i class="" style=""> for piano</i></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">Further, there will be interludes of free improv with my esteemed colleagues.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';" class="">☞</span> Write-up, venue map, show details, and images: <a href="http://joelasqo.com/blog/2014/07/01/3955/" class="" style=""><span style="color: #2c2cfb" class=""><b class="" style="">here</b></span></a><b class="" style=""> </b><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';" class="">☜</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">In lesser hands, the turbo-eclectisicm of this group of musicians might spin out of control; under the wearable-controller baton of <b class="" style="">Pamela Z</b>, it will become a night-blooming sonic flower of rare alien beauty.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">A flower that will bloom only once… hold it with your mind and come vibrate with us….</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px" class="">Joe Lasqo</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="http://joe@joelasqo.com/" class="" style="">joe@joelasqo.com</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/" class="" style="">http://www.joelasqo.com/</a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Show calendar & news: <a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/" class="" style="">http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/</a></div>
<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Weekly: Viracocha, 21st & Valencia, SF, 3-6pm, Wednesdays</div>
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