Monday night, in Long Beach!

The phog masheeen experience is returning to the Puka Bar in Long Beach. This coming Monday Night (1-25-10) 8:00 PM. FREE!!!

We are rolling out mad new audio and visuals for this show!

It is a great line-up with a rare appearance of or-fun-aany!

Fun & FREE!!!

2010 Oh! My!

Onward ever onward. A new year with a blue moon. I don't know what it signifies.

I was cruising around and found a great page on Sound Is Art referencing a field recording of a slide scanner. It sounds pretty cool. Other cool stuff on that site as well.

I completed my six night gig playing x-mas music. It was an instructive experience. Playing wind instruments in a cold, un-amplified, outdoor setting is a great teachable moment. I have an increased appreciation of the Salvation Army Bands now. The Salvation army can just ring bells between songs, we had to tell family friendly x-mas jokes. The jokes evolved to quiz questions with sugar products for prizes. We damaged alot of teeth this year with all that sugar.

On a different tip, a friend pointed me in the direction of Mnozil Brass they are a gifted lot. I am unsure of their history or whereabouts. But they do have that eastern european look and vibe.

I celebrated the winter holiday by preparing for taxes. With my nose in an excel spreadsheet. No "It's a wonderful life" for me.

But now we are onto 2010! A fresh start with a new decade! Cool!

An entertainment value!

This is too good to not share.

phog

UEM at Redcat.

I went to see UEM play the Redcat theater in LA last night.
They scored the gig I had been angling for. It was an interesting evening. This was the "Fall Studio" show. It is the Redcats quarterly outreach to the locals to present what they are working on. There were 6 different performers with a fifteen minute slot. The material presented stretched from far eastern traditional dance styles, to vaudville, to UEM.
For their slot Bill, Andy and Jasmine titled their piece The Typhoon, the rope and the slippers. It dealt with the events and aftermath of a receint typhoon. It was in three parts. Bill played the soprano sax in the third movement. Andy had a proliforation of Gongs in play and Jasmine gave a stirring performance of keeping your head above water and sucking in air. The loops looped. The gongs, gonged. It worked for me. Then I stardted looking at the crowd.
This was a different group than I am used to. With parking at $9.00 and the entrance at $12.00.
This was a different level of arts consumer. A bit more well heeled than I was used to. I am glad I went. I have a better idea of how to pitch this gig.
It was a cool show.
Uem is playing again tonight!

Lets talk about noisefest...

I love the Norcal Noisefest! What a great set of shows!
Thanks to LOB for creating a way-cool event!
Sure there was the little glitch with the neighbor with the samaurai sword. Clearly he was put up to it by his nagging wife.
But setting that aside it was an outstanding gathering of the noise community.
After the Big City Orchestra performance closing out the event. A tea ritual with whistling teapots. Bobby from Liver Cancer said "After a weekend of anger and agression, it (the Big City Orchestra performance) was like a big warm hug!"

It was a great weekend!

phog

Placard Tonight, Noisefest next weekend!

For those of you that missed Soundwalk 2009 there is much documentation on youtube.

Today I went on the Placard headphone fest site and found out that there is a headphone fest today!

I signed up to stream in at 10:10 pm from the "Coastal Lair" studio in fabulous Costa Mesa to the Festival in Dijon France.

You can find the address on the placard chat. Check it out if you have time.

Next weekend is the NorCal Noisefest! This is the premier noise event in the great state of California.

Bill and I are heading up to perform on Saturday afternoon (before the dinner break) if you are anywhere around Sacramento check it out!

Disney Hall and all...

So I managed to perform at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on Sept. 26th. It was with the GYCB Jazz Combo.

A supersized combo to be sure.

I did remain standing for two choruses of "Song For My Father" by Horace Silver.

It was a moment.

phog