Active Music Series: Expermimental Jazz & Electronic | Oakland

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Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | The Uptown

Oakland Active Orchestra performs a free ongoing monthly residence at The Uptown in Oakland on every second Tuesday of the month.

Oakland Active Orchestra explores various innovative and traditional techniques in composition and free improvisation. Each month, new compositions written by members of the fourteen piece ensemble will be presented and two other groups will perform.

Doors open at 9 pm. Show starts at 9:30 pm. There’s no cover, but donations are welcome.

The Uptown Nightclub is closed as of November 6, 2014.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014
January | Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | The Uptown

Active Music Series January Lineup:

The Deconstruction of What You Know is an electro-acoustic improvising quartet devoted to the exploration of indeterminate sound, noise and sonic timbres, each member bears responsibility for propelling the group. The music and musicians straddle the line between jazz and rock, new music and esoteric microtonal traditions, and skronk — balancing the weird, serious, and outrageous in a celebration of Bay Area musicians that are known for defying convention.

Antimatter is the sound work of Xopher Davidson – an ongoing exploration into the material of sound. Xopher builds his experiments in electronic sound from a basis in painting, photography, and film, and through an interest in electronic circuits going back to building radios and homemade circuits as a kid. Over a course of the last 11 years he has built and explored the sound world of a homebrew modular synthesizer comprised of surplus laboratory equipment: various oscillators, pulse generators, filters and an ‘analog computer.

Teddy Rankin-Parker and Daniel Pearce are Bay Area-based improvisers whose music considers friendship. A cello player and graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Rankin-Parker has performed, toured, and/or recorded with dozens of artists. Pearce is a drummer and writer based in San Francisco who has performed, toured, and/or recorded with numerous groups.

M22 is Kent Cates and Daniel Hintz, an Oakland guitar feedback duo. M22 began high-volume feedback experiments in November of 2012, and they are focused on live performance.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.