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Oakland Active Music: Free Improv Jazz Concert | The Uptown

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Donations are accepted.

The Uptown Nightclub | 1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612

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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, July 9, 2013
Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra | Oakland Active Music Series: Free Improv Jazz Concerts | The Uptown

Aaron Bennett’s EMPTO (Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra) is Aaron Bennett, Darren Johnston, Crystal Pascucci, Rob Ewing, Lisa Mezzacappa, Bob Marsh (on accordion or cello) and Joe Lasqo (keyboards). The members of this ensemble utilize the electro-magnetic field of their collective mind to attain a ‘unitive’ transcendent state of sonic consciousness, and in turn create sublime and/or unusually expanded sonic experiences for their listeners.

Tastyville – Electrified baritone saxophone and physical movement by Cansafis Foote, Charlie St. Clair, and guests.

bran(…)pos is the ongoing audio-visual-performance-noise-musique-brain-bend of Jake Rodriguez from San Francisco, CA. Rodriguez has been performing and recording under this moniker for 15 years with releases on C.I.P., Resipiscent, Ratskin Records, Animal Disguise, and Chitah Chitah Soundcrack. Synthesizer and mouth manipulations are the most common audio elements, rounded out with rubber face and a live video component to complete the human-analog-digital-human circle. In March 2011, two bran(…)pos releases were on display at the Editions of You fair in Oxford, UK and added to the Oxford Brookes University Popular Music Research Unit’s permanent collection of hand-made editions and zines. “With a background in theater performance and sound (and a seriously demented mind), Rodriguez with his bran(…)pos project has boiled down the most absurd elements of our ongoing ritual into an amalgamation of human, sound, and light that is at once ridiculous and terrifying.”

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Cost: FREE*
*Donations are accepted.
Categories: East Bay, Live Music
Address: 1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612