Audio/Visual Performance
Paul Clipson & Marielle Jakobsons
Friday, February 3, 2012, 9PM

Will Brown
3041 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

1. Analog or Digital?
I love knobs and buttons. I love structures imposed by limitations. I
love the objects, the parts and pieces that you can physically
assemble in various configurations. I love constant, organic variation
and unpredictability.
I love cheap, accessible technology that levels the playing field. I
love economical, extraordinarily compact storage for information and
media. I love my iPhone (most of the time).

2. What time did you wake up today?
Around 4:30am and then again at 6:50am.

3. Last thing you read?
Synchronicity by F. David Peat and an article in Saveur on Swedish
food culture. I’m always reading a couple of really different things
at the same time so that I can switch if I’m not in the headspace for
one or the other.

4. Whats your first memory?
My first clear memory is of eating cherry pie at my grandparent’s
restaurant in North Carolina and being taken back to the kitchen to
see the chef’s Smurf collection.

5. Tea Or Coffee?
Both. I spent eight years working in the tea world and the last four
in the coffee world. My apartment is full of brewing devices.

6. Last thing you cooked?
Broccoli rabe with garlic, sherry and pecorino romano, sweet pea
risotto, and salmon baked with lemon and olive oil in parchment paper.

7. If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
A tree.

8. What inspires you?
Lots of things… I would say that being in nature is massive for me.
That’s one of the reasons why I live where I do. The Oregon coast
blows my mind every time I go out there. It’s my church.

9. Last record you played?
A Orillas del Magdalena – Coastal Cumbias from Colombia’s Disco
Fuentes (Domino Sound 024)

10. Favorite piece of musical equipment?
My bass clarinet. A 1960’s Selmer Series 9 I inherited from my
grandfather. I’ve played a lot of nice clarinets, but that one feels
like an extension of my body. It’s part of me now.

11. Last movie you saw?
Bill Cunningham New York

12. Who do you love?
My wife Heather. I love a lot of people, but no one as much as her.

13. Do you have any pets?
Two cats. Brothers. Hoover and Britches.

14. Are you useful?
Depends on who you ask.

15. Biggest fear?
Being alone. I know I should be comfortable with it, but I grew up in
a massive family and have lived with people I love my whole life. It’s
hard for me to enjoy anything thoroughly unless I have someone to
share it with.

16. What do you value the most?
Relationships. See above.

17. Famous last words?
I’ll try anything once.

Jonathan Sielaff lives with his lady (who runs the amazing OLO Fragrance) in Portland, Oregon, is one half of Golden Retriever (whose latest LP ‘Light Cones’ is still available), and can often be found expounding upon bean variants and brewing methods.

Voyages Futurs
Rootmix by Roger Tellier-Craig / Le Revelateur

1. Tangerine Dream – Sunset Drive (1983)
2. Marc Barreca – Oleo Strut (1980)
3. Jean-Michel Jarre – La Cage (1971)
4. Richard Vimal – Métamorphose (1977)
5. Sensations Fix – Space Energy Age (1974)
6. Roberto Cacciapaglia – Sonanze 7th Movement (1975)
7. Steve Roach – Traveler (1983)
8. Clara Mondshine – Lange Melodie Für Den Countdown (1981)
9. Joël Fajerman – Espace – Oiseaux (1981)
10. Lena Platonos – Magisses (1985)
11. Dieter Schütz – Exotic Nights (1985)
12. Syrinx – Aurora Spinray (1971)
13. Edward Artemiev – Les balançoires (1979)
14. Günther Schickert – In Der Zeit (1979)
15. Jean Piché – Heliograms – excerpt (1982)
16. Software – Surfing-Saturn – excerpt (1985)
17. V.D.B. Joel / F. Voelxen – Cascades (1980)
18. Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company – All Set (1976)
19. Terry Riley – In the Summer (1975)

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Will Brown Gallery
3041 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110

宮田まゆみ (Mayumi Miyata)
星の輪 宮田まゆみ笙の世界 (Sho Cosmos)
CBS/Sony Japan CD, 1986

Otherworldly avant-garde and traditional pieces for the Gagaku mouth organ instrument the sho, played by the modern virtuoso of the instrument, Mayumi Miyata. My 320 rip and scans.

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From Helga Fassonaki (Yek Koo / Metal Rouge):

‘Touching Them, Touching Me: A Love Song For The Dead C’ is the first in a series of multimedia installation and performance works in which I situate myself in the position of a Hagiographer, visually depicting the lives of my musical saints. The first hagiography is on the Dead C (an experimental rock band formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1987/88).

For the next few weeks, using Kickstarter I’m raising money to help cover building and production costs. For more info, description, and a montaged video clip of my project click here. I appreciate your support and welcome any donations you can offer….there’s also special gifts for those who contribute including the upcoming yek koo LP, limited edition CDrs, artwork, and performance series passes!

The exhibition and performance dates are:
Exhibition: March 24th – April 22
Opening Reception: March 24th, 8pm
Performance Series: April 20 – 22

At Human Resources Gallery
410 Cottage Home St
Chinatown, Los Angeles CA 90012

Leave Mine from Ashley Paul.

New record out soon on Orange Milk.

GROUPER W/ JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA
CIRCULAR VEIL

Circular Veil is the fourth in an ongoing ambient tape collages series by Grouper /Liz Harris. Accompanied by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, this is a new durational performance which sees Harris create a customised sonic/visual environment designed to lull participants into a sort of waking sleep – a collective dreaming room in which audience and performers may experience this paradox collectively.

2 dates:

Sat 4 Feb Berlin, CTM Festival @ HAU2 (7 Hour Performance)
Tue 7 Feb Cologne, Alte Feuerwache (4 Hour Performance)

Portraits LP on Important records out January 24th!

The first official document of the massive group mind project, recorded in Oakland California in 2010 with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Evan Caminiti & Jon Porras (Barn Owl), Lisa McGee (Higuma, Vestals), Gregg Kowalsky & Marielle Jakobsons (Date Palms), Maxwell August Croy (En) Steven Dye & Tony Cross (Tarentel alum) and Michael Elrod (Date Palms, Barn Owl & The Alps). Three tracks of long form in the zone drone. Edition of 500 with lovely screen printed jackets.

Portraits – D (Edit) 

Portraits – Sa