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  • January 21st (Saturday) 8 PM, with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawings at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville MA.
  • January 20th (Friday) 9:30 PM I’ll be performing with Angela Sawyer and guitarist Jesse Collins as Wash and Gouache at The Müthership, 381 Centre St., Jamaica Plain. Also appearing: Vic Rawlings/Bryan Eubanks and James Coleman/Morgan Evans-Weiler/Michael Rosenstein/Howard Martin and a guitar/kayagum player named (?).
  • January 16th (Monday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing a solo set consisting of my transcription of Roscoe Mitchell’s piece “Solo” at Opensound at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA.

       2011

  • December 31st (Saturday) 8:30 PM. I’ll be playing with Grau Garten, my group with guitarist Marc Bisson, Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics and Greg Kowalksi on live video at the 119 Gallery New Year’s Eve party in Lowell, MA. I will also be playing a duo set Walter Wright. Also appearing: Crank Sturgeon, BirdOrgan, Lexie Mountain/Id M Theft Able duo and FRIENDSHIP. More details on the 119 Gallery event page.
  • December 21st (Wednesday) 8 PM, I will be playing the annual Metal & Glass Ensemble Winter Solstice celebration show. This year it is being held at the Nave Gallery at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Boulevard, Somerville MA.
  • December 17th (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing a solo set consisting of my transcription of Roscoe Mitchell’s piece “Solo” at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville MA.
  • December 10th (Saturday) 8 PM (later that same day!), it’s Teresa and the Endguys (which is Matt Samolis (flute) and Teresa Czepiel (movement) and I (reeds, celesta, percussion)) at Zeroplan Performance Loft, Chinatown, Boston MA. Also appearing: movement artists Alissa Cardone, Sara June, Yuka Takahashi, Joe Burgio and Liz Roncka and musician Max Lord (synth). All of us, except for Liz, also performed Alissa’s “Viewpoints” score.
  • December 10th (Saturday) 2 PM, I will be playing with the Metal & Glass Ensemble in a matinee show at the Flopera House, 381 Congress St. Boston MA. More details TBA.
  • December 9th (Friday) 9 PM, I will be playing with drummer Dave Grollman at Exapno, 33 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn NY. This is part of Lucio Menagon’s “Reverend Screaming Fingers Big Band” concert. A good number of the folks on hand also performed as The Orchestra of the Future, playing the soundtrack for the film “History of the Future” by filmmaker/musician Richard Lainhart.
  • December 7th (Wednesday) 10:00 AM, I gave a master class at New England Conservatory at the invitation of the Department of Contemporary Improvisation.
  • December 6th (Tuesday) 8 PM, I will be playing with NYC violinist Jeff Young and friends at Aviary, 48 South St., Jamaica Plain, MA. Friends include Matt Samolis, flute, Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin, Junko Simons, cello, Tony Leva, contrabass and Mali Sastri, voice.
  • December 5th (Monday) 8:00 PM, I’ll be performing with Idiolect, my duo with saxophonist Jesse Kaminsky at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA. Also appearing: NY-based violinist Jeff Young.
  • December 3rd (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing with Bodydrama at The Nave Gallery at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Boulevard, Somerville. Also appearing: i have no idea.
    Bodydrama is lead by movement artist Joe Burgio and includes movement artist Betty Wang, and musicians Lou Cohen, Andrew Eisenberg, Matt Samolis and Morgan Evans-Weiler.
  • December 2nd (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Grau Garten, my group with guitarist Marc Bisson, Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics and Greg Kowalksi on live video at the Wombat Zone, Somerville MA. (Email me for directions.) Also appearing: Funny Money, Michael Rosenstein & Morgan Evans-Weiler, and Mr Dirky.
  • November 20th (Sunday) 8 PM, I’ll be playing with Grau Garten, my group with guitarist Marc Bisson, Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics and Greg Kowalksi on live video plus special guest Dei Xhrist performing vocals via phone link (!) at the Whitehaus, Jamaica Plain MA. (Email me for directions.) Also appearing: Funny Money and Pterodactyl Puppy.
  • November 19th (Saturday) 11:45 PM (later that same night), I’ll be performing with Angela Sawyer and guitarist Jesse Collins as Wash and Gouache at Spectacle in Jamaica Plain.
  • November 18th (Friday), I’ll be performing with Angela Sawyer and guitarist Jesse Collins as Wash and Gouache at Gay Gardens in Allston. (Email me for address/directions.) Also appearing: Guerilla Toss, Rotten Apples, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, peace, loving.
  • November 12th (Saturday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be performing a solo set consisting of my transcription of Roscoe Mitchell’s piece “Solo” at my home. RSVP, please.
  • November 5th (Saturday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Grizzler at Studio Soto, 10 Channel Center St., Boston MA (in the Fort Point area of South Boston). Also, Duck That will be doing a short set at this show.
  • November 4th (Friday) 11:04 PM, I will be playing with the Metal & Glass Ensemble in an 8 hour overnight performance with Peace, Loving at the Whitehaus from 11:04 PM until sunrise the next morning (7:21 AM).
    Read the Globe blog preview here.
  • October 29th (Saturday) 8:00 PM. Walter Wright is turning 70 this month! I’ll be playing at the third performance evening of his 70th Birthday Retrospective with Joe Burgio’s Bodydrama at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA. Also appearing: Mike Dailey & Stephanie Lak.
    The full calendar of Walter’s retrospective is on Dei Xhrist’s website here.
  • October 28th (Saturday) 7:00 PM. I will be performing with the Empty House Cooperative at the Halloween Iron Pour 2011 at The Steelyard, 27 Sims Ave, Providence RI, 02909. More info on The Steelyard’s Web site.
    Some pics from the show are here and there is a video excerpt here.
  • October 26th (Wednesday) 8:00 PM. Walter Wright is turning 70 this month! And in fact, this evening, 10/26, is his actual birthday and the opening reception for his 70th Birthday Retrospective. I will be joining Loup-Garou (Setheyny Pen & Walter Wright, electronics) for a set at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA. Also appearing: TBD.
    The full calendar of Walter’s retrospective is on Dei Xhrist’s website here.
  • October 24st (Monday) 8:30 PM. LMNo! (Lucio Menagon & I) will be playing at Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec (! my first performance out of the country). Also appearing: performance artist Rachel Mason and Valerie Kuehne’s Dream Zoo.
  • October 23st (Sunday) 4:30 PM. Played at a salon at the studio of a swell guy named Virgil along with bassist Jason Anastasoff, Emilie Mouchous on electronics, Virgil himself on synths and a guitarist named Steve. Later we were joined by Dream Zoo’s Valerie Kuehne (cello), Lucio Menagon (guitar) and Jeffrey Young (violin). Montreal, QC.
  • October 23st (Sunday) 2:00 PM. Ran an improvisation workshop at Sala Rosa, Montreal, QC.
  • October 23st (Sunday) 12:00 PM. Played a short set with bassist Jason Anastasoff on McGill University’s CKUT radio station (at 90.3 FM in Montreal).
  • October 22th (Saturday) 7 PM, I’ll be performing with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings, as part of the YLDMIER Tapes Release Show #7 at Yes Oui Si (multi-sensory exhibition space), 19 Vancouver St., Boston MA. (Corner of Huntington Ave., near Mass Art and the MFA.) Also appearing: High Aura’d, Patrick Emm and Eugene The Jeep.
  • October 21st (Friday) 8:30 PM. I’ll be debuting a new duo with guitarist Lucio Menagon called LMNo! at the Flopera House, 381 Congress St., South Boston, MA. This is coincidental with an evening of music and movement improvisation.
  • October 20th (Thursday) 10:10 PM. Duck That will be performing at Occupy Boston, in front of South Station. Because free people deserve free jazz!
  • October 15th (Saturday) 8:00 PM. Walter Wright is turning 70 this month! I’ll be performing in the first performance evening of his 70th Birthday Retrospective at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA, where I'll playing the part of Mike Fun in the group dZig dZag. Also appearing: Bop Ants (Walter, Morgan Evans-Weiler and Joe Burgio). There will likely be a large group jam at the end.
    The full calendar of Walter’s retrospective is on Dei Xhrist’s website here.
  • October 1st (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be playing with Grau Garten: guitarist Marc Bisson, Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics and Greg Kowalksi on live video at The Mansion, 9 Spring Lane, Newburyport MA. Also appearing Bonnie Kane's Big Plastic Finger and Kit Demos’s Kit and Kaboodle.
  • September 24th (Saturday), I’ll be performing two shows with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings. First, around 6 PM, we’re busking at (i.e., crashing) the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival. Call it a ‘jazz intervention’ :-)
    Then, at around 10:30 PM, we’ll be playing at Gay Gardens in Allston. (Email me for address/directions.) We will be playing avec Le Singe Blanc (France), as well as Funny Money and Graph.
  • September 22th (Thursday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings, on the air on Susanna Bolle’s Rare Frequency radio show on WZBC 90.3 FM. The show runs 7 to 10 PM every Thursday and features a wealth of the best noise and improvisation from Boston and elsewhere.
  • September 17th (Saturday) 8 PM I’ll be playing with both Kilter, my duo with Curt Newton and Grau Garten (see above) at Sun Worship X, presented by Offset Needle Radius at the Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St., Kittery, Maine. Also appearing: Skinny Vinny, Eric Dahlman/Eric Nugent, Al Margolis/Tom Hamilton Duo, and two 14 year old kids from Kittery.
  • September 16th (Friday) 8:00 PM, I’ll be playing with Grau Garten: guitarist Marc Bisson, Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics and Greg Kowalksi on live video at 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also appearing: Rick Breault/Elaine Wood, Al Margolis/Tom Hamilton, Kevin Frenette/James Rohr/Curt Newton.
  • September 5th (Monday) 8:00 PM, I’ll be performing with Spam (Matt Samolis, flute and Curt Newton, percussion) at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA. Also appearing: Dat Tracker.
  • August 18th (Thursday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Duck That with guest trumpet god Keiichi Hashimoto at The Whitehaus, Jamaic Plain MA. Also appearing: keyboard player Anthony Coleman, percussionist Ben Bennett (Columbus OH) and saxophonist Wilson Shook (Seattle WA).
  • August 15th (Monday) 8:00 PM, I’ll be performing with Endguys, my duo with Matt Samolis at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA.
  • August 14th (Sunday) I will be playing with Metal and Glass at the “WE ARE GUEST TALK, FREE: $10” festival at the Cambridge YMCA Theater (so chill) in Central Square at 820 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA. (F/K/A Weirdstock Three (get it?).)
    Metal & Glass plays at 2 PM.
    Interview with Metal & Glass leader Matt Samolis here!
    Weirdstock goes all day Sunday from 2:00 to 10:20 PM. Full lineup is here.
  • August 8th (Monday) 10:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Duck That at Problem House in Allston MA. We will have trumpeter Keiichi Hashimoto as our guest. Also appearing: Vampire Belt (Chris Corsano & Bill Nace) and Keith Fullerton Whitman. Email me for address at steve [at] rednotebook [dot] org.
  • August 8th (Monday) 7:55 PM SHARP, I’ll be joining Tom Plsek and 40 other musicians performing Swallowing The Sun, a meditation and rememberance of the approximately 200,000 people who perished in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This will be taking place at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Beacon Hill, Boston.
  • July 30th (Saturday) 5:00 PM, I’ll be joining Loup-Garou for a set at BEST-FEST at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Full bill on the 119 Gallery Web site.
  • July 8th (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with three bands(!): Metal & Glass, Grizzler and Bodydrama (performing Enneagram) at the Floft, 381 Congress St, Boston MA.
  • June 30th (Thursday) 8 PM, with Spam (Matt Samolis, flute and Curt Newton, percussion) as part of “Mix-N-Match” at The Nave Gallery at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Boulevard, Somerville. Also appearing: Tom Hall, Eric Hofbauer, Marty Ballou, Lou Cohen, Kevin Frenette, David Maxwell and Jim Hobbs.
  • June 20th (Monday) 8 PM, I’ll be joining Loup-Garou in a set at The Series at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA.
  • June 18th (Saturday) 8:00 pm, I’ll be playing with Grau Garten: guitarist Marc Bisson and Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics, accompanied by live video by Greg Kowalksi at Sun Worship IX, presented by Offset Needle Radius at the Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St., Kittery, Maine. Also appearing: Prehistoric Horse, Los Condenados, Bat Shit, Id M Theft Able and the kids from Baltimore (Owen Gardener, Andrew Bernstein + friend).
  • June 17th (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Duck That at the Floft, 381 Congress St, Boston MA. Also appearing: Prehistoric Horse (NYC), Bird Organ (Manchester NH) and Eggs Eggs.
  • June 12th (Sunday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Duck That at O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave., Allston MA. Also appearing: Borbetomagus (!), Heathen Shame and Peace, Loving (JP).
  • June 11th (Saturday) 8:00 pm, I’ll be playing with Grau Garten: Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics, and Greg Kowalksi on live video at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville. Also appearing: Prehistoric Horse (NYC), 2lous and a performance of John Cage’s Variations III which i will also be playing in.
  • June 7th (Tuesday) 8 pm, I’ll be joining Curt Newton and 5 other Boston improvisors in welcoming Munich-based pianist Hans Poppel back to Boston after a 3-year absence at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA. Also performing will be Neil Leonard (soprano and alto sax), Tom Hall (tenor sax), Vic Rawlings (cello, electronics), Jeff Song (cello) and Rob Bethel (cello).
  • June 3th (Friday) 8:30 pm, I’ll be playing trios with Dave Gross and Nick Williams at John Doe Jr., 269 Main St., Greenfield MA. Also apearing: Liz Tonne & David Russell, voices
  • May 27th (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Duck That at Spectacle at 17 Edinboro St., Boston MA. Also appearing: Jenny Graf, Childe Bride, Berglind Agustdottir & Elks; beats by DJ Philomena (Ivanna B.).
  • May 20th (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with Duck That in the Super Coda series at Cafe Orwell in Brooklyn, New York. Also appearing: Amelia Jackie, Yva Lass Vegass, Tooth & Wail.
  • May 10th (Tuesday) 8 pm, I’ll be playing a solo set along with solo sets by trombonists Tom Plsek and Randy Pingrey at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA. I will be performing my transcription of Roscoe Mitchell’s piece “Solo”.
  • April 23rd (Saturday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing with both Duck That and Loup-Garou at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also appearing will be Ununi (western MA), Ry Ry of Tokyo (Fitchburg) and Josh Baker. Loup-Garou is on at 10, Duck That at 10:30.
  • April 15 (Saturday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be performing “The Grove” with Matt Samolis and Arkm Foam (we’re called Three French Hens) with guest Brian Ellis (poetry) at The Whitehaus. The Grove celebrates the brewing arts of Bill Herlicka at White Birch Brewing in New Hampshire. This is a performance & tasting event.
  • April 8th (Friday) at 7:00 PM, Duck That will be performing at the Harvard Museum of Natural History as part of Bizarre Animals 2.0, “a special evening of performance, multimedia, and art installations throughout [the Museum’s] historic galleries.” The event runs 7 – 9:30 PM. We will play on and off throughout the evening. Guests for the last set: Chris Corsano, percussion and Abby Drake, electrified zither.
    An in-depth preview & interview with the curators from the Phoenix is here.
    A review of the show by a Boston Magazine blogger is here.
  • March 26th (Saturday) 10 PM I’ll be playing as part of Almost Duck That, my duo with Angela Sawyer at The Müthership, 381 Centre St., Jamaica Plain. Also appearing: 6 to 8 PM: Corvid College lecturer Christian Greer: “Study Philosophy: Die Crazy”. Music at 10 PM: Mobtet, Funny Money and Adrienne Lenkar.
  • March 19th (Saturday) 8 PM I’ll be playing duos with Matt Samolis at Sun Worship VIII, presented by Offset Needle Radius at the Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St., Kittery, Maine. Also appearing: Eric Dahlman, Crank Sturgeon, Andrea Pensado, Josh DeSchrier and Dave Seidel.
  • March 10th (Thursday) 8:30 PM, with Kilter, my duo with Curt Newton at The Whitehaus, 12 Seaverns St., Jamaica Plain. Also appearing: Benny Nelson and Arkm Foam.
  • March 4th (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’m playing at XFest 2011 at 119 Gallery, Lowell MA. This year, I will be playing in a trio with Emilie Mouchous (analog synth (Montreal)) and Walter Wright (analog synth), accompanied by Teresa Czepiel, Joe Burgio and Elizabeth Claire Barrett (dance/movement). We go on at 10:30 PM. The full schedule is here. Video of the set by Eric Sack is here.
  • February 26th (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be playing trio with guitarist Marc Bisson and Josh Baker on bicycle wheels & electronics, accompanied by live video by Greg Kowalski at The Mansion, 9 Spring Lane, Newburyport. Also we jammed with drummer named Bill Bacon.
  • February 17th (Thursday) 8 PM, house show with Duck That at Gay Gardens, Allston. (Email weirdo@weirdorecords.com for directions.) Also appearing: Eric Dahlman, Cereal (Keiichi Hashimoto, Jesse Kaminsky, Kelly Roberge) and Funny Money.
  • February 8 (Tuesday) 8 PM, I’ll be playing duos with Noell Dorsey at Café Fixe in Brookline. (Show produced by Non-Event.)
  • February 5 (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be playing duos with Matt Samolis (subbing for an ill Noell Dorsey) at The Whitehaus as part of the Weirdo Records 2nd Anniversary Party. Also appearing: Cotton Candy, Daily Life and members of Neptune.
  • January 21st (Friday) 8 PM, with Duck That at Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Beacon Hill, Boston. Also on the bill is Ken Field’s Alto Army, which I will be joining. Also appearing: Tom Hall Trio, and Paul Erlich . More details available here.
  • January 19 (Wednesday) 8 PM, with Duck That at The Whitehaus. Also playing: Owen Gardener and Andrew Bernstein (both from Baltimore).
  • January 15th (Saturday) 8 PM, Duck That will be playing with We Love You at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge. This is a release party for our new split LP on Feeding Tube Records.
  • January 14th (Friday) 9 PM, Duck That will be playing with We Love You at Feeding Tube Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge. This is a release party for our new split LP on Feeding Tube Records.

       2010

  • December 21st (Tuesday) 8 PM, a Winter Solstice celebration with Metal & Glass Ensemble at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • December 3rd (Friday) 8:30 PM, I’ll be playing duos with guitarist Marc Bisson accompanied by live video by Greg Kowalski at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also appearing will be the Kevin Frenette Trio (with James Rohr & John McLellan) and Walter Wright/Jules Vasylenko/Joe Burgio.
  • November 17th (Wednesday) 8 PM, I will be playing a concert of the music of Michael Pisaro at the Red Barn at Hampshire College 893 West St., Amherst, MA. Lecture by Mr. Pisaro at 6 PM. Concert at 8 PM. Also performing will be Jack Callahan, Vic Rawlings, David Gross, Forbes Graham, Ben Kudler and J. Starpoli.
  • November 12th (Friday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at 381 Congress St., Boston
  • November 6th (Saturday) 8:00 pm, I’ll be playing duos with guitarist Marc Bisson at the House of Goings On, Manchester NH. Also appearing: Skinny Vinny and Mike Dailey & Dei Xhrist.
  • October 23th (Saturday) 2 - 11 PM, I will be performing with Joe Burgio as part of an unnamed festival in an undisclosed location near Portland ME. That’s all i can say. Sorry.
  • October 22nd (Friday) 8:30 PM, I will be joining Lowell MA’s Loup-Garou at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also appearing will be the excellent Prehistoric Horse from New York City and not the wind, not the flag from Toronto. Check it out!
  • October 17th (Sunday) 1 pm, with Duck That at the Homegrown Fest 2. This is happening at The Temple, 670 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA. Read the compelling case for attending this festival at The Phoenix’s Web site.
  • October 17th (Sunday) 8 pm, Later that same day(!), I’ll be playing with Loup-Garou and Greg Kowalski (live video) at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA. Also appearing will be the trio of Forbes Graham, Kevin Frenette and Dr. T. This is part of Dr. T’s Visual Music Live series.
  • October 8th (Friday) 8 PM, I will be performing a piece entitled Open Sounds by Lou Cohen, at Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Beacon Hill, Boston. This will be a full evening of modern chamber music by living composers. More details here.
  • September 24th (Friday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge. This show is being presented by Opensound. Also appearing: clarinettist Krista Martynes from Montreal and Dave Gross, solo saxophone.
  • September 12th (Sunday) 7 pm, I’ll be playing duos with Noell Dorsey at a house concert at Lou Cohen’s in Cambridgeport. Also apearing: Matt Samolis (flute), Lou Cohen (harpsichord), Lou Bunk (tower of electro-acoustic flim-flammery) and Rebecca Shaw (baroque cello).
  • August 23rd (Tuesday) 8:30 pm, duos with Walter Wright at the House of Goings On, Manchester NH. Also appearing: Prehistoric Horse (NYC), Nenankutu (Lowell MA) and birdorgan (Manchester).
  • August 17th (Tuesday) 8 pm, with Duck That at the Umbrella Gallery, Fitchburg MA. Also appearing: Eric Dahlman and Dead Finks.
  • August 10th (Tuesday) 8 pm, with Duck That at P.A.’s Lounge, Somerville MA.
    Also appearing: J. Graf, Cereal & Salamander Wool.
  • August 5th (Thursday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings, at The Whitehaus, 12 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain. Also performing, percussionists Jack Callahan (western Mass) and Ben Bennett (Columbus OH) who are on a BIKE tour of Massachusetts and southern Vermont(!) and Lowell MA’s Loup-Garou.
  • July 15th (Thursday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing a solo set as part of the YLDMIER Tapes release party. This celebrates their second set of releases which includes my solo cassette It’s Hard Not To Be Who You Are as well as cassettes by Skinny Vinny, The Human Hairs and Undeveloped Piles, with performances by all the above. It all goes down at 381 Congress St., 2nd floor, Boston
  • June 21st (Monday) 8 PM, with Duck That at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge.
  • June 20th (Sunday) 8 PM, with Almost Duck That (duo with Angela Sawyer) at Sun Worship V, presented by Offset Needle Radius at the Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St., Kittery, Maine. Also appearing: birdorgan, Eric Dahlman, Jed Speare and Offset Needle Radius.
  • June 14th (Monday) 10:30 PM (EDT), Duck That will be phoning it in! Phoning It In is a radio show where DJ Talksonthephone “calls up all your favorite musicians for live over-the-phone performances and awkward conversation”. This is broadcast over the air on KDVS, 90.3 FM in Davis, California. They also stream the broadcast live via their Web site. We will be performing live in my dining room, huddled around the only land-line telephone in the band.
  • June 5th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Metal & Glass Ensemble at The Nave Gallery at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Boulevard, Somerville.
  • May 21st (Friday) 8 PM, with Almost Duck That (duo with Angela Sawyer) at Brookline Access Television, 46 Tappan Street, 3rd Floor, Brooline. Also appearing: Rotten Apples, Peace Loving, Andy + Zeus, Spring Totems. Things start at around 4 PM; Almost Duck That around 8.
    Billed as a “Synth Battle To The Death”, this will be my (improv) debut on analog synth (a cheap circuit-bent Realistic ConcertMaster 500 that Angela gave me over a year ago), so we’ll set up head-to-head for some serious synth mahem. Plus all the other usual Duck That fun shit.
  • May 8th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at ArtRages 2010: surrealestate, a benefit party for the Mobius Artist Group. This year’s party is being held in a huge space at 175 William F McLellan Highway, East Boston. For more info, go here.
  • May 7th (Friday) 8 pm, I’ll be playing duos with Katt Hernandez as part of the Vortex Concert Series at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA. Also appearing: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.
  • April 26th (Monday) 8 pm, with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA. Also appearing: Katt Hernandez/Andrew Neumann Duo.
  • April 24th (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing Steve Lacy’s “Tips” with Matt Samolis (flute) and Noell Dorsey (voice) at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • April 14th (Wednesday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing Steve Lacy’s “Tips” with Matt Samolis (flute) and Noell Dorsey (voice) at The Whitehaus, 12 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain. This will be the homecoming show for the Whitehaus Family Record tour groups, plus us and also Jack Wright.
  • March 27th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Duck That at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • March 26th (Friday) 8 PM, with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings at Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Beacon Hill, Boston.
  • March 20th (Saturday) with Duck That at BlastFest 3 presented by the Whitehaus Family Record at the Cambridge YMCA Theater in Central Square at 820 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA. We are scheduled for 8 PM.
  • March 13th (Saturday) with Duck That at the space *above* City Feed and Supply, 672 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain. (Virtually around the corner from The Whitehaus.) Also appearing: Mind Yeti, Rene Netherlands, Zun Zun Equi and quasi-super-secret headliners Debo Band. Music at like 8:30. Ish. Not sure when we go on, but it’s somewhere in the middle.
  • February 26th (Friday) 11 PM, I’m playing at XFest 2010 in Lowell, with Ras Moshe (tenor sax, flute) and Dave Miller (drums). From the press release: “XFest 2010 is a festival of improvised music, visuals and movement.” It all hapens at 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts, from Friday evening, February 26th through Sunday night, February 28th. Things get started at 8 PM Friday evening; the schedule is on Facebook here.
  • February 20th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • January 30th (Friday) 8 PM, house show with Almost Duck That (duo with Angela Sawyer) at the Franklin St. house, Allston. (Email weirdo@weirdorecords.com for directions.) Also appearing: Rotten Apples, Grasshopper, Nathan Whipple, Slasher Risk, Cave Bears and No Sound. Things start at around 4 PM; Almost Duck That around 8.
  • January 23rd (Saturday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at 381 Congress St., Boston
  • January 18th (Monday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing Steve Lacy’s “Tips” with Matt Samolis (flute) and Noell Dorsey (voice) at The Series at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge

       2009

  • December 18th (Friday) 8 PM, with EMU (EMU is Joe Burgio & Paul Kafka-Gibbons, movement, aided and abetted by, in this case, Andrew Eisenberg, percussion, Walter Wright, analog synths & video and myself) at 119 Gallery, Lowell MA. Also on the bill: Lou Cohen & Lou Bunk, and 7 Ton Hand.
  • December 14th (Monday) 8 PM, with Kilter, my duo with Curt Newton at The Series at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge
  • November 19th (Thursday) 9 PM, with Symptomatic, my duo with Vic Rawlings at 381 Congress St., Boston
  • November 15th (Sunday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at the Fall of the House of Entropy series at the Piano Factory, 791 Tremont St., Boston MA. (Entrance through Parking Lot @ Northampton Street.)
  • November 1st (Sunday) 8 PM, with Duck That at the Fall of the House of Entropy series at the Piano Factory, 791 Tremont St., Boston MA. (Entrance through Parking Lot @ Northampton Street.) Also on the bill: Eisen-Beast (Jules Vasylenko & Andrew Eisenberg duo) and Davindar Singh.
  • October 23rd (Friday) 8 PM, with Metal & Glass Ensemble at the Church of the Advent Library, 30 Brimmer St., Beacon Hill, Boston. Record release party!
  • September 25 (Friday) 8 PM, with Duck That at The Whitehaus. Also playing are The Amalgam Trio (Walter Wright, Katt Hernandez and Joe Burgio) and Electrocaster (Mitch Ahern) and the Hartford Sound Alliance.
  • August 16th (Sunday) Weirdstock Festival at the Cambridge YMCA Theater (so chill) in Central Square at 820 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA.
    Metal and Glass plays at 4 PM.
    Duck That plays at 5 PM.
    Weirdstock goes all weekend from Friday evening through Sunday evening. Full schedule is here. (You’ll need to scroll down a bit.) Also, advance tickets are available at whitehausfamilyrecord.com. I don’t think they're required, but you can get a break on multiple days, if that’s what you’re into.
  • July 24th (Friday) 9 PM, with Duck That! at Feeding Tube Records, suite 235 in the Paragon Arts and Industry Building, 150 Pleasant St., Easthampton MA
  • June 29th (Monday) 8 PM, I’ll be playing solo at The Series at Weirdo Records, 844 Mass Ave., Cambridge
  • June 27th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at the John Voigt 70th Birthday Concert at Third Life Studio, Union Square, Somerville
  • June 26th (Friday) 8 PM, with Metal & Glass Ensemble at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer St., Beacon Hill, Boston. We're recording this concert for a possible release.
  • May 22nd (Friday) 10 PM Duo with Vic Rawlings at Your Inner Vagabond, Pittsburgh PA. With Ben Opie, solo alto
  • May 21st (Thursday) 7 PM OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
    Trio with Vic Rawlings and Ryan Jewell, percussion
  • May 19th (Tuesday) 8 PM Solo at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, St. Louis MO
    With Vic Rawlings (solo) and Epicycle String Quartet
  • May 18th (Monday) 7:30 PM Myopic Books and then 9 PM Enemy, Chicago IL.
    Myopic show w/ Vic Rawlings, Vadim Sprikut, Aaron Zarzutzki & Todd Carter.
    Enemy show solo, with Vic Rawlings (solo) and Fear of Shit (Sprikut/Zarzutzki duo). (Myopic & Enemy are in the same block.)
  • May 17th (Sunday) 9 PM Solo at Robinwood Concert House, 2564 Robinwood, Toledo OH
    With Vic Rawlings (solo) and Requiltings
  • May 16th (Saturday) 8 PM Canterbury House, 721 East Huron St., Ann Arbor, MI
    Steve plays trio w/ Charlie Draheim (electronics.) & Matt Endahl (piano)
    Vic Rawlings plays trio w/ Chris Riggs (guit) & Ben Hall (perc)
  • May 15th (Friday) 8 PM, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca NY
    Steve solo / Vic Rawlings duo with Tim Feeney, percussion / Steve, Vic & Tim trio
  • May 14th (Thursday) 9 PM Solo at Feeding Tube Records, in the Easthampton Mill, Easthampton MA
    With Vic Rawlings duo with Chris Cooper (guitar), and Peter Bonos (solo trumpet)
  • May 8th (Friday) 8 PM, with Metal & Glass Ensemble at the Alumni Room in the Campus Center at UMass Boston. The Alumni Room is on the second floor of the Campus Center.
  • May 7th (Thursday) 8 PM, with Duck That! at 119 Gallery, Lowell MA
  • May 3rd (Sunday) 7 PM, performed alto sax trios with Dave Gross & Josh Jefferson at a house concert at Lou Cohen’s, Cambridgeport MA. Also appearing: Vic Rawlings solo, Walter Wright and John Voigt duo, and Lou Cohen, prepared piano and harpsichord.
  • April 25th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • April 16th (Thursday) 8 PM, with Spam (Matt Samolis, flute and Curt Newton, percussion) at the Lily Pad, Inman Square, Cambridge
  • April 3rd (Friday) 8 PM, with Metal & Glass Ensemble at Mass College of Art, Boston as part of the Eventworks Festival '09
  • March 28th (Saturday) 8 PM, with Metal & Glass Ensemble at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • March 27th (Friday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at Mobius, Boston
  • February 25th (Wednesday) 8 PM: sat in with Andrew Neumann during his set at The Outpost, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge. Also appearing: Little Mysteries.
  • February 21st (Saturday) 8 PM, with Duck That at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville
  • February 10th (Tuesday) 8 PM, with Grizzler at the Axiom Gallery, 141 Green St. (at the Green St. T Station, Orange Line), Jamaica Plain
  • January 17th (Saturday) 8 PM, I’ll be performing ’60s conceptual composer Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Music for Electric Metronomes with seven other improvisors at Opensound at Third Life Studios, Union Square, Somerville

       2008

       2005

  • October 28th (Friday) 8 PM, with Dave Gross’s improvising large ensemble: Linda Aubrey, electronics, Mike Bullock, bass, James Coleman, theremin, David Gross, alto saxophone, Bhob Rainey, soprano saxophone and, from San Francisco, Ron Heglin, trombone. It all happens at The Nave Gallery at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Boulevard, Somerville.
  • May 30th (Monday) 12 PM, I'll be performing Tom Plsek’s Collateral Damage Noted, a Memorial Day tribute to the Iraqi civillians killed in the Iraq war. A group of nearly 100 musicians will be performing this piece on the Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston MA, starting at noon.

       2003

  • September 20th (Saturday) 6 PM (approx.), with “The PSC” (i.e., “the Petersham Sound Collective”) an impromptu improvising large ensemble which arose from a party out at the Mamashoe World Headquarters farm in Petersham, Massachusetts. Included were Jeff Pooser, guitar, Matt Samolis, flute, Katt Hernandez, violin, Bhob Rainey, soprano saxophone, uh, lots of others.

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