March performances

8:00 p.m., Saturday March 28

I perform at Enemy with Daniel Fishkin, daxophone player extraordinaire. The Green Pasture Happiness will open: Aaron Zarzutzki (no-output turntable), Daniel Fandiño (electronics), and Brian Labycz (electronics).

Daniel Fishkin has built and played daxophones of all shapes and sizes since 2004. Daxophone: a flat piece of wood, anchored at one end, and played with a bow.  This German idiophone, invented in 1987 by Hans Reichel, sounds anywhere between a violin or baby.  Live looping can elevate this monophonic instrument into a badger’s choir, or perhaps evoke the mating rituals of the musk-elk.  Daniel’s current interests include improvisation, transformation, Goethe’s Faust, and narrative song-form.

I will perform on Springboard, which has its own crude form of daxophone built into it, along with a variety of coil springs and other readily available materials that have been noted for their remarkable sounds.

Dan’s MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/dandelionfiction

Hans Reichel’s website: www.daxo.de

The Green Pasture Happiness… “is predatory, smarmy, and slaphappy. those who get hypnotized by its dialectic approach to the history of music do not hear what it is really saying. they sincerely believe that the cure for evil is more evil. their violent, tendentious campaigns of malice and malignity are to improvisation what the blitzkrieg was to international diplomacy, by which I mean that they like forcing one to fall into the trap of thinking that all musical literature that opposes diabolism was forged by resentful, unambitious bludgers.”

7:30 p.m., Monday March 30

I perform at Myopic Books with Aaron Zarzutski (objects) and Guillermo Gregorio (reeds)