From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #372 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, December 31 2001 Volume 07 : Number 372 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Best of 2001 [Yngve Hauge ] Joseph Zitt's Surprise Me with Beauty North American Tour 2K2 [Joseph Zit] [Fwd: Belated Happy Holidays !!! from Marcella Detroit [Birdie Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Stuart Castergine (no Email address) ******************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:18:20 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: Best of 2001 On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, atholbrose wrote: > a-ha, "Minor Earth Major Sky" > > Bar none, the best record of 2001. Unfortunately unreleased in the US; the > song "Velvet" was on a soundtrack for a summer movie ("One Night at > McCool's") which unfortunately went nowhere, as did the hopes it would get > the album released domestically. I would recommend the original release of the song Velvet by Savoy which is Paal Waaktaar Savoy's and his wife's band. I kinda like that version better, and I must say that the 2 Savoy albums are both brilliant. - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:16:12 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Joseph Zitt's Surprise Me with Beauty North American Tour 2K2 OK, folks, I'm zooming out across the continent, doing my performance thing, starting Wednesday. (Sorry for the short notice for some of this: some of the stuff came together at the last minute, and some is still fuzzy...) Not standard Ecto fare, though strongly influenced by, say, Lisa Gerrard, Robert Fripp, and others. (See the entries for Comma and Gray Code in the Ectophile's Guide, and my MP3s at http://www.metatronpress.com/mp3/ and http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt .) Anyway... here's the info. I look forward to catching up with Ectophiles along the way! Joseph Zitt's Surprise Me with Beauty North American Tour 2K2 Contact: Joseph Zitt jzitt@metatronpress.com (202) 321-8443 Vocalist/composer/poet/improvisor Joseph Zitt is heading out on his first solo North American tour in January and February 2002. The tour is in support of his new book, "Surprise Me With Beauty: the Music of Human Systems" , and the CDs "All Souls" (created in collaboration with Thomas Bickley) and "Collaborations" (featuring a performance with bassists Vattel Cherry and Jane Wang, and live and studio interaction with each of the members of the electroacoustic chamber ensemble Gray Code). In the course of the tour, he will perform sets both solo (vocal through computer processing) and in collaboration with local improvisors. He also will lead workshops in structured improvisation, incorporating the participants, if possible, in the performances in the same cities. In addition to his published books and CDs, recordings of his performances with various ensembles are online at http://www.metatronpress.com/mp3/ and writings and other information are at http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/ . The following dates are scheduled, with more to be announced, and possibilities open for further dates afterward and along the way. The information in the message, along with maps and directions to many venues, is kept up to date at http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/tourdates.html Wednesday, Jan 2: Washington, DC All Souls Church, Unitarian 1500 Harvard Street, NW (16th and Harvard) Washington, DC 20009 8 PM Friday, Jan 4: Birmingham, AL Pilgrim Congregational Church 3801 Montclair Road Birmingham, AL 35213 7 PM with the Eric Zinman Trio, Tony Wren, Marj McDaid, LaDonna Smith, and poets. Saturday, January 5: Atlanta, GA Eyedrum, 290 MLK Jr. Dr. Suite 8, Atlanta, GA 30312 10 PM Sunday, January 6 - Tuesday, January 8: Carrboro, NC (venues and events TBA) with the Alliance for Improvised Music Sunday, January 13: Nashville, TN Ruby Green 514 Fifth Avenue South, Nashville, TN Monday, January 14: Louisville, KY Artswatch 2337 Frankfort Ave. Louisville Ky 40206 9 PM Wednesday, January 16: Dallas, TX (venue and time TBA) with QslashC Thursday, January 17: Austin, TX Improvisation Workshop Heloise Gold's Tai Chi Studio 2525 Wallingwood, Building 7, suite 702 B, Austin, TX 9 PM Friday, January 18: Austin, TX Cafe Mundi 1704 E 5th St Austin, TX 78702 6 PM with QslashC and friends 512-236-8634 Saturday, January 19: Austin, TX Sound Exchange 2100A Guadalupe Austin, TX 78705 6 PM Sunday, January 20: Houston, TX Sound Exchange 1846 Richmond Houston, TX 77098 8 PM with Philip Gayle Tuesday, January 22: Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State University (Venue and time TBA) Thursday, January 24: El Paso, TX Bridge Center for Contemporary Art 1 Union Fashion Center San Antonio and Stanton El Paso, TX 79901 Wednesday, January 31: San Francisco, CA Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street (nr 6th) San Francisco, CA 94103 Saturday, February 3: Berkeley, CA Large group performance (Details TBA) Wednesday, February 6: Seattle, WA Subtext Reading Series Richard Hugo House 1634 11th Ave on Capitol Hill Seattle, WA 7:30 PM Friday, February 8: Portland, OR (venue and time TBA) Saturday, February 9: Victoria, BC Martin Batchelor Gallery 712 Cormorant Street (across from City Hall) Victoria, BC with Lance Olsen & Jamie Drouin Wednesday, February 13: Olympia, WA KAOS-FM Radio on "What's This Called? / No Skinny Ties" hosted by Jim McAdams 11 PM-1 AM - - - - - - BIOGRAPHY - - - - - - Joseph Zitt's vocal performance combines a background in traditional synagogue and world musics with a mastery of extended vocal techniques. While he often approaches performance non-verbally, focusing on the vocal sounds themselves rather than the meanings of words, he also includes moving and surprising uses of text in work that straddles the line between music and poetry. In his solo and ensemble performances and workshops, he works to create music that is both complex and clear, exemplifying the best that each person can bring to free and structured improvisation. His recent recording, "All Souls", in collaboration with Thomas Bickley, presents a free long-form improvisation, created on the spot with intertwining voices exploring the architecture and objects in a resonant room and its surroundings. His latest recording, "Collaborations", captures live improvisations performed with bassists F. Vattel Cherry and Jane Wang, with percussionist Brian Fending, and with guitarist Jonathan Matis (both members, along with Zitt, Bickley, and Matthew Ross Davis, of the ensemble Gray Code), as well as a studio collaborations with Thomas Bickley and Craque. His newest book, "Surprise Me With Beauty: the Music of Human Systems", collects writings and scores from over 20 years that present and embody new visions of human interaction through structured group improvisation. Believing, as John Cage said, that "the performance of a piece of music can be a metaphor ... of how we want society to be", Zitt develops and discusses the creation of ensemble musics that are clear, multifaceted, and enjoyable. These scores help reveal and encourage people's strengths in performance while allowing for acceptance of and recovery from honest human frailty and error. Composer Pauline Oliveros has called the book "a wonderful invitation to participate in making music for musicians, interested people, and educators. These scores will encourage you to sound the silenced self." Joseph Zitt studied cantorial music at Yeshiva University, electronic and ethnic music and composition at Rutgers University with Daniel Goode, Phillip Corner, and Barbara Benary, and voice with Martha Randall. He has performed in a wide variety of solo and ensemble contexts, including performing with the ensemble Comma in Pauline Oliveros's "Lunar Opera" at Lincoln Center in New York City, and with the ensemble Gray Code at the Knitting Factory in New York and at the 2001 Vision Festival in Washington, DC. He has worked extensively in the realms of free and structured improvisation with musicians including Toshi Makihara, John Berndt, LaDonna Smith, Thom the World Poet, and Philip Gelb. In annual tours of Texas, his group QslashC, a large and varied ensemble of musicians, poets, and dancers, explores improvisation methods and structures in engaging (and often hilarious) events. He has also led the Human Systems Performance Group, which moves among dance, theatrical, musical, and video performance to develop effective multimedia events, and created electronic theatre scores for the PAM Repertory Company in Brooklyn, NY. His recordings includes Comma's "(voices)" and Gray Code's "Live in Philadelphia 2000" on the Metatron Press label, the solo CD "Jerusaklyn" from MP3.com, and the vocal solo "mouth. midnight." on the "lowercase" compilation on the Bremsstrahlung label. His other works include the book "Shekhinah: The Presence" from Metatron Press and the ambient video dance work, "Gentle Entropy, each of which has accompanying CDs from the MP3.com label. He founded and manages Silence: the John Cage Internet discussion list, and has developed and managed Web sites for businesses and arts organizations, including the Austin International Poetry Festival and Metatron Press. MP3s and streaming recordings of many of his performances, as well as those of other Metatron Press artists, are online at http://www.metatronpress.com/mp3/. - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CDs: Collaborations/ All Souls http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:45:26 -0800 From: Birdie Subject: [Fwd: Belated Happy Holidays !!! from Marcella Detroit Thought I'd pass this note from Marcy along to the list.... She added some Christmas songs on her MP3 site, which, if you click on "play all songs" will certainly make a few eyebrows raise....as besides her octave range...the switch to Electronia and Alternative Pop.....and then to "O Holy Night" definitley shows another kind of range!! Also, there's a new ballad up on the site, "If". Here's her note, and the link. Happy New Year! Enjoy! Birdie Return-Path: Received: from imo-d08.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.40]) by motown (Earthlink/Netcom Mail Service) with ESMTP id u2kauq.gkt.37tiu50 Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from MarcyFans@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id o.175.1583661 (4256); Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:38:38 -0500 (EST) From: MarcyFans@aol.com Message-ID: <175.1583661.295b813c@aol.com> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:38:36 EST Subject: Belated Happy Holidays !!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: undisclosed-recipients:; X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 28 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hi everyone!! Just wanted to wish you all a very wonderful holiday season! For those of you who celebrated Hanukah, I hope you had a good one and for those of you who celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a good one, too!! And for those who celebrate both, you are very lucky!! Whatever you celebrate, I certainly wish you a very healthy, happy and prosperous new year. And for all of you who have been such great supporters, thank you very, very much for all your interest and support throughout this past year. I know these times have been, and are, quite trying for many people and I truly wish you all the happiness you deserve. Be well and be safe. With love, peace and gratitude; Marcy :-) PS I've put some Christmas songs up at mp3.com if you'd like to listen. http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/150/marcella_detroit.html PPS New gigs coming in the new year...will keep you posted. ppps We tried to send this a week ago and thanks to aol we got our account closed twice for spamming! if you do not wish to get these emails just send a remove to marcyfans@aol.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #372 **************************