Monthly Archives: September 2011

ALBUM RELEASE! TURQUOISE SESSIONS – Available Oct 2011

Available by direct order for $12 + any applicable shipping/tax (write: joe@joelasqo.com), as well as at shows, at Viracocha, Bird & Beckett, at other retail, & the usual e-commerce outlets. Long-awaited CD of Indo-modernist and Neo-Gaku piano solo repertoire pioneered at … Continue reading

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MSP/piano: 11th (and 12th) Annual Transbay Skronkathon BBQ @Berkeley Arts Festival (Sat 25 Aug, 2:30pm)

This year’s Skronkathon, curated by the inimitable Tom Duff, re-ignites the Bay Area’s most unique adventurous, improvised, free new music potluck BBQ at Berkeley Arts Festival (2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA), perpetrated in collaboration with Toms’ Place. We’ll have plenty … Continue reading

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MSP/piano w Aaron Bennett’s Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra @ Crane House, Oakland (Sat 28 Jul, 8pm) | Set 2: “Jacob L”/Kanoko Nishi (西鹿乃子)

The stunning series at Crane House in Oakland has made it into one of the most interesting places to hear improv & new music in the Bay Area. I’m excited to again be adding MSP & piano into the mix with Aaron Bennett’s … Continue reading

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Piano w Jim Ryan’s Green Alembic @Berkeley Arts Festival (Mon 23 Jul, 9pm) + Emergency String X(tet) (7:30pm)

I’m honored to play with musician, poet, writer, philosopher and artist, Jim Ryan at: Berkeley Arts Festival (2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA) at 9pm on Mon 23 July. Infected by bebop at a tender age, Jim first took up the trombone in Minnesota, … Continue reading

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MSP @Outsound New Music Summit’s “Touch The Gear” (Sun 15 Jul, @CMC, SF, 7-10pm)

Outsound New Music Summit’s Touch the Gear is a free, hands-on, family-friendly event that lets the public roam among 25-30 musicians & inventors with their various different configurations of sonic “gear.” Everything from oscillators to planks of wood with strings … Continue reading

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MSP 包山節 w Warren Stringer’s visual synth @LSG (Thu 28 Jun, 8pm) + Glou-glou (9pm)

Outsound Series @ Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St. @ 6th Street, San Francisco, 8pm. This all-laptop show will feature luminous and dark harmonic spectra, and doppler’d / computer-restructured time —  especially time-warped and processed sound from my field recordings … Continue reading

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MSP/piano w Aaron Bennett’s Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra @Berkeley Arts Festival (Wed 13 Jun, 9pm) + Nathan Clevenger (8pm)

After a great recent show at CNMAT, Aaron Bennett’s phenomenal ensemble Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra returns! — Appearing at: Berkeley Arts Festival (2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA) at 9pm on Wed 13 June. I am again honored to be adding MSP and piano into the mix. … Continue reading

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MSP/piano w Aaron Bennett’s Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra | Aram Shelton’s sax quartet with MSP processing @CNMAT (Berkeley, Fri 27 Apr, 8pm)

I’m very excited to have been asked to play with Aaron Bennett’s phenomenal ensemble Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra at CNMAT (1750 Arch St., Berkeley) at 8pm on Fri 27 Apr. I’ll be adding MSP and piano into the mix. If you’ve already heard … Continue reading

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Piano Space, MSP Star Spectra, and Doppler’d Time: Lasqo @ El Valenciano (SF, Thu 12 Apr, 8pm – Next Now 4)

A solo show as part of a great ticket in the spatially-aware Next Now series @ El Valenciano (1153 Valencia Street, SF; BART: 24th & Mission). Many of you have traveled to new musical planes on Thursdays at El Valenciano … Continue reading

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MSP Moon on Meta-Raga Reeds by the Night River of Jazz: Lasqo @ Bird & Beckett (SF, Sun 1 Apr, 4pm)

A solo show at the wonderful musical and literary gem of Glen Park  – Bird & Beckett! (653 Chenery, SF CA 94131; BART: Glen Park; www.birdbeckett.com) As many of you know, I’m refocusing on a period of inner musical exploration, practice … Continue reading

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