Here are some pictures from the recent Vexations [Re-vex’d] 22-hour improv marathon on a theme of Satie’s at Berkeley Arts Festival.
It was a great honor to organize this event and extraordinary to hear the richness and originality of the different approaches these great musicians took to it.
All photos below by Joel Deuter (thank you, Joel!), sometimes with further processing by me. (Note: Not all musicians who played were photographed).
In the background of many of these photos can be seen the luminous encaustic paintings of Mari Marks.
Steve Adams: 3:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Steve Adams: 10am, Sun 24 Mar
Nancy Beckman & Tom Bickley, in the Gusty Winds May Exist duo: 5:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Myles Boisen: 12:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Mark Clifford: 7pm, Sat 23 Mar
Joseph Colombo (L) and Adam Fong (R): midnight, Sun 24 Mar
Joseph Colombo: 4am, Sun 24 Mar
Patti Deuter: 2pm, Sat 23 Mar
Thea Farhadian and Dean Santomieri: 11:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Adam Fong: 9:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Adam Fong: midnight, Sun 24 Mar
Matthew Goodheart: 6:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Phillip Greenlief: 1am, Sun 24 Mar
Diane Grubbe: 3am, Sun 24 Mar
Ron Heglin: 8:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Jeff Hobbs: 4pm, Sat 23 Mar
Jason Hoopes: 7:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Bonnie Hughes and Dean Santomieri, 2:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Matt Ingalls (L) and John Ingle (R): 2:30 pm, Sat 23 Mar
Sung Kim (김숭): 9pm, Sat 23 Mar
Sung Kim (김숭) (L) and Rent Romus (R): 10:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Heikki Koskinen: 11pm, Sat 23 Mar
Joe Lasqo: 10:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Joe Lasqo and Ron Heglin: 8:30pm, Sat 23 Mar
Scott R. Looney: 8:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Scott R. Looney and Rent Romus: 2am, Sun 24 Mar
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano y El Dinosaurio: 6pm, Sat 23 Mar
Bob Marsh (in Sonic Suit #1): 8am, Sun 24 Mar
Joshua Marshall and Crystal Pascucci: 6am, Sun 24 Mar
Noah Phillips: 7:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Rent Romus: 10:30pm, Sat 23 Mar & 2am Sun 24 Mar
[ruidobello] (aka Jorge Bachmann): 9:30am, Sun 24 Mar
John Schott: 6:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Christina Stanley: 3pm, Sat Mar 23
Eli Wallace: 2:30am, Sun 24 Mar
Thanks again to all these amazing musicians and to Berkeley Arts Festival!
Joe