{"id":772,"date":"2012-08-19T06:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2015-05-28T02:55:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:55:23","slug":"%e0%a4%aa%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a3-revisited-piano-shakuhachi-recorder-silences-viracocha-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/%e0%a4%aa%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a3-revisited-piano-shakuhachi-recorder-silences-viracocha-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"\u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923 Revisited: Piano, Shakuhachi, Recorder, Silences @Viracocha, SF (Wed 12 Sep, 4pm & 5pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Viracocha, NW corner of 21st & Valencia, SF<\/p><\/div>\n

A re-examination of \u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923<\/strong> (pr\u0101\u1e47a, life breath) with Gusty Winds May Exist<\/strong> (husband and wife team of multi-windist \/ synthesist\u00a0Tom Bickley<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>& shakuhachi maestra Nancy Beckman<\/strong><\/a>), who’ll be coming fresh from recent performances at\u00a0Crane House<\/strong> in Oakland, Berkeley Arts Festival<\/a>,\u00a0The Stone<\/a>,\u00a0and the World Shakuhachi Festival in Ky\u014dto (2012 \u56fd\u969b\u5c3a\u516b\u30d5\u30a7\u30b9\u30c6\u30a3\u30d0\u30eb)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gusty Winds May Exist @ the Luggage Store<\/p><\/div>\n

Gusty Winds May Exist formed at the 1999 Deep Listening Retreat led by Pauline Oliveros. Their initial focus on sonic connections between shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and recorder has expanded, now adding multi-wind timbres extended via acoustic and electronic means to improvise playfully and contemplatively with the world soundscape.<\/p>\n

Pianos, laptops, and percussion (my instruments) are possibly the most “un-breath-y” of instruments \u2014 so how to breathe with them is a constant k\u014dan<\/em>, and it’s a perverse source of inspiration to turn to the supple wind instrument techniques of finger-hole tapping, overblowing, puffy honks, note bending, sustained tones, etc., that don’t exist on, say, the piano and say, OK, well, what means the same thing on the piano?<\/em><\/p>\n

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The shakuhachi utaguchi (\u6b4c\u53e3, blowing edge)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pianino z ok. 1900 r. (A. Jaschinsky), wn\u0119trze (Photo: Pko)<\/p><\/div>\n

Working with\u00a0Tom<\/a> <\/strong>& Nancy<\/strong><\/a> has taught me a lot about how to make a piano or laptop breathe, and how to slow down and listen deeply to the sounds of subtle wind instruments to project their analogues into piano or laptop space.<\/p>\n

It’s with great pleasure that I join forces with them again in two special acoustic sets at 4pm<\/span><\/strong> and 5pm<\/span><\/strong> during my regular booking at Viracocha <\/strong>(NW corner of 21st & Valencia, San Francisco<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We’ll draw from influences including the centuries-old standards of the ancient Japanese My\u014dan shakuhachi repertory (\u660e\u6697\u5c3a\u516b\u672c\u66f2<\/strong>), Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Gregorian chant and silence as a point of departure for a deep-listening, gently modernist exploration of breath\/sound-space and mysterious beauty.<\/p>\n

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Larry Ochs & friend<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re also planning a special extended trio version of Failure<\/em><\/strong>, by Larry Ochs<\/strong><\/a> of ROVA Saxophone Quartet<\/strong><\/a>, a piece of elegiac beauty which has become a mainstay of my piano repertoire.<\/p>\n

Viracocha<\/strong> is a unique polyvalent zone spread over several levels at the NW corner of 21st & Valencia in San Francisco, that functions as post-modern antique shop, piano lounge \/ performance space, lending library, gallery, and all-purpose cultural node. It has been my pleasure and honor to play there weekly for the last 1\u00be years. (Here’s a lovely article on Viracocha with a picture of me playing from the back<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Warmly hope to see you at this special show!<\/p>\n

Joe<\/p>\n

P.S. More info on Nancy<\/strong> & Tom:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nancy Beckman<\/p><\/div>\n

Nancy Beckman<\/a> creates performance pieces, plays and teaches the shakuhachi and performs with the Cornelius Cardew Choir<\/em><\/strong>. Her education includes an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University, a master\u2019s in interarts from SFSU and ordination to teach shakuhachi from My\u014dan-ji<\/em><\/strong> (\u660e\u6697\u5bfa<\/strong><\/strong>, the famous “Temple of Light & Darkness” of shakuhachi history) in Kyoto.<\/p>\n

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The Gate of Light & Darkness at My\u014dan-ji (\u660e\u6697\u5bfa\u9580)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tom Bickley<\/p><\/div>\n

Tom Bickley (site and samples) <\/a> <\/em><\/strong>composes electro-acoustic music, plays and teaches recorder, performs with Three Trapped Tigers<\/em><\/strong> (with recorder players David Barnett and Judy Linsenberg), co-founded and directs the Cornelius Cardew Choir<\/em><\/strong>, is a curator emeritus of the Meridian Gallery music series, and is on the Library Faculty (music, philosophy and political science) at CSU East Bay. His education includes degrees in music, theology, and library and information science and the Certificate in Deep Listening.<\/p>\n

Nancy and Tom live with their (very cool) cat \u5927\u798f<\/strong> (Daifuku) in Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A re-examination of \u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923 (pr\u0101\u1e47a, life breath) with Gusty Winds May Exist (husband and wife team of multi-windist \/ synthesist\u00a0Tom Bickley & shakuhachi maestra Nancy Beckman), who’ll be coming fresh from recent performances at\u00a0Crane House in Oakland, Berkeley Arts Festival,\u00a0The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}