Pittsburgh New Music Net

As part of The End of Television (http://theendoftelevision.blogspot.com), The Nerve will host a majestic night of jazz and improvised music from the following groups:

HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative)
the 22 member experimental orchestra – founded by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Valentine Trio
The Chicago master anti-cellist brings his jazz trio to Pittsburgh to run through original tunes, Fred Katz material, and possibly the odd Sun Ra, Wilco, or Syd Barret tune. Jason Roebke on bass, Frank Rosaly on drums.

Ben Opie’s Sound/Unsound Trio
One of Ben’s newer projects, surely to fall somewhere inbetween the Sun Ra-inspired big band strut of OPEK and the modal jams of Thoth Trio.

at The Nerve: an art and performance venue
500 Dargan Street (at Minerva St. next to the Bloomfield Bridge)
Friday, June 12, 2009
Doors at 7PM, $6

Current HiTEC Lineup:
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: piano, electronics, percussion
Tony Balko: camcorder
Ben Opie: reeds, electronics
Kenny Haney: clarinets
Spat Cannon: upright acoustic bass
Dani Simmonds: banjo-uke
Roger Dannenberg: trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, software design
Missi St Pierre: toy piano w/ effects
Julian Krishnamurti: electric bass
Johan Nystrom [auxiliary member in Philly]: extended percussion
Ben Harris: violin
Jonathan Borofsky: monome with mabalhabla software
Mike Tamburo: hammered dulcimer
Unfinished Symphonies: electronic keyboard
Joy: electric guitar w/ nylon strings
William Wedler: Experiment 1
James Gyre: drums
Hyla Willis: erhu
David Bernabo: acoustic guitar
Josh Beyer: cello
Mike Kasunic: digital synth, electronics
Bob Jungkunz: drums

Below are some links to movies of HiTEC:

For Tony Balko’s 16mm footage of HiTEC
(Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) ‘s beginning
of our 21st rehearsal on September 14, 2008EV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0thj_1lWlA

For the beginning of my documentary of HiTEC’s premier gig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpa9VMyWmU

A soft focus high-definition wide-angle shot of a short excerpt
from the 1/9/9 premier of HiTEC at the New Hazlett Theater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo2apKl_CCY

Fred Lonberg-Holm:

Flyer:

HiTE Club
Sunday, April 26
New Hazlett Theater
8PM – 11PM

joy toujours
Tony Blowad
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Donations only.

(1)
joy toujours
Ukelele, guitar, violin
Maybe other musicians
Music you can play while your four year old is sleeping
ie. You are beautiful-core

(2)
Tony Blowad
Tony Blowad is the new duo between Pittsburgh musician David Bernabo (Assembly, Vale and Year, HiTEC) and Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Bloomington and Chicago musician Matt Griffin (Unstable Ensemble, OIO, Early Day Miners). The duo is awaiting their first show where they will perform together for the first time, Bernabo on prepared and unprepared guitar and Griffin on drum kit + implements. Improvisations will be guided by phrases pulled from a hat, phrases that were written before the set but not shared. This first set will be the beginning of a new recording project and possibly other performances.

(3)
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: “Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids”
This triple-projection (video, slides, filmstrip) w/ live soundtrack addresses the serious problem of guitar addiction. Have you ever noticed that for everyone you know who plays, for example, nondo, there’re probably at least a million who play guitar? The reason for this is simple: nondo is a benign instrument, the guitar is highly addictive. Given that the other acts on this program are all guitar acts, tENT feels that it’s his civic duty to present this workshop in an effort to help these poor suffering souls break their insufferable habit.