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Rx Fest, a three day, multi-venue festival in the form of a large-scale benefit for organizations vital to our community, is on the eve of its second year February 14th, 15th and 16th 2020 all centrally located in downtown Portland at Star Theater, Dante’s, Kelly’s Olympian and Valentines. The second annual event benefits Outside In, Q Center, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and p:ear.
Not only is Rx Fest a means to raise money for those organizations but also another opportunity to provide a platform for community outreach and engagement where representatives from each nonprofit can speak directly to the public about their respective missions and services.
General admission weekend and individual day wristbands on-sale now!
The Creative Music Guild Stage at Valentine’s
6pm: Francisco Botello
Francisco Botello is a sound artist and composer born and raised in Chula Vista, California. Growing up a dual citizen on the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, his work reflects on the nature of place and belonging. Gathering and composing with field recordings, he explores questions of identity, ancestry, geography, change and loss.
franciscobotello.com
7pm: Ayelen Secches & Eddie Bond
Ayelen Secches (Buenos Aires) – Piano
Eddie Bond (Starship Infinity & Aan) – Guitar
VIDEO
8pm: Deltoid
Made almost entirely of field recordings, [Terminal Terrestre] acts as a memory book for a recent 3-month stay in Ecuador. Some sounds have been presented unprocessed, others manipulated beyond any possible recognition of the original source. None sit still for long. The recordings were taken from many different sources: political rallies in the streets of Cuenca, cats fighting on the roofs of Montañita, church bells in Saraguro, and the nocturnal drone of organic industry in Yasuni National Park. soundsetal.com
soundsetal.com/projects/deltoid-terminal-terrestre/
9pm: Xapchyk
XAPCHYK (pronounced Har- chuk) is David Morgan & Jerry Soga, two Portland, Oregon improvisors challenging each other in an open conversation of multi-instrumental sound collage.
https://xapchyk.bandcamp.com
10pm: Jack Radsliff’s Flux
Jack Radsliff is a guitarist/composer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently residing in Eugene, OR.
https://jackradsliffmusic.bandcamp.com/track/breathe
11pm: TEVLIN
Bernie Diveley – drums, David Owen Tevlin – guitar
David Tevlin is a multidisciplinary and multidimensional artist living in Portland Oregon. Playing live and engineering records since 2004, currently David has been busy as one half of the brutal prog rock band TEVLIN , working hard on the band’s second LP.
VIDEO
AVA MENDOZA is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Born in 1983, she started performing her own music, and as a sidewoman and collaborator in many different projects, as soon as she was old enough to get into 18+ venues. As a guitarist, Mendoza has received acclaim for her technique and viscerality. Her most ongoing work is as leader of experimental rock band Unnatural Ways, and as a solo performer on guitar/voice. In any context she is committed to bringing expressivity, energy and a wide sonic range to the music. Mendoza has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded or performed with musicians including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Mick Barr, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Ikue Mori, Matt Mitchell, Adele Bertei, William Hooker, Jon Irabagon, members of Caroliner, the Violent Femmes, and more. Recordings are available on labels Tzadik, Weird Forest, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Resipiscent, and New Atlantis.
Friendly critics have quoted: “It’s… Ava Mendoza’s deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that’s causing a ruckus in NYC’s DIY hubs” (Brad Cohan, Noisey.Vice). “A wizard on a semi-circle of effects pedals, but… equally adept with FX-less technique,” (Lars Gotrich, NPR). She was featured as one of Guitar World‘s “10 Female Guitarists You Should Know”.
Ava Mendoza with Andrew Jones (bass) and Grant Pierce (drums)
and the Mike Gamble / Andrew Jones / Mike Lockwood trio
AVA MENDOZA is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. Born in 1983, she started performing her own music, and as a sidewoman and collaborator in many different projects, as soon as she was old enough to get into 18+ venues. As a guitarist, Mendoza has received acclaim for her technique and viscerality. Her most ongoing work is as leader of experimental rock band Unnatural Ways, and as a solo performer on guitar/voice. In any context she is committed to bringing expressivity, energy and a wide sonic range to the music. Mendoza has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded or performed with musicians including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Mick Barr, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Ikue Mori, Matt Mitchell, Adele Bertei, William Hooker, Jon Irabagon, members of Caroliner, the Violent Femmes, and more. Recordings are available on labels Tzadik, Weird Forest, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Resipiscent, and New Atlantis.
Friendly critics have quoted: “It’s… Ava Mendoza’s deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that’s causing a ruckus in NYC’s DIY hubs” (Brad Cohan, Noisey.Vice). “A wizard on a semi-circle of effects pedals, but… equally adept with FX-less technique,” (Lars Gotrich, NPR). She was featured as one of Guitar World‘s “10 Female Guitarists You Should Know”.
The Old Church and Creative Music Guild present:
Travis Laplante
Wallsmith/Cunningham/Sielaff/Wyland
Travis Laplante (Battle Trance, Subtle Degrees, Little Women), will be returning to Portland to perform a piece for solo tenor saxophone at The Old Church.
A quartet made up of Joe Cunningham and Reed Wallsmith (Blue Cranes) on saxophones, Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever) on bass clarinet, Luke Wyland (AU/Methods Body) on organ/grand piano will be performing a long form piece that was first performed two years ago at the Creative Music Guild’s ISP festival, to open up the evening.
Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver. He is also known for his solo saxophone work and his longstanding ensemble Little Women. Laplante has recently performed and/or recorded with the JACK Quartet, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, So Percussion, Michael Formanek, Buke and Gase, Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, Yarn/Wire, and Matt Mitchell, among others. He has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. As a qigong student of master Robert Peng, Laplante has undergone traditional intensive training. His focus in recent years, under the tutelage of Laura Stelmok, has been on Taoist alchemical medicine and the cultivation of the heart. Laplante is passionate about the intersection of music and medicine. He and his wife are the founders of Sword Hands, a qigong and acupuncture healing practice based in Brooklyn, New York and Putney, Vermont.
http://travislaplante.com/
Tuesday, November 5th
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland
$12 advanced
$15 at the door
All Ages (bar w/ ID)
Join us for a night of improvisations with trios curated by Mike Gamble of The Creative Music Guild. This is the fifth installment of the Synth Library Improv night.
Brandon Conway
Michelle Alany
Ryan Stuewe
Visuals: Matthew Rempes
Luke Wyland
Crystal Cortez
Tim DuRoche
Visuals: Nathaniel Kornet
Setareh
Noah Simpson
Amenta Abioto
Visuals: Arjan Miranda
7.19.19
8pm – 11pm
$10 – General
$5 – S1 Members
Tickets at the door
The Creative Music Guild and S1 co-present C.J. Boyd with special guests Alissa DeRubeis and Jamondria Harris
C.J. Boyd will also be teaching a workshop at S1 during the day. Click here for more info on that event.
6.8.19 / 8-11PM
All Ages
$5 general, free S1 members
Artist Bio
Bassist turned vagabond C.J. Boyd uses bass loops and voices in order to try and stop time. On perpetual tour since March 2008, movement and stasis are both at the center of his music. Weaving together improvisation with a sparse, minimalist aesthetic, Boyd creates waves of sound, worlds of provocative unlived memories through a singular approach to the upright bass and electric bass guitar that makes everything near and far.
Though solo performance takes up the bulk of his time and effort, he occasionally tours with the improvised chamber orchestra Kurva Choir and has also released music with Chris Schlarb, Eliot Lipp, Move, and his electronic alias DJ Too Slow. Past projects include Desert Center, Rhonya, Like No Tomorrow, and he’s been known to join a band for a one-off or the length of a tour, such as with Paleo (AZ), Shy Hunters (NY), Real Live Tigers (TX), and Harm (AK). All the while, he also runs a small label called Obsolete Media Objects, which has released such lovely folks as Balmorhea, Aisha Burns, Dilute, and Nelly Kate.
His non-stop musical travels have been propelled primarily by a van that runs on vegetable oil while in North America, whereas frequent European tours will find him catching trains, buses, planes, boats, and cars. But regardless of how he arrives to the gig, the music is driven by a commitment to ceaseless discovery and re-invention. His oceanic sounds provide a home for the homeless and journeys to the homebound.
C.J. Boyd
Alissa DeRubeis
Jamondria Harris
–Entry to this event comes with one raffle ticket for our 5 year anniversary raffle on 6/30 at 5PM. Items up for raffle include a fully populated 48hp 4ms Pod, a hand-built video synthesizer, gift cards and other synthy stuff.
Beyond the Low End: A Workshop with C.J. Boyd / 6.8.19
Join C.J. Boyd as he explores using the bass guitar outside its traditional role as a rhythm instrument in this intimate workshop. Techniques to be demonstrated include ebow on the bass, vibrato fret tapping, atmospheric looping, and more. Students are encouraged to come with come questions and there will be plenty of time for exploring specific topics of interest. No prior experience is required.
6.8.19 / 3PM-4PM
All Ages
$10 general, $5 S1 members
–Entry to this event comes with one raffle ticket for our 5 year anniversary raffle on 6/30 at 5PM. Items up for raffle include a fully populated 48hp 4ms Pod, a hand-built video synthesizer, gift cards and other synthy stuff.
The Portland chapter of the Native Plant Society of Oregon & Creative Music Guild present an evening of music based on different native plant communities of Oregon. Pieces will conjure different plant communities while photos or footage of the plants are projected. This event is part of Native Plant Appreciation Week. More information about the weeks’ events can be found at https://npawpdx.org/.
Performers ::
MARISA ANDERSON with SAM COOMES
marisaanderson.bandcamp.co
www.samcoomes.com
SECRET DRUM BAND
www.secretdrumband.com
MIKE GAMBLE, JOHN NIEKRASZ + SAGE FISHER
mikegamble.tumblr.com/
johnniekrasz.wordpress.com
Sage Fisher
DARIO LAPOMA
The Creative Music Guild is a Portland, Oregon all-volunteer, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote experimental, improvised music by presenting concerts, workshops and other events that bring together internationally recognized musicians with local performers, audiences and music students of all ages. For over twenty years, the CMG has been a leader in cultivating Portland’s experimental and improvised music.www.creativemusicguild.org
Native Plant Appreciation Week is put on by the Native Plant Society of Oregon, which has been working tirelessly since 1961 for plant and habitat restoration. NPAW PDX is supported by the Portland chapter of NPSO, which works to protect and conserve threatened and endangered species, carrying out rare plant surveys and monitoring programs, developing guidelines and policy regarding native plant gardening, ethics, grazing, mining, and forest management, and working on plant salvage and re-introduction. The Chapter also sponsors field trips and work parties, involving members in conservation of Oregon’s diverse plant heritage.
https://npawpdx.org/
John Krausbauer is a music maker currently living in Los Angeles.
He has performed his music in a multitude of settings – from basements and rock clubs to colleges and art galleries. Numerous recordings of his work have been released on independent labels in both the US and Europe.
In recent years his focus has been on his solo work, involving ritual endurance happenings with voice and violin, accompanied by synth and strobes; his compositions, mainly concerned with sytems-based phasing constructions; the Ecstatic Music Band, a collective exploring just tunings with amplified strings at high volumes and long durations, with stroboscopic lighting; The Essentialists, a country-blues-boogie-raga guitar/violin duo; and most recently the formation of the “M”inimalist psych-punk group, Night Collectors.
Trance-Psychedelia is the aim and goal, thru experiential-architectural
C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei Taiwan and is currently based in Brooklyn New York. Yeh’s sonic practice first developed within the autodidactic and u venturesome strategies of the American and International underground, most prominently with his project Burning Star Core. Preferring the distinction of “working with sound and music” over more familiar nominations of “musician,” Yeh considers not only timbre, texture, and temporality as material considerations, but the construction of genre, audience, and lore as part of the listener/consumer’s experience. Having amalgamated numerous artistic mediums and roles over his numerous endeavors, Yeh’s formative infatuation with noise and improvised music could still be regarded as his most unadulterated expression – a bespoke array of facilities and parlance on a foundation of unconventional musical pedagogy.
Greg Kelley has performed throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Argentina & Mexico at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated with a number of musicians across the globe performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, appearing on over 90 recordings in the process. He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of “music.”
Daryl Seaver is a composer and musician born in 1987. She currently lives in Portland, OR and works as a software developer. Daryl has released dance music under the name Samantha Vacation but presently focuses on more abstract musical formats, mainly working with Max/MSP. Her academic background in mathematics drives strict organizational strategies which are balanced by a deep respect for traditional orchestration.
Jeff Witscher was born in 1983 in Long Beach, California and currently manages his own janitorial & maintenance company Vincent’s Expert Cleaners in Portland, Or. He has recorded under a few different names, Rene Hell perhaps being the most known. He focuses on sound composition utilizing his computer & field recordings attempting strong narratives with accompanying videos for his live performances. Recent solo recordings include Cob Music, 2016; Bifurcating a Resounding No!, 2014; Meclu, 2013; Vanilla Call Option, 2013.
Together they perform as Seaver & Witscher and have released Country Music & Country Music 2.
https://soundcloud.com/
Ava Mendoza
Ava Mendoza’s eclectic guitar playing that draws on elements of classical, blues, Jazz, metal and noise had earned her recognition as the fret board and stompbox wizard in the Oakland noise and free-improvisational music scenes. Since then, Mendoza has relocated to Brooklyn, New York where she plays in her trio Unnatural Ways and has extensively toured the USA and Europe. Mendoza brings an everlasting fluxus moods and energies to her performances. Mendoza does not hesitate to jump from blues finger picking to abrasive metal and walls of noise all with seamless transitions to make the wide variety of sounds very cohesive and personal which a listener can identify as an authentic expression of a musician that does not believe in the boundaries of classification and genres.
http://avamendozamusic.com/
The Crenshaw
Andrew Jones- voice, upright bass and electronics
Christopher Johnedis- drums and triggers.
The Crenshaw can allude to tensely repetitive footwork and juke beats, explosive art rock, ambient minimalism and delicate free improvisation all in the span of 3 minute songs that employ stuttery drums, warped synths, dastardly bass/voice counterpoint and self-effacing or darkly humorous lyrics.
