MICHIKO O, Free Water Shrew Ensemble, Anthony Stillabower-Mother Foucaults

Tuesday, December 2nd

Join us for an evening of ethereal, ambient / experimental. Hosting is Mother Foucaults bookstore. Located on the border of Portland’s inner southeast industrial district, Mother Foucault’s specializes in used, rare, and vintage books. Mother Foucaults creates the perfect cozy space and unique listening room for live music.

Donation - $10 (cash / venmo at doors)

RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors

Doors @ 7 pm

Music at 7:30 pm

715 SE Grand

With ~

Free Water Shrew Ensemble

https://watershrews.bandcamp.com/ 

Water Shrews are like an amoeba, ever dividing and recombining not in any kind of pursuit but in the original act, that of being - a cell with a variable number of nuclei and no walls, a permeable membrane through which the experience of sound -sometimes, more often than not, music - passes back and forth. The electronic yelps of a moist amphibious organism rising from an opaque and viscous firmament of hissing static. The probing, intermittent signals of long lost satellites launched by people from a future that already came to pass. The sound of nutria sirens wailing on the banks of the Columbia River, Wimahl, who have no sailors left to lure and the clanking of the radiator just off-screen in an apartment in a slow-paced Russian film. The foghorn of a cargo ship harmonizing with the klaxon of an ice-cream truck. Everything travels to where it is destined to go at the pace it is destined to take, the time signature of swarming insects and slowly rotating galaxies. Unending untouched expanses tucked into a pinhole in a rotting, slumping fence separating neighbors - Borges' Aleph in a Southeast Portland alley-way. A graceful drawing of a bow across strings. 

Anthony J. Stillabower

www.ajstillabower.com 

Anthony J. Stillabower’s improvisations are shaped by voice, feedback percussion, and machine learning algorithms. Situated at the threshold of audibility, his approach to sound inhabits a terrain of friction and flow, where presence flickers between memory and material flux. 

What is the source of a sound? Is something sounding now?

MICHIKO O (Michiko Ogawa)

performer-composer-researcher

https://linktr.ee/michiko_o

Michiko is performer-composer and researcher born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.

She is working with several musical groups and is one of the core members of Berlin's Harmonic Space Orchestra.

She has been working with Lucy Railton, Manuel Pessoa de Lima, Klaus Lang, James Rushford, Sam Dunscombe, Ellen Arkbro, Tashi Wada, Carolyn Chen, Werner Duran, Taku Sugimoto, Crys Cole, Oren Ambarchi and others.

She also frequently collaborates with visual artists and dancers such Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom, Brianna Rigg, Laurence Favre, Karol Tyminski and Sabina Maselli etc.

She was awarded Bachelor's degree (BA) from Toho-Gakuen School of Music, Master's degree(MA)for clarinet performance from Die Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Prof. Jörg Widmann, and her Doctoral degree (DMA) from the University of California San Diego in 2019 with research on the film music of Teiji Ito, and is currently writing a biography of him.

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