Adam Schatz (NYC) Guest Residency

Monday, June 22nd:
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/landlady-live-on-the-piano-at-half-court-studio-tickets-1989837401232?aff=erellivmlt

An intimate performance on a real piano, featuring the new album “Make Up / Lost Time”
Presented by Speck’s Record & Tapes and Jealous Butcher Records
Landlady at the piano, playing the new album “Make Up / Lost Time” plus other stuff too. An intimate show in a beautiful space.
Night 1 of 2 that I will spend at Half Court. Tomorrow night will be improvisations with Todd Sickafoose, Mike Gamble and Jon Niekrasz!

Monday, June 23rd:

1-3pm: A 2hr workshop on improvising with pedals and other outside sources. Bring an instrument and a device and your ears at the Good Wishes recording studio. 15 participants maximum! Co-presented by The Creative Music Guild.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-schatzs-improvising-with-pedals-workshop-portland-or-tickets-1989839484463

IF you wish to participate and would prefer to pay day-off, just email ALS458@gmail.com to hold your spot.
I utilize pedals & external effects in my improvisation practice, performance and while working on records as a hired musician or as a producer.
I’ve always believed it’s important to think of the effect device as its own instrument to engage with, rather than a switch you simply flip on to make change. By approaching effects dynamically we can better understand how to use them in real time improvisations and adjustments to make it a fluid extension of your instrument which is a fluid extension of your body which is a fluid extension of your brain, and the brain, well, who knows where that comes from. Braintown probably?
I’ll talk you through my pedalboard work-flow and invite you to bring a pedal of your own. We’ll then create prompts based on setting & adjusting different parameters of the effects and see how that impacts our own playing with the device and with each other as the device breathes life into the room. Well start with one device at a time. Then double it. Then mess around with parallel effects vs. “in-sequence” and what that means in recorded & live environments.
Most importantly we make great amounts of spectacular specific noise together.
THINGS TO BRING
Delays
Reverbs
Synthesizers with external inputs (Most Moogs, for example)
I Don’t Know How This Thing Works But I Bought It And Am Weighing My Regret

7:30pm-9:30pm
Adam Schatz’s Civil Engineering at Half Court Studio

A night of imaginative improvisation featuring Adam Schatz , Todd Sickafoose, Mike Gamble and John Niekrasz
Presented by Speck’s Record & Tapes and Jealous Butcher Records

Night 2 of 2 that I will spend at Half Court! This night is an improvised performance betweeen myself, Todd Sickafoose (upright bass), Mike Gamble (guitar), and John Niekrasz (drums)

My improvised record Civil Engineering Vol. 1 just came out on Jealous Butcher records and you can hear it here: https://adamlouisschatz.bandcamp.com/album/civil-engineering-vol-1-feat-carmen-quill-qasim-naqvi